ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what ATLRetro has in store for you This Week!

Monday, July 30

Rock out with The Dollyrots and The Hearsay at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Jess Williamson, Twin Studies and Moses Nesh at The Earl! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willies! Get darkly folksy with Xasthur and Wino at 529! 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 get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 31

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Jean Luc-Godard’s CONTEMPT (1963) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! BODEGA rocks out at The Earl with Fun Isn’t Fair! Spend the night with Pony Bradshaw at Eddie’s Attic! The Vans Warped Tour invades Lakewood Amphitheatre featuring The Interrupters, Reel Big Fish, Less than Jake, Chelsea Grin and so much more! Fiddle it up with Chris Wilcox & The Boys at the Red Light Café! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Blind Willies for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, August 1

Get retro-tastic at The Star Bar with Brian Revels, The Kernal and Book Club! Live long and prosper at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at 2:30pm/7:30pm!  Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta) presents a screening of Paul Brickman’s RISKY BUSINESS (1983) at 7:15pm! Get down with OKCello at City Winery! Folk it up with Great Peacock and Tojo & Womz at The Earl! Get the blues with the Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Get your folk rock fix with Matt Nathanson and O.A.R. at the Roxy! 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, August 2

Cineprov dishes out a night of horrorific laughs at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Claudio Fragasso’s TROLL 2 (1990) at 7:30pm! Or make your way to the Fox Theatre as they continue their Coca Cola Summer Film Festival with a screening of William Wyler’s FUNNY GIRL (1968) at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Reverend Hylton, Frankie Boots, Stu Larson and Tim Hart! Spend the night with Pentley Holmes at Java Monkey! Get rocked with Boy Hits Car at the Masquerade! Honky tonk it up with Smokey Jones & The 3 Dollar Pistols and I Want Whiskey at Venkman’s! Get down with Atlanta’s own, Arrested Development at City Winery! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 3

Stomp on down to 529 for Nikki & The Phantom Callers’ 7” Release Party with special guests, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, the Invisible Teardrops and Roadkill Debutante! Bogey & The Viceroy swank it up with their Stevie Wonder Dance Party at The Vista Room! Or rock out with The Distractors at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch Lauryn Hill at Chastain Park! Or get down with Arrested Development at City Winery! Get brutal with Sadistic Vision at The Earl! Creedence Clearwater Revisited makes their way to the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre! Get Dixie-fied and swing on by the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Swingin’ Saddle Cats and Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband! Funk it up with Brandon “Taz” Niederauer at Terminal West! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ at Venkman’s!  Catch a screening of the Coen Brothers’ O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) at 8pm at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Tribute pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Get the rockin’ blues with Dani Mac & Co. at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! George Hughley & The Shadows get down 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, August 4

EyeDrum brings their The Signal and The Noise series to The Plaza Theater with a screening of Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1921) with a live one-of-a-kind musical performance by Paul Mercer, Gabe Monticello and Kool Kat Aileen Loy at 7pm! Or rev on down to The Star Bar with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho-Devilles, Little Lesley & The Barshots, Bucky Lastard and Slim & The Gems! Get snazzy with the Georgia Pinup Posse’s End of Summer Yard Sale at Garage 71 Studios in Buford at 10am! Join the fantasy and catch a screening of Jim Henson’s THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 8pm! Funk it up at Terminal West during The James Brown Dance Party! Get countrified with Will Kimbrough at Art Farm/Serenbe! Get to jammin’ with Jupiter Coyote at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Melvin Miller at City Winery! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet with Maggie Koerner at Eddie’s Attic! Get mischievous with a folksy punk fix with Tail Light Rebellion, Gateway to Hell and Car Crash Kid at The Highlander! Folk it up with Boo Reefa at Java Monkey! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at MadLife Stage & Studios! Rock out with Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ and Louise Warren at Venkman’s! Siamese Dream pays tribute to Smashing Pumpkins at The Vista Room! The Strand Ole Opry brings you their O Brother, Where Art Thou Concert at 8pm at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! The Blues Hearts get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, August 5

Hang with “The Dude” as TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) 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); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get your ‘80s fix at Chastain Park with A Flock of Seagulls, Animotion, Berlin, Farrington & Mann, Naked Eyes, Nu Shooz and Wang Chung! Get down with Bettye Lavette at City Winery! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event! Get the blues with Eli Cook and Nora Jane Struthers at Eddie’s Attic! Get down with Snake Plissken at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get ghastly and catch a screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 12pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts 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!

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

Hop on back into the 20th century and come see what’s shakin’ in ATLRetro This Week! 

Monday, July 23

Get jazzy with Trina Broussard and Russell Taylor at City Winery! The Plaza Theater screens Stephen Nomura Schible’s documentary portrait of the artist and the man, RYUCHI SAKAMOTO: CODA (2017), through July 25! GKIDS presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Blues on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Rev. Shawn Amos and Chickens and Pigs! Blind Willies delivers a night with Matt Pendrick! 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 get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 24

Croon it up with Tony Bennett at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Francois Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT (1973) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Or sixties it up and celebrate 25 years of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Spend the night with Chandra Currelley at City Winery! Rock out with Western Medication at 529! Get geeky and sci-fi it up at Battle & Brew’s Science Fiction Art Show – Opening Night event! Get rocked with The Sheepdogs and Brent Cowles at The Earl! Folk it up with Olivia Chaney at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with Julie Sloneckie, Ghost Moths and Charlie Marie at the Red Light Café! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Blind Willies! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 25

It’s a night of Japanese animation with screenings of Mamoru Oshii’s GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) and Shoji Kawamori’s MACROSS PLUS MOVIE EDITION (1995) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! GKIDS presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Spend the night with Steve Nebraska, the Tyler Goforth Band and Layne Denton at The Star Bar! Get your masked crusader fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Harold Ramis’ wacky comedy classic NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION (1983) at 7:15pm! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Art Holliday gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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, July 26

Spend the night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at The Star Bar! Raise a ruckus with J.D. Wilkes at City Winery! The Ladies of ‘60s Soul Keisha and Kourtney Jackson get down at Venkman’s! Make your way to The Vista Room for a night of ‘80s pop, R&B and dance tunes with HOUSE PARTY! Get indie and rock out at the Clermont Lounge with Sister Moon, Vices of Vanity, Twin Criminal and Robot Party! Catch the Generally Local, Mostly Independent (GLMI) Film Series Screening at The Plaza Theater, hosted by the Plaza Theatre Foundation, the Atlanta Film Society and WonderRoot at 7pm! Get down with Digable Planets at the Masquerade! Get to the root of it all with Keelan Donovan, Haunted Like Human and Grant Cowan at the Red Light Café! Get old-timey with Dom Flemons (Carolina Chocolate Drops) at Eddie’s Attic! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Get rootsy with Joe McGuinnes at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 27

