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"Big Mike" Geier don't need no jumpsuit to celebrate Elvis. Serenading the audience during last year's ELVIS ROYALE. Photo Credit: Laura Newman.

Over the past 14 years, Kingsized’s Elvis Presley tribute show has grown from a family affair at the Star Bar into ELVIS ROYALE, an always sold-out Vegas-style multimedia Retro extravaganza with a 15-piece orchestra and glamorous glittery dancing girls, aka the Dames Aflame, at Variety Playhouse. Forget Elvis impersonators. “Big Mike” Geier don’t need no jumpsuit—his deep baritone voice, wide smile and signature charisma are more than enough to rival the stage presence of the undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, that is with that signature Geier twist. You’ll hear all the Presley hits with a sense of homage and humor, and some surprises along the way that Big Mike believes Elvis woulda sung had his life not been tragically cut short in 1977.

If you’re from Atlanta, skip on to the questions. If you’re new here or not from here, Big Mike has been big in Atlanta’s Retro revival scene since before we even knew we had one, and that’s not just because he’s six-foot-eight. He started performing in Richmond, Virginia, fronting the Useless Playboys, in 1989. That “swing noir” band attracted a national following and toured with Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids and El Vez. But the Playboys also used to play here at the Star Bar so often it was hard to know he didn’t live here.

Mike Geier and wife Shannon Newton of the lovely Dames Aflame. Photo credit: David Stuart.

Then Big Mike came to Atlanta in 1995 to host the city’s first full neo-burlesque show, Go-Go and Torchy’s Taboo Revue, and he never left. Instead, he launched Kingsized—arguably Atlanta’s  best known and most popular swing band. In 2004, he started a Polynesian pop lounge band, Tongo Hiti, who are now Thurs. night regulars at Trader Vic’s downtown. Along the way he hooked up with burlesque troupe, Dames Aflame, led by his wife Shannon Newton. And that’s not to mention a slew of side projects, such as voiceover and music work for Cartoon Network and Puddles Pity Party, a cabaret clown act that recently toured with AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE LIVE.

So what do Big Mike, Kingsized and the Dames have in store at this year’s ELVIS ROYALE. Heck, let’s ask him…

You moved to Atlanta in 1995 at a very pivotal time for the Retro revival here. Obviously the opportunities have grown immensely here for performers who embrace a vintage style, but do you ever miss those more pioneering days? And do you have a favorite memory you’d like to share with those readers who were too young or moved here later?

I miss being able to fill up my 1960 Cadillac Coupe De Ville for $21. Gas was $1 a gallon! My favorite memory would be filling up my 1960 Cadillac Coupe De Ville for $21, then driving out past The Starlight Drive-In to Rio Vista for mountains of fried catfish and sweet tea with my super hot girlfriend who is now my super hot wife.

Can you talk a bit about the Elvis Royale’s humble origins and how it grew into the Vegas-style multimedia extravaganza it is today?

Imagine 350 people crammed in the Star Bar. It’s August and 80 degrees at 10 p.m. Everyone is chain-smoking and guzzling Rolling Rock. PBR’s ironic comeback is just beginning. The Grace Vault is where ya go to pay your respects to the King, among other things. Tim Lathrop used to perform the séance at midnight. The show didn’t even start until 11 o’clock. I had to move the show or else it would have killed me.

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by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! Come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, December 12

Get fancy and swing on by the Hot Jam Holiday Soiree with Taryn Newborn & The Real Deal at the Garden Hills Community Center! Catch a screening of Stanley Kramer’s THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for an Irish Christmas – A Celebration of Carols! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies!

Tuesday, December 13

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! Catch the Devon Allman Band at City Winery! Rock out with Twin Peaks and Golden Daze at Aisle 5! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night with Rick Beato & Friends! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get heavy Finnish-style with Children of Bodom and more at the Masquerade! Get geeky with Nerd-Core Tuesday Trivia Night’s special Star Wars Trivia at Diesel Filling Station! Tickle your funny bone ‘90s-style at the Fox Theatre with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider and more! Blind Willie’s gets down with the Boohoo Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 14

Charlie Brown it up as David Ellington performs “A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” at Venkman’s! Rock out with The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Masquerade! Get your prog-rock fix with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Gwinnett Center! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Terminal West! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get cozy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for an encore screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at 7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents Fred Zinnemann’s FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) at theatres across Atlanta (7pm) [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Rock out blues-style with Titanium Blue at Smith’s Olde Bar (downstairs), or catch Jazz is PHSH upstairs! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or raise a ruckus downstairs in the Little Vinyl Lounge with Cold Heart Canyon, Blood on the Harp and How & Why! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 15

Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Pickin’ Party – Holiday Edition! Glam it up at The Star Bar with The Tip (vinyl release show), Gunpowder Gray, Motor Earth, Rad Rex and Sash the Bash! Get your holiday horror fix at Galactic Quest in Lawrenceville during their Spooky Christmas Party featuring the Possum Kingdom Ramblers and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and more! Take a ride on the Dark Side and may the force be with you at Atlantic Station during their Star Wars Skate Night! Get some soul with The Shadowboxers at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Hot Wives and Pretty Please at The Earl! Get jazzy with Ken Ford at Eddie’s Attic! Get down and dirty with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night with Space Plow and tasty cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 16

Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney dish out their annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig for two nights at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Beach Boys’ Christmas album (night one)! Get down and dirty and psychobilly it up with Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy, Unknown Hinson and Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadours at Center Stage! Relive James Brown’s “FUNKY CHRISTMAS” with ATL Collective at Terminal West! Get down with Pasadena, The Howling Tongues and The Beggar Guild at Vinyl! Get your Saint Nick fix with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they present A Very Merry Holiday Pops at the Woodruff Arts Center! It’s a night of rockin’ outlaws at Avondale Towne Cinema with Shooter Jennings and Jason Boland & The Stragglers! Rock out with The Head (Kool Kat Scott Walker) at 529! Make your way to The Vista Room for an Evening of Steely Dan with Yacht Rock Schooner! Jazz it up with Henry Conerway and Dwight Andrews at the High Museum! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out with The Vegabonds, Boy Named Banjo, Lagoons and Station 7! Stomp on down for a Chicken Pickin’ Brunch with the Sweet Auburn String Band at Venkman’s and then eighties it up with Saved By the Band! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get folksy with the California Guitar Trio at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 17

Rev it up with Kool Kat Big Mike Geier’s Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Catch an encore of Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T. Thomas Mahoney’s annual Charlie Brown Christmas shindig at The Earl with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & The Knights performing The Ventures’ Christmas album (night two)! Rock out with the Plastic Pinks, Skin Jobs and Bleach Garden at 529! Get naughty (or nice if you must) at The Star Bar’s annual Toys for Tots Show featuring Ghost Riders Car Club (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton); AM Gold; ELZIG; Bad Friend; Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters; JJ & The Hustlers; the Roxy Roz Dancers and more! Pick up some last minute gifts for the weirdos in your life at Pallookaville’s Pop-Up Art Show/Live Painting with JERT! You won’t want to miss the Rock ‘n’ Ska-liday Show at Avondale Towne Cinema with Braxton & The Renditions and Southern Ska Syndicate! Hey kiddies! You won’t want to miss SCADShow’s holiday film feast with free screenings of Dr. Seuss’ classic 1966 short, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, followed by Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 6pm! Or catch a screening of HOME ALONE at Regal Atlantic Station 18; Regal Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 – (Chamblee) at 12pm! Get folksy with The Solstice Sisters at the Crimson Moon Café! Get to the root of it all with Cody Marlowe at Vinyl! Or folk it up holiday-style at the 25th Annual Celtic Christmas at the Rialto Center for the Arts, running through Dec. 18! Get the blues with Claudette King at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern dishes out a hootenanny and a half with Eddie Tigner and Lola’s Dueling Pianos! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, December 18

Spend the evening with guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel’s Classics & Christmas Tour at the Variety Playhouse, featuring Pat Bergeson, Annie Sellick, John Knowles and more! Rev it up with Rockabilly Kitty Rose at Kavarna! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Chickens & Pigs and The Aerials! Get ginger snappy at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s annual Gingerbread Trailer Park Contest! Get the blues with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Scrooge it up at the Alliance Theatre’s 27th season of “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” running through Dec. 24!

Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31!

Dad’s Garage’s Big Boozy Nerdy Game Night brings out the kid in you, every first Monday of the month at 7pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Baby, it’s gettin’ cold outside! But no worries! Retro Atlanta promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, filled to the brim with nostalgic holiday goodness! So get hep to the jive and come on out to see what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, December 7

Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic and start your week with Oxford American Magazine’s annual Southern Music Issue Launch Party featuring Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express, Robert Lee Coleman and more! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Henry Koster’s THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947), running through Dec. 10! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, December 8

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Elia Kazan’s classic, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951), screening in 35mm at 7pm! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event! Have a slapstick holiday at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! The Charles D. Switzer Public Library presents Anthony Mann’s THE NAKED SPUR (1953) at 12pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 9

Psychobilly on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Living Deads, Southern Ska Syndicate and Cadillac Junkies! Catch a second screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville for a 25th Anniversary screening of Chris Cameron’s HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:3opm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, December 10

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 11

Geek it up at Diesel Filling Station for their 4th Annual Atlanta Bar Wars: The Crawl Awakens event! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electro Swing Year End Birthday Bash, featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love and more! Dance on over to the Fox Theatre for the Atlanta Ballet’s opening performance of THE NUTCRACKER, running through Dec. 27! Blues it up with Sandra Hall at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the Atlanta Rhythm Section! Rev out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt as he goes solo and acoustic in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blues it up under the dinosaurs with The Electromatics at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 12

Spend the night with The King at the Variety Playhouse as Kool Kat “Big” Mike Geier delivers his annual Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive with Dames Aflame! Or slum it up at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their 9th Annual Gingerbread Trailer Park event! Surf on down, holiday-style, to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp holiday event featuring Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights, The One & Only Bill Davis and The Home Alones, dishing out The Ventures and The Beach Boys’ Christmas albums! Get legendary at The Earl as Stax Records legend William Bell gets some soul! Celebrate 100 years of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” at the Lefont Theatre as they screen Lewis Milestone’s OCEAN’S 11 (1960) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Get jazzy with Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Ferst Center! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Deep South Deli & Pub in McDonough! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 13

Spend the night with the “King of Kink” John Waters, at the Variety Playhouse and get Holier & Dirtier! Sing along holiday-style at Pallookaville with Mr. Puddles, Mr. Bigfoot, Matthew Kaminski and more (7pm/9:30pm)! Catch a screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 2pm! Get old-timey with Dr. Ralph Stanley at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their annual Lovecrafts: Treasures From the Deep local artists’ sale and more, from 2-6pm! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27!

