by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor
Spook it up in ATLRetro this week! Come see what sinister shenanigans we’ve dug up just for you!
Monday, October 23
Kick off the week with a hellacious good time with the Nekromantix and The Brains in Hell, and get post-
industrial with Lords of Acid in Heaven at the Masquerade! King Crimson rocks out at Center Stage! It’s a night of scares at The Plaza Theater with screenings of John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE (1983) and Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS (1963)! Lynette Skynyrd rocks out and pays tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at City Winery! Rock out with Andrew W.K. at Terminal West! Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18 dishes out a monstrous double feature with screenings of Paul Schrader’s CAT PEOPLE (1982) and David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (1983) at 7pm! Catch a screening of James L. Brooks’ TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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, October 24
Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their killer “A Dish Best Served Cold” Classics Series with Alfred 
Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7pm! Rock out with Kool Kat Noelle Shuck with SHEHEHE at 529! Or catch Fifth Third Bank Broadway’s presentation of Alice Walker’s THE COLOR PURPLE at the Fox Theatre, through Oct. 29! The Plaza Theater delivers a night of John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994), through Oct. 25! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Protomartyr, Flasher and Glare! King Crimson rocks out with an encore show at Center Stage! Get the jump blues with Max Weinberg at City Winery! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Get your Americana fix with Justin Hylton at Smith’s Olde Bar! Spend the night with Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band and Good Old War at Variety Playhouse! Have a creaturific good time at Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18’s screenings of Steven Speilberg’s JAWS (1975) at 7pm/10pm! Get down with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Spend the night with Paul Sprawl at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with DJ Quasi Mandisco’s Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! And as always, groove on down with Swami Gone Bananas at the Northside Tavern!
Wednesday, October 25
Raise a ruckus with Black Pistol Fire and Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies at The Earl! Get revived with Benjamin Booker and She Keeps Bees at The Loft! Rock out with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Ian Sweet at the Masquerade! It’s a night of hellacious rock ‘n’ roll with HOT RAM, Long Live the GOAT, Spore Lord and Hot Wives at The Star Bar! Get reanimated with a rebroadcast of RiffTrax’s deadly night of hilarity 
with George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) at theatres across Atlanta at 7:30pm [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)]! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Howie Day! Dance on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra scores LA LA LAND, with an encore screening Oct. 26! The Electromatics dish out a night Chicago/West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Emory Cinematheque continues their Resist Fascism Series with a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST (1970) at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of William Wyler’s BEN-HUR (1959) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:15pm! Get the blues with Michael Preston at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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 with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.
Thursday, October 26
Rock out with a twist of soul at The Star Bar with Night Terrors, The Sweet Thing, The Liza Colby Sound 
(keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Liza Colby), The Scotch Bonnets and Southern Ska Syndicate (Kool Kat Rev. Andy Hawley)! Raise a hellacious ruckus with Kool Kats the Casket Creatures, Captain & Maybelle, ELZIG and Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters at the Clermont Lounge! Get horrorfied at The Plaza Theater with screenings of John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE (1983) and George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)! It’s a night of rockin’ psychedelia at The Earl with King Buffalo and Elder! Catch Caroline Spence and Caleb Caudle at Eddie’s Attic! Jackie Venson rocks out at the Red Light Café! Funk it up with Backup Planet and Lagoons at Smith’s Olde Bar! Avondale Towne Cinema continues their Throwback Thursday Cinema event with a devilish double feature of Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986), followed by a screening of George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), starting at 8:30pm! Spend the night with the Toadies at the Masquerade! Kristen & The Honeybadgers get down at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday at Trader Vic’s so hula on down for some rockin’ island tunes and a couple of cocktails! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.
