ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake it up in ATLRetro This Week and check out all the shenanigans we’ve found just for you!

Monday, March 12

The Center for Puppetry Arts brings you puppets and science with their Atlanta Science Festival: Puppets + STEM = Science in Motion event! Get weird with a screening of Kool Kat Philip Gelatt’s THEY REMAIN (2018) at The Plaza Theater, through March 15! Folk it up with Keith Harkin at the Red Light Café! 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! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willies! 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, March 13

Get saucy and let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Spring Fling event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café, featuring Phoenix Midnight and Jadynn Starr! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for their presentation of A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, running through March 18! Psyche rock it up with MGMT at The Roxy! Battle & Brew Brings you their Call for Art – 90s Art Show event! Or rock out folk-style with Alex Guthrie and Jacks River Band at City Winery! Get countrified with Stacia Watkins and Derrick Dove at Eddie’s Attic! Get your ‘80s new wave MTV synthpop fix with Electric Avenue at MadLife Stage & Studios! Synth-pop it up with Little Dragon at Terminal West! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies gets the blues with the Redstone 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! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 14

The Star Bar dishes out a night of ‘70s street punk with Dirty Fences, Fast Eddie and Fixed Faces! Catch a screening of John Ford’s classic, THE QUIET MAN (1952) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with Pop Evil at the Buckhead Theatre! Get the rockin’ Texas blues with Los Lonely Boys and Lisa Morales at City Winery! Get doomed in Hell with a night of SepticFlesh, Dark Funeral, The Antichrist and Prime Mover at the Masquerade! WUSSY MAG presents 7pm and 10pm screenings of Bob Spiers’ SPICE WORLD (1997) at The Plaza Theater! Rock out with Portland’s Soft Kill and Choir Boy at The Earl! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Blues Hearts at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet and Long Horn! Get down with The Crawdaddy’s at Blind Willies! 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, March 15

Videodrome and The Plaza Theater kick off their wickedly bizarre Plazadrome Cult Film Series with a screening of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s killer HAUSU (1977) at 9:30pm! Get rocked and old-school with Robin Trower and Eli Cook at Center Stage! Get folksy with Joshua Radin and William Fitzsimmons at City Winery! Sleaze on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with the Parlyzers, Hot Wives and Piss Shy! Departure pays tribute to Journey at MadLife Stage & Studios! Get some soul with Angie Stone and more at the Variety Playhouse! Get down to The Earl for a night with Ben Trickey & Burnt Sky, W8ing4UFOs and US Prisms! Spend the night with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Buckhead Theatre! Yee haw it up with Theo Katzman at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with The Page Turners and Control Burn at the Red Light Café! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get groovy with The Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Blind Willies! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 16

Get rocked with The Zombies at City Winery! Jessica Lea Mayfield dishes out a night of alt-country with T. Hardy Morris at The Earl! Get indie with Charlie Mars at Eddie’s Attic! The High Museum gets jazzy with Paul Stevens during their monthly Friday Jazz event! Night Fever pays tribute to The Bee Gees at MadLife Stage & Studios! Or make your way to the Red Clay Theatre as the Chi-Town Transit Authority pays tribute to Chicago! Get experimental with Deantoni Parks at the Red Light Café! Or cross the pond and make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Fab Four! Power pop on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Space Giants, The SOOGS and The Indicators! Get the rockin’ blues at The Vista Room as Randall Bramblett celebrates 70 years! Rock on down Janis Joplin-style for a night with Pearl & The Kozmic Blues at Venkman’s! Get the rockin’ blues with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willies! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Courtney Daly & The Daly Grind dish out a night of classic soul at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 17

Get intergalactic as the Atlanta Science Festival hosts Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most, Prof. Morte and his Silver Scream Spook Show’s special spooky SCIENCE version at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Jack Arnold’s horror/sci-fi classic IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) at 1pm and 12am! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles at Irish Bred Pub in Douglasville! Orchestra Noir presents The Wakanda Fest at the Loft at Castleberry Hill! Spend the night with Tipsy in Chelsea and the Skylarks at Kavarna! Get some rock ‘n’ soul with Kitten Fontaine at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rumble on down to Big Tex in Decatur for a night with Kitty Rose & The Rattlers! Tribute dishes out a night of Allman Brothers favorites at City Winery! Get your Scottish folk fix with Jamie Laval at Crimson Moon Café! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana tribute), Pretty Please and DeLorean! Funk it up with AJ Ghent and the Buddy O’Reilly Band at Eddie’s Attic! The Highlander rocks out with a night of tributes featuring The Kings of Queens (Ramones), The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett) and more! Spend the night with Above & Beyond at The Roxy! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get down with Ozomatli at the Variety Playhouse! Jet Black Alley Cat rocks out at Vinyl with Natalie Claro! Catch a screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Jill Rock Jones delivers a musical tribute to Billie Holiday and Nina Simone at Venkman’s! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with The Expanders! Blind Willies gets down with their St. Patty’s Party! Get down with Albert White and Chickens & Pigs at Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Willy Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, March 18

You won’t want to miss the Atlanta Science Festival’s celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus with a screening of James Whale’s BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), followed by a discussion on science and ethics at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History at 4pm! Get to the rockin’ root of it all with Webb Wilder and Stevie Monce at Eddie’s Attic! Get retro and make your way to 97 Estoria for Georgia Vintage Goods’ Vintage & Handmade Pop-Up, from 12-6pm! Catch a screening of Billy Wilder’s classic, SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! TCM Big Screen Classics celebrates the 60th Anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO (1958) with screenings at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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 Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! The Buckhead Theatre Celebrates David Bowie! Get your Americana fix with Wyatt Espalin at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend the night with the Noh-wave prog collective Yamantaka/Sonic Titan, CHEW and Shouldies at The Earl! Boogie down with Band X at Johnny’s Hideaway! Spend the night with Yacht Rock Revue UNPLUGGED at Venkman’s! 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

Make your way to Out Front Theatre Company for their performance of BUYER AND CELLAR, running through March 22!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

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

Spring into ATLRetro and come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, March 5

Dan Call of The Villains gets acoustic at Eddie’s Attic! Get bizarre and catch a screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s cult classic MIND GAME (2004) at The Plaza Theater through March 8! Get down with Clark Ashton at Blind Willies! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack as they dish out The Pork Bellys and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, March 6

Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) 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); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Folk rock it up with Graham Nash at City Winery! Get New Orleans jazzy with Ben Jaffe (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) and Jake Decker at Eddie’s Attic! Gray & The Bad Boys get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willies gets the blues with Bill Sheffield! 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, with a salute to Stevie Wonder! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 7

The Dropkick Murphys get mischievous at The Roxy! Get criminal and familial with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! KOLARS dish out a night of space blues and glamabilly with Escondido at Aisle 5! Spend the night with John Foreman at Center Stage! Fiddle on down to the Red Clay Theatre for The Mark O’Connor Band! Get trippy with Bonobo at the Variety Playhouse! Zeshan B dishes out a night of soul at Vinyl! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for the Todd Prusin Experience with special guests Suspended Animation! Jazz it up with the Sal Gentile Trio at the Elliott Street Pub! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Blues Hearts at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get jazzy at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet and Long Horn! Blues it up with Bob Page at Blind Willies! 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, March 8