Atlanta Ballet presents THE NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, running through Dec. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor/Contributing Writer

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 27

Rock out and do the monster mash with Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures during their live performance at Garage71 Internet Radio’s studio during Kool Kat Rev. Andy’s “Psychobilly Freakout”! Arts at Emory presents their “Pinter Staged Reading” series during PinterFest, with a free staged reading of “Moonlight”, directed by Brenda Bynum at the Emory Schwartz Center! For a night of adult horror and chilling madness, haunt on down to Chambers of Horror, running 7 nights a week through all of October! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Rock out softly at the Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen with Kenny Loggins! Barrelhouse Bob Page gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, October 28

Classic monsters are unleashed at Diesel Filling Station during Nerd Film Mafia’s screening of Fred Dekker’s, THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) at 10 pm following NerdCore Trivia every last Tuesday of the month! Or spend the night with the “Master of Suspense” at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Alfred Hitchock’s tale of mama’s boys and murder, PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Get murderous at the Midtown Art Cinema with their screening of Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958) at 7pm! Get possessed at CineBistro at Town Brookhaven during their ‘Cineclassics 2014’ screening of William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST (1973)! Steelism delivers a night reminiscent of Dick Dale and Booker T & the MGs at Eddie’s Attic with special guest Faye Webster! Stomp down to The Earl for a night with Cute Boots, Factory and 100 Watt Horse! Get rocked heavily at the Gwinnett Center with Judas Priest! Get a taste of old-time country at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Secret Sisters! Let the heads roll at the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with Curtis Jones &Primal Roots! It’s a night of retro shenanigans at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night! Make your way to Big Tex for a night with Moira Nelligan & The Dixie Jigs and their old-fashioned Americana! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get some rhythm ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s with The Hollidays! Or boogie on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta for a taste of Bill Sheffield’s acoustic roots and blues! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern! And rock out with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Wednesday, October 29

Get rocked and horrified with a little 70’s Italian horror-esque rock with Father Murphy, Chamber Cartel and In Sonitus Lux at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery! Experience Dracula’s (a.k.a Timothy Albrecht) “Scary Ride”, a Halloween-themed organ concert at the Emory Schwartz Center at 8pm! Get your rockin’ fill of Bill Kirchen, “Titan of the Telecaster” at Smith’s Olde Bar! The OBN IIIs deliver their vintage ‘70s Detroit rock at The Earl with Dinos Boys and Skin Jobs! It’s a night of ‘60s R&B at the Buckhead Theatre with Lake Street Dive and The Congress! Get baroque (but not broke!) and rock out at the Drunken Unicorn with Motopony and The Family Crest! The Studio Movie Grill (Duluth and Alpharetta locations) will get you in the haunted spirit with their screenings of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm! The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers their second screening of Alfred Hitchock’s PSYCHO (1960) during their Alfred Hitchcock Series at 7:30! Or catch Hitchock’s masterpiece at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 during their AMC Classics screening at 2pm and 7pm! Get epic with Emory Arts’ during their “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” series with their screening of Jerzy Kawaterowicz’s PHARAOH (1965) at White Hall! Honky-tonk on down to The Star Bar as they get smokin’ during their Slim Chicken Honky-tonk Extravaganza, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers her rockin’ woman blues at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a night of psychedelic folk blues with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Center Stage! Honky-tonk over to Terminal West for a night with Hooray For the Riff Raff! It’s a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s with the Electromatics! The Hollidays deliver some rhythm and soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, October 30

All Hallows Eve-Eve has arrived folks! “Monsters in Black and White” brings their second chilling installation at Cinevision with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film delivering Karl Freund/Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) in glorious 35mm at 7:30pm, with a spooky intro by Prof. Morte (Kool Kat Shane Morton) of the Silver Scream Spook Show! Get undead at Vinyl as ATL Collective delivers their presentation of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”! Get ghoulish at The Star Bar’s pre-Halloween party with The Clap, Breathers and the Shepherds! Don’t forget that Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse‘s (AZA) zombie outbreak will have you running for your lives this spook-filled season! Catch rock icon and cult favorite, Paul Collins (The Beat) with Zoners and the Moreland Wrecks at 529! Rock out vintage-style at the Dashboard Co-Op as WRAS Album 88.5 presents Gringo Star (see our Kool Kat interview soon!) and their 7” release party with the MoodRings! Tonight is opening night for Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of the 19^th century tale of a freak show attraction’s longing to be a normal man in “The Elephant Man” running through Nov. 16! Get spooky at the Westview Cemetery with their “Party with the Past” event, celebrating its 130th anniversary at 5:30pm! It’s the devil’s night out at Mary’s with their Goth Night party delivering all the rockin’ goth, new-wave and industrial your naughty little hearts could desire, at 9pm! It’s a night of psychedelic cosmic and scuzz-filled glam stomp at Terminal West with Temples and Spires! Rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Grateful Dead tribute band, the Scarlet Begonias! It’s Bluegrass Thursday at the Red Light Café, so stomp on down for a night with The Matchsellers and Georgia Railroad! Get ‘90s indie and rock out with Mike Doughty at Eddie’s Attic for 2 shows! Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint delivers some New Orleans funk and R&B with The Mar-Tans! Get the blues with Blind Cadillac at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Delifor their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s!