Friday, October 27
Get freakishly bizarre at Videodrome’s (JavaDrome) screening of Chester Novelle Turner’s TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE (1987) at 8pm! Have a bloody fangtastic time during Kennesaw Friday Night Frights
– Vincent Price Night, featuring a monstrous double-feature of William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) and Crane Wilbur’s THE BAT (1959) at 7:30pm, hosted by Carnival of Doom! Or spend the weekend with the undead during the 5th Annual Walker Stalker Con at the Georgia World Congress Center, through Oct. 29! Spook it up during the Owl-O-Ween Hot Air Balloon Festival in Kennesaw! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their live score to Tim Burton’s A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) at 8pm, or catch a screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Atlantic Station Stadium 18; and Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford)]! Get witchy during Atlantic Station’s Spooky Film Festival’s screening of Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) at dusk! Get your old-school rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Rainmen and Cover to Cover at Avondale Towne Cinema! It’s Halloween Tribute Night at The Earl with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana) and Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)! Evanescence invades Chastain Park! Average White Band dishes out a night of blue-eyed soul at City Winery! Get some old-school country soul with Andrew Sheppard, 
Will Ridge and Amigo the Devil at The Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Grant Lee Phillips and Caroline Herring! Get sludgie and rock out with Guantanamo Baywatch, Metal McDonald and JJ & The Hustlers at The Star Bar! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Rapture – The Ultimate Blondie Experience with Weezer tribute, El Scorcho! Get the traditional country blues with Collins Drive, The Brookses and Emily Backus at the Red Light Café! Rock out with the Andy T Band at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns boogie down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Northside Tavern! Raise a ruckus with Cody Matlock at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Time-Warp it up at theatres across Atlanta with screenings of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 10pm [AMC Classic North Dekalb 16; AMC Classic Snellville 12; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Classic Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta)], and as usual The Plaza Theater continues their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!
Saturday, October 28
Make a trick or treat trek to North Dekalb Mall (Decatur) for their Halloween Bash! Boogie on down to Hellbender Harley Davidson’s (Marietta) Monster Mash Anniversary Bash, featuring live music, freak 
shows, zombie pin-up contests, car/bike show, costume contests and more! Spend the night in the Upside Down during A Stranger Halloween Party at Live! at the Battery! Get sinister with 1349 at The Earl! Get hellacious with the Fox Theatre’s Atlanta Horror Story Halloween Party! The Georgia Players Guild pays tribute to Meatloaf and the Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Boogie down ‘80s-style at Tin Roof Cantina’s ‘80s Prom Halloween Party! Make your way to Ponce City Roof for their Day of the Dead Halloween Party! Horror punk it up with Kool Kats the Casket Creatures at Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Get your spine tingled during the 3rd Annual Spookeasy Electro Swing Atlanta with Kool Kat Talloola Love, DJ Doctor Q, Nikki Nuke’m and more at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar dishes out a hellacious Halloween Bash with Dinos Boys, Paralyzer, Bad Spell and Black Cat Rising! Spend the night with Clownvis Presley at 529! Haunt on down to Amsterdam Atlanta for Kool Kat VJ 
Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICS: Halloween Goth Industrial Music Video Dance Party featuring Goth, dark 80s and more! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & The Psycho Devilles revs it up at Porterdale Bar & Grille! Get retro rocked with DK & The Hoop Snakes at Avondale Towne Cinema! Bluegrass it up with Sam Bush and Danny Burns at City Winery! Rev it up with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Akpe Motion at the Red Clay Theatre! Get countrified with The Turnpike Troubadours and Charley Crockett at the Variety Playhouse! Get jangled with Coyote Anyway at Venkman’s! House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Time-Warp it up at theatres across Atlanta with screenings of Jim Sharman’s THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at 10pm [AMC Classic North Dekalb 16; AMC Classic Snellville 12; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Classic Mansell Crossing 14 (Alpharetta)]! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck & The Atlanta Horns boogie down at Northside Tavern! Mike Lowry dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night!
Sunday, October 29
Murder, mayhem and blood-thirsty plants invade Atlanta with screenings of Frank Oz’ LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986), The Director’s Cut 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)]! Spook it up with The Earl Smith Strand Theatre’s diabolique double feature of Harold Lloyd’s HAUNTED SPOOKS (1920) and F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) at 3pm! Get weird ‘n’ geeky during My Parents’ Basement’s October Bizarre Bazaar, from 12p – 5p! Honkytonk it up gyspy-style with Velvet Caravan at Eddie’s Attic! GKids Presents Studio Ghibli Fest 2017 with a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at theatres across Atlanta at 12:55pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Regal Mall of Georgia 20 Plus Imax (Buford); Studio Movie Grill (Duluth); and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 (Morrow)]! Get jazzy with Trio Deluxe at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Fat Back Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar with Eddie Tigner!
Ongoing
Get chilled to the bone with The Ghastly Dreadfuls at Center For Puppetry Arts, spooking through Oct. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)
Unleash ancient evil spirits with George Reinblatt’s EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL hosted by the Newnan Theatre Company, killing it through Oct. 29! (LAST CHANCE!)
Get ghastly during the Historic Oakland Cemetery’s annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Ghost Tours, spooking it up through Oct. 29! (LAST CHANCE!)
The Fox Theatre dishes out a spooktacular time as they haunt it up during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, bone chilling through Oct. 31!
Haunt on down to Norcross for Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 21st season, gorrifying through Nov. 1!
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.
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