Get your ‘80s punk fix with a special screening of Ian McFarland’s documentary, THE GODFATHERS OF HARDCORE (2017) followed by a Q&A with Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front) with Director Ian McFarland at 7pm!  Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for their Brickyard Blues Pre-Party! Beyond the Pale dishes out a night of funky Klezmer bluegrass ‘n’ reggae at City Winery!  Rev on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! Folk it up with Trout Steak Revival and Billy Strings at Eddie’s Attic! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi at MadLife Stage & Studios! Get creepy and kooky and celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Jerry’s Habima Theatre with their presentation of THE ADAMS FAMILY, through March 11! Get folk jazzy with George Winston at the Variety Playhouse! The “Ladies of ‘60s Soul” Keisha and Kourtney Jackson get down at Venkman’s! Get your rock ‘n’ roll fix with Vista Kicks, Camera Box and Youth as Gold at Vinyl! Spend the night with Elohim at the Masquerade! ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22! Or make your way to Out Front Theatre Company for their performance of BUYER AND CELLAR, running through March 22! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with The Ain’t Sisters, The Titos, Moloq and the Dround Hounds! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get groovy with Coast Guard and some killer island cocktails! Larry Griffith gets down at Blind Willies! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 9

Get jazzy and shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Speakeasy Electro Swing brings you The Royal Court of Jazz, paying tribute to the Jazz legends of history, featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kook Kat Lola LeSoleil and more! Rock out with Timmy James & The Blue Flames, The Scragglers and Dang Dang Dang at The Star Bar! Spend the night with Tom Green at City Winery! Get to the root of it all Texas-style with Lee Roy Parnell at the Crimson Moon Café! Celtic rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Enter the Haggis and Eliot Bronson! Make your way to the Fernbank Museum’s Fernbank After Dark: Microbes & Microbrews event featuring live tunes by Chelsea Shag! Slippery When Wet pays tribute to Bon Jovi for a second night at MadLife Stage & Studios! Folk it up with Shawn Mullins at the Red Clay Theatre! It’s a night of hellacious ‘90s goth with Nightwish at the Tabernacle! Spend the night with Little Tybee and The Reign of Kindo at Terminal West! Spend the night with Bianca Del Rio at the Variety Playhouse! Groove on down to Venkman’s for a night with the Good Times Brass Band and Moontower! The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22! Get folksy celtic-style with Celtic Woman Homecoming at the Fox Theatre! Boogie on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Lisa Von Osch and their Women’s Disco Night! Or learn a move or two during the Brickyard Blues 2018 blues dance workshop! Get the rockin’ blues with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willies! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Sly Dog at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 10

Get nostalgic and make your way to the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for Toylanta 2018! Get some rockin’ soul with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and The Gartrells, Bad Spell and The Whips at The Star Bar! Make your way to the West Community Café and delve into works of Creative Resistance featuring Heroic Black Imagery in all forms of art with Kool Kat Balogun Ojetade during his From the Black Panthers to Black Panther event! Get Afro-funked at Venkman’s during their Tribute to Hugh Masekela! Get nostalgic with Public Access T.V., Honduras and Willie Bleeding at The Earl! Blacksmith it up during the Iron & Anvil Artist’s Alley at Ironmonger Brewing Company in Marietta! Experience Kat Cunning in the raw at Center Stage! Make your way to Get Scene Studios for the 2018 Essential Theatre Celebration, celebrating their 20th Anniversary! Get groovy with W8ing4UFOs and The Artifactual String Unit at Kavarna! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Heather Luttrell! Rock out with Tommy Stinson (The Replacements) and Chip Roberts at 529! City Winery gets folksy with Marc Cohn! Get stoner-rocked with Dead Meadow at The Drunken Unicorn! For a rockin’ night of the bizarre catch That 1 Guy and Eliot Bronson at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Kaki King at the Ferst Center! Rock out with Darling Machine, Stonefist and Still Warning at The Highlander! Almost Billy Joel pays tribute at MadLife Stage & Studios! Thrash on down to the Masquerade for a night with Exodus, Municipal Waste, and Death of Kings! Folk it up with Shawn Mullins at the Red Clay Theatre! Tony Levitas & The Levitations dish out a night of retro rock at Tin Roof Cantina! Get classically rocked with PARADOCS at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Spend the night with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willies! Blues it up with Sammy Blue and Nate Nelson at the Northside Tavern! Get some soul with Herman Hitson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, March 11

Get retro and make your way to 97 Estoria for Georgia Vintage Goods’ Vintage & Handmade Pop-Up, from 12-6pm! Get down to the High Museum for their Free Second Sunday event! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt revs it up acoustic-style at Porterdale Bar! Get heavy with Sabaton and Kreator at the Buckhead Theatre! City Winery gets folksy with Marc Cohn! Spend the night with Mike Love at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Propagandhi at the Masquerade! Jam out with Tony B at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the Elliott Street Pub! 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

Make your way to Out Front Theatre Company for their performance of BUYER AND CELLAR, running through March 22!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21!

ABBA on down to the Aurora Theatre for their presentation of MAMMA MIA! Running through April 22!

The Horizon Theatre Company presents FREAKY FRIDAY: A NEW MUSICAL, through April 22!

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

Shake a tail feather in ATLRetro This Week and come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, February 26

Get the old school blues with Rudy Currence at Eddie’s Attic! Atlanta musicians pay tribute to Jeff Porcaro at The Vista Room! Folk it up with Gordon Lightfoot at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!”  Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 27

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a special screening of Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON (1977) at 7pm! Clown it up with Tape Face at Center Stage! Get saxy with Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers at City Winery! Spend the night with John Oates & The Good Road Band at Eddie’s Attic! Reggae rock it up with The Expendables, Through the Roots and more at the Masquerade! 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, February 28

Avant-garde it up with Benjamin Clementine at the Variety Playhouse! The Star Bar brings you their Candle-Lit Wednesday featuring Smyth & Jones (The Locksmyth), Book Club and Blake Rainey! Get rootsy with Caroline Aiken at The Vista Room! The Barack & Michelle Obama Academy presents The Black History Museum at 6pm! Catch a screening of David Leland’s music documentary CONCERT FOR GEORGE (2003) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Or join the manhunt and catch a screening of Henry Hathaway’s TRUE GRIT (1969) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm!  Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th (2016) at 7:30pm! Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) 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); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Spend the night with John Oates & The Good Road Band at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with The Way Down Wanderers, The Barefoot Movement and Andy May at the Red Clay Theatre! Psyche rock it up with Noah Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at the Tabernacle! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm during their SMG Classic Romance series! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, March 1

David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets) gets intimate with an acoustic set at Little Tree Art Studios with The Hot Place and James Hall! A night of hilarity invades The Plaza Theater as Cineprov screens/riffs Max Kleven’s BAIL OUT (1989), doors at 7:15pm! The Cadillac Three dish out a night of Southern Rock at the Buckhead Theatre! Get some soul with Jeff Bradshaw & Friends, featuring Algebra Blessett and Glenn Lewis at City Winery! Spend the night with the Julian Lage Trio at The Earl! Get countrified with Corb Lund at Eddie’s Attic! Rumours pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Metal core it up with Norma Jean, Greyhaven and more at the Masquerade! Get folksy with Brett Dennen and Dean Lewis at Terminal West! Rock out with Kevn Kinney at Venkman’s! The Band Benefield rocks out at the Clermont Lounge! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get swanky with Bogey & The Viceroy and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 2

