ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Check out what’s on the Retro menu this week!

Monday, July 11

Spend the morning with Katharine Hepburn at the Alpharetta Branch Library with a screening of George Stevens’ WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) at 10:30am! Or make your way to the Toco-Hill Avis G. Williams Library in Decatur as they kick off a STAR WARS movie marathon with George Lucas’ EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999) at 12:30pm! Rock out in the underground with The Mystery Lights at 529! Catch a screening of Michael Cimino’s classic, THE DEER HUNTER (1978) at The Plaza Theater, screening through July 14! 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!

Tuesday, July 12

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets weird and kicks off its Cinema Classics Gangster Series with David Lynch’s weirdly wicked BLUE VELVET (1986) at 7pm! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Patriot Acts, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Geek it up the MST3K Reunion Show at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Or make your way to the Toco-Hill Avis G. Williams Library in Decatur for a screening of George Lucas’ STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (1977) at 4pm! Let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 13

Jazz it up at the Red Light Café, with The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Catch a screening of Wes Anderson’s first feature film, BOTTLE ROCKET (1996) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! May the force be with you at the Toco-Hill Avis G. Williams Library as they continue their STAR WARS movie marathon with EPISODE V: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) at 11:30am and EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) at 2:15pm! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, July 14

Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Rock out with ATL Collective as they present Jimi Hendrix’ “Are You Experienced” at Terminal West! Shimmy down as Sadie Hawkins presents the burlesque improve showdown, Last Pasties Standing: Awkward Relationships at the Red Light Café, and stick around for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! Cajun it up with Rod Melancon at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Kip Winger! Catch a screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Rock out at The Star Bar with the Zoners, The Harlequins and A Drug Called Tradition. Or get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 15

Gore it up in Griffin during Sinister Suites Haunted Hotel’s cult horror classic two-day deadly double feature! Tonight’s bloody screenings include Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD (2007) and Todd Browning’s FREAKS (1932)! Rock out with Night Terrors, We Want Blood, Spray Tan and The Breaks at The Star Bar! Hey all you Rude Boys and Girls! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue as they perform the soundtrack from Perry Henzell’s 1972 classic, THE HARDER THEY COME! Gore it up with a screening of Lucio Fulci’s CAT IN THE BRAIN (1990) at The Plaza Theater! Surf on down to The Painted Pin for a night of rockin’ tunes with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids and bowling! Rock out with Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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, July 16

Night 2 of Sinister Suites Haunted Hotel’s cult horror classic two-day deadly double feature brings you Alfred Sole’s classic, ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976) and William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)! Tonight’s bloody screenings include Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD (2007) and Todd Browning’s FREAKS! Support local artists and weird it up at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Lovecraft’s, Treasures from the Deep art sale! Or spend the night with Pat Benatar and Melissa Etheridge at Chastain Park! Get horrorfied as Kool Kats The Casket Creatures rock out at Sweetwater Bar & Grille in Duluth! Boogie on down to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Depeche Mode: 80s New Wave Music Video Dance Party! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night of folk ‘n’ soul with Book of Colors and Kool Kat Ruby Velle! Boogie down to The Star Bar for Shellie & Andrew’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Wedding Show, featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Kitty Capone, Roxie Roz Burlesque and more! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! 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, July 17

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF WIND (1984) at 1pm! Make your way to Park Tavern for the 8th Annual Killer Tomato Festival featuring live music by The Spazmatics! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! Rev it up, rock it out and get hep to the jive with a rockin’ menu of Atlanta’s pre-21st century shenanigans dug up just for you!

Monday, July 4

Celebrate the 4th and jazz it up with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at Pallookaville! Or rock out with The String Cheese Incident at Chastain Park! 97 Estoria dishes out a punk rock July 4th Party with Bad Spell and Zoners! 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!

Tuesday, July 5

The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get down with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Catch a screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at City Winery at 7pm! Or get terrified at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with the BadAsh Allstar Team as they host The Grateful Dead Jam at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, July 6

Get folksy and rock out with The Long Shadows, Pony League and Lane Steffler at The Earl! Celebrate 20 years of Mike Nichols’ THE BIRDCAGE (1996) at The Plaza Theater at 7:30pm! Jazz it up Americana-style with Max Hatt/Edda Glass at the Red Light Café, followed by The Gordon Vernick Quartet! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! Blues it up with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Larry Mitchell gets down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s your last chance to get terrified at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (1975), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Ain’t Sisters! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, July 7

