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by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Check out what we’ve dug up for you in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, April 25

Celebrate the man in purple with a screening of Prince’s PURPLE RAIN (1984), directed by Albert Magnoli at  theatres across Atlanta [AMC North Dekalb 16; AMC Phipps Plaza 14; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18], screening through April 27! Get your New Wave fix at The Plaza Theater with their second week of screening Jonathan Demme’s STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) at 9:30pm, screening through April 28! Stomp down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers) & The Freight Train Band, The Ries Brothers and The Bitteroots! Blues it up with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Andrew Black gets the blues 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! 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, April 26

It’s a night of hellacious rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with Argyle Goolsby & The Roving Midnight and our Kool Kats, The Casket Creatures! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING (1996) at 7pm! Or get some adventure at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! And make your way to Union EAV for their Prince Tribute Party! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with The Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair! Rock on down to Terminal West to catch The Joy Formidable and The Helio Sequence! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of rockin’ soul with The Hollidays! 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, April 27

The Tabernacle delivers a night of ‘80s glam metal with Steel Panther! Or pop ‘n’ rock on down to The Earl for a night with Delicate Steve, Dot.s, and Shepherds! TCM presents Elia Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), 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); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’s your last chance to get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! SCENE MISSING Presents Monsters, ATL at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge, dishing out a night of comedy and music based on the films of Pixar! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul 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 Joe McGuinness! 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, April 28

Honkytonk ‘n’ rock on down to The Earl for a night with Banditos, Pony League and The Muckers! Prince invades Atlanta theatres tonight with Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN (1984) [The Plaza Theater – 9pm/Midnight; Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) – 7:30pm] so come on out and celebrate the life of a legend! Or make your way to SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film for their fashion film series featuring Deborah Riley Draper’s VERSAILLES ’73 at 6pm! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Rev on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Hayseed Dixie, Ex-Wives and Rodeo Twister! Venkman’s is abuzz with classics with Lightnin’ Ray, a funky time with The Mar-Tans and later a little classic burly-Q with Gleam (every fourth Thursday of the month), featuring Ada Manzhart, Nikki Nuke’m and Kool Kat Roula Roulette! It’s a night of classic rock and pop at Avondale Towne Cinema with Misery Loves Chachi, Digisaurus and Nobody’s Darlings! Get your Americana fix 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, April 29

Catch a wave to The Star Bar for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring Midnight Larks, The Flying Faders, El Capitan & The Band With No Name, and Antarcticats! Or experience Atlanta Mess Around 2016 at The Earl, rocking through May 1, featuring The Real Kids, Barreracudas, The Tough Shits, Death Index, MAMA, Thee Tsunamis, Wreckless Eric, Dinos Boys, Omni, Death Stuff and more! Yacht Rock Revue performs Prince’s “PURPLE RAIN” in Piedmont Park (Legacy Fountain)! Bob Yari’s PAPA: HEMINGWAY IN CUBA (2016) opens at the UA Tara Theatre (see our Retro Review soon)! Get your west coast swing fix with Toots Lorraine & The Traffic at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get funky with Good Times Brassband at Venkman’s! Honkytonk on down to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Benny Gray & The Trailer Park Cowboys and Winston Ramble! Get some soul with Chelsea Shag at Paris on Ponce! The Red Light Café delivers a night of old time bluegrass with Richard Smith with The Vaudevillians! Or get to the root of it all with Jeff Mosier and friends at Steve’s Live Music! George Hughley & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms 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, April 30

Come on down to the 45th Annual Inman Park Festival featuring a tour of homes, a street parade (2pm), tasty food and a rockin’ retro musical line up, running through May 1, featuring Soldado, The Orange Constant, 10 Degrees Off, Kool Kat Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics, the Ruby Red Band, Back in the Saddle, Adron and more! Rock on down for Day 2 of Atlanta Mess Around 2016 at The Earl featuring Buck Biloxi & The Fucks, The Golden Pelicans, Enoch Ramone & The Ebola Boys, The Gizmos, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Predator, Nervosas, Negative Scanner and more! Hula on down to Trader Vics for the music of Tiki seminar, “Exotica”! Get old-timey at the Fox Theatre with Old Crow Medicine Show and Brandi Carlile! Folk it up with Trout Steak Revival and City Mouse at the Red Light Café! Or get folksy with Caroline Aiken at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Tribute! The Stoneberrys dish out a night of The Rolling Stones at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with the Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Tito & The Chicken Raiders dish out a night of country blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, May 1

Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for The Residents! Or Salsa on down to Candler Park for the Atlanta Taco Festival featuring local bands, games, Salsa dancing, luche libra wrestling and featuring live music by the Bird City Revolutionaries! Rock on down for Day 2 of the 45th Annual Inman Park Festival, featuring Donna Hopkins, The Breeze Kings, Swimming Pool Qs, Delta Moon, Geoff Achison, Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton, The Dirty Doors, Randall Bramblett 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Atlanta is burnin’ with all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, April 18

Rock out at The Drunken Unicorn with MDC, Deathwish, The Swingin’ Dicks and Nag! Get your New Wave fix at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Jonathan Demme’s STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) at 9:30pm, screening through April 21! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Henry Koster’s HARVEY (1950) at 10:30am! Get the blues with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Big Sexy” edition, 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, April 19

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Orson Welle’s CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1933) at 7pm! Or catch Busby Berkely’s FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933) at the Decatur Library 9:30am! The Fox Theatre presents Pattie Boyd & Henry Diltz’ “Behind the Lens”! Bluegrass it up with Smokerise at Steve’s Live Music! Stomp on down to Darwin’s Burgers & Blues for a night with the Ain’t Sisters! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get your rockin’ blues fix with Walter Trout and Seth Winters at Smith’s Olde Bar! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of roots and Americana with Joe McGuiness! 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, April 20

Rock out and get folksy with Robyn Hitchcock at the Variety Playhouse! Get science-y and geek it up with Neil deGrasse Tyson at the Fox Theatre! Find your inner child and catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm!  Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for Annie Sellick’s The Babbas! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get psyched ‘70s-style with Kool Kats Spirits & The Melchizedek Children at The Earl! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Funk it up with Dr. Strangelove at Smith’s Olde Bar! Or make your way to Terminal West for a night with Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and the Seratones! 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 Mars Hill Porch Pickers! 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, April 21

Trader Vic’s delivers one helluva island party during their 40th Anniversary Celebration featuring Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, authentic hula dancers and more! Bend it like Bettie during Kool Kat Tori Rodriguez’ PiYo (& Pin-Ups) event celebrating the life of Ms. Page at Lift Yoga in Alpharetta! The Earl rocks out with the Roadkill Ghost Choir and Tedo Stone! Or catch Joel Kosche (Collective Soul) and The Howling Tongues at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with David Liebman & The Expansions at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the country blues with Tito & The Chicken Raiders at the Red Light Café! Yacht Rock Revue gets intergalactic at Venkman’s and performs “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”, followed by an acoustic set with Prince vs. David Bowie ! Blues it up with Liz Mandeville 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, April 22

Make your way to Atlanta Contemporary as Kool Kat Andy Ditzler and Film Love Atlanta present “Politics, Narrative, Collage” at 7pm! Rock out during this year’s 3-day Sweetwater 420 Fest with a whole lotta rock harkening back to the 20th century, running through April 24! Tonight’s lineup includes Cypress Hill, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Hi Lo Ha and more! And get funky at Aisle 5 during the 420 Fest after party featuring Funk You! Make your way to the Landmark Theatre for their screenings of Dennis Hauck’s 35mm TOO LATE (2016)! Celebrate The Beatles at the Fox Theatre with Let It Be! Rock out with Sister Hazel and The Georgia Flood (see our Kool Kat article soon) at the Variety Playhouse! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorheads! Jam it up ‘80s-style with the BadAsh Allstar Team at Steve’s Live Music! Mother Falcon gets folksy at The Earl! The Star Bar gets down and dirty with Tchesh & Friends, Fiend Without a Face, Young Antiques, Bully, Bad Friend, The Scragglers and more! Get old-timey and bluegrass it up with I Want Whisky, Neo Tundra Cowboy and the Darnell Boys at Avondale Towne Cinema! Shake a tail feather during Sadie Hawkins’ The Men’s Room: Gentlemen’s Quarterly at the Red Light Café! Venkman’s celebrates 45 years of “LA WOMAN” with The Dirty Doors! Spend the night with Sammy Blue at the Northside Tavern! Nick Moss gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Dangfly! 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, April 23