The BadAsh Allstar Team celebrates 34 years of THIS IS SPINAL TAP and A MIGHTY WIND with a rockin’ Jam at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch a screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s cult classic MIND GAME (2004) at The Plaza Theater at 7:20pm! Emory Arts presents a screening of Franchot Tone and John Goetz’ film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic UNCLE VANYA (1958) at 6pm in White Hall 208! Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Yacht Rock Revue! Get the blues with Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records Revue at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Circus No. 9 at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend the night with Stephen Kellogg at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out at The Star Bar with Gas Hound, The Stir, The Fill-Ins and Bleach Garden! Get old-timey with The VaudeVillains at Kavarna! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Get down with The Rockaholics  at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 3

The Center for Puppetry Arts brings you “The Women of the Muppets” featuring Sonia Manzano (“Maria”/Sesame Street), Bonnie Erickson (designer/builder of Miss Piggy) and Fran Brill (first female puppeteer hired for Sesame Street)! Geek it up during the Atlanta Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo at North Dekalb Mall, fulfilling your sci-fi fantasies through March 4! Get down to Atlantic Station for the Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival featuring live tunes by Trial By Fire (tribute to Journey), Slippery When Wet (tribute to Bon Jovi) and more! Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm [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); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! The Dixie Dregs rock out at Center Stage! Folk it up with Over the Rhine at City Winery! Stomp on down to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Roxie Watson! Rock out with The Band of Heathens at Eddie’s Attic! Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier deliver a bluegrassy encore at the Variety Playhouse! Rev it up at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with the Kentucky Head Hunters and The Side Burners! Catch an encore screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s cult classic MIND GAME (2004) at The Plaza Theater at 1pm! Folk rock it up with The Mulligan Brothers and Korby Lenker at the Red Clay Theatre! Latin Pop it up with Ricardo Montaner at The Roxy! Funk it up with the Wasted Potential Brass Band and Ross Pead at the Northside Tavern! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, March 4

Rev it up at Park Tavern for the 3rd Annual Americana in the Park Festival featuring a rockin’ lineup with Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Jackson County Line, Russ Still & The Moonshiners and Captain Trips & The Sunstroke Serenaders! Rock out with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Katy Guillen & The Girls and Grinder Nova at Smith’s Olde Bar! Croon on down to Venkman’s for Joe Gransden: Sinatra & Friends! Get some soul with Howard Hewett at City Winery! The Crimson Moon Café gets down with their Boomers Go Wild event!  Folk it up with The Honey Dew Drops and Griffin House at Eddie’s Attic! American Nightmare gets hardcore at the Masquerade!  Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for The Van Ella Bordella! Get criminal and familial with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER (1972) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series 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

The Fox Theatre presents the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, through Feb. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in ATLRetro is the bee’s knees! Come see all the retro shenanigans we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, February 19

Catch a screening of Mika Kaurismaki’s MAMA AFRICA: MIRIAM MAKEBA (2011) at The Plaza Theater, through Feb. 22! Bossa Nova it up with Bebel Gilberto at City Winery! 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! Blues it up with John Paul Barry 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, February 20

Rattle & Roar with the Earls of Leicester and Early James & The Latest at City Winery! Get jazzy with Aubrey Logan and The Sabor! Brass Band at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with The Laymen, Marla Feeney and more! The Fox Theatre presents the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, through Feb. 28! Get witchy at Fado Irish Pub during their Harry Potter TriWizard Pub Quiz at 8pm! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! 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, February 21

New Wave it up with Howard Jones and get haunted with Rachel Sage at City Winery! The Plaza Theater kills it with a screening of Lau Kar-leung’s 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1979)! Catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Marlon Riggs’s PBS documentary, BLACK IS…BLACK AIN’T (1995) at 7:30pm! Get countrified with Chris Knight at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Chuck McDowell, Michelle Malone, John Cable and Julie Gribble at the Red Clay Theatre! Get retro-inspired with Elizabeth & The Catapult, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards and The Good Graces at Smith’s Olde Bar! Madame Company pays tribute to Bad Company while The Damn Truth relives the tunes of the past at The Vista Room! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Electromatics dish out a night of Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to Turner Field for the UniverSoul Circus! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of George Cukor’s THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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 Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 22

Get intergalactic as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers their STAR WARS – A New Hope in Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out with KICK – The INXS Experience at City Winery! Tom Hill dishes out some rockin’ blues at the Clermont Lounge! Howiestein and Mister Wilson dish out their Over the Edge Record Party featuring punk, soul, ‘70s glam and more at The Highlander! Jazz it up with Kyshona Armstrong at Venkman’s! Get folksy with Josh Garrels and Wilder Adkins at Terminal West! Make your way to the Red Light Café for the BadAsh Allstar Team’s Eagles Jam! Get down and dirty with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get countrified and rock out with Chris Knight and The Steel Woods at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of rockin’ tunes with the Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 23

Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with The Wheel Knockers, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, Heather Luttrell, and Alan Shelton & Bar Community Stars! Kink it up with Kool Kats galore during CandyBox’ February Underground Burlesque Show at Elliot’s Street Pub with Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Kool Kat Talloolah Love and more! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody! Interstellar Echoes pay tribute to Pink Floyd at The Vista Room! Rock out with a night of tributes at Smith’s Olde Bar featuring Freebird (Kool Kat Rich Desantis), Led Zeppelified, Back Yardbirds and Solar Lunartic! Rockabilly it up with Hillbilly Casino at Dixie Tavern! Modern folk meets old-school soul with Sam Burchfield, Nathan Angelo and Chris Ayer at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to Hell and get mischievous with The F@cking Pantera Cover Band at the Masquerade! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Brian Revels & The Heat Lightning, Five Shot Jack and Papa Jack Couch! Americana it up at the Tin Roof Cantina with The Ain’t Sisters! Rock out with Bas Clas at Avondale Towne Cinema! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers an intergalactic encore of their STAR WARS – A New Hope in Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Geek it up with Dad’s Garage as they present Improvised Dungeons & Dragons! Spend the night with Zabadodat at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Andy T. Band with Alabama Mike gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the Atlanta Horns at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 24

Rock, rock, rock ‘n’ roll high school on down to The Star Bar for the 3rd Annual Rock –N- Roll High School Tribute to the Ramones featuring Little Leslie & The Bloodshots, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles and more! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Gunpowder Gray, Silver Tongue Devils, Sash the Bash and Adam Anzio! Folk it up with The Indigo Girls at the Red Clay Theatre! Get intimate with Kool Kat “Big Mike” Geier and the Kingsized 3 at The Vista Room! Mark Nelson & Friends present Songs in the Key of Stevie at Venkman’s! Get funky and spend the night with The Revolution at the Tabernacle! Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 21! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers an intergalactic encore of their STAR WARS – A New Hope in Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Kool Kat Rich Desantis and the Street Fighting Band pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Smith’s Olde Bar dishes out another night of tributes with el scorcho (Weezer), Runnin’ Down a Dream (Tom Petty Revue) and M.E.R.M.E.R (REM)! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the Atlanta Horns and Ross Pead at the Northside Tavern! Get down with The Vipers at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! 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, February 25

Spend the night with funk granddaddy, George Clinton & The Parliament Funkadelic, at the Buckhead Theatre! Get old-timey with J.D. Wilkes, Nikki & The Phantom Callers, and The Waymores at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some soul with Martin Sexton at City Winery! Universal Pictures Presents a screening of Jim Henson/Frank Oz’ THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) 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); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); AMC Dine-In North Point Mall 12 (Alpharetta); and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Francine Reed! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Super Happy Funtime, a live band burlesque circus troupe! Make your way to Venkman’s for Harrison 75, an acoustic tribute to George Harrison! Join the manhunt and catch a screening of Henry Hathaway’s TRUE GRIT (1969) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Fox Theatre presents the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour, through Feb. 28!