Celebrate an undead 50th Anniversary with George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at the Fox Theatre at 9pm! Get low class with Bas Clas and the Glenn Phillips Band at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock on down to Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with the Pixies and Weezer! Get down to The Star Bar and spend the night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, The Trouble Obscene, and Fun Isn’t Fair! Or shimmy on down to the Elliott Street Pub for the CandyBox Underground Burlesque Show featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil and more! Pearl & The Kozmic Blues pay tribute to Janis Joplin at Venkman’s at 6:30pm followed by PleaseRock and Yacht Rock Schooner’s evening of Steely Dan with Broadway Duchess at 9pm! The Fritz presents The King of Pop Meets The Purple One with LaGoons at Aisle 5! Catch a screening of George Dunning/The Beatles’ YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) at The Plaza Theater! Get your smooth ‘70s fix with Michael McDonald at the Atlanta Botanical Garden! Shimmy ‘n’ shake on down to City Winery for a night with Wasabassco Burlesque! Noise rock it up with Unsane and WRONG at The Earl! The Highlander dishes out an old-school Bad Decisions Weekender with The Breaks, The Hooliganz and The Breakaways! Get post-hardcore with Glassjaw and Quicksand at the Masquerade! Swing on by Ray’s on the River for a night with Joe Gransden! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with B.J. Wilbanks, Cody Marlowe and J.R. Rudd! Mark Michelson & Friends brings you The Rolling Stones Unplugged at Red Light Café! Catch a screening of Penny Marshall’s A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) at 8pm at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! The Capitol City Opera presents ON THE LIGHT SIDE, celebrating 100 years of Leonard Bernstein, through July 28! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! Or get the blues with the Charles Walker at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Raise a ruckus with Little Joey’s Jump ‘n’ Jive at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down 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, July 28

Get Creaturific with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Jack Arnold’s monster classic CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) and Ghoul Gal shenanigans at 1pm and 10pm! The Star Bar gets hellacious with a night of Rebel Rock ‘N’ Roll featuring The Evils, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and ELZIG! Or get undead-dolled up for the 6th Annual Atlanta Zombie Pin-Up Contest as part of the Atlanta Zombie Pub-Crawl hosted by Diesel Filling Station! Rock out with some killer ladies at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre’s Ladies Night event! Tend bar and whistle a few tune with Kool Kat Johnny Pine at the Red Light Café! Electric Avenue dishes out a night of ‘80s MTV-era pop at The Vista Room! Glam it up in The Basement with The Atlanta Disco Society II! 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! Get your roots rock fix with the Freddy Jones Band at City Winery! Or get the rockin’ blues with Forrest McDonald Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Michelle Malone and Darby Wilcox get down at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Ron Cooley & The Hard Times at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out with YES at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Nameless Nameless pays tribute to Nirvana at Venkman’s! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up a night of acoustic blues! James Armstrong “Ambassador of the Blues” gets down at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 29

Skank it up at the Masquerade with The English Beat! Live long and prosper at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Nicholas Meyer’s STAR TREK II: WRATH OF KHAN (1982) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Honky tonk ‘n’ roll on down to Park Tavern for a night with Banditos! Get countrified with Shelby Lynne at City Winery! The Red Light Café dishes out a night with Berdole Flamenco! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts 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!

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 sizzlin’ in ATLRetro This Week! Come see what we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, July 16

Never say die and catch a screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at City Winery at 6:30pm! Raise a psychedelic ruckus with Spendrift, Jesika von Rabbit, Sash the Bash and Where.Are.We at The Earl! Geek it up with Pirate Bob during My Parents’ Basement’s Drink & Draw event! 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 Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta at 7:30pm, through July 18! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 17

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) at 7pm, which includes a pre-show intro and post-show Q&A session! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Go Fever and Black Cat Rising! Americana it up with Anna & Elizabeth at City Winery! Spend the night with Pony Bradshaw, Michelle Malone & The Hot Toddies and The John Driskell Hopkins Band at Eddie’s Attic! Dogs of Verona rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get experimental with Animal Collective and Lonnie Holley at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get the rockin’ blues with the Chris Duarte Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Nick Johnson fires it up Blind Willies! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 18

Get post-punk and new-wavy with the Violent Femmes and Echo & The Bunnymen at Chastain Park! The Memphis Murder Men, a.k.a. the bastard child of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll, rock out with We Want Blood and The Casket Kids at The Star Bar! It’s a night of Japanese animation with screenings of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) and Kazuki Akane’s ESCAFLOWNE: THE MOVIE (2000) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! TCM Classics presents a 3oth Anniversaryscreening of Penny Marshall’s BIG (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get some soul with Miki Howard at City Winery! Spend the night with Dylan Carlson at The Earl! 529 rocks out with the Irrelevant Music Fest, a rockin’ three-day event with one helluva lineup tonight, including Microwave, Fever Blush, Chick Wallace, Jay Americana, King of Summer and more! Got the need for speed? Well then, make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) presents a screening of Mel Brooks’ hilarious classic BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at 7:15pm! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, July 19

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater get bizarre and undead with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Thom Eberhardt’s NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) at 9:30pm! Bossa nova on down to Center Stage for a night with La Santa Cecilia! Get folksy with Michael Zaib at City Winery! Or folk rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Angie Aparo and Katie Ruvane! Or rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Get Up Kids, Racquet Club and Ageist! The BadAsh AllStar Team pays tribute to R.E.M. at the Red Light Café! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at Venkman’s! You won’t want to miss Dang Dang Dang’s CD Release Show featuring Roadkill Debutante and Ricer at The Earl! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with Wonky Tonk! Rock on down to 529 for night two of the Irrelevant Music Fest featuring Material Girls, Arbor Lane Union and more! Get horrorifically intergalactic as the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre presents THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS through July 20! Jazz it up with Rahsaan Patterson at Suite Food Lounge! Make your way to the Aurora Theatre in Lawrence for their presentation of Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! 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, July 20

Get some rockin’ cheap thrills with The Fabulous Thrillbillies, Sash the Bash and The Crush at The Star Bar! The Plaza Theater kicks off their screenings of Stephen Nomura Schible’s documentary portrait of the artist and the man, RYUCHI SAKAMOTO: CODA (2017)! Reggae it up with Fred McGregor at Center Stage! Get jazzy with Marcus Johnson and Kathy Kosins at City Winery! Get your transvestite Viking rock fix with Kool Kat Shane Morton with Valkyrie and Metal McDonald at The Earl! Or folk rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Angie Aparo, Molly Elizabeth, Nathan Angelo and Bryce Merritt! Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra plays jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra at the High Museum! Dead Affect pays tribute to the Grateful Dead at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Shannon & The Clams and Paint Fumes at Terminal West! Get the devil blues with Rusty Cage at Vinyl! Rock on down to 529 for night three of the Irrelevant Music Fest featuring the Pylon Reenactment Society, YUKONS and more! Blues it up at Avondale Towne Cinema with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck’s Piedmont Report Live, featuring one hoppin’ lineup with Bill Sheffield, Joey Hoegger, Stoney Brooks, David Bartlett, Ross Pead, Georgia Slim, Skye Paige, The Blues Dude, Shelton Powe, Nate Nelson and Mudcat’s Piedmont Playboys! Funk it up with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Northside Tavern! Or get the blues with the Johnny Burgin Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get some old-school soul with Herman Hitson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down 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, July 21