Spend the night with Johnny at the Fox Theatre with their Coca Cola Film Festival screening of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) at 7:30pm! The Clermont Lounge gets down and dirty with Cadillac Junkies, V8 Death Car, Pearl Button Radio and Captain & Maybelle’s circus shenanigans! Get old-timey at The Earl with Ben Trickey’s LP release party, along with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, Brandon Schmidt, and An English Place! Rock out with Flag, War on Women and The Dirty Nil at the Masquerade! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt  goes acoustic at Wild Wing Café! Catch a screening of Penny Marshall’s A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. Get some sugar with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 8

Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of gypsy jazz with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for Gents in the Round with Reverend Hylton, Miguel Olascuagra, Kool Kat Caleb Warren and Jason Waller! Or go old-school folk-style at The Star Bar with Sailing to Denver, The Vivants and City Mouse! Make your way to Diesel Filling Station for Kool Kat Chris Hamer’s (UrbnPop) solo art show, “Exit Stage Left”! Get in the ring in Hell with our blog BFF, Wrestling with Pop Culture’s “Culture Shock II” featuring Monstrosity Championship Wrestling and more at the Masquerade! Or catch Whitford/St. Holmes in Heaven! Surf on over to The Earl for a night with Daikaiju, CHEW, and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Club Famous is throwing a hellacious night of hula during RITUAL’s Gothic Luau with Kool Kat VJ Anthony at 10pm! Saved by the Band gets down at Venkman’s!  It’s a night of ‘70s rock at Avondale Towne Cinema with Dirty Harriet and Red Head Diamond!  Boogie on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Jukebox Giants: Motown & More! event, running through July 10! Jazz it up with Joey Sommerville at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s “Jazz on the Lawn” event! Make your way to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Barry Richman Band! Houserocker Johnson gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lethal Rhythm! 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, July 9

Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring Crazy Aces, The One & Only Bill Davis and The Flamethrowers! Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, the Lizardmen and the Beech Benders! Get your boogie on with the ghosties at the Masquerade during the Ghostbustin’ Dance Party, with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Rock out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Stix Bar & Grill! Mark Michelson & Friends deliver a night of classic rock and metal jam at the Red Light Café! Roxie Watson gets down and dirty at Eddie’s Attic, followed by the legendary Kool Kat, Col. Bruce Hampton! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Grazing Here (Peachtree City)! Folk it up with Cereus Bright and William Wild at Grocery on Home! Rock out with Wolfspider and Burns Like Fire at The Highlander! The Mulligan Brothers folk it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s POM POKO (2012) in 35mm at 10am, and Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (2013) at 1pm! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Dusty Roads! Get the blues with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! 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, July 10

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s POM POKO (2012) in 35mm at 10am, and Hayao Miyazaki’s THE WIND RISES (2013) at 1pm! Flamenco on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Cristian Puig, Julie Moon and more! Make your way to City Winery for a night with Shawn Mullins! Get some rockin’ soul with Patrick Sweany at Park Tavern! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Beat the heat and shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 27

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Frank Capra’s classic, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) 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!” Fire it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 28

Let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! Geek it up the MST3K Reunion Show live at theatres across Atlanta at 8pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! The Hollidays get down at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 29

Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with I Want Whisky! If you’ve got a sweet tooth you’ll want to catch TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Swing on by Blind Willie’s for a night with the Electromatics! 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, June 30

For a night of classic cinema, make your way to the Fox Theatre for their screening of Blake Edwards’ BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961), during the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at 7:30pm! Shake a tail feather with Blast-Off Burlesque and more at The Earl for a QUEER MOXIE film screening and Rock ‘n’ Roll Variety Show! Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Hard Rock Café! Fly on by Atlantic Station for a screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) during their Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Get down with Heather Luttrell at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, July 1

Get to skankin’ with The Toasters, Kool Kat Rev. Andy and the Southern Ska Syndicate and Razorcombs at The Star Bar! Get some neo-tropical soul with Adron and the Fantasy Guys at The Earl! Get adventurous and catch a screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at SCADShow! Geek it up for two nights at 7 Stages with a burly-Q tribute to Marvel Space Rascals during the Hooked on a Peelin’ event! Rock out with Bad Company and Joe Walsh at Chastain Park! George Hughley & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie down under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, July 2

Rock on down to The Star Bar for their Punk Rock Dependence Fest, featuring a rockin’ showdown with Shadow People Sideshow, Rotten Stitches, Nervous Aggression, Pleasures of the Ultraviolent, The Riggs, the Symptoms, Five ‘O Clock Devil, Taped Fist, Skatanic, Skum of the Slum and more!  Funk it up with the The Brand New Heavies at the Buckhead Theatre! Or get down with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, July 3

Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with The String Cheese Incident! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! Rev it up, rock it out and get hep to the jive with a rockin’ menu of Atlanta’s pre-21st century shenanigans dug up just for you!