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

Learn some history with the Gwinnett Parks Foundation’s Historic Walking Tours every Saturday through April 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Check out all the swell happenings we’ve found for you This Week in ATLRetro!

Monday, February 12

Get jazzy with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! Ukulele it up with Jake Shimabukuro 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!” Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! 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, February 13

Get sinfully seductive at and let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your Valentine’s evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Hearts & Heartbreakers event, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with The Squirrelheads at The Vista Room! Get your Barbara Streisand fix with Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary screening of William Wyler’s FUNNY GIRL (1968) at the Springs Cinema & Tap House at 7pm! Jake Shimabukuro dishes out an encore show at City Winery! Spend the night with Mary J. Blige at the Fox Theatre! Reggae it up with Roots of Creation and The Elovaters at Smith’s Olde Bar! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Celebrate Mardi Gras with The Crawdaddies at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 14

It’s St. Valentine’s Day folks and you know what that means! We’ve dug up a variety of rockin’ vintage shindigs taking place tonight, that we know will get your blood pumping and all set for that shot to the heart! Croon on down to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Sam Cooke Experience, featuring Markell Williams dishing out a soulful revue of “Cupid” proportions at 8pm! Hillbilly it up at The Star Bar for a night with Scott H. Biram and The Hotten Hallers! Paula Cole dishes out a night of love songs at City Winery! Or swing on by Venkman’s for a romantic night featuring Vince Guaraldi’s classic BE MY VALENTINE CHARLIE BROWN, performed by Dave Ellington’s Peanut Gallery! The Vista Room gets jazzy with Joe Gransden’s Valentine’s Dinner Show! Let Sandra Hall & The Shadows show you where it’s at this Valentine’s Day at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with Hello Ocho at The Earl dishing out a night of psyche-y Kraut rock featuring Adron, Mick Mayer and more! WUSSY MAG presents a 7pm Galentine’s Day event and screening of Hugh Wilson’s FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996) at The Plaza Theater! Swing on by the Cobb Energy Center for a night with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox! For all you knights in shining armor, get really retro and romantic with the royal one in your life and joust on down to Medieval Times for their Valentine’s Celebration! Spend Valentine’s Day with The Kennedys (Blue Moon Orchestra) at the Red Clay Theatre! Get romantic at the Aurora Cineplex in Roswell for a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at 7pm with special treats for the ladies, or catch this romantic classic during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Hula on over to Trader Vic’s and escape into the island atmosphere of love with their 4-course Prix Fixe Menu! The French are known for their romantic gestures, so get romantic at Petite Violette (formerly Petite Auberge) for their special 5-course Valentine’s Day Menu! Be a pair of star-crossed lovers as the Shakespeare Tavern performs their special Valentine’s production of “Romeo & Juliet” at 7:30pm! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Spike Lee’s 4 LITTLE GIRLS (1997) at 7:30pm! Get mischievous during The Highlander’s Valentine’s Day Chaos featuring Rotten Stitches, Revolt, Moose Knuckle and Dernier Combat! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Rock out with Boygirlfriends, Cuntry and more at 529! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 15

Rock out with The Othermen, the Reverends and Black Cat Rising at The Star Bar! Honkytonk on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Dave & Stephen (Million Dollar Quartet) with special guest Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! It’s a night of New Orleans funk with John “Papa” Gros and The Wasted Potential Brass Band at The Vista Room! Doyle Bramhall II dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Get groovy at the Clermont Lounge with CHEW, A Drug Called Tradition and Day Tripper! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Indigo Girls, The Bottle Rockets and Chuck Prophet! Catch a free screening of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) at Venkman’s at 8pm! Garage rock out with Tiger! Tiger! at 529! House Rocker Johnson & the Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Groove on down to Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s for a night with Coast Guard and a couple killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 16

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and fantasy, travel way back in time during this year’s 3-day event (Feb. 16-18), AnachroCon 2018 – The Viking Age, celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences! Catch a longship to the Wyndham Atlanta Galleria, where you’ll catch Mistress of Ceremonies, author Lee Martindale, performances by Valhalla’s Vixens, Big Daddy Cool & The Bombshell Kittens, informative panels discussing the medieval era, Vikings, Steampunk, Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer and a vendors room chock full of goodies, including our pals at Horror in Clay (see our Shop Around feature here) and so much more!

Ragtime on down to The Earl for a little Prohibition pandemonium with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers! Rocksteady on down to The Star Bar for their Valentine’s Rock –N- Ska! event featuring Kitty Rose & The Rattlers and Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley with Southern Ska Syndicate! Spook on down to Folklore Haunted House in Acworth for their My Bloody Valentine haunt at 7:30pm! Get the blues with the Ghost Town Blues Band at The Vista Room! Catch a screening of Mika Kaurismaki’s MAMA AFRICA: MIRIAM MAKEBA (2011) at The Plaza Theater! Rock out with The Producers at City Winery! Get the blues with the Bridget Kelly Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Sabor Brass Band gets down at the High Museum! The Badash Allstar Team delivers their Fleetwood Mac Jam at the Red Light Café! Glam it up with James Hall’s Pleasure Club and Pls Pls at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Tommy Emmanuel at the Variety Playhouse! Get funky with the Atlanta Funk Society at Venkman’s! Get down with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! It’s a night of outlaw blues with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 17

