ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Keep on keepin’ on in ATLRetro! Come see what we’ve found for you This Week!

Skip school and catch a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with A Drug Called Tradition, Stonefield and the Mathis Hunter Band! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Threadbare Skivvies, Battlefield Collective and Jesse Nighswonger! Theatrical Outfit presents the Unexpected Play Festival through Jan. 15! Get jazzy with Maysa Leak at City Winery! 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!” 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 Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 15

Get hellacious and rock down to The Earl for a night with Hank Von Hell, The Vaginas and Against the Grain! Rock out with one of the oldest Pink Floyd tribute bands (1988), The Machine, at City Winery! Grant Farm dishes out a night of Americana at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Alliance Theatre for their presentation of EVER AFTER, running through Feb. 17! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Stomp on down to Blind Willies for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 16

Get rocked with Jon Spencer & The HITmakers and Subsonics at The Earl! Bowie, trolls and goblins, oh my! WUSSY MAG presents Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at The Plaza Theater with two events at 7pm and 9:30pm, including lobby shenanigans, prizes and more! Join the [REDACTED] Film Club, a free weekly film screening (different monthly themes) hosted by Videodrome and Patina Pictures, and catch a super secret screening at the Georgia Beer Garden at 7pm, through April 24 [January’s theme – Party Like it’s 1999]! Folk it up with Gregory Alan Isakov and the Shook Twins at the Buckhead Theatre! Get bewitched at The Bakery with The Witching Hour event! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Victor Fleming’s GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Catch a “No Resolutions” double feature of Peter Collingson’s THE ITALIAN JOB (1969) and Nicolas Winiding Refn’s DRIVE (2011) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Elia Kazan’s A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) at 7:15pm! Get down with Louis York & The Shindellas at City Winery! Get the rockin’ blues with Willy Porter at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! Boogie down with Art Holliday at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies dishes out a a night of Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 17

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater (Plazadrome) present a screening of John Woo’s ‘90s classic, FACE/OFF (1997) at 9:30pm! The Star Bar kicks off their Down South Show Down with Gunpowder Gray, Bad Spell, Pine & Tolliver Gimme Gimme Gimme and more! Get avant-garde as the High Museum and Film Love Atlanta (Kool Kat Andy Ditzler) kick off a retrospective film series, featuring films by Lawrence Jordon, Joseph Cornell, Rudolph Burckhardt and Stan Brakhage (check out our Kool Kat feature with Jane Wodening/Brakhage here)! Tasty vittles and killer tunes are what you’ll get when you make your way to Sweet Auburn BBQ for the Captain & Maybelle Benefit Dinner, featuring raffles, prizes and Graveyard Gospel! Get down to The Earl for BOWIE IN SWEATS: A Tribute to the Thin White Duke featuring T.T. Mahoney, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters and TL Gunselman is Kate Bush! Jazz it up with the Atlanta Latin Jazz Orchestra at Venkman’s! Steve Tyrell jazzes it up at City Winery! Folk rock it up at Eddie’s Attic with Elenowen, Joshua Fletcher, Caitlin Canty and The Oshima Brothers! Brent Cobb delivers a night of outlaw country at Terminal West! Jazz it up with Rick Braun at Suite Food Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willies! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 18

Have a honky-tonk hoedown at Tin Roof Cantina with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers, Ghost Riders Car Club’s (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton) and the Voodoo Poboys! Catch a Legacy Series screening of Victor Fleming’s GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at SCADShow at 7pm! Departure pays tribute to Journey at City Winery! Get some southern soul with Gareth Asher, Hunter Callahan and Hannah Murphy at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘70s rock fix with Deep Shag at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or bluegrass it up with The Devil Makes Three and the Lost Dog Street Band at the Variety Playhouse! The Star Bar dishes out day 2 of their Down South Show Down with Wyldlife; Mama; Ravagers; Sick Bags; Bad Sons; Ladrones; The Sadists and Pleather! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Steve Nebraska, Sara Rachele and Vito Romeo! Street Fighting Band with Kool Kat Rich Desantis dish out a night of Rolling Stones tunes at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Bone Yard in Roswell! Grunge on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History for ‘90s Night! Or groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Or get down with George Hughely & The Shadows at Blind Willies! Get the Todd Prusin Experience at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up 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, January 19

Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The PsychoDevilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! The Earl delivers a night with Brother Hawk, Evan Stepp & The Piners and The Pink Stones! Head into the Dixieland ragtime-style with Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband at the Red Clay Theatre! The Star Bar continues rockin’ out during a Down South Show Down with Dirty Fences; RMBLR; Trouble Boys; BBQT; Brower; Crocodile Tears; Criminal Kids; Cheap Tissue; Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah; Fixed Faces; and The Fill Ins! Bluegrass it up with Greensky Bluegrass at the Tabernacle! Or get countrified with Aaron Watson at Terminal West! Make your way to Kavarna for a night with RUST and The Muckers! Swing by the Red Light Café for a night with Kool Kat Johnny Pine and his Live from Behind Bars, Chapter 2! Or groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Rock out at The Highlander with Magoo’s Heroes, Genki Genki Panic and the Lone Deaf Pig Dog! Get down with Pavlo at Center Stage! Nineties rock it up with Did Mommy Say Sorry? at Jekyll Brewing in Alpharetta! Rock out with Braxton & The Renditions at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Northside Tavern gets down with The Breeze Kings and Bill Sheffield! Boogie down with Harvey Brindell at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Spend the night with The Empress of Soul, Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willies! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 20

Spend the night with Steve Earle, Channing Wilson and Shannon McNally at City Winery! Get jazzy with Shatka Jazz at Venkman’s! Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Surf on down to the Cobb Energy Centre for The Beach Boys! Get some soul with Natalie Brady at the Crimson Moon Café! Indie folk it up with Pete Yorn at The Loft! Geek it up at the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Mystery Science Theater 3000 Puppet Unveiling at 7pm! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down at Blind Willies! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! Or blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, through Feb. 10!