Friday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Do the “Time Warp” at The Plaza Theater during their Rocky Horror Halloween Costume Party, with a live cast featuring Lips Down on Dixie, a complimentary Rocky gift bag and screenings of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 9pm and midnight! Or monster mash over to The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock Monster Mash Halloween Dance Party, featuring costume contests, games and more! The Goat Farm Arts Center is hosting their Halloween 2014 event with a helluva lot of spectacle, art, performances by Kool Kat Mike Geier as Puddles Pity Party, Ninja Puppet Productions, biting bites from Pallookaville and more! Or help Pallookaville celebrate their first year anniversary in classic monster style at their 1st Anniversary Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiner, featuring costume contests, drink specials, live music and tricks ’n’ treats, until midnight! It’s Fright Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX, so boogie on down with the bone-rattlin’ tunes of Bogey & the Viceroys, have a couple devilish drinks and wake the dead under the dinosaurs! Get ‘80s monster retro at Sports Time Bar & Grill with Denim Arcade (with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) and Radio Cult! Rock down to The Star Bar for their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring The Biters (special KISS show), Dinos Boys and the Night Terrors (Motley Crue set)! Mary’s puts on a spooky disco with their 10th Annual Halloweenie Spooky Monster Mash that’ll have you boogyin’ to some killer rock ‘n’ roll! Get revved and “rock-o-weened” at the Porterdale Bar & Grill with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles! Monstrous vampires invade Paris on Ponce at their Le Grande Halloween Party, featuring two screenings of F.W. Murnau’s spook-fest and blood-curdling, NOSFERATU (1922), accompanied by Felipe Barral at 10:30pm and 1:00am! Rock down to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their Annual Halloween Bash featuring DJ Evil Jet! Yacht Rock Schooner celebrates Samhain in style at The Strand Theatre! It’s your second chance to catch ATL Collective delivering Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with The Shadowboxers at Vinyl! Swami Gone Bananas and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fire up the blues during Northside Tavern’s Go-Go Party and Halloween Spectacular featuring the Atlanta Horns! Rock on over to the dark side asKool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his Halloween Goth & Industrial Blackout Party at the Famous Pub! Blues on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for their Halloween party featuring the Katie Martin Blues band! Celebrate Halloween with a twang at the Red Light Café at their Halloween Americana Bash featuring Dear Mr. Peasant, Sans Abri and Rye Baby! What better way to get monstrous that to run for you lives at Atlanta Zombie Apocolypse’s (AZA), kicking zombie tail until November 2! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with The Dirty Doors! Or ride the “Highway to Helloween” all the way to Wild Bills with the rockin’ AC/DC tribute band, Back N Black and a rockin’ ZZ Top tribute with Tres Diablos! The Music Room will be a rockin’ maniacal riot at their Boom in the Toom and Blood Drunk Records Evil Dead Party featuring Hot Patootie, a rockin’ Rocky Horror cover band, Swank Sinatra, Kool Kats, The Joy Kills and more! Bring the kiddies out to the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their Halloween on Callanwolde Mountain event from 6-9pm, featuring Matthew Kaminski (Braves’ organist) and the Callanwolde Concert Band delivering selections from “Phantom of the Opera”, “Night on Bald Mountain” and more!

Get your magical fantasy fix at CONjurgation, a three-day convention featuring the Artifice Club, trick-or-treating, a marketplace/bazaar and panels bringing the fantastical to life, at the Atlanta Marriott Perimeter Center! The Plaza Theater shocks with their screenings of Ruggero Deodato’s CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1979), Ken Wiederhorn’s SHOCK WAVES (1977) and William Lustig’s MANIAC COP 2 (1990), all screening through Nov. 6! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for their screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 4pm and 8pm! Get witchy at Atlantic Station for their screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Movie Fest” at 7:30pm! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at The Earl with the Ted Kennedys (Dead Kennedys tribute), 30 Year Old Woman From Mars (all-female Misfits tribute), Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Unknown Pleasure (Joy Division tribute)! Punk out at the Drunken Unicorn with Single Mothers, Sex BBQ and Sheeba Darwin! Get psychedelic at Smith’s Olde Bar with the Jerry Garcia Cover Band! It’s a night of gritty, sweat-drippin’, hip swingin’ blues at 529 with Curtis Harding and Black Linen! Rock out ‘60s and ‘70s-style at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs with The Rainmen! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for Francine Reed & the Shadows! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! And The Band of Desperate Men deliver a night of Americana at Big Tex!

Saturday, November 1

Monster madness is taking over the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse with their Monster Bash Halloween Party! Rock out with costume contests, Horror movies, zombies and more! It’s a monster movie matinee with Kool Kat Ben Ruder of Enjoy the Film at Cinevision, at his third installation of his “Monsters in Black and White” series, with his screening of Jack Arnold’s THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), in 3-D at 3pm! It’s day 2 of CONjurgation, so get witchy at their Samhain Ball with DJ Doctor Q at 9pm, and don’t forget to catch all the other magical goodness! Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers are puttin’ on a Day of the Dead hootenanny and Halloween party at Terminal West, so come on out for a whole lotta prohibition-era pandemonium with Indianapolis Jones! Rock on down to the House of Rock ATL for their Change Fest 2014, a free music festival, featuring a reunion of The Swimming Pool Qs, The Glenn Phillips Band with The B-52’s, Cindy Wilson, the Possum Kingdom Ramblers, Bill Sheffield and more! The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash are honky-tonkin’ it up at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room, while the Atlanta Room is chock full of folk troubadours, with Michael C. Smith, Marcus Wilbur and Mitch Haney! If you missed the Time-Warp shenanigans at The Plaza Theater on Halloween, here’s your chance to catch Tim Curry in all his alien transsexual glory, during their encore presentation off THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at midnight with a live cast by Lips Down on Dixie! Rock down to Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs for a night with Tony Levitas! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Rebel City Rockers! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola! Punk down to The Star Bar for their “I Love Saturdays” early show with wWAYLon, Alchemy, Owner of the Sun and Uncle Van & the Buzzards of Fuzz! It’s your second chance to catch Robyn Hitchcock (Soft Boys) at Eddie’s Attic! Get your garage folk fix at the Crimson Moon Café with Randall Bramblett and Eliot Bronson! And stomp on down to Cabbagetown for their Chomp & Stomp Bluegrass Festival, from 11-6pm! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 2

It’s day 3 and your last chance to get spell-bound at CONjurgation! Or creep down to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a matinee screening of Henry Selick’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) 2pm! Folk down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with The Stray Birds with special guest, Jordie Lane! The Mountain String Band brunches out at Big Tex during their Bluegrass Brunch! And rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers!