It’s day 2 of AnachroCon 2018 – The Viking Age, dishing out anything and everything Viking, Victorian, Steampunk and more! A night of creaturific hilarity invades The Plaza Theater as Cineprov screens/riffs Dick Randall’s FRANKENSTEIN’S CASTLE OF FREAKS (1975) at 9pm! Get the roadhouse blues with Delbert McClinton at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with Prowess, The Buzzards of Fuzz and The Dreaded Marco at The Star Bar! Ragtime on down to The Earl for a little Prohibition pandemonium encore with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers! Criminal Records hosts their free Black Panther Tribute Party featuring State of the Art Atlanta, Marcus Williams (Tuskegee Heirs) and Corey Davis (Jambalaya Mixtape) from 11am – 3pm! Get heavy and old-school with Junkyard and Enuff Z’nuff at 37 Main in Buford! Folk on down to the Red Light Café for their Bob Dylan Jam with Mark Michelson & Friends! Rock out at The Highlander for a night with The Breaks, The Reserves and DDC! Spend the night with Los Temararios at the Atlanta Coliseum in Duluth! The Producers dish out a rockin’ encore at City Winery! Get down with DJ Romeo Cologne and DJ Kwasi Mandisco at the Clermont Lounge! Get down with Radar at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Gypsy jazz it up with The Gonzalo Bergara Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings and Little G Weevil! Get a second chance to glam it up with the Pleasure Club at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre dishes out a night of love and heartbreak with their Strand Ole Opry event! Dance Your Valentine Off with Susi French Connection at Avondale Towne Cinema at 9pm! It’s a bloody encore, so spook on down to Folklore Haunted House in Acworth for their My Bloody Valentine haunt at 7:30pm! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out an R –N- B Revue! Ghosts and love collide at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland tours at 2:30pm, through Sunday! Ambassador of the Blues, James Armstrong, gets down at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 18

It’s day 3 and your last chance to experience alternate history at AnachroCon 2018 – The Viking Age! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of George Cukor’s THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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 Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get folksy with Al Stewart and The Empty Pockets at City Winery! Rock out with Sponge and Nobody’s Darlings at the Masquerade! Bluegrass it up with The Kruger Brothers at the Red Clay Theatre! Catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25!

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 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

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Monday, February 5

Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at the Tara Theatre at 7pm! The Earl rocks out with a night of bizarre shenanigans featuring The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & The Bicycle Eaters and Jeremy Ray! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for their first “official” Short Docs Festival, from 7pm-9pm! 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, February 6

Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! Rock out with Anti-Flag at the Masquerade!  It’s a night of acid jazz with Charlie Hunter at Red Light Café! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Get the blues with Larry Griffith at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Little 5 Points Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 7

Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta bring you “Films for One to Eight Projectors” with Roger Beebe in performance at Atlanta Contemporary at 7pm! Get old-school and pinball it up at My Parents’ Basement for their monthly Pinball Tournament kicking off at 6:30pm! Funk it up with Lettuce at the Variety Playhouse! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) at the Springs Cinema & Tap House at 7:50pm! Spend the night with the Jay Farrar Duo at City Winery! Catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! David Lowery (Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker) gets down at Eddie’s Attic! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with screenings of PBS’s EYES ON THE PRIZE (1987), episode 1, “Awakenings” and episode 12, “A Nation of Law?” at 7:30pm! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 8

Get some soul with Heather Hayes as she brings you the Isaac Hayes Experience at The Vista Room! Get down with Steve Earle at City Winery! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978) at the Tara Theatre at 3:20pm! Get old-timey with Reverend Hylton at Eddie’s Attic! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so get your fill of suave swingin’ tones with the Tiki Tonk Quartet and a couple killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 9

The Mads from MST3K (Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu) invade The Plaza Theater for two nights (Feb. 9 & 10) riffing a different film each night! Yacht Rock Schooner dishes out An Evening of Silly Love Songs at Park Tavern! The Vista Room gets down with a Michael Jackson Sing-Along/Dance Party! Get the blues and make your way to the Variety Playhouse for Blues Traveler’s 30th Anniversary Tour! The Fernbank Museum delivers a night of science ‘n’ romance with their Fernbank After Dark: Love on the Brain event! Boogie down at Avondale Towne Cinema with their ‘90s Jam! Rockabilly it up with Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones and Skye Paige at The Star Bar! The Highlander dishes out an ode to love gone wrong with a Broken Hearts & Bloody Valentines Art Show! You are invited to the Spectacular Spectacular with RITUAL’s Moulin Rouge Valentine’s Party at Heretic! Funk it up for night one of Zydefunk’s King Cake Party at the Northside Tavern! Catch a screening of John Lasseter’s TOY STORY (1995) at SCADShow at 7pm! Folk rock it up with The Artisanals, Tedo Stone and Chick Wallace at The Earl! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! ATL Collective relives Maxwell’s URBAN HANG SUITE at Venkman’s! Abbey Road Live! pays tribute to The Beatles at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with Diana Krall at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with The Wild Hares at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 10

Make a date with fate and catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm, followed by a Time Warpin’ good time with a screening of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 11:59pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles rev it up at the Dixie Tavern! Bluegrass it up with Control Burn and the Justin Sams Band at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Marillion at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to The Earl for a night of ‘70s street punk with Dirty Fences, Bad Spell and Dinos Boys! Get your classic southern rock fix with the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Art Garfunkel at City Winery! ATL Collective relives Sade’s LOVE DELUXE at Venkman’s! Honkytonk on down to Kavarna for a night with Sean Mencher and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Ghosts and love collide at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland tours running through Feb. 11! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) at Aurora Cineplex! Funk it up for night two of Zydefunk’s King Cake Party at the Northside Tavern! SCADShow delivers a PIXAR double feature with screenings of John Lasseter’s TOY STORY 2 (1999) and Lee Unkrich’s TOY STORY 3 (2010) beginning at 12pm! Make your way to the Fox Theatre’s 12th Annual Valentine’s Weekend Celebration featuring Jeffrey Osborne and Rachelle Ferrell! Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Selwyn Birchwood dishes out a night of the rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 11

Get wickedly weird this season of love and lust and pick up some local art goodies at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Lovecrafts: Valentine’s Edition from 1-6pm! Rain pays tribute to The Beatles performing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live at the Fox Theatre! Get a second chance to catch the Atlanta Rhythm Section at Eddie’s Attic! Spend a second night with Art Garfunkel at City Winery! Moon River on down to Rialto Center for the Arts for the GSU Jazz Band’s tribute to Johnny Mercer, featuring Joe Gransden and Francine Reed! Get funky with the Jazz of Prince at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic, CASABLANCA (1942) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get the blues with Garrett Collins at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25!

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 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

This Week in ATLRetro is the bee’s knees! Come see all the swell shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!

Monday, January 29

Celebrate 30 years of The Posies at City Winery! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Holey Miss Moley at Moonshadow Tavern in Tucker! 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! Spend the night with Lloyd Cole at Eddie’s Attic! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 30

Get psyched for a night with The Rotten Mangos, Satisfiers of Alpha Blue and The Titos at the Red Light Café! Frankie’s Blues Mission spreads the word at Blind Willie’s! Cow punk it up with Alejandro Escovedo (The Nuns) at City Winery! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Thrash on down to 529 for a night with Leeway! 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, January 31

Get some soul and make your way to The Star Bar for The Bango & Smash Soul Night DJ Party featuring Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and the Malone Ranger! Catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Get folksy with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18! Emory Cinematheque continues their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of ABC’s ROOTS, Season 1, episode 2 at 7:30pm! Get campy and make your way to The Plaza Theater for screening of Jamie Babbit’s BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) at 7pm! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Cody Matlock at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, February 1