Monday, June 20

Get mischievous and surf on down to The Earl for a night with Fiend Without a Face, The Birth Defects and Bad Spell! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Frank Capra’s classic, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) at 10:30am! 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! Rock out and honkytonk it up with John Doe (X) and Jesse Dayton at City Winery! Fire it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 21

Get your weird “Avant Garage” fix with Pere Ubu delivering his “Coed Jail!” Tour (Songs from 1975-1982) at The Earl! Get some soul with Thunder Gypsy at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get revived post-punk style with The Wombats at Center Stage! Or let Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonk you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ! Catch a screening of Howard Hawks’ MAN’S FAVORITE SPORT (1964) at the Decatur Library! Get your retro fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! The Fox Theatre presents “The Wizard of Oz” through June 26, and keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview soon! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Spend the night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get the blues with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Rock out with Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project at Eddie’s Attic! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 22

It’s a night of surf noir ‘n’ garage with Midnight Larks, Stonefield and Lightnin’ Ray at The Earl! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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! Blues it up with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo at Blind Willie’s! Bluegrass it up with Shawn Spencer at Venkman’s! Rock out again with Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project at Eddie’s Attic! Get your retro fix for another night at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! 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, June 23

Rock out with Kool Kats The Joy Kills, SheHeHe, Ganges Phalanges and Mea Culpa at the Clermont Lounge! Get adventurous and catch Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. It’s a night of retro soul and folk rock at The Earl with Chelsea Shag, Von Grey and Man Up, Yancey! Eddie’s Attic delivers a rockin’ night with Kevn Kinney! Make your way to Cabbagetown Park for a screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at 6:30pm! Or catch a screening of Roland Emmerich’s INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) playing at AMC Phipps Plaza 14 and Carmike Cinemas Movies ATL at 5pm! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Blues it up with Kristin & The Honeybadgers at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 24

Get mystical with DJ Doctor Q’s Mythic Electro Swing Atlanta event at the Red Light Café! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles’ CD release party at Motorheads in McDonough! Get mischievous with Magoo’s Heros, The Winks and Squadron at the Highlander! The Buckhead Theatre delivers a rockin’ night with The Jayhawks! The Way Back Band dishes out a night of ‘50s-‘70s hits at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with the Randall Bramblett band at Eddie’s Attic! Experience Journey with Scarab at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with the Joe McGuiness Trio and Cicada Rhythm! Five Eight rocks out at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jerry Garcia’s Symphonic Celebration featuring Warren Haynes and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra invades Chastain Park! Jazz it up with Joe Gransden at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center’s “Jazz on the Lawn” event! Make your way to Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with The Cure! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! The Stella Vees get down at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie down with Platinum Band Atlanta under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! 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, June 25

Get your garage rock ‘n’ blues fix with Young Antiques, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Highriders at The Star Bar! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 10am and Hayao Myazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! Rev on down to Mableton for the Bel Air Car Show & Pin-Ups event! Stagger on over to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Dark 80s: The Cure Edition Music Video Dance Party! Celebrate 40 years of Cedar Hill at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Willy Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Dallas Pub House! Stomp on down to Venkman’s for a night with The Lowhills! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of bleus ‘n’ soul with Truett Lollis! Make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up again 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, June 26

If you’ve got a sweet tooth you’ll want to catch TCM’s Big Screen Classic screening of Mel Stuart’s WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) screening at theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16 (McDonough); and Georgian Stadium 14 (Newnan)]! Kool Kat Gringo Star rocks out at Park Tavern! Spend the night with Steely Dan and Steve Winwood at Chastain Park! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Isao Takahata’s GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1993) at 10am and Hayao Myazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) at 1pm! My Parent’s Basement delivers their June Bizarre Bazaar! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the Elliott Street Pub! Venkman’s delivers a Yacht Rock Revue unplugged! Get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar! And blues it up with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Ongoing

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

Kool Kat Rich Desantis honkytonks you up with his Honkytonk Extravaganza revvin’ it up every Tuesday at Bone Lick BBQ!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, June 13

Get futuristic with Sean Connery at The Plaza Theater during their screening of John Boorman’s ZARDOZ (1974), running through June 15! 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!”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, June 14

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: June in Jumpin! Edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Spend the night with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Andrew Black gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Or get psyched blues-style with Reverend Freakchild at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 15

Skank on down to the Masquerade and funk it up with Fishbone! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm! Rock out at The Earl with Anvil, Against the Grain and Gunpowder Gray! Kool Kat Brooks Mason with The Georgia Flood get down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Joe McGuinness Trio dishes out a night of roots and Americana at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, June 16