Ongoing

Get headless and haunted at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse will have you running for your life through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering, 7 nights a week, through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

New London Theatre (Snellville) presents “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Newnan Theatre Company Time-Warps it up with their presentation of “Rocky Horror Show” through Nov. 2! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld haunts with two terrifying haunted houses, “Season of the Witch” and “SPLICED” every weekend through Nov. 8!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents “The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Silly Hollow” spooking through Nov. 9!

Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “The Elephant Man” through Nov. 16!

The Marietta Museum of History gets Victorian as they present their “Peeling Back the Layers: Victorian Wedding Ensembles” exhibit through May 2, 2015!

HepCat’s Hop gets swingin’ every first Wednesday of the month at the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

ICON 80s: Music Video Dance Night rocks out at the Famous Pub every Friday night with a different 80’s theme!

The Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by ‘80s Dance Night at 10pm, every Tuesday!

Steve’s Live Music’s Gypsy Jazz Brunch offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet from 12:30 to 3:30 pm every 2^nd & 4^th Sunday!

Boogie on down into Disco Hell at The Family Dog as DJ Quasi Mandisco delivers a night of classic funk, soul and disco the last Friday of every month.

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW(1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

By Arla Lehtinen
Contributing Writer

Monday, August 12

Jazz it up with Bumpin the Mango at Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, August 13

Come to The Plaza Theatre for an unforgettable night of horror and comedy with Tim Burton’s modern classic BEETLEJUICE (1988), presented by Splatter Cinema. The film starts on the big screen at 9:30 p.m., but come early to have your photo taken in a scene from the film, recreated in incredibly realistic fashion.  Read our Retro Review here.  Seventies pop rocker Peter Frampton and blues legend B.B. King take to the stage among others as Frampton’s Guitar Circus arrives to the Verizon Wireless Amhitheatre  in Alpharetta. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton take over the office in 9 TO 5 (1980) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, as they continue their August retro cinema classic series of Classic Comedies! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. Crosstown Allstars brings the blues to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass & Hootenanny Jam led by Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman.

Wednesday, August 14

Kim Lenz & The Jaguars are just about to release their new albun FOLLOW ME and arrive to Smith’s Olde Bar to perform a gig and the title song from the new album. Kim Lenz is this week’s Kool Kat, so make sure to read our interview with her here. Before Kim and her band take the stage, hometown honkytonkers Chicken & Pigs open up the show at 8 p.m. Toto has endured changing trends and gone through decades of success since the ’70s. Now they arrive to The Chastain Park Amphitheatre to fill the darkening evening with familiar songs as they play a show with Kansas, who are celebrating their 40th year in rock. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and Frankie’s Blues Mission deliver some soul to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Greet the day with an 11:30 a.m. matinee of 9 TO 5 (1980) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series this week!

Tongo Hiti.

Thursday, August 15

Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. DJ Osmose presents an all vinyl selection of vintage records and modern edits from around the world. Relax with a cocktail while listening to the groovy sounds of Tongo Hiti, featuring Kool Kat Big Mike Geier, at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Tommy Brown joins The Shadows as they fill the night with blues at Blind Willie’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. Yankee Dixiestrum on down to Red Light Cafe for a Bluegrass Thursday with Holly Renee Allen. And it’s your last chance to see Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in 9 TO 5  (1980) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern!

Friday, August 16

Get your fix of the Queen of Pop at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue play Madonna’s best songs to celebrate her birthday in their annual Madonna-rama. Put on your favourite Madonna outfit for a chance to win prizes and drink tokens. ATLRetro friend Senator Artie Mondello comes to visit The Drunken Unicorn with Hunx & His Punx and Hunters. Wham Bam! Bowie Band! and Atlanta’s own Nirvana tribute band Nameless Nameless join forces to give you a fully loaded tribute night at 529 Bar. Salsa Dance Night featuring Salsambo Dance Studio brings Latin rhythms to spice the evening up under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Stoney Brooks delivers the blues to Northside Tavern, and Luther “Houserocker” Johnson & The Shadows serve up the blues at Blind Willie‘s. Rough Draft bring their mixed sounds of R&B and jazz to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. For a midnight movie delight, go to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema to see PINK FLOYD: THE WALL (1982). Do the Time Warp again at THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with full costumed floor show by Lips Down on Dixie every Friday at midnight at The Plaza Theatre.

Saturday, August 17

Come join Kool Kat Rebecca DeShon of HoopEssence in a Hula Hoop World Record Attempt at Piedmont Park. Personal hula hoop skills are not required, so don’t be afraid to come and cheer for Rebecca! Head out to Yaarab Shrine Center to support your chosen team as Atlanta Rollergirls reach the Home Team Playoffs. Denim Demons clash with Apocalypstix, and Toxic Shocks battle Sake Tuyas to determine who gets to continue on to fight for the League Championship in September. First bout starts at 5 p.m. Kool Kat Caroline Hull Engel and friends take to the stage when Alanna Royale and Caroline and the Ramblers team up to play an early show at Eddie’s Attic. Kool Kat Jeffrey Bützer brings a bit of intown Bohemia OTP to Roswell for a gig at the Swallow at the Hollow. Back in Atlanta, The Whiskey Gentry, featuring Kool Kat Lauren Staley Morrow, take over Center Stage with American Aquarium and

Caroline Hull Engel of Caroline & the Ramblers

Radiolucent. The show starts at 8 p.m. An hour later, Star Bar is filled with their own set of bands to give you a nice selection to choose from. Athens’ The District Attorneys, featuring Kool Kat Drew Beskin, rock out with Great Peacock and Blue Blood. One of America’s most successful and long lived bands comes South when Chicago bring their hit rock n’ roll ballads to the Verizon Wireless Amhitheatre. The Breeze Kings bring the blues to Northside Tavern, and Sanda Hall joins The Shadows to fire up the blues at Blind Willie’s. Willy Jackson takes the stage at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. As always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night. If you missed it on Friday, there’s a second chance to skip an education with PINK FLOYD: THE WALL (1982), playing at midnight at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Kitty Love.