Go-Go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Blue Oyster Cult! The Historic Oakland Cemetery gets macabre with Death Café Atlanta where the topic of the day is death while with a side of tea, coffee and tasty cakes, followed by their Malts & Vaults event! Madam Company pays tribute to Bad Company at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get rocked with The Rock*A*Teens and FLAP at The Earl! Indie it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘90s Alternative Music Video Dance Party at Amsterdam Atlanta! Get folksy and polka it up with Eliot Bronson at the Art Farm/Serenbe! Tribute pays tribute to the Allman Brothers Band at City Winery! Get countrified with Jonathan Byrd & the Pickup Cowboys at the Crimson Moon Café! Punk out with The Aggravated, Sceptic?, Rotten Stitches and Eliminate Earth at The Highlander! Rock out with The Fantastic Negrito with Hank & Cupcakes at the Masquerade! Sadie Hawkins presents her Last Pasties Standing burlesque game show at the Red Light Café! Rock out with the Young Antiques, Virginia Plane and Parsons Rocket Project at The Star Bar! Yesterday Calling rocks out to the tune of ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and more at Kavarna! Get to the root of it all at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues with the Josh Garrett Band! Rudy Currence dishes out a night of old-school soul at Eddie’s Attic! Ellis Paul folks it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Or get the blues with the Johnny Burgin Band  at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Albert White and Robert Eskew get the old-school blues at the Northside Tavern! Selwyn Birchwood dishes out the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 22

Get nostalgic and pop on down to Chastain Park for a night with Culture Club, The B-52s and The Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey! Get your masked crusader fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get doomed at The Earl with Witch Mountain, Order of the Owl and JohnDenver DeathPlane! Sixties it up and celebrate 25 years of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at theatres across Atlanta at 1pm/4pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! GKIDS presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get down with Angie Stone at City Winery! Spend the night with the Ruen Brothers and Ray Scott at Eddie’s Attic! New wave it up with The New Division, Nite, Dream Culture and HFF at Smith’s Olde Bar! Time travel on down to the Red Light Café for The Fandom Nerdlesque’s Sexcellent Adventure! Swing on by The Vista Room for Joe Gransden’s Big Band Sunday Dance Party! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Aurora Theatre in Lawrence presents Disney’s NEWSIES, through Sept. 2!

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 firsts 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!

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, July 9

Make a splash and head on over to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for a one night only celebration of 50 years of The Beatles’/George Dunning’s YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) at 7pm! New Wave it up with Dent May and Shannon Lay at The Earl! Lorna Tucker’s documentary covering the life of Dame Vivienne Westwood, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST (2018) screens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, through July 12! Get jazzy with Kimberlye McKinney 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!” Spend the night with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz at Blind Willies! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their Film in Films Classics Series with a screening of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) at 7pm, including a pre-show intro and post-show introduction! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they salute you with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Patriot Acts event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta at 3pm! Rock out with Young Rising Sons at Aisle 5! Get some soul with Vivian Green at City Winery! Get countrified with Elise Davis and Jacob Thomas, Jr. at Eddie’s Attic! Garage rock it up with The Tenders, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Roadkill Debutante at Smith’s Olde Bar! Head over to Chastain Park for a night with Coheed & Cambria! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Redstone Ramblers fire it Blind Willies! 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 11

Get your post-apocalyptic sci-fi fix and catch a double feature of Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA (1988) and Hideyuki Kikuchi’s WICKED CITY (1987) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Or get campy and catch a screening of Robert Luketic’s LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 8pm (doors at 7pm)! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Warren Beatty’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! William Green dishes out a night of rockin’ jazz at City Winery! Or make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Ludovico Einaudi! Chastain Park dishes out a night of retro fun with the Retro Futura Tour featuring Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Modern English and more! Get folk rocked with The Buffalo Ruckus and Back to Memphis at Smith’s Olde Bar upstairs; or indie rock it up downstairs with Wet Jeans, The Mondegreens and The Underhill Family Orchestra! Or lo-fi it up at The Star Bar with Lois Righteous, Post Hunk, DUMB and Fun Isn’t Fair! Blind Willie’s gets rockin’ with The Cazanovas’ Blues Jam! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, July 12

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Octanes, Cadillac Junkies and The Sideburners! Spend the night with the Wild Moccasins at 529! Get down to The Earl and spend the night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, Cousin Dan and The Trouble Obscene! Spend the night with Mermaid Motor Lounge and Town Mountain at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Vista Room presents Runnin’ Down a Dream paying tribute to Tom Petty and Mermer paying tribute to R.E.M! Get twangy with Neon Moon at Eddie’s Attic! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with The Shadows! 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, July 13

Kool Kat Chad Shivers and Southern Surf Stomp presents a hellacious rockin’ Friday the 13th with The Crimson Ghosts bringing some Misfits Surf intros, ELZIG and El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists at The Star Bar! The Ghouls of Bump in the Night Ghoulesque cordially invite you to join them for their slasher-inspired burlesque revue, in celebration of their Macabre Mistress Risky Sour at the Red Light Café! Hula on down to the Highland Inn & Ballroom Lounge for Trashy Diva’s One Year Anniversary Tiki Party, featuring mai tais and Burly Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil and more! Or get bewitched with a screening of George Miller’s THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (1987) at ATL CRAFT at 7pm! Raise a ruckus at The Earl with Pony League, Have Gun Will Travel, Jeremy Ray and Drew Beskin! Get old-timey with Back in the Saddle and the Swingin’ Saddle Cats at Kavarna! Rock out at The Vista Room with Demolition Man (Sting/Police tribute) and Semi-Charmed (tribute to ‘90s alt rock)! Get some soul with Q Parker & Friends at City Winery! Or get the blues with the Bridget Kelly Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with Dan Baird & Homemade Sin with Jackson County Line at Eddie’s Attic! Or jam it up with the Tyler Neal Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your rockin’ roots fix with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Groove on over to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Folk rock it up with Lake Street Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Catch Nikki Bluhm at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens! Geek it up at the Georgia World Congress Center for Atlanta ComiCon featuring a weekend chock full of comics, toys, art, celebrities and more, running through July 15! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get down with Little Joey’s Jump ‘n’ Jive 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, July 14