Captain & Maybelle hosts a hellacious killer kickoff Days of the Dead pre-party at the Clermont Lounge featuring a horrific lineup with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, ELZIG, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more! Sinister mind control invades The Plaza Theater as Cineprov dishes out a night of hilarity with a screening of Dave R. Watkins’ STRAGGLERS (2004) at 7:15pm! Get folksy with Aimee Mann and Marshall Ruffin at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with The Pussywillows, Mister Tie Dye and Kilroy Kobra at The Earl! Get your American fix with Willie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up and get some soul with Kipper Jones at City Winery! Make your way to 7 Stages as they present THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25! Yacht Rock Revue gets in the ring with their Led Zeppelin vs. The Who event at Venkman’s! Get your Barbara Streisand fix with Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary screening of William Wyler’s FUNNY GIRL (1968) at Regal Perimeter Pointe 10! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Lost Dog Street Band and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! 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 some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 2

Get traumatized and HORROR-fied this weekend as the Days of the Dead Convention kills it at the Sheraton Atlanta hotel for three days of ghastly gore-filled events, running through Feb. 4! You won’t want to miss monstrous retro celebrity guests Malcom McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE); Ernie Hudson (GHOSTBUSTERS); the cast of the KARATE KID franchise (Martin Kove, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka); Ray Wise (TWIN PEAKS); Meg Foster (THEY LIVE), C. Thomas Howell (THE OUTSIDERS); masked menace Kane Hodder of FRIDAY THE 13TH fame; the Independent Horror Film Fest, Sin & Salvation shenanigans featuring hellacious tunes from Graveyard Gospel and Bump in the Night Ghoulesque, The Dirty Dirty Con Con Gameshow and so much more! So, get your fill of the blood-bath that is, Days of the Dead!

Get sinfully seductive at 7 Stages for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 11th Annual Vixen’s Valentease Vaudeville & Variety Show! The BACKYARDBIRDS invade the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Blood on the Harp, Little Country Giants and the Casey Hood & Jared Pepper Duo! Or make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with BJ Barham (American Aquarium)! Rock out with Sash the Bash, Pretty Vacant and King of Queens at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with the Atlanta Funk Society during the High Museum’s February First Friday event! Venkman’s dishes out a night with Saved by the Band! It’s déjà vu hilarity at Battle & Brew as they run a marathon screening of Harold Ramis’ GROUNDHOG DAY (1993), beginning at 2pm! Or catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s classic TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Bluegrass it up with The SteelDrivers at the Buckhead Theatre! Little Joey’s Jumpin’ Jive gets down and returns to the Northside Tavern! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at The Wing in Marietta! Get rootsy with Delta Moon 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, February 3

It’s Day 2 to get spooked at the Days of the Dead Convention at the Sheraton Atlanta! Get your blood curdling fill of monsters galore with Send in the Clowns with Captain & Maybelle; gore-ific panels including Women of Indie Horror featuring Kool Kat Dayna Noffke, Kool Kat Vanessa Wright, Lynne Hansen and Brooklyn Ewing; a 7pm screening of Wes Craven’s SCREAM (1996); “Terror from the ‘80s” secret films at 10pm and midnight; and one hell-bent horrorific after party with Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and ELZIG!

The Star Bar gets to sizzlin’ with one hot Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper celebration, HOLLYFEST 10! Get your retro rock fix with Rodeo Twister, The Midnight Dukes, The Sideburners, Bad Friend, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, The Cherry Bomb, Kitty Rose & The Rattlers, Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley, Slim Chance & The Convicts, Joe St. Louis 5, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more!  Cody Matlock rocks out at the Northside Tavern! The livin’ is easy in the Big Easy, so make your way to the Midtown Mardi Gras Block Party and funk it up through Feb. 4! Celebrate Black History Month at The Plaza Theater with their Histories & Legends: Exploring Black History Through Art & Motion event at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with Big Head Todd & The Monsters with Southern Avenue at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out with The Bohannons, The Stacktone Slims and The Crush at The Earl! Get to twangin’ with Devil Makes Three at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with John 5 & The Creatures at The Drunken Unicorn! Spend the night with Radio Moscow at Vinyl! Venkman’s gets down with New Sensation, and INXS tribute! Pop on over to Avondale Towne Cinema for Kenny Howe & The Wow! Big Bill Morganfield dishes out a night of the rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, February 4

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to experience the rockin’ blood and horror fest, the Days of the Dead Convention!  Today’s events include horrorific panels including an Atlanta Author Horror Showcase; a 9am screening of James Bryan’s LADY STREET FIGHTER (1985) and more, so, come check out all the swell and retro horror goodness while you can! Catch a screening of Vincente Minnelli’s classic, GIGI (1958) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 80th Anniversary screening of Konrad Tom and Joseph Green’s MAMELE (1938) at Springs Cinema & Tap House! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!

Ongoing

7 Stages presents THE FOLLOWERS: A RETELLING OF THE BACCHAE, running through Feb. 25!

The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

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 retro-tastic in ATLRetro This Week and come see what we’ve dug up for you!

Monday, January 22

Get folksy and catch a screening of Jennifer LeBeau’s Bob Dylan documentary, TROUBLE NO MORE (2017) at The Plaza Theater, through Jan. 25! Get the blues with Johnny Lang and Blue Water Highway at Center Stage! Get expiramental with OHMME, Rose Hotel and Shouldies at The Earl!  Get the blues with Matthew Pendrick at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!”  Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 23

Have a bloody fantastic night with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at SCADShow at 6:30pm! The Machine pays tribute to Pink Floyd at City Winery! Rock out with Enter Shikari, Single Mothers and Milk Teeth at Terminal West! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Suzanne Slair and Wyatt Espalin! Rock out with The Big Lonesome at the Red Light Café! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Nick Johnson! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 24

SCADShow dishes out shower curtains and a bloody peek into Hitchock’s PSYCHO with a screening of Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, 78/52 (2017) at 6:30pm! Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives honkytonk it up with The Way Out West Tour at Variety Playhouse! Emory Cinematheque kicks off their “Black Lives on the Small Screen” series with a screening of Marlon Riggs’ PBS documentary COLOR ADJUSTMENT (1992) at 7:30pm! Hillbilly it up with Roadkill Debutante, Ayo River and Cuntry at The Star Bar! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 25

It’s a night of sleazy rock ‘n’ roll at The Star Bar with The Dirty Magazines, Twin Criminal, Dead Red Flowers, Butthole and Spurge! Geek it up and catch the 200th episode of Needless Things Podcast Live at Intown Coffeehouse! Or funk it up during Cozy 5^th Annual “Rick James Birthday Tribute” at Elmyr! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at The Plaza Theater, through Sunday! Get your bluesy Americana fix with Justin Townes Earl and H.C. McEntire at City Winery! The Earl dishes out a night of stoner metal with Red Fang! Get to the root of it all with The Steel Wheels at Eddie’s Attic! Spend the night with Marla Torgerson and Dueces are Wild at Red Light Café! Ragtime it up with UltraFaux, 9 String Theory and Lon Eldridge at Smith’s Olde Bar! Bluegrass it up with David Rawlings at the Variety Playhouse! Motor on down to the Clermont Lounge for a night with JB Walker & The Cheap Whiskey Band! Shake a tail feather with The Shadows at Blind Willie’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 ‘70s and ‘80s tunes with COAST GUARD and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 26