Sunday, August 18

Join Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard as they search for love in the big city in Blake Edwards’ beloved BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961), playing at 4 p.m. on the biggest screen in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre. Head to Red Light Cafe for a Disney themed burlesque evening. Kool Kat Kitty Love once again hosts her Sultry Sunday, this time featuring burlesque tribtutes to your favourite Disney princesses. Have a bluegrass brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Tony Bryant Blues Band bring on the blues style at Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack. Sample a spoonful of blues courtesy of Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern.

Ongoing

Johannes Vermeer’s GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGvisits The High Museum of Art, along with other Dutch masterpieces, through Sept. 29.

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Every Tuesday night, Wednesday morning and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern.

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

Joe Gransden.

By Arla Lehtinen
Contributing Writer

Monday, August 5

Swing back to the golden age of jazz at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month for Big Band Night with Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra. Melvins bring punk rock to The Loft at Center Stage as their 30th Anniversary Tour with Honky rocks through Atlanta. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, August 6

Adam Ant livens up Center Stage with his unique show and lets The Good, The Mad & The Lovely Posse and Prima Donna join in on the fun. See Zeppo Marx’s last role in a Marx Brothers film and let all four brothers delight you in DUCK SOUP (1933) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, as they continue their August retro cinema classic series of Classic Comedies! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. J.T. Speed brings the blues to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, and Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass & Hootenanny Jam led by Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman.

Wednesday, August 7

Head to The Earl to witness The Mar-Tans land in Atlanta as they play a gig with The Secondhand Swagger. Jazz it up with Frank Barham and his jazz quartet at Elliot Street Pub. For blues go to Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint and listen to the sweet sounds of Beverly ”Guitar” Watkins. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and The Hollidays deliver some soul to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Greet the day with an 11:30 a.m. matinee of DUCK SOUP (1933) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series this week!

Andrew & the Disapyramids.

Thursday, August 8

Ghost Riders Car Club, featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton, bring their authentic honkytonk music to The Clermont Lounge. The Plaza Theatre welcomes you to a little flower shop featuring a bloodthirsty plant in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986), playing on the big screen at 5:15 p.m. and again at 7:15 p.m. Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. DJ Osmose presents an all vinyl selection of vintage records and modern edits from around the world. Relax with a cocktail while listening to the groovy sounds of Andrew and the Disapyramids, featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino, at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Tommy Brown joins The Shadows as they fill the night with blues at Blind Willie’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. Yankee Dixie strum on down to Red Light Cafe for a Bluegrass Thursday with Holly Renee Allen. And it’s your last chance to see the four Marx brothers in DUCK SOUP (1933) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern!

Jeffrey Butzer. Photo credit: Melissa J Butzer.

Friday, August 9

With just one more months to go before Dragoncon, Atlanta offers two dance party events in one night to get you into the cosplay spirit. This month RITUAL sets up a party for all things that go bump in the night. RITUAL’S Midsummer Night’s Mare invites all sorts of mosters to doll up pin-up style and take a spin on the dance floor at The Shelter. Starting just a little later, Middle Earth Fairytle Ball takes over Museum Bar in ”Renaissance Pirate Steampunk Superhero style.” There will be a costume contest and a fashion show by Doctor Madness Custom Creations. If dancing is not what you’re yearning for tonight, there’s plenty of live music to choose from. Go visit The Drunken Unicorn and hear Jeffrey Bützer & The Bicycle Eaters, featuring Kool Kat Jeffrey Bützer, as they take to the stage with The Octopus Project and The Purkinje Shift. Fancy a night of modern retrobilly, Americana rock and some coutry swagger? Head to Red Light Cafe and get a chance to listen to The Serenaders, Kris Youmans Band and Lauren St. Jane all in one night. Enjoy an evening of ”rumba Gitano” under the darkening sky when The Gipsy Kings wander to The Chastain Park Amphitheatre. Gregory Peck takes on the role of lawyer Atticus Finch, defending a black man under false charges in the cinema classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962), playing at Marietta’s art deco Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8 p.m. The Breeze Kings sound their classic Chicago-style blues underneath the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Eddie Tigner & Friends bring the blues to Northside Tavern for a B’day Bash, and Sanda Hall joins The Shadows to serve up the blues at Blind Willie‘s. Atlanta’s own trio Jigsaw Johnson bring their sounds to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. For a midnight movie delight, go to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema and catch a few laughs with MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975). Do the Time Warp again at THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with full costumed floor show by Lips Down on Dixie every Friday at midnight at The Plaza Theatre.

Elvis Royale. Photo courtesy of Kingsized.

