by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor
Come on down and see what killer shenanigans we’ve found for you This Week in Retro Atlanta!
Monday, September 19
Kick off the week with a rock ‘n’ roll ruckus with Sadie Hawkins’ Electric Glitterland Rock ‘N’ Roll Cabaret at Smith’s Olde Bar, featuring performances by Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Nikki Nuke’m, Annette Coquette, Kool Kat Katherine Lashe, Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and more! Get your Gene Wilder fix at The Plaza Theater with a screening of Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974), and hop across the pond for a screening of Ron Howard’s documentary, THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, THE TOURING YEARS (2016), both screening through Sept. 22! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! 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 night with The Pork Bellies!
Tuesday, September 20
It’s a night of Americana ‘n’ blues with Norman Frank and Liz Brasher at Eddie’s Attic! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Flamenco it up with Marija Temo and friends at the Red Light Café! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!
Wednesday, September 21
Get the rockin’ blues with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down and dirty with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at 
Blind Willie’s! Rock out at the Tabernacle with Alice in Chains! TCM Big Screen Classics presents a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) at theatres across Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Or catch a screening of Mike Hodges’ FLASH GORDON (1980) during Emory Cinematheque’s Comics & Graphic Novels Series at 7:30pm! Or catch a screening of Phil Aldon Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! 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, September 22
Come celebrate the best of Atlanta, including our pals, Blast-Off Burlesque (Best Burlesque Act) at Creative Loafing’s 
Best of Atlanta Party at the Georgia Freight Depot, featuring performances by The Imperial OPA Circus, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers and more! Stomp on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with the Villain Family and I Want Whisky! Get hot with the Squirrel Nut Zippers at City Winery! Get some rockin’ soul with The Gartrells, Dusk, Tenement and The Suitcase Junket at 529! Or get down with the classic soul of The Suffers at Aisle 5! Catch a little Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get jazzy with The Matthew Kaminski Quartet at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so swank it up with Bogey & the Viceroy at Trader Vic’s! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Venkman’s delivers a night of old-school Jamaican soul with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! Boogie down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! 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, September 23
The spook season has a killer kick off with Netherworld Haunted House’s horrorific 20th season opening this weekend (23rd/24th), and then nightly beginning October 1! SCADFilm presents a screening of Amy Heckerling’s ‘80s classic, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) at SCADShow at 6:30pm followed by a Q&A with Amy Heckerling! Heads will 
be rolling at Synchronicity Theatre during opening night of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16! Rock out with Yacht Rock Revue at Park Tavern’s 2016 Summer Sunsets Season Finale! Make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Get down and dirty with Whiskey Dixie and The Muckers at Red Light Café! Make your way to The Earl for a night with the Kansas Bible Company, Sidney Eloise & The Palms and more! Rock out with Veiny Hands, Black Linen and Mattiel at The Star Bar! Rock out with our upcoming Kool Kats Cowboy Mouth at The Loft! Reggae it up with John Brown’s Body and Roots of a Rebellion at the Masquerade! Gov’t Mule rocks out at the Tabernacle! Venkman’s gets ILLin-N-CHILIn with the music of the Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Honkytonk it up with Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, The Waymores and the 9:35’s at the Avondale Towne Cinema! Get down with the Rockin’ Dirty Revue at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock out under the dinosaurs with The Highbeams at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Make your way to Blind Willie’s for a night with House Rocker Johnson & The Shadows! 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, September 24
Slink on down to EAV for the 2016 EAV Strut, featuring local food, an artist’s market and retro-tastic tunes with Chelsea Shag, Zale, Future Babes, Netherglades, Book of Colors, Flamingo Shadow, Doesin, Cold Heart Canyon, DOT.S, Get Damned, Kool Kats Joy Kills, Midnight Larks and more! SCADShow presents a killer screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) at 7pm! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for Jim Henson’s 80th Birthday Celebration, featuring tours and special screenings of his series THE STORYTELLER (1987) and FARSCAPE (1999)! Get mischievious and rock on down to the Masquerade for Slaughter QUE 2016, featuring sideshow shenanigans, a midway with games and prizes, a helluva lot of BBQ and rockin’ tunes with LAZER/WULF, Beitthemeans, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters and more! Get experimental and electronic at The Earl with Clock DVA, Pyramid Club and Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Skank on down to City Winery for a night with Kool Kat Reverend Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate! ATL Collective revives Dolly Parton’s “JOLENE” at Eddie’s Attic! Beer meets history at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Malts & Vaults event! Inch your way to The Plaza Theater for the first ever HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) Pub Crawl at 
7pm, ending with a screening of John Cameron Mitchell’s rock theatre hit, and so much more! Get your horror punk fix at The Pointe in Conyers with DDC and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! It’s a night of fantasy and time travel at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (1981)! Or make your way to AMC Phipps Plaza 14 for a special “Quote-Along” screening of Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones’ MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) at 9:30pm! Mark Michelson & Friends presents their Muscle Shoals Jam at the Red Light Café! Get folksy with Raven and Red at Venkman’s, then stay for The REMakes, paying tribute to R.E.M! Catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get rocked ‘60s-‘70s-style with the Rainmen at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your classic western fix with Back in the Saddle at the Red Clay Theatre! Smith’s Olde Bar delivers a night of rockin’ cover bands with Nameless Nameless, The Cherry Bombs and The Buzzards of Fuzz! Funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation at Terminal West! Get down with the Juke Joint Jukes at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! 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, September 25
Rock out with the Violent Femmes at the Buckhead Theatre! Celebrate 20 years of The Righteous Room at their 20th Anniversary Party, from 11am to 5pm! Catch a screening of Phil Aldon Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Get the blues with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get your ‘90s French death metal fix with Gojira and Tesseract at the Tabernacle! Get yer Gypsy Western Swing fix with Django Earnhardt at Venkman’s! It’s your last chance to catch the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s Animated Classics series screening of Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982) at 11am! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And get the rockin’ blues with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!
Ongoing
7 Stages gets mischievous with their presentation of Bertolt Brecht’s classical musical, THE THREE PENNY OPERA, running through Sept. 24 (LAST CHANCE!)
Heads are rolling at Synchronicity Theatre’s presentation of Howard Brenton’s ANNE BOLEYN, running through Oct. 16!
The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!
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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