The Star Bar rocks out and presents The Aaron Space Program Show featuring Vincas, Bad Friend, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause, A Drug Called Tradition, Black Cat Rising and more! Rev on down to The Vista Room for a night with Cigar Store Indians and Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley! Get your geeky glamour fix at Welcome to FANdom: A Nerdlesque Celebration at Red Light Café! Get funky with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as they deliver The Music of Prince at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Spend the night with The Barbaric Gentlemen and The Billy Jacks at Avondale Towne Cinema! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Tannery Row Ale House in Buford! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Low Cut Connie, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Blue Blood! Donna the Buffalo dishes out a night of Zydeco at City Winery! Funk it up New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Americana fix with John McCutcheon and David Robert King at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of rockin’ blues with The Bystander Effect at the Masquerade! Zoso pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Variety Playhouse! Or make your way to Venkman’s as The Dirty Doors pay tribute to The Doors! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Swap Raw Deal at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and The Atlanta Horns fires it up with his rockin’ 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, January 27

Get mischievous and rock out at The Star Bar with The Queers, Switchblade Villain, The Hanging Judge and The Sawed-Offs! Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with The Russian Roulette Band get down at the Elliott Street Pub! Or rock out with Magnapop, Shantih Shantih and Bark at 529! Get freaky and rock out at Motorheads in McDonough during the Southern Fried Rock-N-Roll Sideshow featuring Captain & Maybelle, Beitthemeans and Dogwood Daze! 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 folk rocked with Don McLean at City Winery! Spend the night with the Forrest McDonald Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get the old school blues with the Juke Joint Dukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Smooth rock on down to MadLife Stage & Studios for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Zoso pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Variety Playhouse! Folk rock it up with Little Tybee at The Earl! It’s a night of old-time country as Rodeo Twister hosts Deke Dickerson (a benefit for Greg Germani) at Avondale Towne Cinema! Boogie on down to The Basement for their KEEP ON MOVIN’ Rock ‘n’ Soul Dance Party! Gino Fanelli croons it up at Venkman’s with a night of Louis Prima and Louis Armstrong tunes, followed by a night with The REMakes! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their Dark Crystal Game Night! Cosplay it up at Hair of the Dragon VII (2018 Cosplay Photo Studio Party) at Studio Space Atlanta! Eighties it up with a second night of Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at the Dawsonville Tavern! Rock out blues-style with Vinyl Suns, the Milltown Road Band, The Longshot Saints and House of Thomas at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get down with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and The Atlanta Horns get down at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 28

Get wooed with a screening of Erich von Stroheim’s classic silent   (1925) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 3pm, with a live organ accompaniment by Kool Kat Ron Carter! Or catch a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) during Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s Flashback Cinema series at 2:30pm/7:30pm! Rock out with Royal Thunder, Backwoods Playback and Illegal Drugs at The Earl! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night of Americana with Justin Sam’s Band! 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 Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

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, January 15

Make your way to the Atlanta History Center and celebrate the life of MLK with their Martin Luther King, Jr. Day special programming including a screening of Alethea Brown’s documentary, A TREK TO THE RIVER’S EDGE (2014) at 1pm, and free admission. Get down with the Emerald Empire Band at The Vista Room! Get folksy at Avondale Towne Cinema with Lon Eldridge! Get jazzy with MAYSA at City Winery! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night of indie rock with Loudon Swain and Jason Manns! The Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds containing the histories of thousands of Atlanta’s earliest black citizens, throughout Black History Month! Get your Australian psychedelic glam fix with Pond at Vinyl! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 17-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 16

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 70th Anniversary screening of John Huston’s classic, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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 Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Bluegrass it up with Boy Named Banjo at City Winery! Get a second chance to catch Loudon Swain and Jason Manns with The Deep Dark Woods at Eddie’s Attic! Get ‘90s jammy with The Laymen at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boo Hoo Ramblers! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 17

Have a bloody fantastic night with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at SCADShow at 6:30pm! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for screening of Jamie Babbit’s campy BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) at 7pm! It’s a night of nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll with Black Pussy, The Stir and The Pussywillows at The Star Bar! You won’t want to miss the Swedish metal spectacle that is AVATAR at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones with The High Divers at Terminal West! Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul with Rudy Currence at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched with a screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (2004) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Jam it up and get funky with Tastebud, Desmond Jones and Sono Lumini at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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, January 18

Rock out at The Star Bar for four mischievous nights of the Down South Showdown rocking out through Jan. 21 (Jan. 18-20 at The Star Bar, Jan. 21 at The Earl)! Night one rocks out with Dinos Boys, Gunpowder Gray, The Uppers, Nikki & The Phantom Callers and Sweet Things! Or sludge it up with The Buzzards of Fuzz, The Ides of June and Hot Ram at 529! Rocksteady on down to Terminal West for a night with Lee “Scratch” Perry and Subatomic Sound System! Rock out with Kool Kat Rich Desantis and The Street Fighting Band as they pay tribute to The Rolling Stones at City Winery! Or make your way to The Earl for a night with Reconciler, The Bantam Breaks and Paper Walls. Rock out folk-style with Willie Nile at Eddie’s Attic! It’s a night of geeky cow punk at the Masquerade with Go Robo! Go!, Blood Oaks, Like Mike, Hyperspace, and Resident One! Join the BadAsh Allstar Team for their Fleetwood Mac Jam at the Red Light Café! Spend the night with the Prince of Soul, Calvin Richardson, at Suite Food Lounge! Kristen & the Honey Badgers get down at Blind Willie’s! Cody Matlock & the Mothership get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your Americana fix with Alex Guthrie at MadLife Stage & Studios! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for a night of swanky tunes with Bogey & The Viceroy and some killer island cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 19

Cheese it up at The Plaza Theater as Cineprov dishes out a night of hilarity with a screening of Howard Ziehm’s FLESH GORDON (1974) at 7pm! Night two of the Down South Showdown at The Star Bar features a rockin’ lineup with Wyldlife, MAMA, Paint Fumes, Trouble Boys, Sick Boys, Bad Sons, Paralyzer and Fixed Faces! Yacht Rock Revue’s Greg and Bencoo dish out hits of the ‘70s with their Forever ’78 show at Venkman’s! Get some ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue at The Vista Room! Boogie down and swing on by the GTDA’s Swing Dance Masquerade at 8pm! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at the Buckhead Theatre! Get Victorian during Ritual’s Steampunk Party at Heretic! Get folksy and catch a screening of Jennifer LeBeau’s Bob Dylan documentary, TROUBLE NO MORE (2017) at The Plaza Theater, through Jan. 25! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at theatres across Atlanta at 7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Get jazzy with King Baby at the High Museum! Folk rock it up with Shawn Mullins at City Winery! Kavarna dishes out a night of tributes with The Stoneberrys (The Rolling Stones) and The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett)! It’s a night of rootsy soul with the Heather Gillis Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get geeky retro with Bit Brigade, Cinemechanica and Tiny Scissors at The Earl! Spend the night with Bumpin the Mango and Zangaro at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys! Get folksy with Peter Case and Dead Rock West at the Red Light Café! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Identikit, Nocturnal Animals, The Organ Machines and Silent Sun (downstairs) or jam it up at with Dead Affect and Mister Tie Dye (upstairs)! Runaway Gin pays tribute to Phish at Terminal West! Nameless Nameless dishes out a night of Nirvana at Venkman’s! Spend the night with Chris O’Leary at Blind Willie’s! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Stoney Brooks and Cody Matlock 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, January 20