Saturday, August 10

ELVIS ROYALE! brings back the King to Variety Playhouse for one night only. Big Mike Geier and his Kingsized Rock ‘n Roll Orchestra are joined by Dames Aflame as they celebrate the music of Elvis Presley. Come enjoy the Vegas glitz dressed up in you favourite Elvis style and enter the ”Getcha Elvis On” contest. Head south of the city for the Bible Belt Burlesque Birthday Barn Burner. It’s a full night of burlesque with Lola LeSoleil headlining the event and Talloolah Love gracing the stage as MC for the evening. Special guests include Persephone Phoenix, Rena Rhinestone and magician Chad Sanborn. Unfortunately though Kool Kat Fonda Lingue‘s The Jewel Box Revue  has been postponed and won’t be happening tonight. The Sexual Side Effects, a hard rockin’ neoglam band featuring Kool Kat Amber Taylor, is one of the many taking the stage at The Basement for the 2013 IMR Music Festival. Another Kool Kat shows her talents at Eddie’s Attic, when Kool Kat Amy Pike grabs the mic as Bonaventure Quartet celebrate the release of their new album. Rock out at The Highlander with Ledfoot Messiah, AM Gold featuring Kool Kat Joel Burkhart and Lightnin Ray & The Mystics, while Earl Smith Strand Theatre gets rocked back to the 70s when DEPARTURE: The Journey Tribut Band takes over the stage at 8 p.m. Ike Stubblefield brings the blues to Northside Tavern, and Big Bill Morganfield fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s. Mike Lowry and his band bring their guitar driven blues based rock toFat Matt’s Rib Shack. As always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night. If you missed it on Friday, there’s a second chance to catch a few laughs with MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975), playing at midnight at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Rod Hamdallah

Sunday, August 11

Kool Kat Kitty Love celebrates the Goddess in every woman and throws an Empress Tea Party. Enjoy tea, tarot and dancing with special brunch menu items and become the Empress of your own life. Small admission includes unlimited hot tea. Blues man and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah brings his sound to the stage at Smith’s Olde Bar among many others, on the last day of the 2013 IMR Music Festival. Have a bluegrass brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Tony Bryant Blues Band bring on the blues style at Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack. Sample a spoonful of blues courtesy of Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern.

Ongoing

STRAY DOGS by Matthew Myers and directed by Peter Hardy plays at The Essential Theatre through August 10 in revolving repertory as part of the 15th Annual Essential Theatre Play Festival with the unsettlingly provocative MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS by Hardy and directed by Ellen McQueen and SWIMMING WITH JELLYFISH by Katie Grant Shalin and directed by Bill Murphey.

Johannes Vermeer’s GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGvisits The High Museum of Art, along with other Dutch masterpieces, through Sept. 29.

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Every Tuesday night, Wednesday morning and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern.

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

By Arla Lehtinen
Contributing Writer

Monday, July 29

The Plaza Theatre starts their new monthly film series, Mascara Movie Mondays. Dress up appropriately to participate in the costume contest and to take your picture at the photo booth before heading in to see Winona Ryder toy with high school social politics in HEATHERS (1988), playing on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Mascara Movie Mondays will take place on the last Monday of each month at the same time. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, July 30

Play hooky and enjoy a John Hughes classic with FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern, as they start their August retro cinema classic series of Classic Comedies! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. J.T. Speed brings the blues to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass & Hootenanny Jam led by Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman.

Wednesday, July 31

Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and The Hollidays deliver some soul to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Greet the day with an 11:30 a.m. matinee of FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema seriesthis week!

Thursday, August 1

Meehan’s Public House Sandy Springs hosts The Roaring 20s Gourmet Dinner. Get dolled up and head out for a night of good food, cocktails and jazz! This is your chance to dine well while listening to Kool Kat of the Week Johnny Pine, aka New Orleans Jon, as he serves up a live soundtrack of jazz standards for the evening. Reservations, though, are recommended. Get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village. DJ Osmose presents an all vinyl selection of vintage records and modern edits from around the world. Relax with a cocktail while listening to Big Mike’s HULAbaloo with Dames Aflame, featuring Kool Kat Big Mike Geier, at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. The Atlanta Burlesque and Cabaret Society holds its monthly meeting at Elliot Street Pub. Sweet Betty joins The Shadows as they fill the night with blues at Blind Willie’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. Sans Abri with Interstate strum on down to Red Light Cafe Bluegrass Thursday. And it’s your last chance to play hooky with FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern!

Friday, August 2

It’s the opening night of The 3rd Annual Rockabilly Luau, which takes over the Atlanta-Northlake Holiday Innaug for two days packed full of entertainment and music. The Friday night lineup starts at 6 p.m. with The Monterreys and later on The Mystery Men? will make sure you get a full dose of surf band music. In between, Kool Kat Caroline Hull Engel takes the stage with her band Caroline and The Ramblers and you can bear witness to the pre-qualifing round of the Bikini Tiki Luau Pin-up Swimsuit contest. The evening finishes off with a fire show by Forged Creations Fire Performers, after which hotel guests can party on at the kickoff party hosted by Kool Kat Mon Cherie, Garage 71 and Bachelor Pad Magazine. The El Caminos host a Special Benefit for humble Heroes and Crime Stoppers at The Earl. Special guests include Tag Team, Brain Box and Bouldercrest Singing Group. Red Light Cafe raises the Grateful Dead and celebrates Jerry Garcia’s birthday by featuring Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band with High Strung String Band and a special late set played by Sweet Knievel. Joe Gransden joins up with jazz pianist Kenny Banks to play the crowd favorite Jazz Standards in the Taipan Room at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The Electromatics sound their mix of jazz standards, Chicago blues and blue-eyed soul underneath the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. Albert White brings the blues to Northside Tavern, and Sanda Hall joins The Shadows to serve up the blues at Blind Willie‘s. Who ya gonna call but GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) as the classic paranormal comedy scares up a two-night midnight run at the Landmark Midtown Arts Cinema. Read our Retro Review here. Do the Time Warp again at THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with full costumed floor show by Lips Down on Dixie every Friday at midnight at The Plaza Theatre. 