It’s a late night scumbag revival as Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters release their first album at The Star Bar with Bigfoot and Bad Friend!  City Winery rag-times it up with a little Prohibition pandemonium with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers! Bluegrass it up with The Clydes at the Crimson Moon Café! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for Heather Luttrell & the Possum’s Den! Get rocked at The Earl with a Midsummer’s Nightmare, featuring Slaygerism, Maiden Killers, and Slack Sabbath! Have a revved up brunch at Venkman’s with Rodeo Twister followed by a night of Bowie vs. Gabriel with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth and The Sledgehammers! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Rob Baird, The Cactus Blossoms and Mike Killeen! Get rocked at The Highlander with Rose Asphyxia, Sleazy Cheetah and Kyle Troop & The Heretics! Get folksy with Boo Reefa at Java Monkey! Post punk it up in Hell with the Starbenders, The Rose Garden Funeral Party, The Twotakes, Famous by February and Stone Monkee at the Masquerade! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac and Runnin’ Down a Dream pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geek it up at the Red Light Café as Tied and Tasseled Fetish Cabaret brings you their Cosplay Nerdlesque event! Tedeschi Trucks Band rocks out at the Fox Theatre! Folk rock it up for night two of Lake Street Drive at the Variety Playhouse! Head on down to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Chicago and REO Speedwagon! Make your way to Solis Two Porsche Drive for their drive-in movie event as they screen Michael Bay’s BAD BOYS (1995) at 7:30pm! Or geek it up at Battle & Brew’s Retro Cosplay Night! Make your way to the High Museum for their Road Trip to Paradise Garden exhibit! Thomas “Git Lo” Lee gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Sammy Blue and the Blues Dude get down at the Northside Tavern! Funk it up with Dynagroove at Tin Roof Cantina! Get to the root of it all with The Nighthawks at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 15

TCM Classics presents a 3oth Anniversary screening of Penny Marshall’s BIG (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth/Marietta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! New Age it up with Carol Albert at City Winery! The Red Clay Strays dish out a night of southern rock ‘n’ soul at the Crimson Moon Café! House of Hamill folks it up at Eddie’s Attic! Got the need for speed? Well then, make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15! (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 firsts 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!

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

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Monday, July 2

The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through July 3!  Spend the night with Latrese Bush at City Winery! Sludge it up with the Vincas, A Deer A Horse, MTN ISL and Bataille at The Earl! 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! Bill Sheffield fires it up at Blind Willies! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And get the blues with Larry Griffith at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Tuesday, July 3

Funk it up with the Lightning Orchestra, For Now, and Artimus at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jazz it up with Madoca at City Winery! Or get progressive with Rian Adkinson, Spurge, and Identikit at The Earl! Spend the night with Nathan Nelson, Bill Sheffield and Akua Taylor at Eddie’s Attic! Barrelhouse Bob Page fires it Blind Willies! up at 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! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 4

Get horrorfied this Independence Day and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or head on over to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Mel Stuart’s, WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) at 7:15pm! Dark Wave it up with Das Ich, Finite Automata, and Kangarot at The Drunken Unicorn! Or rock out at 529 with Kool Kats SheHeHe, Divided Heaven and Useless Against! Hula on down to the Ponce City Roof for their Rooftop Backyard Luau! Blues it up in East Point with Frankie’s Blues Mission at East Point Independence Day Festival! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out a summer treat with two screenings of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at 12pm and 3pm! Art Hollidays gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, July 5

Rock out in Hell with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at the Masquerade, or make your way to Purgatory for the Summer Blues with Cody Matlock, Hughes Taylor, Jerry 22, and Jackwagon! Get your Latin Ska fix with Desorden Publico at Smith’s Olde Bar! Cineprov delivers a TKO with Sly Stallone and Dolph Lundgren at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Sylvester Stallone’s ROCKY IV (1985) at 7:30pm! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with Forever ’78! Get a taste of Bumpin the Mango at City Winery! Make your way to The Earl for a night with The Octopus Project, Botany and Dot.s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with Kristen & The Honey Badgers! 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, July 6

Get your faces rocked at The Star Bar during their Down South Summer Stunner featuring Paint Fumes, Gino and The Goons, Gunpowder Gray, Heavy Chills, The Rubs, Chaz & Co., Fixed Faces and Broke Jokes! Get your Afrobeat Funk fix with Mausiki Scales & The Common Ground Collective at Venkman’s! Or get the jungle blues with C.W. Stoneking and Hunter Callahan at Eddie’s Attic! Lorna Tucker’s documentary covering the life of Dame Vivienne Westwood, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST (2018) opens at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! Get your ‘90s grungy fix with Collective Soul, Soul Asylum and 3 Doors Down at Chastain! Maleke O’Ney dishes out a night of soul at City Winery! Make your way to the High Museum for their July First Friday event featuring live tunes by Jennifer von Schlichten & Chris Schweigert, Drag Queen Story Time with Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker, Winnie-the-Pooh themed yoga and so much more! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Bastard Suns, Beauregard & The Down Right and The Muckers! Get down with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns at The Vista Room! Or make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night of rockin’ Southern soul with Blue Mother Tupelo! Spend the night with Runway 27 at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down and dirty with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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, July 7

Rock out with Foreigner’s Juke Box Hero Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with White Snake and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening! Get old-timey with Dusty Roads during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch, followed by Saved by the Band’s performance of Alanis Morissette’s JAGGED LITTLE PILL at 10pm! Funk it up with Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Band at Lee Street Park in Jonesboro! Rock out at The Earl with Dead Boys, Gunpowder Gray and Bad Spell! Boogie on down to The Basement for their HeyDay ‘80s Dance Party! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psych DeVilles at The Listening Room at Irish Bred Pub in Covington! 529 delivers their PBR BBQ Day Party featuring a rockin’ lineup with The Biters, RMBLR, Crocodile Tears, Trouble Boys, Trash Bags, The Up Up Ups, Platinum Boys, The Whiffs, Big Huge and Night Talkers! Nevermind pays tribute to Nirvana at City Winery! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Evan Stepp & The Piners and Brian Revels & The Heat Lightning! Folk it up with Poor Liza at Java Monkey! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with Nameless Nameless, Buzzards of Fuzz and The Dirty Soul Revival! Get Southern rocked with The Garrett Collins Project at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for Love & Happiness: An Al Green Experience! Jam it up at Avondale Towne Cinema during their Grateful Dead Jam! Get the blues with the Barry Richman Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the old school blues with Robert Lee Coleman and Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 8

Park Tavern holds their next Sunset Session with Super Doppler, Okey Dokey, and Uncle Son! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Warren Beatty’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Spend the night with Cherrelle at City Winery! Funk it up with the Nick Schnebelen Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get rocked at The Earl with Dinos Boys, Antagonizers ATL, the Ravagers, Vicious Dreams, Rotten Stitches and Adam Anzio! Mia Borders funks it up at the Red Light Café! Reggae it up at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with Beres Hammond & Friends! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner! And get the rockin’ blues with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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 sizzlin’ this summer! Come see what’s on the Retro menu This Week!