The Alliance Theatre presents EVER AFTER, through Feb. 17!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, January 7

Spend the night with Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven at City Winery! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Fairshake, Bergenline, Rowdy Leaf and Roseville! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! 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 Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 8

Shimmy it up with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during Tease Tuesday Burlesque: 5th Anniversary Show at the Red Light Café! Boogie down to City Winery for a night with Le Chic paying tribute to Nile Rodgers! Folk it up at Eddie’s Attic with james of mosaics and Book Club! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Spend the night with Ira Malkin & The Vipers at Blind Willies! Get down with J.T. Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, January 9

Catch a “No Resolutions” double feature of William Friedkin’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) and The Coen Brothers’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or sci-fi thrill it up with a Flashback Cinema screening of James Cameron’s ALIENS (1986) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Michael Curtiz’ MILDRED PIERCE (1945) at 7:15pm! Rock out with Richard Lloyd (Television) at City Winery! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! Boogie down with Art Holliday at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies dishes out a rockin’ night with Cody Matlock! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, January 10

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday with an ALL BERNSTEIN event featuring an extravaganza of tunes from WEST SIDE STORY and more at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Stomp on down to the Clermont Lounge for the Ghost Riders Car Club’s (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton)! Psyche rock it up with Yawning Man, The Buzzards of Fuzz and Fantomen at 529! Jazz it up with Trina Broussard at City Winery! Get down with The Haraway Brothers (Will and Lee of The Sundogs) and Chris Stalcup at Eddie’s Attic! Get the rockin’ blues with Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues and Roger “Hurricane” Wilson & The Hurricane Homeboys at Madlife Stage & Studios! Rock out with Nobody’s Darlings and Sloane at The Star Bar! Space Jesus invades Terminal West! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue (Led Zeppelin vs. The Who)! The Aurora Theatre presents A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, through Feb. 10! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 11

Cow punk it up with Alejandro Escovedo & Don Antonio at City Winery! Or rock out with Eric Gales at Terminal West! The Earl kicks off their 20th Anniversary rockin’ shindig with CARBONAS, Predator, Ryan Dinosaur and Wash! Doo-wop it up in Bremen for a night with The Drifters at Mill Town Music Hall! Get folksy with Seth Glier at the Red Clay Theatre! Sweet Melissa & The Ramblin’ Men pay tribute to the Allman Brothers at the Red Light Café with Back to Memphis paying tribute to The Band! Space Jesus invades the Variety Playhouse! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue (Led Zeppelin vs. The Who)! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Voodoo Visionary and Travers Brothership! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at the Northside Tavern! Or blues it up with John Nemeth at Blind Willies! The Rockaholics get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up 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, January 12

Honky-tonk it up with Slim Chance & The Convicts at Kavarna! A night of hilarity ensues as Steve Martin and Martin Short invade the Fox Theatre! Get rocked at The Star Bar with Five Eight, The Ladies of…, and Darling Machine! Jazz it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Toni Byrd and Her Big Band’s Tribute to Natalie Cole! Power funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Tastebud at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a screening of Joe Johnston’s HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (1989) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 1pm! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrates Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday with an ALL BERNSTEIN event featuring an extravaganza of tunes from WEST SIDE STORY and more at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get your Americana fix with Alex Guthrie at the Crimson Moon Café! Geek it up with Bit Brigade and Thorax at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for The Chip McGuire Band and The Ain’t Sisters! Folk rock it up with Fruition at Terminal West! Rock out with The Muckers at Tin Roof Cantina! Jazz it up with Matt Wauchope and Terrence Prather at Venkman’s! The Northside Tavern gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission and the Rockaholics! Boogie down with The Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Roots rock it up with Delta Moon at Blind Willies! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 13

Catch a Flashback Cinema screening of Victor Fleming’s GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) at theatres across Atlanta [Northlake Festival Movie Tavern (Tucker); GTC Merchant’s Walk Cinemas (Marietta); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee); and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs)]! Rock out with Ozello, thelightsequence, Mahalo and the Soda Jerks at Smith’s Olde Bar! The National Ballet Theatre of Odessa presents SWAN LAKE at the Fox Theatre! The Real Deal Blues Band gets down at Blind Willies! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! Or blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, through Feb. 10!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Resolve to shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week. Come see all the killer ways to kick off the new year we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks! Out with the old and in with the new! Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2018! We wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, January 1

Light up New Year’s Day with the Illuminate Chinese Lantern Festival! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points 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, January 2

Catch a “No Resolutions” double feature of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s BIRDMAN (2014) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988)! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Frank Darabont’s THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) at 7:15pm! Get folksy with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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, January 3

Cineprov hilariously heads into the maddening underworld at The Plaza Theater as they riff Mario Bava’s HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1961) at 7pm! The “Queen of Indie Soul” Conya Doss gets down at City Winery! Folk rock it up with the Indigo Girls at Terminal West! The Fox Theatre presents the 10th Anniversary Tour of ROCK OF AGES! Get revived post-punk style with Landt, Sleep the Owls, Ballistic Rhino and Spurge at The Star Bar! Americana it up with Amanda Platt & The Honeycutters at Eddie’s Attic! Get funky with Underground Springhouse, Sunshine Slowdown and Nick Walter Will at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 4

Get intergalactic and catch a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) with a live accompaniment by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 8pm! Get down with Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke) at the Buckhead Theatre! The Stranger celebrates the music of Billy Joel at City Winery! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to Venkman’s for Jill Rock Jones paying tribute to Grace Jones and Mermaid Motor Lounge Acoustic Trio! The Fox Theatre presents the 10th Anniversary Tour of ROCK OF AGES! Captain Trips & The Sunstroke Serendaders bring you the tunes of the Grateful Dead at The Vista Room! Abbey Road LIVE! celebrates 50 years of the WHITE ALBUM at the Variety Playhouse! Get your Americana fix with Mark Miller and Mike Kinnebrew at Eddie’s Attic! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Bucket List Burlesque Show and PJ/Blanket Fort Party!  Get down with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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, January 5

Get hellacious at The Highlander and rock out with Freakshow Sinema, Eliminate Earth and The McRyatts! Glam it up at Amsterdam Atlanta during Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s BOWIE/GLAM Music Video Dance Party! Get rootsy with Cody Marlowe at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Rolling Stones fix with Street Fighting Band (Kool Kat Rich Desantis) at the Red Clay Theatre! Folk it up with The Skipperdees, After Jack and The Good Graces at the Red Light Café! Tribute celebrates the Allman Brothers at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out at Venkman’s with Members Only Band and Lightnin’ Ray! Get intergalactic for a second night and catch a screening of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) with a live accompaniment by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall at 8pm! Make your way to the grand opening of Rainy Day Revival Oddities and catch Kool Kat Chris Hamer’s Full Frontal Obscurity art show! Get your Americana fix with Mark Miller and Mike Kinnebrew at Eddie’s Attic! The Northside Tavern gets down with Ike Stubblefield and Bill Sheffield!  St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 6

Spend the night with Erin Thomas & Clay Evans at Eddie’s Attic, with The New Blue of Yale! Get down at the Crimson Moon Café with Boomers Gone Wild! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31! (LAST CHANCE!)

