by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor
Forget the horrorific daily grind and take a peek at what we have in store for you kiddies! Let ATLRetro fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to bloody fangtastic films to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!
Monday, November 14
Eric Burdon (The Animals) rocks out at City Winery! Or get mischievous with Band of Heathens at Eddie’s Attic! Go straight to Hell with a hillbilly ruckus with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Supersuckers and Jesse Dayton at the Masquerade! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with the Pet Shop Boys! Catch a screening of Melvin Frank’s THE COURT JESTER (1956) at the Alpharetta Branch Library at 10:30am! Get to the root of it all 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!” Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!
Tuesday, November 15
Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Classics Series screening of Alan J. Pakula’s ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) at 7pm! Rock out with Sloan at The Earl! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with The Wolcotts and RIVVRS! Rock out with Peter Hook & The Light at Terminal West! Bluegrass it up with the Matt Flinner Trio and Control Burn at the Red Light Café! Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of the blues with Bob Page! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their 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, November 16
Kick off the wickedly weird and bone-chilling adventure that is the 11th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival (BAFF), Atlanta’s premiere independent horror film festival presented by Kool Kats Blake Myers and Luke 
Godfrey and more, with screenings at 7pm and 9pm of the 2016 Sinema Challenge, a thirteen day filmmaking competition, judged by our soon-to-be Kool Kat of the Week, Millie De Chirico, at BAFF’s 2016 location, 7 Stages! Get mischievous at 529 with Gunpowder Gray, Timmy & The Blue Flames, The El Caminos and Night Terrors! Take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 7pm! Get funky with Consider the Source at Aisle 5! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Michelle Malone and Michael Tolcher! Blues it up with Jonny Lang at the Variety Playhouse! Spend the night with Minos the Saint at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with The BooHoo Ramblers! Secret agents and 007s invade the Park Tavern during their James Bond Masquerade Gala Fundraiser! Celebrate 20 years of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at theatres across Atlanta, screening at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Buckhead Backlot 6; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Colonial 18 (Lawrenceville); and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville)]! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Jazz it up at the Red Light Café with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets down with their Okie Dokie Karaoke, every Wednesday at 9pm! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! 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, November 17
The 11th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival officially begins tonight, horrifying through Nov. 20, begins at 7pm tonight and features Mitchell Altieri’s THE NIGHT WATCHMEN (2016) (see our Retro Review soon)! Rock out with Napalm Death at the Masquerade! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge as Dry Gulch presents Cowboy Karaoke! Get the rockin’ blues with Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club and Rod Picott at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with The Ormewoods! Folk it up with Patty Griffith and Joan Shelly at City Winery! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Minos the Saint and Josh Erwin and Troy Harris of The Packway Handle Band! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of island tunes and tasty cocktails! Get down with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, November 18
Get your terrified tail to night two of the 11th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival for a helluva lot of monstrous goodness, including a midnight screening of Kool Kat James Bickert’s FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS, featuring Kool Kat Jett Bryant, Kool Kat Madeline Brumby, Kool Kat Shane Morton and more! Get your
fill of mischief at The Earl with Kool Kat Mark Sultan with The King Khan & BBQ Show, Paint Fumes and The Gartrells! Spend an evening with David Crosby & Friends at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Groove on down to Dixie Tavern for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Get funky and rock out with TAUK, Voodoo Visionary and the Orange Constant at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with The Pussywillows, the Charles Walker Band and the Wasted Potential Brass Band! Get your fill of classic rock with the Barbaric Gentlemen at The Vista Room ATL! Rock out with the Space Giants, Blackfox and Jackwagon at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get some soul with St. Paul & The Broken Bones at the Fox Theatre! Get your ‘90s metal fix with Helmet and Local H at the Masquerade! Eighties it up with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade at The Alamo in Newnan! Bewitch it up at the Potter Pub Crawl #2, beginning at Diesel Filling Station! Swing on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electroswing! Goth it up with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at Club Famous’ Coffin Classics! Get a folksy encore with Patty Griffith and Joan Shelly at City Winery! Blues it up and get jazzy with Marshall Ruffin at the High Museum! Folk it up with Faye Webster and Sonia Leigh at Park Tavern! Eighties it up with Electric Avenue at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some heavy soul with the Rebirth Brass Band at Terminal West! George Hughley & The Shadows bring down the house at Blind Willie’s! Get down and dirty with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with The Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!
Saturday, November 19
Blast-Off Burlesque brings back their popular film series TABOOLALA for night three of the 11th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, which features a live pre-show performance, homage to the film followed by a 40th anniversary 4K restoration screening of Brian DePalma‘s 1976 classic CARRIE! In addition to the show, there will be a free senior prom circa 1976 photo booth in the lobby, and a senior prom costume contest for prizes! Dress up in your prom best, and you may just be part of the show. “Bloody Carrie” cocktails available at Java Lords, next door to 7 Stages! Spook it up with Kool Kat Shane Morton, a.k.a. ghost host with the most and his go-go ghouls with a maniacal Silver Scream Spook Show matinee at Avondale Towne Cinema with a screening of William Castle’s classic HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) at 1pm! Take it to the limit with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Avondale Towne Cinema with The Eagles Jam at 7:30pm! Celebrate the Music and Life of Leonard Cohen and his life with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer at The Star Bar! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Sadie Hawkins brings you Cheap Thrills! Burlesque on a Budget, featuring Candi LeCouer, Kool Kat Vivien Laye and so much more! Rock out with the Spectremen, Kool Kats the Casket Creatures, Elzig and Demon Elvis at The Highlander! Rev it up 
with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! Get intergalactic at The Drunken Unicorn with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, Hedersleben and Gnomonaut! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of Tiki Trivia! It’s a night of old-time country and western with Slim Chance & The Convicts’ 30 year celebration at Kavarna featuring a special performance of the 1993 cassette-only album LETTERS TO MAMA with Jenny B! Get your magical fix at the 3rd Annual Atlanta Wizard’s Ball at Underground Atlanta! Get your noir folk fix with Gemma Ray, Ben Trickey and Spurs at 529! Make your way to the Tabernacle for a night with Drive By Truckers! Get old-timey with Cold Heart Canyon and The Elegant Bachelors at Venkman’s! Geek it up at My Parent’s Basement for Local Comic Shop Day! Geek it up at Heroes & Villains Atlanta, running through Nov. 20 at the Georgia World Congress Center! Grab some vintage goodies at the Pop-Up Vintage Valhalla Sale in Decatur at 10am! Blues it up at Blind Willie’s with Joe Louis Walker! Get funky Cajun-style with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Blues it up with Mr. Chapman’s Quarterly Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.
Sunday, November 20
It’s your last chance to gore it up at the 11th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, so come on out for some fangtastic films, including a screening of Sam Suchmann and Mattie Zufelt’s SPRING BREAK ZOMBIE MASSACRE (2016), featuring Kool Kat Madeline Brumby, our ghoulish gal pal Allison Maier and more! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and Bonaventure Quartet at Venkman’s! Take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a matinee screening of Victor Fleming’s classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 2pm! Get countrified with Blue Rodeo and the Devin Cuddy Band at City Winery! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Kevn Kinney! Get funky with Mother’s Finest at Terminal West! Stephen the Blues Dude delivers a night of blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!
Ongoing
The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!
Make a trek to the Island of Misfit Toys a.k.a. the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present Jon Ludwig’s adaptation of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, directed by Tim Sweeney, running through Dec. 31!
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!
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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