Monday, June 25

Spend the night with Cracker at Eddie’s Attic! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, Sergio Leone’s classic A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964), and Kool Kat James Bickert’s AMAZON HOT BOX (2018) (through June 28)! Prog rock it up with Geoff Tate (Queensryche) and Till Death Do Us Part at the Variety Playhouse! 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!” Barrelhouse Bob Page fires it up at Blind Willies! 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, June 26

Tongues Out Puppetry presents THE BIRTH OF THE MOON at The Bakery! Garage pop it up with Stray Fossa at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with David Ryan Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Blind Willie’s! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 27

Get intergalacticly retro-tastic at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with a screening of Brian Bird’s, THE IRON GIANT (1999) at 7:15pm! Get rootsy and reggae it up with Mighty Mystic at Smith’s Olde Bar (upstairs), or head downstairs for a funky night with Wren & The Wravens, Hustle Souls and The Woofs! Shimmy and shake on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Robert Wise’s WEST SIDE STORY (1961) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Station Breaks and Morgan Evans! Catch a double feature of Jim Henson’s ‘80s classic LABYRINTH (1986) and Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s His Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of Southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, June 28

Get doomed ‘n’ dirty with The Vaginas, Doesin, Metal McDonald, LUST and Dead Red Flowers at the Clermont Lounge! The Plaza Theater screens Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta and Sergio Leone’s classic A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)! Or come on down to The Plaza for the 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows featuring 16 animated shorts, including a special screening of Paul Julian and Les Goldman’s “Hangman” (1964)! Roots rock it up with Masters of Telecaster, Jim Weider & G.E. Smith at City Winery! Get your rockin’ bluegrass fix with The Goddamn Gallows, Days N Daze and Gallows Band at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for night two of The Station Breaks! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Folk it up with Salt and Pine and Ashley Heath at the Red Light Café! Raise a ruckus with the Sunny South Blues Band, Vinyl Suns and Camera Box at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with Mighty, BIRDS, holders and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Americana on down to Terminal West for a night with Parker Millsap and Travis Linville! The Ladies of ‘60s Soul Keisha and Kourtney Jackson get down at Venkman’s! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Jazz Jam Live in the Lumiere Lounge at 7pm! Funk it up with Travers Brothership at Aisle 5! Bumpin the Mango boogies down at their Summer Groove Party at The Vista Room! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Get the blues with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 29

Skank on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Toasters and Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley with Southern Ska Syndicate! Rock out at Sweetwater Bar & Grill during their PUNK NIGHT featuring Learning to Count (Ramones tribute), Demon Bolt (Misfits tribute), Odd Holiday and The Scows! Get some psychedelic soul with Black Pumas at 529! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Vista Room! ATL Collective relives Tom Petty’s WILDFLOWERS at the Buckhead Theatre! Get jazzy with Diane Durrett at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center during their Jazz on the Lawn event! The Nouveaux Honkies get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Rock out with Hank & Cupcakes, The Stir and Ayo River at The Earl! Clay Cook delivers two shows at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Gypsy swingin’ Dixie Jazz fix with Ellis Dyson & The Shambles at the Red Clay Theatre! Groove on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Jess Wells & Cosmic Fire! Or get your smooth ‘80s rock fix with Members Only and Yacht Rock Schooner at Venkman’s! Make your way to Park Grounds for a dog-friendly screening of Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW (2000) at 8pm! Get the blues with Marshall Ruffin at Avondale Towne Cinema! Groove on down to Park Tavern for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Sly Dog gets the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up a night of acoustic blues! 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, June 30

Rock out with The Blasters and Clownvis Presley at The Earl! Or get old-timey and Gypsy Jazz it up with Tray Dahl & the Jugtime Ragband with Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet at The Vista Room! Remember Jones revives Amy Winehouse’s BACK TO BLACK at the Masquerade! Sadie Hawkins brings you Britcom Burlesque at the Red Light Café, featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! Get freaky ‘n’ mischievous at the Dixie Tavern with Captain & Maybelle, Dale Jepson and The NightHawks, with special guest ELZIG! Boogie on down to The Basement for Commotion: A Tribute to Women in Music! Natural Wonder pays tribute to Stevie Wonder at City Winery! Make your way to Suntrust Park for the Zac Brown Band! Get down with Wet Jeans at Tin Roof Cantina! Bluegrass it up with Battlefield Collective during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch, followed by the Chi-Town Transit Authority paying tribute to Chicago! Stomp on down to Kavarna for a night with Mary Battiata, the Good Graces and Black Fox! Get your reggae and Afro-Cuban beats fix at Aisle 5 during their Atlanta SuperJam Beach Party! Get countrified with Lauren Morrow of The Whiskey Gentry at the Roxy! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Mark Miller, Control Burn and Ryan Harris Brown! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Catch The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the Atlanta Horns and Nate Nelson! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 1

Get horrorfied this summer and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 15!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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

Check out the Retro menu This Week in ATLRetro!

Monday, June 18

Spend the night with Jeremy Enigk and Chris Staples in Hell at the Masquerade! Jazz it up with Adam & Kizzie and Nick Rosen at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Argentina’s Enanitos Verdes & Homres G at the Roxy! Catch a screening of Gil Junger’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) at SCADShow featuring a discussion with screenwriter Karen McCullah 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! Matt Pendrick fires it up at Blind Willies! 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, June 19

Celebrate the life and legacy of one of Britain’s true acting icons at the one-time only screening of Joe A. Stephenson’s documentary MCKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART (2018) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! A night of hilarity ensues as RIFFTRAX LIVE presents David Winters’ SPACE MUTINY (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get epically rocked with The Yardbirds at City Winery! Garage rock it up with the Arctic Monkeys at the Roxy! Or get prog rocked with The Canines, Twin Beds, Aoshi and The Hearsay at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your White Denim fix at Aisle 5! Spend the night with David Ryan Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 20

Kool Kat Vanessa Ionta Wright dishes out a bloody fangtastic time with her Women in Horror Film Fest Fundraiser at Grindhouse Killer Burgers in Decatur, featuring live tunes by 2 Broke Kings, killer food, drinks and more, starting at 4pm! The Murder Junkies wreak havoc for the 25th anniversary of GG Allin’s death with TAPED FIST and Hembree & The Satan Sisters at The Star Bar! Or escape The Nothing at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s eighties classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at 7:15pm! Get the roadhouse blues with Marcia Ball at City Winery! Folk it up with Andy McKee at Eddie’s Attic! Get your psyche, garage, surf rock fix with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with YOB at The Earl! Horizon Theatre Company’s comedic adaptation of FREAKY FRIDAY hits the stage at Piedmont Park, through June 23! Spend the night with Indy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Catch a double feature of Thom Eberhardt’s CAPTAIN RON (1992) and Steven Spielberg’s HOOK (1991) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Cody Matlock at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, June 21