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Ring in a vintage New Year with ATLRetro!  Come celebrate what once was in 2018 and welcome with open arms what will be in 2019! Start the New Year off with a bang with all the hoppin’ shindigs we’ve dug up just for you!

1. BLUES, SOUL & FUNK, OH MY. Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics dish out a helluva night of rockin’ ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul at Venkman’s! For some classic blues and jazz, make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with “The Empress of the Blues” Sandra Hall! Doors at 7pm and $50 gets you guaranteed seating, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight! Boogie down into the New Year with Funk You and Universal Sigh at Aisle 5! Doors at 9pm/$15 advance. Fire up the blues at the Northside Tavern with Eddie Tigner, Lola & the Atlanta Horns, Albert White and Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Spend NYE at the Crimson Moon Café with the EG Kight Trio!

2. HEY! HO! LET’S GO! The Star Bar is throwing one helluva killer Kool Kat New Year’s Eve party with Gringo Star (Kool Kats Nick and Peter Furgiuele), Anna Kramer, Mammabear, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Chrome Castle! Doors at 8pm: $17.50 advance/$20. Eat, drink and be scary during The Highlander’s SKARYOKE New Year’s Evil Party! Hey all you miscreants! Get rebellious and rock into the New Year with The Coathangers, Vincas and Paralyzer at The Earl! Doors at 9pm/$25. The Georgia Players Guild delivers a rockin’ NYE Royalty Show: A Tribute to Prince & Queen at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre, at 9pm. $40 cover. Get heavy with Sevendust at the Masquerade at 7pm! $45 advance tickets. Rock out and pay tribute with Led Zeppelified at Smith’s Olde Bar (Atlanta Room)! $12 advance/$20 day of show. The Fox Theatre continues their 30+ year tradition and jams into the New Year with Widespread Panic! Doors at 8pm/tickets start at $75.

3. I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: MONSTERS, MADNESS & WITCHY FUN. It’s a night of monsters, poets and madmen at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge during Frankenstein’s Ball, and immersive experience, at 7:30pm! Get bewitched at Battle & Brew during A New Year’s Eve Yule Ball! Special prizes for the most eloquently dressed witches and wizards! Doors at 7pm!

4. RAISE A ROCKABILLY/FOLKSY/ROOTSY RUCKUS.  Get swampadelic at Terminal West with Larkin Poe and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! Doors at 8pm/tickets start at $26. Have a helluva NYE with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Porterdale Bar & Grill! Rock into 2019 with Drivin N Cryin at the Buckhead Theatre with Dan Baird & Homemade Sin! Doors 8pm. Have a folksy New Year’s Eve dinner and show with ESOEBO at the Red Clay Theatre! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Doors at 7pm. For a New Year’s Eve filled with foot stompin’ Americana, blues and rock ‘n’ roll, make your way to Eddie’s Attic for two hoppin’ helpings of the sultry Michelle Malone Band and her 21st annual New Year’s Eve Bash! Stomp on down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ and raise a New Beers Eve ruckus with Whiskey Dixie and The Possum Kingdom Ramblers! Cover: $60, Doors: 6:30pm.

5. SMOOTH OPERATOR. Get ‘70s toasty and sail into 2019 with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern during their all-inclusive shakin’ shindig at 9pm! $200/VIP Pass includes champagne, tasty treats and more! Soft rock into the New Year at Smith’s Olde Bar (Music Room) with Rumours – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute. $30 advance/$40 door/$200 VIP tables. Get your fill of ‘60s and ‘70s tunes with The Atlanta Seven at the Clermont Lounge at 10pm! $15 cover.

6. LIFE’S A BEACH. Tiki it up into 2019 at Trader Vic’s New Years Eve in Paradise featuring a special 4-course menu  and a night with Bogey & The Viceroy dishing out some soulful island tunes with a midnight champagne toast! Doors at 9pm! Spend the night with Coast Guard at City Winery for NYE! $109 general admission/$149 VIP. Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration!

7. THE CURE FOR BANANARAMA. Electric Avenue rings in the New Year with a night of MTV-era rockin’ shenanigans at The Vista Room! Doors 8pm and $45/person. Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta at 10pm!

8. RAT PACKIN’ & ALL THAT JAZZ.  Swing into the New Year in style with Joe Gransden and Francine Reed as they celebrate with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at City Springs at 8pm! Or croon it up at the Red Phone Booth for their Rat Pack New Year’s Eve Celebration featuring live music with Johnny Porrazzo. Doors 7pm and $150/person.

9. PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ. Celebrate the New Year in style! Grab your favorite guy or gal, get dressed to the nines and shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Speakeasy Electro Swing presents their 3rd annual Gilded Age Gala, featuring live tunes, a Burly-Q feast for the eyes, music by MC/DJ Doctor Q and so much more! Doors at 8pm/$40 advance/$60 at the door. Or boogie on down to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Suck It 2018 NYE Dance Party, featuring DJs, party favors and a free champagne toast at midnight! Get criminal and make a fabulous getaway to Bonnie & Clyde’s NYE Masquerade Ball! Doors at 9pm/$150. Roar into 2019 with The Great Gatsby Gala featuring tasty treats, a champagne toast and more at 8pm!

10. SCI-FI IT UP. The Plaza Theater gives you an intergalactic start to the New Year with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) at 10pm

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey retro-lovin’ kiddies, it’s that time of year again! The big jolly fella may be spying to see if you’re naughty or nice, so show ‘em how good (or bad, we don’t mind!) you are by checking what ATLRetro has in store for you! It’s a week of holiday cheer, retro-style, so whether you’re hankerin’ for a good classic flick or are needing to get your retro rockin’ fix, come see what we’ve found for you! 

Monday, December 24

It’s your last chance to get down to the Fox Theatre’s special holiday treat, THE NUTCRACKER! Or catch the Alliance Theatre’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Make your way to Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Movie Tavern at Horizon Village (Suwannee) and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse (Sandy Springs) for a screening of Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 25

We hope you have a rockin’ retro Christmas this year! For those of you wondering, ATLRetro is alive and hopping, so come on out and see what the jolly old fella has up his big red sleeve! Surf on down to The Earl for a night with Small Reactions, Warm Red and Low Valley Hearts! Get brutal and spend Christmas at The Highlander! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 26

Catch a “non-ELF” holiday double feature with Risa Bramon Garcia’s 200 CIGARETTES (1999) and Kriv Stenders’ BOXING DAY (2007) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:15pm! Spend the night with Reverend Hylton and Americana it up at Eddie’s Attic! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Wild Hares! Get down with Clark Ashton at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 27

Spend the night Beer & Lounging at the Clermont Lounge with The Buzzards of Fuzz, the Reverends and The Mystery Men?! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with David Ryan Harris! Or get rocked at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Rock on down to Madlife Stage & Studios for a night with Red Zeppelin! Funk it up New Orleans-style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get angsty with the Dround Hounds at The Star Bar! Jazz it up with Chandra Currelley at Suite Food Lounge! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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 28

Catch a screening of Rob Reiner’s WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Stomp down to City Winery for a night with Donna the Buffalo and Western Centuries! Get folksy with Ralph Roddenberry at the Crimson Moon Café! Smithsonian pays tribute to The Smiths at The Earl with JesusHoney! Rock out in Hell with Thunderstruck at the Masquerade! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as the Queerly Beloved Revue presents Everything Queer for the New Year! Get down with Doom Flamingo at the Variety Playhouse! Folk rock it up at the Buckhead Theatre with Corey Smith and Levi Hummon! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get your oldies fix with The Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets down with Rib Shack Lady and the Atlanta Horns! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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 29

It’s tribute night at Smith’s Olde Bar so rock out with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth (David Bowie) and Lobsters of Rock (The B-52s)! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Alamo in Newnan! Get some soul with Anthony David at City Winery! Spend the night with Pat McGee and Callista Clark at Eddie’s Attic! Departure pays tribute to Journey at Madlife Stage & Studios! Or catch a Simon & Garfunkel tribute at Red Light Café with Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Dynagroove gets down at Tin Roof Cantina! Get down with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Folk rock it up at the Buckhead Theatre with Corey Smith and Levi Hummon! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets down with Rib Shack Lady and the Atlanta Horns!  St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down and dirty with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 30

Garage rock it up with The Coathangers and Omni at The Earl! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for The Candybox Revue’s Burlesque Karaoke: New Year’s Eve Edition featuring Kool Kat Ursula Undress and more! You won’t want to miss the Center for Puppetry Arts’ final presentation of a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER! Or make your way to the Horizon Theatre’s WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, or the Horizon Theatre’s presentation of MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS or the Synchronicity Theatre’s A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD! Get down with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988)! Get some soul with Anthony David at City Winery! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Get the rockin’ blues with the Devon Allman Project and Duane Betts at the Buckhead Theatre! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam out at the Tabernacle with Umphrey’s McGee! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get the blues with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theatre presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Get ready to shake it with Santa and check out all the festive events we’ve found for you in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, December 17

Catch a screening of Nicholas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) at The Plaza Theater through Dec. 19! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Get some soul with Avery Sunshine at City Winery! Get festive at the Fox Theatre with their free Mighty Mo & More event featuring a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) and live tunes by The Cody Matlock Band! Geek it up holiday-style at My Parents’ Basement during their December Drink and Draw event! Or catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at Cinemark Movies 10 (Fayetteville), through Dec. 20! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7pm! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 18

Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier a.k.a. Puddles Pity Party brings you cheer at the Fox Theatre with his Holiday Jubilee! Spend the night with Ed Roland & Friends at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a Kool Kat holiday hootenanny with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney as they present A Charlie Brown Christmas with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Ventures’ and the Beach Boys’ Christmas albums at Madlife Stage & Studios! Get some soul with Avery Sunshine at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with The Entertainment Crackers at Blind Willie’s! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 19

Catch a spooky holiday double feature with Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) and Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Boogie down to The Vista Room for Michelle Malone & the Hot Toddies Cool Yule Shindig! The Basement dishes out a night of nomadic folk metal with Tengger Calvary! Get your Texas country, Western Swing fix with Asleep at the Wheel at City Winery! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Jump, Little Children and The New Oblivion Quartet! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989), or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse! Spend the night with Ed Roland & Friends at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Wild Hares! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 20

Have a revved out holiday at the Masquerade during Horton’s Holiday Hayride in Heaven starring Reverend Horton Heat, Junior Brown, The Blasters and Big Sandy, or go to Hell and rock out with H.R. of Bad Brains with Odd Holiday! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre presents a merry holiday marathon with screenings of Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)! Hula on down to Tiki Tango, opening officially in mid-January, for a Holiday Tiki Tease/Pink Elephant Mug Exchange, from 6pm – 10pm! Jingle it up as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas at Venkman’s! Naughty or nice? Doesn’t matter kiddies, just make your way to The Plaza Theater for Cineprov’s 11th Annual Ruining Childhood Memories XMas Show at 7:30pm! Videodrome and The Plaza Theater get bizarre with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL (1985) at 9:30pm! Rock out at The Earl with The Howling Tongues, The Pink Spiders and The Deacons! Get down with the BadAsh AllStar Team at the Red Light Café! Cow punk it up at The Star Bar with Blood Oaks, Ghost Moths, Close Enough and The Breaknecks! Get rocked at the Variety Playhouse during the 8th Annual Atlanta Holiday Hootenanny benefitting Atlanta Habitat for Humanity! Jazz it up with Ronnie & Debra Laws at Suite Food Lounge! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Juke Joint Dukes get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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 21

Get down with James Brown at the Buckhead Theatre during ATL Collective’s Funky Christmas! Have a hellacious XMas and make your way to the Heretic for Ritual’s Jingle Hell Rock! Jazz it up with Tyrone Jackson at the High Museum’s Friday Jazz event! Make your way to Smith’s Olde Bar for The Vegabonds, Kendall St. Company and Pierce Edens! Get rootsy with the Truth & Salvage Co. and Migrant Worker at Terminal West! Rock out with the North Mississippi AllStars at the Variety Playhouse! Catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at SCADShow at 6pm! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Rock out at The Earl with James Hall & The Steady Wicked! Neon Queen delivers the songs of ABBA at Venkman’s! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Howie Day, Sam Burch and Pip the Pansy! Get the blues with Sana Blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern funks it up with Zydefunk! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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 22

Get hellacious and make your way to The Star Bar for Unholy Night: Drag Me to Hell with Lavonia Elberton! Swing on by the Red Clay Theatre for Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Jane Lynch! Rock out at The Earl with Maiden Killers (tribute to Di’Anno), Paladin and Built for Speed (tribute to Motorhead)! The Atlanta Rhythm Section rocks out at Eddie’s Attic! Maggoo’s Heroes and the Burrito Bandits rock out at The Highlander! Get festive with Celtic Woman with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Indie folk it up with The Weepies at the Variety Playhouse! It’s a Kool Kat holiday hootenanny with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney as they present two show of A Charlie Brown Christmas with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Ventures’ Christmas album at Kavarna! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Goth Industrial Darkwave Music Video Night featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Catch a free screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at Venkman’s at 10:30am, and then jingle it up as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas! It’s your last chance to boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular! Get the holiday blues with The Kerry Hill Xmas Show at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with Charlie Wooten & The Fish Mouth Fools! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 23

Have a spectacular holiday and swing on by Eddie’s Attic for two shows featuring Joe Gransden & His Big Band with Francine Reed! Get down with Macy Gray at City Winery! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Burlesque Howliday shindig! It’s your last chance to get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Jingle on down to Venkman’s as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22! (LAST CHANCE!)

Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24!

The Alliance Theatre presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre through Dec. 24!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Cold weather got you down? Don’t fret kiddies! ATLRetro 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 ATLRetro has in store for you!

Monday, December 10

Get bizarre and catch a screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at The Plaza Theater at 9pm! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at theatres across Atlanta through Dec. 13 [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); Cobb CineBistro; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); The Springs Cinema & Taphouse; and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Or catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at theatres across Atlanta through Dec. 12 [AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)]! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 7pm! Experience Jim Henson’s Holiday Special with double-feature screenings of his EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS (1977) and THE BELLS OF FRAGGLE ROCK (1984) at theatres across Atlanta at 4pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Spend the night with Tom Morello at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Louden Swain at Eddie’s Attic! Catch a screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville) through Dec. 13! 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!” 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 11

Stomp on down to 529 with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Elijah Jones & The Tenderness and Nikki & The Phantom Callers! Shimmy it up with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice at the Red Light Café! Get the rockin’ blues with The Marcus King Band at Terminal West! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Folk it up with Rising Appalachia at Eddie’s Attic! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get the blues with Michael Preston at Blind Willie’s! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 12

WUSSY MAG gets murderous at The Plaza Theater with two screenings of Jonathan Lynn’s CLUE (1985), chock full of cluetastic lobby shenanigans, prizes and more, at 8pm and 10:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Rock out with Jimmy Vivino and Bob Margolin at City Winery! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! The Alliance Theatre presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre through Dec. 24! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 4pm/7pm! Catch a holiday double feature with Thomas Bezucha’s THE FAMILY STONE (2005) and Marcus Raboy’s FRIDAY AFTER NEXT (2002) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at 3pm/6pm! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Wild Hares! Blind Willie’s gets down with Rae & The Royal Peacocks! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 13

Get down with Evil Santa and holiday horror shenanigans as TCM Underground and Videodrome screen Charles Sellier’s SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT (1984), with special ghost host with the most Prof. Morte a.k.a. Kool Kat Shane Morton at The Plaza Theater at 9:30pm! Or stomp on down to the Clermont Lounge for the Ghost Riders Car Club’s (Kool Kat Spike Fullerton) Honky-Tonk Holiday Hoedown! Get the rockin’ blues with The Marcus King Band at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with night two of Jimmy Vivino and Bob Margolin at City Winery! Or get rocked at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with Bayside! Get rocked metal quartet style with Double Ferrari at The Earl! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for the 9th Annual Christmas Extravaganza with Ryan Horne, Nathan Angelo, Dwayne Shivers and Jonathan Rich! The FANDom Nerdlesque gets mischievous with Geeks & Ghouls at Joystick Gamebar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes with Coast Guard and some killer island cocktails! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, December 14

It’s a Kool Kat holiday hootenanny with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney as they present A Charlie Brown Christmas plus selections from Phil Spector’s A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU, with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Ventures’ and the Beach Boys’ Christmas albums at The Earl! Get rocked and sleaze it up at Avondale Towne Cinema’s Christmas Party featuring Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters with the Neverglades featuring Bruce Joyner! Saved By The Band dishes out their Holiday Spectacular at Venkman’s! Make your way to The Plaza Theater  for a screening of Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL (1985), through Dec. 16! Get some soul with Mia Borders at the Red Light Café! Get the rockin’ blues with The Marcus King Band at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for night two of the 9th Annual Christmas Extravaganza with Ryan Horne, Nathan Angelo, Dwayne Shivers and Jonathan Rich! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! The Northside Tavern dishes out a night of ‘60s/’70s rock ‘n’ roll with The Rainmen! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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 15

It’s a holiday hootenanny and a half for a cause at The Star Bar with their Annual Toys for Tots Celebration featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club, Rodeo Twister, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, Deadly Lo-Fi, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, Matchstick Johnny, Al Shelton, the Front Porch Session Players and more! The Plaza Theater delivers a special holiday treat with a screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) with special guest Zach Galligan at 7pm! Get hell-bent this holiday season as Netherworld opens its doors once again for a Haunted Holiday spooktacular! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for Atlanta’s Celtic Christmas presented by The Celtic Company! Jill Andrews bluegrasses it up at Eddie’s Attic! Catch at 15th Anniversary screening of Terry Zwigoff’s BAD SANTA (2003) at the Buckhead Theatre, doors at 6pm! Groove on down to The Roxy for The Yacht Rock Holiday Special! Make your way to The Highlander for the Two-Headed Art Show from 7pm – 10pm. Catch a screening of Brian Henson’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Catch a free screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at Venkman’s at 10:30am! It’s a Kool Kat holiday hootenanny with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney as they present A Charlie Brown Christmas plus selections from Phil Spector’s A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU, with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Ventures’ and the Beach Boys’ Christmas albums at The Earl! Make your way to Tipple & Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary for a Mary Poppins Holiday Tea! Catch a free screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at Venkman’s at 10:30am, and then jingle it up as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Get down to Avondale Towne Cinema for their XMas Jam! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with Tyler Neal Band! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 16

Experience Jim Henson’s Holiday Special with double-feature screenings of his EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS (1977) and THE BELLS OF FRAGGLE ROCK (1984) at theatres across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! It’s your last chance to holiday it up with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and T.T. Mahoney as they present A Charlie Brown Christmas plus selections from Phil Spector’s A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU, with Kool Kat Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights performing the Ventures’ and the Beach Boys’ Christmas albums at The Earl! Make your way to the Grant Park Farmers Market for a Holiday Craft Bazaar! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for Atlanta’s Celtic Christmas presented by The Celtic Company! The Plaza Theater screens Brenda Chapman/Steve Hickner/Simon Wells’ THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989)! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jingle on down to Venkman’s as David Ellington jazzes it up with his Charlie Brown Christmas! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Blind Willie’s gets the Delta blues with The Breeze Kings! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24!

The Alliance Theatre presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Cobb Energy Centre through Dec. 24!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

ATLRetro is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live La Vida Retro!

Monday, December 3

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Jazz it up with Julie Dexter at City Winery! The Plaza Theater gets gory this holiday season with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) through Dec. 6 and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) through Dec. 4! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 7pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Indie folk it up with Kurt Vile & The Violators with Jessica Pratt at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! 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 as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 4

The Robert Cray Band gets the blues at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Deal Casino at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Warren G at City Winery! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get countrified with Martina McBride at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get the blues with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Johnny Cash Now pays tribute to the Man in Black at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 5

Get sinister as Claudio Simonetti’s GOBLIN performs Suspiria live at Aisle 5! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Rock out with The Helio Sequence at the Drunken Unicorn! Holiday hilarity ensues at Cobb CineBistro with a screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Jon Favreau’s ELF (2003) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 4pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Spend the night with OKCello at City Winery! Get your Americana fix with The Talbott Brothers at Eddie’s Attic! Grunge it up with Smile Empty Soul at the Masquerade! Spend the night with Leslie Odom Jr. at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Catch a holiday double feature with the “White Christmas” episode of BLACK MIRROR (2014) and Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of George Seaton’s holiday classic MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947), or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 4:30pm/7pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Wild Hares! Blind Willie’s jams out with The Cazanovas! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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 6

Atlanta’s favorite video store, Videodrome turns 20, so party it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom & Lounge at 7pm during their 20th Anniversary Party! Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22! Holiday mischief ‘n’ magic ensues at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov riffs K. Gordon Murray’s SANTA CLAUS VS. THE DEVIL (1959) at 7:30pm! Make your way to 7 Stages for some Curious Holiday Encounters, through Dec. 9, featuring The Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra (Xmas with the Devil) and so many more immersive artist/ensemble performances! Rock out at 529 with The Muckers and Twisty Cats! Or get down to Venkman’s for a night with Forever ’78! The Star Bar gets down with Fox Grin, Mammabear, Fantomen and Jonny & the Jumpmen! Catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at theatres across Atlanta through Dec. 9 [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Phipps Plaza 14; and Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18]! Spend the night with Stephen Kellogg at City Winery! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Ben Trickey, Dang Dang Dang and Tag Team! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies Cool Yule Trio, Brian Fuller, Dylan Marlowe and Brendan Roberts! Bluegrass it up at Terminal West with Tyler Childers and T. Hardy Morris! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Kool Kat Quintron and Weather Warlock! Get jazzy with Four80East at Suite Food Lounge! Get down with The Suffers at the Tabernacle! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! 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 7

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! Help celebrate Videodrome’s 20th Anniversary with a special screening of David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at The Plaza Theater at 9:45pm! JURASSIC QUEST invades Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center through Dec. 9! Jam out with moe. at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the blues with the Hughes Taylor Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Sonia Leigh and Parker Millsap! Make your way to the High Museum for a night with OKCello! Madlife State & Studios delivers a night with ABBA Revisited! “Celtic Guitar God” Robin Bullock and Sue Richards get down at the Red Clay Theatre! Or get you Celtic folk fix with Celtic Thunder at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Swing by the Red Light Café for a night with Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Bluegrass it up with Tyler Childers at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Synchronicity Theatre for their production of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30! Rock out with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute) and Stone Tribute Pilots at Venkman’s UNPLUGGED event! Northside Tavern gets the old-school blues with Albert White! Get the blues with Little G Weevil at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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 8

Make your way to Venkman’s for their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch featuring live bluegrass tunes with Dusty Roads! Catch a screening of Brian Henson’s THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Have a little retro holiday cheer at Avondale Towne Cinema during The Rainmen’s Holiday Show with special guests Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers and more! Get bizarre and make your way to Sidebar for Ritual’s Burton Nightmare Bash! The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS (1992)! Jam out with moe. for a second night at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Kenny Latimore at City Winery! Get down with Betsy Franck at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down to The Earl for a night with Sarah & The Safe Word, Blood on the Harp and Maggie Valley! Blues rock it up with Jacks River Band and Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! Get rocked with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Infinite Energy Center! The Regrettes rock out at the Masquerade! Get naught ‘n’ nerdy at the Red Light Café during The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Christmas with the Joker! Funk it up with AJ Ghent at Serenbe Inn! Get garage rocked at The Star Bar with K. Michelle Dubois, Tigers and Monkeys and DJ Full Metal Mustache! Twang on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Whiskey Gentry! Don’t shoot your eye out during screenings of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at theatres across Atlanta at 12pm [Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get sweet and lowdown with Sweet ‘n’ Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 9

The Plaza Theater unveils a very special treat with a screening of Victor Sjostrom’s THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) with live accompaniment by the Fox Theatre’s organist Ken Double and the Mighty Allen Organ at 5pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Michael Curtiz’ WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Support our local artists and stuff your stockings with vintage goodies during Indie Craft Experience’s Holiday Market Spectacular at Yaarab Shriners at 11am! Or make your way to Battle & Brew’s Krampusnacht Holiday Market from 5-1opm! Start some new frightening holiday family traditions with Junkman’s Daughter’s Photos with Krampus event at 1pm! Get jazzy at Venkman’s during their Smooth Jazz 101.1FM Holiday Soiree! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Jon Favreau’s holiday classic ELF (2003) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 12pm! Swamp rock it up with JJ Grey at City Winery! Spend the night with Wyatt Espalin at the Crimson Moon Café! Get down with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Head on over to Terminal West for a night with JD McPherson and Eddie Angel’s Guitar Party! Prog rock it up with Steven Wilson at the Variety Playhouse! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

Boogie on down to Out Front Theatre Company for The Ethel Merman Disco Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Fox Theatre kicks off the holiday season with THE NUTCRACKER, through Dec. 24!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Synchronicity Theatre presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, November 26

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! 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!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! 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, November 27

Get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) at 7pm! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater at 10pm! The Fox Theatre presents IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL, through Dec. 1! Get folksy with Harry Hudson at Vinyl! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blind Willie’s gets the blues with Bob Page! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 28

Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963) at 7:30pm! Hula on down to The SOS Tiki Bar for a Tiki Holiday Celebration, through Dec. 31! Have a monsterific holiday with a screening of Joe Dante’s GREMLINS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Catch a screening of Richard Curtis’ LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) at Cobb CineBistro at 7pm! Miles Jaye jazzes it up at City Winery! The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday! Catch a tasty double feature with Gabriel Axel’s BABETTE’S FEAST (1987) and Juzo Itami’s TAMPOPO (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 3:30pm/7:45pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Blind Willie’s rocks out with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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, November 29

Make your way to The Plaza Theater for the Y’allywood Film Festival, running through Dec. 1! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Rock on down to the Clermont Lounge for Beer & Lounging with The Rock*a*teens and more! Folk rock it up with Dead King Cotton and Alex & Todd at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Moses Mo at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Star Bar with the Highriders, Bad Friend and JJ & The Hustlers! Get some soul with Dave Hollister at City Winery! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Lost Dog Street Band, South Hill Banks and Broken String Band! Make your way to Venkman’s for Ladies of ‘60s Soul! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns at Blind Willie’s!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, November 30

Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! Runnin’ Down a Dream pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar with Clashinista paying tribute to The Clash! Boogie down with DJ Saasha Foo at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or make your way to Mary’s for their 20th Anniversary Party! The Plaza Theater gores it up with screenings of John Grissmer’s BLOOD RAGE (1987) and John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982), through Dec. 6! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for the Queerly Beloved Revue! Rock out at The Earl with Mercyland Historical Abstract, The Gotobeds, Air-Sea Dolphin, Honey Radar and 86! Delta Moon gets rootsy at Eddie’s Attic! The Star Bar rocks out with Sash the Bash, The Tenders, Smoota and Chrome Castle! Folk rock it up with Don McLean at City Winery! Spend the night with Bobby McFerrin at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Sundogs present The Tom Petty Show with Pony League at Terminal West! Boogie down to Park Tavern for a Throwback to the ‘90s party! Make your way to Aisle 5 for a night with LaGoons, Displace and Kenosha Kid! Get some retro soul with Wren and the Wravens during their Merry Funkin’ Christmas show at Venkman’s! Northside Tavern gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up 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 1

Rock out with Dragon Sound as the Y’allywood Film Festival presents a 30th Anniversary screening of Y.K. Kim/Park Woo Sang’s MIAMI CONNECTION (1987) at The Plaza Theater, with Kool Kat Brian Lonano’s BFF GIRLS (2018) at 7pm! Rock out with the Richard Thompson Electric Trio at the Variety Playhouse! The Atlanta Funk Society gets down at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Rachmaninov Revisited at 8pm! Catch a screening of Jonathan Demme’s PHILADELPHIA (1993) at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18! Geek it up at the Infinite Realities Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting! Spend A Victorian Holiday at the Historic Oakland Cemetery from 10-4pm, with a Holiday Tour of Eternal Homes, carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! You won’t want to miss Avondale Estate’s Jingle Mingle Mile Artists Market, from 11am – 7pm! The Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30! For the rebellious ones in your lives, you’ll want to make it to Allied Ink Tattoo’s Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4-9pm! Elton John brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour to the State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena)! The Red Light Café gets down and dirty with the Dirty Dolls Burlesque Revue! Get rocked at The Earl with Magnapop, Elf Power, Motherfucker, Black to Comm (MC5 tribute) and The Rock*a*teens! Get some soul with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga at Eddie’s Attic! Garage rock it up with White Animals at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with W8ING4UFOs at Kavarna! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for AN EVENING WITH LUTHER & WHITNEY! Rock out with Ghost Light and Orange Constant at Terminal West! Spend the night with Anna Moon at Deep End! Get down with Cody Matlock at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Get down with Albert Castiglia at Blind Willie’s! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, December 2

Catch a screening of Ken Hughes’ CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) at The Plaza Theater! Or make your way to Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Marietta) screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at 12pm! Or catch a 25th Anniversary screening of Nora Ephron’s SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) at theaters across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Make your way to the Red Light Café for The Throne Room: A Royal Tease Experience! Bluegrass it up with The Cleverlys at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for The Celtic Company’s Gala Holiday Concert! Funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre presents MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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

Hey all you ATLRetro Kool Kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let us guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and rock out ATLRetro holiday-style!

Monday, November 19

Kevin Bales and Keri Johnsrud bring you Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers at Venkman’s! Folk it up with The Bad Hats and Ghost Moths at the Red Light Café! Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Sasha Waters Freyer’s documentary GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE (2018), through Nov. 22! Synth-pop it up with VNV Nation at the Masquerade! Psyche rock it up with Jim James at the Tabernacle! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! 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, November 20

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater head into the shadows with a NOIRVEMBER screening of Michael Curtiz’ MILDRED PIERCE (1945) at 7pm! Or get adventurous as the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Classics Series with a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7pm! Surf on down to City Winery for a night with The Expendables! Get folksy with Caroline Herring and Caroline Aiken at Eddie’s Attic! Billy Raffoul dishes out a night of Jeff Buckly-esque tunes at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Lynn Drury at the Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! GKIDS Presents a Studio Ghibli Fest screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Blues it up with the Crosstown Allstars at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, November 21

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with I Want Whiskey, Grand Prize Winners From Last Year and The Villain Family! The Plaza Theater hosts SONIC YOUTH: 30 YEARS OF DAYDREAM NATION, a night of films and talks, with band member Steve Shelley and filmmaker Lance Bangs in attendance at 7:30pm! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue’s Turkey Eve Show! Grunge it up at 529 with Wrong, Bleach Garden and Dayglo Mourning! Tribute celebrates The Allman Brothers at City Winery! ATL Collective presents Stevie Wonder’s TALKING BOOK at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for a night with the Manchester Orchestra and The Front Bottoms! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove and Chill Mickelson at Terminal West! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at 2:30pm/7:30pm, or catch a screening at The Springs Cinema & Taphouse at 1pm/7:30pm! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! It’s a night of Honky-Tonk Karaoke with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at The Star Bar! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern for a rockin’ night of blues with the Tyler Neal Band! 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, November 22

Burn off all that extra Turkey Day stuffing in ATLRetro! Eighties it up at The Star Bar as DJ Kahle helps you boogie away those extra pounds! Get horrorfied family-style at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Barry Sonnenfeld’s ADAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993) at 9pm! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and some killer island cocktails! 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! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 23

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with The Outlaw Women Band featuring Sash the Bash, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Skye Paige, Ana Balka, Amy Epperley, Andrew Knox & Jay Hedberg, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and more! Funk it up with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Garage rock it up with The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! The Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Street Fighting Band with Kool Kat Rich Desantis rock out with a tribute to The Rolling Stones at The Vista Room! Get down with the Middle Ages with a screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at The Plaza Theater! The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22! Groove on down to Venkman’s for Yacht Rock Revue! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Tinsley Ellis and Tommy Castro & The Painkillers! Spend the night with David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker) and Kristy Lee at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for Straight No Chaser! Korpiklaani folk rocks it up all the way from Finland, with Arkona, at the Masquerade! Glenn Phillips rocks out at his Annual Day After Thanksgiving Show at the Red Light Café! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! The Last Waltz Ensemble and the Last Electric Rodeo rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with Larry Griffith at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a night with Blackberry Smoke! Jam it up with Perpetual Groove at Terminal West! Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Cody Matlock and Ross Pead get the blues at the Northside Tavern! Time-Warp it up 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, November 24

Get glam rocked at The Star Bar with The Unsatisfied and The Accidents! Get a second rockin’ helping of The Black Lips, Iceage and Sorfbort at The Earl! Get folksy with Ellis Paul at Eddie’s Attic! Folk rock it up at the Variety Playhouse for a night with Shawn Mullins with Michelle Malone & Drag the River! Who’s Bad dishes out the ultimate Michael Jackson experience at City Winery! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Tannery Row Ale House in Buford! Desire pay tribute to U2 at The Vista Room! Funk it up for a second night with Mother’s Finest at the Buckhead Theatre! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with PerkinsWood, Flap, and Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel! Get instrumental with STS9 at the Roxy! Zydeco on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Squirrelheads, The Mia Green Band and Webster! The REMakes pay tribute to R.E.M. at Venkman’s! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get the blues with Nick Moss at Blind Willie’s! Get your Americana fix with Great Peacock at Terminal West! Get the blues with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Cody Matlock and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 25

Get your weird ‘n’ wacky holiday shopping off to a good start at My Parents’ Basement November Bizarre Bazaar at 12pm! Get some soul with Miki Howard at City Winery! Or Motown it up with Will Downing at the Cobb Energy Centre! Feast your eyes on Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South for a good cause during the 11th Annual Toys for Tots & Variety Show at 7 Stages! Shoot your eye out and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Bob Clark’s holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get super with a 40th Anniversary screening of Richard Donner’s SUPERMAN (1978) at theaters across Atlanta at 3pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or funk it up with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

The Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibits Chimera: Andy Warhol through the 1980s, through Nov. 25! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Aurora Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL through Dec. 22!

The Aurora Theatre delivers their Christmas Canteen, through Dec. 23!

Get your vintage holiday fix with an Old Fashioned Christmas in Dahlonega, through Dec. 23!

The Center for Puppetry Arts presents a holiday favorite classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, through Dec. 30!

Horizon Theatre stages world premiere of WAFFLE PALACE CHRISTMAS, through Dec. 30!

Get revved and tune into Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley’s Psychobilly Freakout Radio broadcasting on Garage 71 at 8pm, every Monday through Dec. 31!

ATL CRAFT presents a magical occult Movie Night every second Friday of every month!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every first Wednesday of the month!

Geek it up and get to bowlin’ at The Comet Pub & Lanes’ Comet Cosplay, getting nerdy the first Monday of every month!

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!

The Highlander rocks out with their Punk/Metal/New Wave Karaoke Night, every Wednesday!

Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction! event, every Monday!

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!

Get your reggae fix with Rub-A-Dub gettin’ down at WildPitch Music Hall, every second Sunday of the month!

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.