Get bizarre Lynch-style as Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s Club Silencio returns to The Earl (album release) with Small Reactions! Spend the night with They Might Be Giants at the Variety Playhouse! Night three of the Down South Showdown at The Star Bar glams out and sleazes it up with The Heart Attacks, Beat Beat Beat, BroGro, Bad Mothers, BBQT, Cheap Fur, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Criminal Kids, Antagonizers ATL and Killer Hearts! Orchestra Noir presents A Masquerade in Paris at Paris on Ponce! Permanent Waves pays tribute to RUSH with Jackwagon at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your dino fix with Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) in concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Rock out as Clashinista pays tribute to The Clash at 529! ATL Collective relives Erykah Badu’s BADUIZM at Venkman’s! Get down with the John Pagano Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for a Burlesque Battle of the Babes! Get saucy and spend the evening with Sadie Hawkins at her Last Pasties Standing event! Spend the night with Escape Vehicle, Led Zepplified and the Sunny South Blues Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Terminal West gets down with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony! Get down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the old school blues with Albert White at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 21

It’s your last chance to get rocked during the Down South Showdown at The Earl with RMBLR, Dirty Few, The Ridgelands, The Tip, Talking Dogs and Adam Anzio! You won’t want to miss a dinosaur-ous encore with Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) in concert with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 8pm! Get old-school countrified with Little Country Giants, The Cleverlys and Paul Harris at Eddie’s Attic! Terminal West delivers an encore with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony! 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 Historic Oakland Cemetery offers free guided tours of African American Grounds, throughout Black History Month!

Get the blues with Ike Stubblefield at Avondale Towne Cinema, every Wednesday until March 28!

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 back in the swing of things with ATLRetro and take a peek at all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, January 8

Celebrate some pretty big birthdays in true rock ‘n’ roll style with Avondale Towne Cinema’s Bowie vs. Elvis Jam! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with Larry Griffith!

Tuesday, January 9

Shake a tail feather with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and her burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South during their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: 4th Anniversary Show, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Psych rock out at 529 with HEAVEN, A Drug Called Tradition, Count Vaseline and New Tree! Spend the night with Greg Kihn at City Winery! Reggae it up with Rhythm Earth, Blackberry Breeze and Sound Culture at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get the country blues with the Redstone Ramblers at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with the Poverty Level Band! JT Speed gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at  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, January 10

Rock out old-school with Flashback Flash, The Dround Hounds and Willess at The Star Bar! Rock out with the U.S. Bombs, The Hanging Judge, and Rotten Stitches in Hell at the Masquerade! Catch a screening of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM (2003) at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! It’s a night of blues and southern soul with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Get the blues with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with The Cazanovas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Get bewitched with a screening of Chris Columbus’ HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Soul Sacrifice pays tribute to Santana at City Winery! 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, January 11

Make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge (The Star Bar) for Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s ANT LODGE Vol. 4 starring Weatherly (album release), Victor St. Baloo and Leah Raven Eiland with Jeffrey Butzer! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with JesusHoney and Bad Spell! Honkytonk it up with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club and special guests Andrea Colburn & Mud Moseley at the Clermont Lounge! Hot Ice presents a tribute to The Men of Soul at City Winery! Bluegrass it up with Billy Strings and Mia Green at Eddie’s Attic! Or get your bluegrass fix with Sweet’shine & Honey with Nathan Evens Fox at the Red Clay Theatre! Funk it up with Andy Frasco & The UN with Chelsea Shag at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your soulful Americana fix with The War & Treaty at Terminal West! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get rocked with a free screening of Rob Reiner’s THIS IS SPINAL TAP! (1984) at Venkman’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’ tunes with the Knotty Boys and some killer island cocktails! Make your way to the Red Light Café for their Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash Jam with Mark Michelson & Friends! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, January 12

Chain gang it up with a screening of Stuart Rosenberg’s classic, COOL HAND LUKE (1967) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm, with a pre-show and sing-along thirty minutes before show time! Get intergalactic and make your way to Diesel Filling Station for the 6th Annual Bar Wars Pub Crawl at 7pm! Rock out at the Masquerade’s Punk-O-Rama featuring the Rotten Stitches, The Breaks, Five O’Clock Devil, The Breaknecks, Eliminate Earth and Blue Tower! Or rock out for a cause with Avondale Towne Cinema’s Benefit for Scott the Hoople, featuring Blake Rainey & His Demons, The Skylarks, Back on the Freakout and The Nonessentials! Get your ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n ‘ roll fix with The Rainmen at the Red Light Café during their Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party! Glam it up at The Earl with T.T. Mahoney’s Bowie in Sweats paying tribute to Bowie’s 1974 DIAMOND DOGS, with W8ing4UFOs and Guitar Drag! Spend the night with Hot Tuna at City Winery! Or catch Takenobu at Eddie’s Attic! Tinsley Ellis dishes out a night of the blues at the Variety Playhouse! Get smooth at Yacht Rock Schooner dishes out a night of Steely Dan at Venkman’s! Blind Willie’s dishes out a rockin’ night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! Get some soul at The Star Bar’s Dirty South Winter Weekender, night one!  Funk it up with the Mike Veal Band at Tin Roof Cantina! Geek it up with science at the Fernbank After Dark 2018 – Meteorology Kick Off Party featuring funky rock trio Trash Panda! Spend the night with Heavy Petty, Cody Marlowe, and Jessica & Big Daddy at Smith’s Olde Bar! The Radio Ramblers dish out a night of bluesy Americana at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the rockin’ blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins 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, January 13

Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet with Tray Dahl’s Jugtime Ragband at The Vista Room! Rock on down to The Star Bar for night two of the Dirty South Winter Weekender featuring Noi!se, Adapters, Antagonizers ATL, DDC, Legion 76, Duffy’s Cut and The Lower Orders! Or make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre as the Georgia Players Guild pay tribute to Willie Nelson and Ray Charles! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch with Denim Arcade at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Stomp on down to Kavarna for a night with Rust and Truckstop Confidential! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles rev it up at the SuBourban Oyster Bar in Kennesaw! Rodeo Twister goes old-school at Venkman’s in the afternoon, followed by Khari Cabral Simmons bringing you The Ladies of Prince! Boogie down ‘80s-style with Kool Kat VJ Anthony during his ‘80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party: David Bowie Tribute at Amsterdam Atlanta! Shimmy on down City Winery for a night with Wasabassco Burlesque! Appetite for Destruction pays tribute to GNR at MadLife Stage & Studios in Woodstock! Get swampy with The Revelers at the Red Clay Theatre! Get down with The Grapes and Kevn Kinney at the Variety Playhouse! Get down and dirty with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! Ron Cooley & The Hard Times get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Grant Green, Jr. at Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!

Sunday, January 14

TCM Big Screen Classics presents a 70th Anniversary screening of John Huston’s classic, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow); 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 Avenue Forsyth (Cumming)]! Get the blues with Amy Black at City Winery! Get jazzy with the Matthew Kaminski Trio at Venkman’s! Rock out with Jon Latham at the Red Light Café! 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

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.