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater sci-fi it up on planet of Ygam with their Plazadrome Cult Film Series screening of Rene Leloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) at 9:30pm! Get the garage rockin’ Delta Blues with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Hotel Ten Eyes and A Drug Called Tradition at The Star Bar! Or rock out with Kool Kats The Joykills, BABY BABY, and Pretty Please at the Clermont Lounge! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with Ray Wylie Hubbard and Jeff Plankenhorn! Folk rock it up with Von Grey, Tyler Hilton and Corey Balsamo at Eddie’s Attic! Get revived garage rock-style with Parker Gispert (The Whigs) at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out with Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers at Terminal West! The BadAsh Allstar Team brings you their McCartney vs. Lennon Jam at the Red Light Café! Brit Floyd pays tribute to Pink Floyd at the Fox Theatre! Boogie down to The Vista Room for HOUSE PARTY dishing out a night of ‘80s pop and R&B tunes! Puppetry meets film noir with Yael Rasooly’s PAPER CUT at the Center for Puppetry Arts, running through June 24! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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, June 22

Garage rock it up with Tiger! Tiger!, The Hardwoods and Roadkill Debutante at The Earl! Spend the night with Simon Joyner, My First Rodeo and New Madrid at 529! Folk rock it up with Von Grey and Sons of Bill at Eddie’s Attic! Or experience a night of folk noir with Willow & Wood at Java Monkey! The Chameleon Queen celebrates 16 Burly Q years at the Red Light Café with her Bombshell Burlesque event! Get rocked at The Star Bar with Black P$ssy, Sash the Bash and The Pussywillows! Swing on by Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Manhattan Transfer! Get your hardcore ska fix with Evil Empire and 10,000 Days at Vinyl! Folk it up with Sawyer Fredericks at City Winery! The Randall Bramblett Band gets the blues at the Red Clay Theatre! Red Sugar Blues gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get down with the Tyler Neal Band at 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, June 23

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents Cinebash: Step into Saul Bass, celebrating the life and legacy of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Bass, featuring art installations and more at Atlanta Contemporary at 7pm! Apocalipstick brings you burlesque from the end of the world at the Red Light Café! Clashinista pays tribute to The Clash at MadLife Stage & Studios! 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! Get swamp rocked at the Atlanta Botanical Garden with JJ Grey & Mofro! Spend the night with The Bacon Brothers at City Winery! Michelle Malone gets down at the Crimson Moon Café! Get some soul with Annika Chambers at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Psyche rock it up with Blac Rabbit at The Drunken Unicorn! Retro rock it up with Ellijah Jones & The Tenderness, JesusHoney and Swing Set at The Earl! Get countrified with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre for a night with Eddie Money and Starship! Get hellacious at The Highlander with Aden Paul, the Screaming Demons and The Sideburners! Funk it up with Myles Brown at Solis Two Porsche Drive! Americana on down to Terminal West for a night with The Roosevelts and Frances Cone! Jangle pop it up with The Connells at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with Kool Kats The Georgia Flood and the Quiet Hollers! New Sensation pays tribute to INXS at Venkman’s! Permanent Waves pays tribute to RUSH at Avondale Towne Cinema! Make your way to the Jolie Event Center for the Reggae Summer Jam! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Catch Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Review at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Tribute and Larry Bowie at Northside Tavern! Spend the night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 24

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Robert Wise’s WEST SIDE STORY (1961) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Get folksy with Brandi Carlile, Shovels & Rope at The Secret Sisters at Chastain Park! Rock out with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Get some soul with Grant Green, Jr. at Venkman’s! Get old school with the Ben Wade Band at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Shimmy and shake on down to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Emile Ardolino’s DIRTY DANCING (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28!

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 8!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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 all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up for you in ATLRetro This Week!

Monday, June 11

A special feature-length Director’s Cut of DOCTOR WHO: GENESIS OF THE DALEKS (1975) screens at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get down with Roy Akers and Mausiki Scales & the Common Ground Collective at City Winery! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement as they bring back their Drink & Draw event, hosted by Jon Waterhouse ! Catch a screening of Melvin Van Peebles’ SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971), through June 13 at The Plaza Theater, or catch a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through June 14! Fathom Events presents a wild double feature with screenings of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995), followed by Jake Kasdan’s JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (2017) at theatres across Atlanta at 6:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! 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!” Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willies! 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, June 12

Have a bloody fantastic time as The Atlanta Opera presents SWEENEY TODD at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center at 7:30pm! Get sizzlin’ with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South as they spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: June is Jumpin’ event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Get down with Roy Akers and Mausiki Scales & the Common Ground Collective at City Winery! Spend the night with David Ryan Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Angelo Moore (Fishbone) & The Brand New Step funk it up at the Masquerade! Gomez brings their Bring It On 20th Anniversary Tour to the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to The Bakery as they bring you a night of dark electro retrotastic goodness featuring Kool Kat Russ Marshalek and A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, Frisky Monkey and Dreaming Shadows! Embrace your childhood and make your way to the Alliance Theater for their presentation of WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 8! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for their Tribute to Freddie King! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 13

Get your apocalyptic garbage fix and catch a screening of Rachel Talalay’s TANK GIRL (1995) presented by WUSSY MAG at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! Spend the night with Peter Mayer (Coral Reefer Band) and Brendan Mayer at City Winery! Doo-wop on down to The Earl for a night with La Luz, Timothy Eerie and Midnight Larks! Rock out with Kip Winger at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Charles Walker Band and Wasted Potential Brass Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch Stephen Stills and Judy Collins at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or follow the yellow brick road down to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 7:15pm! Catch a double feature of Duwayne Dunham’s HOMEWARD BOUND (1993) and Mary Lambert’s PET SEMATARY (1989) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, June 14

Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club dish out a hot night at the Clermont Lounge! A night of hilarity ensues as RIFFTRAX LIVE presents David Winters’ SPACE MUTINY (1988) at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) brings The Buddy Cole Monologues to City Winery! Spend the night with MyFever, The Underhill Family Orchestra and Cloudland at The Earl! Get folksy with Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out at The Highlander with DJ Howiestein and Mister Wilson’s Over the Edge Record Party! Folk it up with Vilai Harrington & The Hamptones, Dead King Cotton and Nathan Evans Fox at the Red Light Café! Or get folk rocked with the Michigan Rattlers and A Wild Frontier at Smith’s Olde Bar! Marty Manous rocks out at Solis Two Porsche Drive!  Boogie down to Venkman’s for a night with Atlanta Latin Jazz Orchestra! Catch The Gatherers at the Masquerade! Catch the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra free at Piedmont Park at 7:30pm! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Get old-school with the Juke Joint Dukes at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 15