Rock on down to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their screening of IGGY POP: LIVE IN BASEL (2015) at 7pm! Or catch a screening of Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS (1995) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! “Party with the Past” at the Fox Theatre at 6:30pm! Rock on down to 529 for Small Reactions’ tape release party with Mantra Love, the OTONANA Trio and Pseudo Color! Rock out with Weezer at the Lakewood Amphitheatre! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents their “Great American Music” concert at the Verizon Amphitheatre! Skip school and catch a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at the Aurora Cineplex in Roswell! Lightnin’ Ray dishes out a night of acoustic classics at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get Rhythm & Soul with the Diamond Street Rhythm Machine in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 17

It’s a night of surf ‘n’ soul at The Star Bar with Ex Wives, The Gartrells and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Rock out with Hyperspace at the Highlander! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminski at the High Museum! Grant Green Jr. delivers “The Jazz of Prince” at Venkman’s! Surf on down to the Decatur Beach Party featuring a boardwalk, food, games and live music with the Jugtime Ragband and Electric Avenue from 5-11pm! Bluegrass it up with the Dappled Grays at the Red Light Café! The Northside Tavern gets the blues with Stoney Brooks! Swing on by Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with Doug Deming and Dennis Gruenling & The Jewel Tones! A1A pays tribute to Jimmy Buffett at Park Tavern! Damon Fowler gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 18

Make your way to EyeDrum to catch Kool Kat Andy Ditzler’s Film Love Atlanta’s presentation of Bill Daniel’s SFVHS: California Artist’s Video event featuring screenings of his classic ‘90s political shorts (see our Kool Kat interview on Daniel soon!) Wake the dead at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Tunes from the Tombs 2016 event, featuring the Atlanta Funk Society, James Hall, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Adron, The Return, The Dirty Doors, The B-53s, Fauxgerty, The Clermonts and more! Tiki it up at Trader Vic’s for their World of Tiki Collectibles Seminar at 5pm! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for their Monty Python Holy Grail Pub Crawl with five stops and a screening of MONTY PYTHON’S HOLY GRAIL, beginning at 7pm! Twist on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge (Star Bar) for Dusty Booze’s 50s/60s Rock and Roll Party! Sadie Hawkins delivers her Cheap Thrills! Burly-Q on a Budget event at the Red Light Café! Catch Brit Floyd at the Fox Theatre! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! with Kenny Howes & The Wow!, Seawhores and Holy Mountain Top Removers! Get revived at the Decatur Music Fest featuring the Milk Carton Kids, Elephant Revival, Penny & Sparrow and Eliot Bronson! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of BABE (1995) at the Center for Puppetry Arts at 7pm! Yacht Rock Schooner grooves it up at Venkman’s! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern, with Hillbilly Casino! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Delta Moon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rock ‘n’ soul with The Hollidays! Get bluesy with Grant Green, Jr. at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 19

Rock out with Richie Ramone, DDC and Cadillac Junkies at the Masquerade! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992) at 10am and SPIRITED AWAY (2001) at 1pm! Or catch a screening of Wolfgang Peterson’s classic, THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Venkman’s delivers a Father’s Day Beatles Brunch with the Elegant Bachelors! Polka it up with “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Fox Theatre! Eddie’s Attic gets down with their “Let’s Go Crazy” Prince Cover Night! Make your way to Chastain Park for a night with Kenny Rogers! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16! (LAST CHANCE)

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is red-hot this week! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! We’ve got all the ‘billy you could ever want; classic cinema on the big screen; rock in all varieties and of course a whole lotta’ down and dirty jazz ‘n’ blues! So get off that couch and come see what’s on the Retro menu!

Monday, June 6

All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy, so get sinister at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Stanley Kubrick’s classic THE SHINING (1980), running through June 8! Jazz it up with Metro Quest at Avondale Towne Cinema! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Vinyl Night! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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!

Tuesday, June 7

Doo wop on down to The Earl for a night with King Khan & The Shrines, Giorgio Murderer and the Midnight Larks! It’s a night of ‘70s glam punk at 529 with Giuda, DINOS BOYS and Antagonizers ATL! Get your psychobilly punk fix at the Masquerade with Tiger Army and The Bellfuries!  The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Frankie’s Blues Mission delivers the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Mandi Strachota at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 8

Who you gonna call? You won’t want to miss Ivan Reitman’s classic, GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Pointe 15; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their second screening of Steven Spielberg’s RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get you classic rock fix at Lakewood Amphitheatre with Journey and The Doobie Brothers! Make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM (1996) at 1:30pm! Blind Willie’s gets down with a night of triple pianos with Tigner, Page and Wauchope! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Rumpke Mountain Boys! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, June 9

Honkytonk on down to the Clermont Lounge every other Thursday for a night with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and Ghost Riders Car Club! Folk it up with The Brookses and The old Mill Road Band at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with The Casket Girls and Stardeath & White Dwarfs! Take a trip to Tromaville as the Horizon Theatre Co. presents “The Toxic Avenger” in Piedmont Park, running through June 12 (see our Kool Kat interview with Nick Arapoglou here)! Michael Chesin of the Elegant Bachelors delivers “Paul McCartney vs. Paul Simon” at Venkman’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Get Rhythm & Soul with the David Ellington Trio in the Little Vinyl Lounge at The Star Bar! Catch “Disaster Aboard the Orlando,” a sci-fi horror comedy playing at 7 Stages through June 12! Blues it up with George Hughley at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 10

The Star Bar rocks out with The Dwarves, The Queers, Teenage Rehab and The Sawed Offs! You’re gonna need a bigger boat at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre as they screen Steven Spielberg’s summer classic, JAWS (1975) at 8pm! Get geeky and game it up during the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo, featuring 250+ arcade and pinball games and more, running through June 12! Catch Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta’s “Let’s Work Together” event at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center at 7:30pm! Smithsonian and Map of the Moon rock out at The Earl! The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival kicks off with John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) at 7:30pm, and runs through August 27! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Celebrate Elvis at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with “Heart of a King” at 8pm! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Alpharetta! Venkman’s delivers acoustic Beatles with Nick from Yacht Rock Revue! Damon Fowler gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lethal Rhythm! 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, June 11

Today kicks off The State of Black Science Fiction Con, running through June 12, and promising the most comprehensive presentation of black speculative fiction, cosplay, Afrofuturism, Steamfunk and more (Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with writer and Con co-founder Ojetade Balogun)! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 1pm! It’s movie night at Turner Field, so catch a game and a screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)! Shimmy on down to the 19th annual East Point Possums Show, benefiting Lost and Found Youth, featuring 25 performances including Blast-Off Burlesque! Jazz it up with The Hot Club of Atlanta at Venkman’s, followed by the Atlanta Funk Society! Rock out at The Star Bar with Turnstile and The Accidents! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre screens Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978)!  Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Sportsline Bar! Swing on by Chastain Park for a night with Harry Connick, Jr.! Make your way to Stone Mountain Park for the 5th Annual Atlanta Street Food & Music Festival! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Craze Tavern! Make your way to Kavarna for a night with The Skylarks! Get jazzy with Elgin Wells at the Red Clay Theatre! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Sal’s Soulful Sinners! Get bluesy with Tullamore Road at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 12

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (1989) at 1pm! It’s your last chance to catch Ivan Reitman’s classic, GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) on the big screen, screening in theatres across the Atlanta at 2 pm and 7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), Perimeter Pointe 10; Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Northpoint Mall 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Atlantic Station 18; AMC Parkway Pointe 15; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); and Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville)]! Jazz it up brunch style with The David Ellington Jazz Trio at Venkman’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Fox Theatre’s Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival runs through August 27!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week! Come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 30

It’s an old-time gothic roots revival at the Masquerade with Lincoln Durham, Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents, the Future Reliks and Eddie Rascal! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 31

The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! The Hollidays dish out a night of soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 1

Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Smokey’s Farmland Band! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, June 2

Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah gets low down with a night of rockin’ garage blues at The Star Bar with Nikki Hill and the Hooten Hallers! Catch Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO & JULIET (1996) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. Take a trip to Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band at the Infinite Energy Center (Gwinnett Center)! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 3

Start the summer festival season off right and make your way to the 2016 Candler Park Music and Food Fest, running through June 4 featuring a rockin’ retro musical lineup with Galactic, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The Revivalists, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, Grateful Grass, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Great Peacock, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, King Baby, Webster and more!  The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets intergalactic with The Music of David Bowie: A Musical Odyssey at 8pm! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for the Hackensaw Boys, Rodeo Twister and Reverend Justin Hylton! Catch a screening of Martin Ritt’s PARIS BLUES (1961) at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Jazz it up double time with Joe Gransden and Annie Sellick at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Make your way to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Prince: 80s Music Video Dance Night! Get your roots rock and delta blues fix at the Red Light Café with Cody Marlowe & The Dead Flowers and BJ Wilbanks! Get ‘70s mellow at Steve’s Live Music with Red Head Diamond! Nameless Nameless pays tribute to Nirvana at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The High Beams! 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, June 4

Geek it up Burly-Q style with a night of smokin’ hot Kool Kittens as Hearts A’Blaze presents The Glamour Geek Preview at the Shakespeare Tavern featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur, Tippy Tapage, Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix, Kool Kat Ursula Undress and more! Freak it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as Sweet Auburn BBQ presents Atlanta Tattoo Fest 2016 featuring sideshow shenanigans with Captain & Maybelle and live music with Blood on the Harp! Make your way to the two-day Virginia Highlands Summerfest featuring live music by Donna Hopkins, Liz Brasher, Southern Culture on the Skids, Roger Clyne & Peacemakers and more! Twang it up with Dolly Parton at the Infinite Energy Center (Gwinnett Center)! Celebrate 30 years of honkytonkin’ with Slim Chance & The Convicts at Kavarna! Glam it up with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth performing The Songs of Bowie at Aisle 5! Make your way to Terminal West as ATL Collective presents Radiohead’s OK COMPUTER! Make your way to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Prince: 80s Music Video Dance Night! Bluegrass it up with the Todd Prussin Experience at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for Garrison Keillor and “A Prairie Home Companion.” Funk it up at Venkman’s with Frosted Orange! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Catch 10,000 Maniacs at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with Michelle Malone at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie on down to The Basement for Heyday’s ‘80s Dance Party! Folk it up with John Gorka at the Red Clay Theatre! Twist on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Sock Hops! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a  night of rockin’ blues with Joel Da Silva & Midnight Howl! Get bluesy with Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with John Nemeth at Blind Willie’s! 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, June 5

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! It’s Day 2 of the Virginia Highlands Summerfest, so come on out to catch City Mouse, Stephen Kellogg and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Cyndi Lauper! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is a hellacious smorgasbord of rockin’ shenanigans, sci-fi conventions, honkytonkin’ hootenannies and more! Come on down and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 23

Shake and shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Sexpelliarmus: A Whimsical, Wizarding Burlesque Revue! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their “No Screams Attached” Taking the Pain Out of Sound Design for Puppet Film event from 7-9pm! Hot Club of Cowtown dishes out a night of hot jazz, folk and Americana at Eddie’s Attic! Or make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Henry Koster’s HARVEY (1950) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page 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, May 24

Legendary surf rock guitarist Dick Dale (See ATLRetro’s Retro Review here) invades The Earl with Kool Kat Adam McIntyre and The Pinx rocking us back to 1973 with a hellacious night of blues-tinged, MC5-eques Rock ‘n’ Roll! Gab with local film industry professionals at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge during the Eat, Drink & B-Indie: GA Film Festival Round Table at 7:30pm! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Hal Ashby’s HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) at 7pm! Get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Brian De Palma’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1996), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical,” running through May 29! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm! Bluegrass it up at Steve’s Live Music with Faculty Grass! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 25

Go old-school and rock out with The Dictators, The Swingin’ Dicks and Bad Spell at The Earl! Get old-timey with a night of vintage rockin’ roots at Eddie’s Attic with Miss Tess & The Talkbacks and Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents! Scene Missing presents their Backlanta to the Future event at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge, delivering music and comedy based on time travel flicks! Rock out at the Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) and AMC Avenue Forsyth (Cumming) with a screening of Devin DeHaven’s KISS ROCKS VEGAS at 7pm! Get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Brian De Palma’s MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1996), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of blues ‘n’ jazz with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Amy McCarley! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, May 26

Cabaret it up folk/punk-style at the Red Light Café with Kool Kat Frenchy & The Punk, with The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing! Geek it up with a weekend of Anime, comics, videogames and more at MomoCon 2016, running through May 29 at the Georgia World Congress Center! Get the blues with the Barry Richman Band at Steve’s Live Music! Get jazzy with Jace Harnage at Stagga Lee’s Goodtime Emporium as she dishes out the Carmen Lundy Songbook! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! 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, May 27

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with their two-day Bubbapalooza 2016! Night one features Jesse Dayton, Dang Dang Dang, The Scragglers, the Jamie Starr Appreciation Society, Skype Page and more! Doors at 7pm. New-Wave it up with two shows with Modern English at The Earl! Rev on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Rockabilly Kitty Rose and Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt (acoustic)! Jazz it up in Piedmont Park during the Atlanta Jazz Festival, featuring 3 stages of jazz, from retro to modern, May 27-29! Shake a tail feather on down to 7 Stages for the Imperial OPA’s Grande Cabaret! Get your Time Lord fix during 2016’s TimeGate convention, celebrating 20 years of the 8th Doctor and more at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, running through May 29! Hillbilly it up at Steve’s Live Music with The Nouveaux Honkies! The Vipers dish out the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! El Scorcho pays tribute to Weezer at Venkman’s! The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra closes out their Pops! season with three days of the Music of Elton John (5/27-5/29). Debbie Bond & The Trudats get down at the Northside Tavern! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 28

It’s day 2 to fire it up with a helluva lot of killer Kool Kats at The Star Bar’s Bubbapalooza 2016, featuring Kool Kat Spike Fullerton (Ghost Rider’s Car Club), Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, Kool Kat Sen Artie Mondello (The Mondellos), Rodeo Twister, The Mystery Men?, Dusty Booze & The Baby Haters, the Night Terrors, Raymond Smalley, Rockabilly Kitty Rose, The Wheel Knockers, Chickens and Pigs, Truckstop Confidential, Al Shelton and more! Get detained at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre during their screening of John Hughes’ ‘80s classic, THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985), at 8pm! Or old-time it up with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents at Matilda’s! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring screenings of Hayao Miyazaki’s KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) and HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2005), screening through Sunday, 5/29! ATL Collective presents Sade’s STRONGER THAN PRIDE at Venkman’s! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with American Hologram, Collins Drive and Dustin Barclay! Funk it up with Zydefunk at Steve’s Live Music! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Brother Hawk, Stonerider and Tedo Stone! Boogie on down to The Basement for their Keep on Movin! Dance Party! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a  night of rockin’ blues with The Rockaholics! Get bluesy with Albert White and Eddie Tigner at the Northside Tavern! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with Sana Blues! Get funky NOLA-style with The Mar-Tans at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 29

Hey all you mischievous miscreants! Make your way to the Masquerade for a night with CJ Ramone, The El Caminos and The Unsatisfied! Or funk it up during brunch at Venkman’s with The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra! Steve The Blues Dude gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

This Week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s Meow! Come see all the shakin’ shenanigans we’ve found for you! From honkytonk hootenannies to rockin’ garage, glam ‘n’ punk, we’ve got you covered!

Monday, May 16

Smith’s Olde Bar goes ‘70s vintage with Thelma & The Sleaze, Midnight Larks and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah! Celebrate 30 years of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! Or make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Fred Zinnemann’s HIGH NOON (1952) at 10:30am! Kink it up sci-fi style at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Howard Ziehm’s FLESH GORDON (1974), screening through May 18! Joe McGuinness delivers a night of roots ‘n’ Americana at Blind Willie’s! 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 side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 17

Get your old-school psyche-electronica fix with Silver Apples and Zombi at The Earl! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci’s LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973) at 7pm! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm! Rev it up at Steve’s Live Music with Rockabilly Kitty Rose! Get a kick with Riff Trax Live’s presentation of David Giancola’s TIME CHASERS (1994) at theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]. Or catch a screening of Howard Hawks’ SERGEANT YORK (1941) at the Decatur Library at 10am! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission 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! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 18

Celebrate 30 years of skipping school with TCM’s Big Screen Classics screening of John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]. Rock on down to The Drunken Unicorn for a night with Cadillac Junkies, The Sideburners and Wolfspider! Spend the night with Indiana Jones at Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of Steven Spielberg’s classic, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 7pm! Funk it up with the Lightning Orchestra Band at Aisle 5! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! The Electromatics dish out a night of West Coast/Chicago blues at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Honeywood! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, May 19

The Earl gets old-timey with Old Salt Union and The Muckers! Bluegrass it up with Russ Still & The Moonshiners and The Brookses at the Red Light Café! Get your rockin’ roots fix with Donna Hopkins at Steve’s Live Music! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at Avondale Towne Cinema with Kool Kat Brooks Mason and The Georgia Flood! Make your way to Lakewood Amphitheatre for a night with Hall & Oates! Vinyl dishes out a night of folk rock with The Roosevelts and the Best Brothers Band! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Venkman’s delivers a night of acoustic Prince vs. Bowie with Nick of Yacht Rock Revue! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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! 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, May 20

Rock on down and rev it up at the Elliott Street Pub with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt (acoustic), The Punknecks, Russ T. Nutz and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton’s Russian Roulette Band! Electric Avenue delivers an epic ‘80s MTV battle with Prince and Bowie at Park Tavern! The Star Bar gets beachy with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Or swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing event! Funk it up with Dumpstaphunk and Quaildogs at the Variety Playhouse! The Earl delivers a night of fuzzed out garage rock with Shantih Shantih, Tiger! Tiger! and Thayer Sarrano! Stomp on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Underhill Rose, The Rondo Riggs and the Georgia Mountain String Band! Jazz it up with the Masterly Quintet at the High Museum! Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson invade Chastain Park! Rock out with The Howling Tongues at Vinyl! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Stoney Brooks fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Nick of Yacht Rock Revue dishes out some acoustic Beatles at Venkman’s! George Hughley & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 21

Fire it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! Rock out at The Highlander with Antagonizers ATL, DDC, Dirtbag Love Affair and Cadillac Junkies! Shake and shimmy wizard-style at the Shakespeare Tavern for Sexpelliarmus: A Whimsical, Wizarding Burlesque Revue at 11:30pm! The Atlanta Rollergirls get down with their May bouts featuring today’s double header at the Yaarab Shrine Center! Hula it up at Trader Vic’s during their Tiki Fashion Seminar from 5-6pm! It’s a battle of harmonicas at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Groove on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Swami Gone Bananas! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for night one with Paula Cole! Gypsy jazz it up with The Hot Club of Atlanta during brunch at Venkman’s, then come back for Yacht Rock Revue’s Unplugged and Smooth Dance Jams! Glam it up at Twinkledome 24: Bowie Worship at Club Famous! Pay tribute to ‘90s rock bands at Smith’s Olde Bar with Nameless Nameless (Nirvana), Stone Tribute Pilots (STP) and Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! 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, May 22

Get revved and rock out for a cause at Smith’s Olde Bar during their Sloan Rainwater Benefit featuring The Downtown Executives, The Rainmen, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers and the Chris Massey Band! Chickens & Pigs dishes out the 10th Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash at The Earl! It’s your second chance to spend the day with Indiana Jones at Studio Movie Grill’s (Alpharetta/Duluth) screening of Steven Spielberg’s classic, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) at 2pm! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for night two with Paula Cole! Make your way to Piedmont Park for World Goth Day in the Park! Steve The Blues Dude gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

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Monday, May 9

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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam!

Tuesday, May 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s ZABRISKIE POINT (1970) at 7pm! The Atlanta Chamber Players gets retro as they perform “Pierrot Lunaire” with Lucy Shelton at SCADShow! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: May Flowers edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, May 11

Rock out with Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get a second chance to be at the top of the class at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Tony Scott’s TOP GUN (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! 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, May 12

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get a second helping of Collective Soul at Smith’s Olde Bar! 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! 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! 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, May 13

Day one of the 3-day 2016 Shaky Knees Festival has arrived at Centennial Olympic Park, chock full of retro-inspired tunes spanning five stages! Rock on down and catch Saintseneca, Kaleo, Craig Finn, Brian Fallon, Baroness, The Struts, Jane’s Addiction, The 1975 and more! It’s Friday the 13th and The Star Bar kills it with a night of punk tributes: Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), Road to Ruin (Ramones), Horror Business (Misfits) and Salad Days (Minor Threat)! 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, May 14

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Blasters, Kool Kat Dave Weil and Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists! Day two of the Shaky Knees Festival brings you Strand of Oaks, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, JJ Grey & Mofro, Shakey Graves, Deer Tick, The Vaccines, Huey Lewis & The News, The Decemberists and more! Or rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for RatAid 2016, featuring Scarred But Smarter, The Swimming Pool Qs, Kool Kat Ray Dafrico and The Nightporters and Pylon Reenactment Society! Make your way to the 2016 Kirkwood Spring Fling and catch The Glumson Brothers, CC Booker III, Secondhand Swagger, the Atlanta Funk Society, Cadillac Jones, Small Reactions, Kool Kats Gringo Star and more! Catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at the Fox Theatre at 7:30pm! Kool Kat Chad Shivers delivers his Southern Surf Stomp! at Kavarna, surfin’ it up with Tiger! Tiger!, The AmpFibians, The Surge! and DJ Dusty Booze! Shimmy on down to Taverna Plaka for Kool Kat Kitty Love’s Cheeky Belles: Glamour Goddess Revue! 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, May 15

Get your fill of BBQ, Bands and Booze during the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s 29th Anniversary Party, featuring Whoa Nelly, Uncle Daddy & The Kissin’ Cousins, Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello, The Evils, Heather Luttrell, The Scragglers, Wasted Potential Brass Band, Boohoo Ramblers, Kool Kat Aileen Loy and Till Someone Loses and Eye, Brawful, Lust and more! Horror it up with Buried Alive Film Fest’s “Beast of Atlanta” event and catch a few screenings and mingle with local indie horror filmmakers at the Joystick Gamebar! Catch Day 3 of the Shaky Knees Festival featuring Murder by Death, Adia Victoria, The Orwells, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Deftones, The Head & The Heart, At the Drive-In and more! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

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.