Saturday, August 3

It’s a big day for the 3rd Annual Rockabilly Luau with music playing all day long at the Atlanta-Northlake Holiday Inn. Gates open at noon and Kool Kat Julea Thomerson opens up the show with her Dear Johns an hour later. Between the bands filling up the lineup for the day, experience the Hawaiian performances by Aloha Islanders and witness the Bikini Tiki Luau Pin-up Swimsuit Contest Finals. Two Kool Kats take to the stage later on, when first Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho-DeVilles rockabilly it up at twilight and then mermaid Medusirena brings her fiery retro-aquatic show to the Luau. If you missed our Kool Kat interviews with Hot Rod Walt and Medusirena, catch up here and here. Also that night, Atlanta premiere burlesque production company Syrens of the South bring their 6th Anniversary Show to 7 Stages. John Carney and Fritzy Pants-off Dance-off MC the event, and the number of performances is astounding. One after the other the stage gets commandeered by Candi LeCoeur, The Magic of Chad Sanborn, E-Cupp with Bourgeious Betty and Persephone Phoenix, Hot Toddies Cabaret’s Penny Farthing and Sadie Hawkins, as well as Kool Kats Katherine Lashe and Stormy Knight. You also get to see performances by Talloolah Love, Ursula Undress, The Violet Vixxxen from Kentucky and more. Monstrosity Championship Wrestling’s Memphis Matinee fills up the back room of the Famous Pub with monsters of all kinds with a special kid-friendly early show starting at 2 p.m. The Star Bar also offers entertainment all day long. Come first for PBR’BQ to enjoy an afternoon patio party and listen to Turf War. Stay on after dark for Nashville Pussy at Star Bar to hear the band debut songs from their forthcoming new album, along with  Gunpowder Gray and the Pelvis Breastlies. Atlanta veteran musician and Kool Kat Colonel Bruce Hampton brings the blues to Northside Tavern, and Luther“Houserocker” Johnson & The Shadows fire up the blues at Blind Willie’s. Who ya gonna call but GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) as the classic paranormal comedy plays a second night at midnight at the Landmark Midtown Arts Cinema. Read our Retro Review here. And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, August 4

Bonaventure Quartet, featuring Kool Kat Amy Pike, plays dunch at The Earl starting at 1 p.m. Have a bluegrass brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Fatback Deluxe bring on the blues 40s-60s style at Fatt Matt’s Rib Shack. Sample a spoonful of blues courtesy of Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern.

Ongoing

STRAY DOGS by Matthew Myers and directed by Peter Hardy plays at The Essential Theatre through August 10 in revolving repertory as part of the 15th Annual Essential Theatre Play Festival with the unsettlingly provocative MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS by Hardy and directed by Ellen McQueen and SWIMMING WITH JELLYFISH by Katie Grant Shalin and directed by Bill Murphey. 

Johannes Vermeer’s GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING visits The High Museum of Art, along with other Dutch masterpieces, through Sept. 29.

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Every Tuesday night, Wednesday morning and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern.

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

By Arla Lehtinen
Contributing Writer

Monday, July 15

The Plaza Theatre switches from Roger Moore to Timothy Dalton as its 50 Years of Bond monthlong series continues with THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Swing back to the golden age of jazz at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month for Big Band Night with Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra.  Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Pead Boy & the Pork Bellies at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Unusual Suspects & Salon du Showgirls

Atlanta offers double burlesque fun for the evening. First, to benefit the annual Southern Fried Burlesque Fest! Kool Kat Katherine Lashe’s burlesque production company Syrens of the South presents Tease Tuesdays at the Shelter! Meanwhile, Minette Magnifique, Unusual Suspects Improv and Salon du Showgirls present A Burlesque – Improv Mashup featuring: Minette Magnifique + Salon du Showguns at the Whole World Improv Theatre. Atlanta Burlesque troupe Minette Magnifique features numerous Kool Kats, including Shellie Schmals, aka Baroness VONSchmalhausen, whose Kool Kat interview you can catch up with here. The Plaza Theatre continues its 50 Years of Bond monthlong series with Timothy Dalton in LICENCE TO KILL (1989) on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Join Indiana Jones on his first adventure with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern,  as the July retro cinema classic series of Classic Summer Blockbusters continues! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. J.T. Speed brings the blues to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass & Hootenanny Jam led by Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman. Ursula Undress teaches Beginner’s Burlesque at Studio Burlesque at 8:30 p.m

Wednesday, July 17

Catch the opening night performance of STRAY DOGS by Georgia playwright Matthew Myers at The Essential Theatre.  The play is a comedy/crime story/romance in the style of Quentin Tarentino. Described as “funny and violent and surprisingly sweet,” it’s directed by another local playwright Peter Hardy, and this first performance is ASL interpreted.  The Plaza Theatre continues its 50 Years of Bond monthlong series as Pierce Brosnan inherits the role of Bond from Timothy Dalton in GOLDENEYE (1995) on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Get schooled by two of Atlanta’s burlesque finest, last week’s Kool Kat Katherine Lashe or Talloolah Love in Beginning Burlesque classes at Studio Burlesque. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and The Hollidays deliver some soul to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Greet the day  with an 11:30 a.m. matinee  of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at  Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Retro Cinema series this week!

Tongo Hiti.

Thursday, July 18

The Plaza Theatre continues its 50 Years of Bond monthlong series withPierce Brosnan in TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Relax with a cocktail while listening to the groovy sounds of Tongo Hiti, featuring Kool Kat Big Mike Geier, at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of  Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter. Michael Tolcher takes the stage at  Red Light Cafe‘s weekly Bluegrass Thursday .  Studio Burlesque offers a class in Beginning Burlesque with Ursula Undress at 6:30 p.m. And it’s your last chance to head for an adventure with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern!