by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor
Come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week!
Monday, October 8
Get rocked with King Kahn & The Shrines with Gabriella Cohen at the Drunken Unicorn! The Plaza 
Theater kills it with a screening of Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985) at 5:30pm! Amy Scott’s documentary covering the life of Hal Ashby, HAL (2018) screens the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through Oct. 11 (see our Retro Review here)! Blues it up with Ana Popovic at City Winery! Rock out at the Masquerade with Authority Zero, Runaway Kids, In the Whale and Resident One. Get folksy with David Gans at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get rocked with Scotland’s Simple Minds at the Tabernacle! Get your vinyl fix during Little 5 Points Corner Tavern’s Records of Mass Destruction event every Monday! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/ Duluth/Marietta) gets bewitched with David Yates’ HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) at 7:30pm! 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!
Tuesday, October 9
The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their new Classics Series with a screening of Steven 
Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7pm! It’s a Boolesque Spooktacular with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South promising to rattle your bones at the Red Light Café! Celebrate 50 years of Peter Yates’ BULLITT (1968) starring Steve McQueen at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; 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); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium (Buford)]! Get the blues with The D’Notes at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get to the root of it all with the Sleepwalkers and Illiterate Light at Eddie’s Attic! The Goo Goo Dolls rock out at the Tabernacle! Catch Murder by Death and Tim Barry at Terminal West! The Plaza Theater screens David Hartman’s PHANTASM (1979) at 5pm, and Don Coscavelli’s BUBBA HO TEP (2002) at 6:45! 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! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!
Wednesday, October 10
Shock rock it up with Alice Cooper at the Cobb Energy Centre! Or rock out with Public Image Ltd at the Variety Playhouse! WUSSY MAG delivers a gore-tastic event at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), chock full of bloody fantastic lobby shenanigans, prizes and more, at 7pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out 40 years of terror with a screening of John Carpenter’s 
HALLOWEEN (1978), for one night only, at 7pm! Or make your way to Woodruff Park for a free screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at 6pm! Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27! Raise a ruckus at the 10th Annual Hell on Wheels in Commerce, revving it up through Oct. 14th, featuring a classic car/motorcycle show, vendors, artists, a pin-up contest, film screenings and more! Tonight Hell on Wheels gets down with Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! The Plaza Theater kills it with a screening of Stuart Gordon’s RE-ANIMATOR (1985) at 5:30pm! Have a bloody fantastic time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carptenter’s classic HALLOWEEN (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get cozy with Audrey II during a screening of Frank Oz’ LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) at 7:15pm! Freak-folk it up with Phil Cook and Andy Jenkins at Eddie’s Attic! Or get folk-rocked with Send Medicine at The Star Bar! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Catch a hairy Werewolf Wednesday double feature of Neil Marshall’s DOG SOLDIERS (2002) and Dan Attias’ SILVER BULLET (1985) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Emory Cinematheque kills it with their “Hitchcock/Hitchcockian” series with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Cameron Crowe’s SAY ANYTHING (1989) at Brookhaven’s CineBistro at 7pm! Catch a screening of Disney’s THE LION KING (1994) at SCADShow at 6pm! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.
Thursday, October 11
Ultra Popcorn Theatre Company presents Steve Martin’s WASP and ZIGZAG WOMAN at 7 Stages 
(Black Box Theatre), through Oct. 13! Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20! And 7 Stages continues their production of WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! The Fall Kavalkade O’Kountry starring Kook Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club gets down at the Clermont Lounge! Day 2 of Hell on Wheels brings you live music with Poison Whiskey and a 1am screening of Gerald Potterton’s HEAVY METAL (1981)! Bloody Disgusting presents their Retro Nightmares series at Studio Movie Grill (Duluth/Marietta) with screenings of Jim Sotos’ SWEET SIXTEEN (1983) and Mike Mendez’ THE CONVENT (2000) at 7:45pm! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Spend the night with The Rogue Tones, Robbie Fulks and Redd Volkaert at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! The Masquerade rocks out with Minus the Bear and Caspian in Heaven! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Leigh Nash and The Mosleys! Get folksy with Laurie Ray and Brian Revels at the Red Light Café! Haunt on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Nightmare Cirque! Get countrified with Wheeler Walker, Jr. and Adam Chaffins at Terminal West! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky and 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, October 12
Carnival of Doom kills it with their Creature Feature 2018 Kennesaw “Drive In” featuring a screening of Noriaki Yuasa’s DESTROY ALL PLANETS (GAMERA VS. VIRAS) (1968) at 7:30pm! Rock out with Richie Ramone, the Guillotines, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, Paint Fumes and Bad Spell at The Star Bar! Get your ‘70s europunk fix with GG King, Trampoline Team, Sick Thoughts, Get High Boys and Paralyzer 
at The Earl! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at The Vista Room! Boogie down to The Deep End for Femme! Dance, Music and Performance Art celebrating women in the arts! Rev on down to Hell on Wheels for more shenanigans with McPherson Struts, Little Lesley & the Bloodshots, the Captain & Maybelle Side Show, the Matt Brantley Band, Angela Reign and a 1am screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE OUTSIDERS (1983)! The Plaza Theater kicks off their screenings of Steve Miner’s HALLOWEEN H20 (1998) and Wes Craven’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977), through Oct. 14! Get some soul with Maxwell at Chastain Park! Kathy Mattea gets countrified at City Winery! Battle & Brew spooks it up with Keenan Ivory Wayans’ SCARY MOVIE (2000) franchise beginning at 5pm! 7 Stages continues their production of WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! The Fernbank Museum presents their After Dark: Forensics event at 7pm! Get down with the Burnt Hickory Blues Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a night of rockin’ soul at the Red Light Café with Diane Durrett & Soul Suga! Jam it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Casual Cadenza, Three Star Revival and TasteBud! Sean Solo delivers a Simon & Garfunkel tribute at Venkman’s, followed by Freebird! Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4! Get the old-school blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins 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, October 13
Rev on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for A Rockabilly Rumble featuring Bucky Lastard, The Sideburners and Kitty Rose & The Rattlers! Bewitch it up, run amuck and catch a screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) hosted by Interactive Flicks during their Movies in the Woods series at 
Foxhall Resort in Douglasville at 5pm! Geek it up at Battle & Brew for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 5pm! Surf on down Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring Phatlynx, the Flamethrowers and Netherglades! It’s your last chance to rock on down to Hell on Wheels for a day of revved up shenanigans with Slim & the Gems, Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley and the Southern Ska Syndicate, the Captain & Maybelle Side Show, Lonely Highway, Mustang Sally, Joe Santana and more! Boogie down with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Dance Party: Halloween Pride: Dead or Divine at Amsterdam Atlanta! Rock out with Cat Power at Center Stage! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Gaelic Storm! The Dround Hounds get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get retro-rocked with The Artisanals and The Pollies at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Roxie Watson! It’s a sin-tillating night of shenanigans at the Red Light Café with The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Howl-A-Ween Villains event! Bluegrass it up with the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Variety Playhouse! Catch a free screening of Disney’s BEAUTY & THE BEAST (1991) at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Tucker Brewery and spend the night with the Andy Browne Troupe! Rock on down to Allied Ink Tattoo for their Punk Rock Flea Market, from 4pm – 9pm! Spend the night with Lauryn Hill at Chastain Park! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at Madlife State & Studios! Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3! Tony Bryant and Shelton Powe get down 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, October 14
Get jazzy with Francine Reed and Joe Gransden at Venkman’s! Get your BOO fix at Battle & Brew’s Pumpkin Carving Extravaganza at 5pm! Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A 
MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; 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); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and, AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get folksy with Passenger at the Buckhead Theatre! Bluegrass it up with Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan at City Winery! Be an outlaw and spend the night with Michael Martin Murphey and Sugarcane Jane at Eddie’s Attic! Banjo it up with Quattlebaum at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get your suspense fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic REAR WINDOW (1954) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!
Ongoing
Get your Beckett fix as 7 Stages presents WAITING FOR GODOT, through Oct. 14! (LAST CHANCE!)
Get hellacious with Out of the Box Theatre’s production of EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL, killing it through Oct. 20!
Spend fantastical nights with the Alliance Theatre’s production of A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, through October 21!
Your favorite band of specters has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts as The Ghastly Dreadfuls bring you creepy tales, frightful songs and devilish dances, haunting through Oct. 27!
Spook on down to the Sleepy Hollow Christmas Tree Farm in Powder Springs for Stranger Things Tours & a Nighttime Corn Maze, through Nov. 3!
Haunt on down to Netherworld Haunted House’s new deadly digs in Stone Mountain for their horrorific 22nd season, getting gory through Nov. 4!
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.
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