Kool Kat James Bickert exploits once again and gets torturous with his AMAZON HOT BOX’s World Premiere at The Plaza Theater at 7pm! Blues66 debuts their mix of classic British blues circa 1966 at The Star Bar! Rev it up at the Masquerade and get hellacious with The Creepshow, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Sugar Virus! Glam rock it up at The Earl as Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth presents Ziggy Stardust vs. Maxwell Demon, with special guest Roxy Rex! Twang on down to Terminal West for a night with Unknown Hinson and The Josephines! Sludge rock it up at 529 with Ufomammut, White Hills, Order of the Owl and Insomniac! Get jazzy with Gwen Hughes at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center during their Jazz on the Lawn event! Or get some soul with Kindred & Family Soul at Center Stage! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with The Wailin’ Jennys! Swing on by Eddie’s Attic for two shows featuring Joe Gransden! Spend the night with Mausiki Scales & the Common Ground Collective at the High Museum! Led Zeppelified performs LED ZEPPELIN II in its entirety at Smith’s Olde Bar with special guests Nocturnal Animals and Rare Birds! Or rock on down to Venkman’s as The Dirty Doors pay tribute to Jim Morrison and The Doors! Catch R+R=Now at the Variety Playhouse! TNT pay tribute to AC/DC at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rocked blues-style with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up Zydeco-style with Zydefunk at 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, June 16

Today kicks off The State of Black Science Fiction’s Blacktasticon 2018, running through June 17 at The Ferst Center promising the most comprehensive presentation of black speculative fiction, cosplay, Afrofuturism, Steamfunk and more (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with writer and guest Nicole Givens Kurtz and our Top Ten Retro Reasons to attend feature)! Get old-timey and honky tonk it up at The Star Bar for their annual Hank Williams Tribute starring Cigar Store Indians, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Til Someone Loses and Eye, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club, Rodeo Twister, Uncle Daddy & The Kissin’ Cousins, Cool Hand Hayes and Rye Baby! Rev it up and rock on down to the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheatre in Peachtree City for Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! Stomp on down to City Winery for a night with The Wailin’ Jennys! Spend the night with Kevn Kinney and Takenobu at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Columbia’s Aterciopelados at the Masquerade! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Wet Jeans and ATL Collective! Get nostalgic and rock out at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Styx, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Tesla! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! with The Del Rios! Get some soul with The Whispers at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Reggae it up with Stephen Marley at Center Stage! Come celebrate Juneteenth at the Historic Oakland Cemetery featuring tours, storytelling and more! Race over to Solis Two Porsche Drive for their drive-in movie event as they screen Lee Katzin/John Sturges’ LE MANS (1971) at 7:30pm! Have a bloody fantastic time as The Atlanta Opera presents SWEENEY TODD at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Get some soul with Sal’s Soulful Sinners at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get down with Sweet ‘n’ Salty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up Zydeco-style with Zydefunk and Ross Pead at Northside Tavern! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 17

Spend the night with Indy at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Have a bloody fantastic time as The Atlanta Opera presents SWEENEY TODD at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Rock ‘n’ roll on down to City Winery for a night with Red Wanting Blue and Liz Brasher! Mandi Strachota gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Michelle Malone, Adron and Eliot Bronson! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17! (LAST CHANCE!)

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28!

The Alliance Theater presents WINNIE-THE-POOH, a musical based on the stories of A.A. Milne, running through July 8!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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 bee’s knees This Week! Come shake it up in Atlanta and check out what we’ve found for you on the retro menu!

Monday, June 4

Rock out at The Earl with Chrome (Helios Creed), Sash the Bash and Caesium Mine! Spend the night with the “Dude” and catch a free screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at City Winery at 7pm! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night with John Pizzarelli! Folk it up with J. A. Etchison, Emilye and Two by Two Celtic at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or catch a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through June 6 at The Plaza Theater! Spend the night with Shania Twain at the Infinite Energy Center! 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 Willies! 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, June 5

Hang with Kool Kat Brian Lonano and friends and catch a special screening of his most recent film BFF GIRLS (2017) at The Plaza Theater! Cheap Trick and Poison invade the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Get old-timey with Ol’ GoForth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or folk rock it up with Jesse Marchant and Oryx & Crake at The Earl! David Ramirez brings his Bootleg Tour to Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of classical guitar with David Cohen at Java Monkey! The High Divers rock you at the Red Clay Theatre! Get some soul with Larry Griffith at Blind Willie’s! 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! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 6

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Mel Brooks’ classic comedy, THE PRODUCERS (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Jazz it up with the Sal Gentile Trio at the Elliott Street Pub! Rock out at The Star Bar with Wet Jeans, The Instructors and Sound Medicine! Have an adventure and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Or groove on down to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) and catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) 7:15pm! Sunflower Bean dishes out a post-punk revival with The Nude Party at Aisle 5! Spend the night with John Fogerty and ZZ Top at Chastain Park! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Will Turpin (Collective Soul) gets down at Eddie’s Attic! The Balkun Brothers and Jive Revival rock out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Catch a double feature of Adam McKay’s STEP BROTHERS (2008) and Joseph Ruben’s THE GOOD SON (1993) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event starting at 10pm! Get rocked blues-style with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, June 7

Get the power of Grayskull as a night of hilarity ensues with Cineprov at The Plaza Theater as they screen/riff Gary Goddard’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) at 7:30pm! The Purple Principle pays tribute to Prince at Avondale Towne Cinema! Or groove on down to Venkman’s as Yacht Rock Revue performs PURPLE RAIN in celebration of Prince’s birthday! Get the rockin’ blues with Joan Armatrading at City Winery! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get folksy with Jill Sobule and Carolina Story at Eddie’s Attic! Or get the rockin’ roots with the Donna Hopkins Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Funk it up with The New Mastersounds at Terminal West! The Hunts folk it up at Vinyl! Get a killer clue and make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their annual MURDER! AT THE STRAND, through June 10! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 8

Hey all you miscreants! You won’t want to miss a night with Rotten Stitches, Freakshow Sinema, Die 985 and The Inhalants at The Highlander! Melvin Van Peebles’ SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971) opens at The Plaza Theater, or get your Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood fix with a screening of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of cool grooves with the Mudbone Turner Band! Get rocked with Martin Bisi and Xambuca at The Earl! Rock out with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters at Chastain Park! Folk it up with Karla Bonoff at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Crimson Moon Café! Jam on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dead Affect! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Spend the night with The Rockaholics at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get rootsy with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Roy Lee Johnson at 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, June 9

Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for the 8th annual Tunes from the Tombs 2018 (12p – 8pm), featuring 3 retro-tastic stages of live music! The Main Stages gets down with Drivin’ N Cryin’, AJ Ghent, the Heather Gillis Band, Caleb Caudle and The Bitteroots! Shakin’ on the North Public Grounds  Stage will be the Mermaid Motor Lounge, Ansley Stewart, Michael Zaib and Book Club! And you won’t want to miss the Lion Square Beer Garden Acoustic Stage featuring Wesley Cook, Avery Gipson, Greg Fortune and Caleb Caudle! Chester Gregory brings you The Eve of Jackie: The Legacy of Jackie Wilson at Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square! Rock out at The Star Bar with Kool Kats The Joykills, Seagulls, Burrito Banditos, Kool Kats Shehehe, Ganges Phalanges, Hermits of Suburbia and El Chupaskabra! Or rock out with Beitthemeans, Bigfoot and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures at Mule Camp Tavern! Get retrotastic with Davina & The Vagabonds at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center! Rev on down to Big Tex for a night with Kitty Rose & The Ramblers! Harry Connick Jr. brings the Big Easy to Chastain Park! Get bluegrassy with Circus No. 9 at Crimson Moon Café! Get old-school with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Rock out ‘70s style with Mark Michelson at Red Light Café! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 10

Fathom Events presents a wild double feature with screenings of Joe Johnston’s JUMANJI (1995), followed by Jake Kasdan’s JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (2017) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Riot grrrl it up with The Regrettes and Destroy Boys at the Masquerade! Get your Americana fix with Abe Partridge and Grant Peeples at the Crimson Moon Café! Get weirdly dark at The Earl with John Denver Death Plane, GOYA, Gnomonaut and Big Mountain! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line, Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Johnny’s Hideaway! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue at Venkman’s! Indie pop it up with Belle and Sebastian at the Tabernacle!  Make your way to the Woodruff Art Center’s Family Fun event live music and a free performance of the Alliance Theatre’s production of WINNIE THE POOH! Get funky with Risky Biscuit at Tin Roof Cantina! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with 10,000 Pontiacs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

Get really retro at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, jousting through June 4! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre presents HAMILTON, through June 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17!

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 28!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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

Kick off the summer with ATLRetro and see what’s heatin’ up on the retro menu This Week!

Monday, May 28

Rev it up with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at City Winery! The Plaza Theater kills it with a screening of Dario Argento’s DEEP RED (1976), through May 31! Or catch a screening of Samuel D. Pollard’s documentary, MAYNARD (2017) about the life and times of the first black mayor of Atlanta, through May 31 at Plaza Atlanta! The Fox Theatre presents HAMILTON, through June 10! Get post-punk revived with A Place to Bury Strangers, Prettiest Eyes and Nest Egg at The Earl! 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!” Get the blues with Clark Ashton at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 29

Folk it up with Horse Feathers and Loner at The Earl! The Redstone Ramblers fire it up at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with Michael Magno at Eddie’s Attic! 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, May 30

Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get revived with The Dustbowl Revival at Eddie’s Attic! Get some soul with Brian McKnight at City Winery! Catch a double feature of Kevin Reynolds’ WATERWORLD (1995) and George Miller’s MAD MAX FURY ROAD (2015) at Noni’s Bar & Deli during their Cinema Paradiso film event at 10pm! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! 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 it 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, May 31

Rock on down to The Star Bar for Jed Drummond’s album release show featuring Yancey, T.T. Mahony, and Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Til Someone Loses and Eye! Get some soul with Brian McKnight at City Winery! Heavy Petty pays tribute to Tom Petty at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get jazzy with Gregg Karukas at Suite Food Lounge! Rock out at 529’s 10th Anniversary 3-Day Celebration! Tonight they kick it off with ROYAL THUNDER, Order of the Owl, Gunpowder Gray and 20 Watt Tombstone! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ island tunes and killer island cocktails! Blues it up with George Hughely & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 1

Rock out with Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and Tunnel Visions during their CD release show at The Earl with Kenny Howe & The Wow!, Catfight! and the Wussy Pillows! Or get rocked with Midge Ure at City Winery! Tony Zierra’s documentary, FILMWORKER (2018), about Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man, Leon Vitali opens tonight at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema! Get filled with tasty food and tunes at the two-day Candler Park Music & Food Fest, featuring Friday night tunes by Lettuce, Petty Grass featuring The Hillbenders, Larkin Poe and more! Funk it up with Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody! 529 continues their 3-Day Tenth Anniversary Celebration with W8ing4UFOs, Don Chambers, Tom Cheshire & Friends, Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx, Shepherds and Vincas! Folk it up with Leo Kottke at the Variety Playhouse! Rock on down to The Star Bar for Fuzzstock 2018 featuring Buzzards of Fuzz, Fantomen, Flashback Flash and Twin Criminal! Gregory Porter pays tribute to Nat King Cole with ASO at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get loony toony and catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Hot Buttered Soul pays tribute to Isaac Hayes at Venkman’s! Or catch Interstellar Echoes as they pay tribute to Pink Floyd at The Vista Room! Blues it up with Ike Stubblefield at 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, June 2

Blast-Off Burlesque gets shnazzy and puts on their monkey suits as they bring you their Taboolala: Planet of the Apes 50^th Anniversary Celebration at The Plaza Theater, featuring pre-show lobby shenanigans and a screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s PLANET OF THE APES (1968) at 9:30pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a weekend of killer Kubrick with their Kubrick Matinee Series in honor of Tony Zierra’s documentary, FILMWORKER (2018). First up is Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) at 11am! Get horrorfied and rock on down to Sweetwater Bar & Grill in Duluth for a night with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Freakshow Sinema and NeverFall! Spend the night with Francine Reed at Blind Willie’s! Or get down with Ruby the Rabbitfoot, Rose Hotel and DEGA at The Earl! Funk it up with Maze at Chastain Park! Get down with the Atlanta Funk Society at Elliott Street Pub! Boogie on down for Day 2 of the Candler Park Music & Food Fest featuring Gov’t Mule, Houndmouth, SUSTO, Twiddle, Busty and the Bass, Webster Band Atlanta and more! Rock out during Night 3 of 529’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration with All the Saints, Wizard Smoke, Uniform, Psych Army and more! Geek it up during Starbase Atlanta’s Warehouse Sale! Or get artsy vintage-style during the Summer Indie Craft Experience at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot! Rock on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for their Georgia Jam! Bill Sheffield and Cody Matlock get down at 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, June 3

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their Kubrick Matinee Series with a screening of THE SHINING (1980) at 11am! Theatrical Outfit presents THE WAY WE WERE, a journey through the music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman at The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 50th Anniversary screening of Mel Brooks’ classic comedy, THE PRODUCERS (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! It’s a night of classic western country and rockabilly with the Swingin’ Saddle Cats and Frank Hamilton School at Eddie’s Attic, followed by a swingin’ night with John Pizzarelli! Get down with Papamichael at City Winery! Have an adventure and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!
Ongoing

Get really retro at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, jousting through June 4!

The Fox Theatre presents HAMILTON, through June 10!

Emory Arts presents their exhibition The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975 in the Schatten Gallery, through June 17!

Noni’s Bar & Deli hosts their Cinema Paradiso film event, screening two films beginning at 10pm, through June 21!

My Parents’ Basement goes old-school with their monthly Pinball Tournament, every firsts 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!

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.