It’s a Rockabilly Throwdown in Kennesaw featuring live music with Atomic Boogie, Willie Heath Neal, Kool Kat Dave Weil and The Blacktop Rockets, Pin-Ups and more! Rock out at The Star Bar with Dr. Boogie, Gunpowder Gray, Stop Worrying About the Bomb (Ravagers) and more! The Heavy Pets pay tribute to The Beatles at Aisle 5! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for a night with Hooray for the Riff Raff and Promised Land Sound! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! The Souls Grown Deep Foundation presents “To Honor Mr. Dial” at Grocery on Home! Rock on down to day 2 of the Sweetwater 420 Fest featuring Robert Randolph & The Family Band, the North Mississippi Allstars, The Roots, Tokyo Police Club, The Orange Constant, The Quaildogs, Funk You and more! Leftover Salmon gets down during the official 420 Fest after party at the Variety Playhouse! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! The Fox Theatre presents “Ragtime the Musical” running through April 24! Folk it up with The Masarie Gang at Steve’s Live Music! Kool Kat Rev. Andy and Southern Ska Syndicate get to skankin’ at Kavarna!  Blues it up with Mr. Sipp at Blind Willie’s! Robert Lee Coleman gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Or catch Jeff Jensen at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get some soul Salsa with Orquesta Macuba at Venkman’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, April 24

Bluegrass it up with Steve Martin/Martin Short and the Steep Canyon Rangers at the Fox Theatre! TCM presents Elia Kazan’s ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), 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); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! It’d day 3 and your last chance to rock out at the Sweetwater 420 Fest, featuring Leftover Salmon, Manchester Orchestra, People’s Blues of Richmond, Bright Light Social Hour, The 200’s, Voodoo Visionary, Wrenn and more! Catch a screening of David M. Evans’ THE SANDLOT (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 2pm! Make your way to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for a night with Van Morrison! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24! (LAST CHANCE!)

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.

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, April 11

Get your garage rock fix at the Variety Playhouse with Deerhunter! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Fred Zinnemann’s HIGH NOON (1952) at 10:30am! Get the blues with the Larry Griffith Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Or catch Bob Page gettin’ down 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! 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, April 12

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets intergalactic and continues their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976) at 7pm! Get old timey at The Earl with The Dustbowl Revival and Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents! Rock on down to The Plaza Theater for their screening of QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA at 8pm! Get some action at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: April Showers edition, shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Frankie’s Blues Mission gets down and dirty 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, April 13

Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jacques Rivette’s LE PONT DU NORD (1981) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Make your way to Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer and the Bicycle Eaters and Kenny Howes & The Wow! Stomp on down to Grocery on Home for a night with Jon Dee Graham (The Skunks)! Or rock out at The Plaza Theater with their screening of QUEEN ROCK MONTREAL at 8pm! Get some rockin’ soul with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Hillbilly it up at the Masquerade with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, My Dixie Wrecked and The Muckers! Bluegrass it up with Chatham County Line at Eddie’s Attic! Get some action for a second time at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of John McTiernan’s DIE HARD (1988), 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, so come on out for a night with Von Grey! 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, April 14

Honkytonk it up at the Clermont Lounge and help celebrate 50 rockin’ shows with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton and the Ghost Riders Car Club! You’re your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of QUEEN: HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY at 8pm! Get old timey and folk it up with the Locust Honey String Band and Fort Defiance at the Red Light Café! Get jazzy with Hot Ice Live at Venkman’s! Get funky with The Velvet Stones and The Space Time Travelers at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly and tasty cocktails! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down and dirty 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, April 15

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Coathangers (album release party), Paint Fumes, Bad Spell and Paralyzer! Geek it up during TREKLANTA, Atlanta’s Star Trek and Space Opera Con, getting intergalactic through April 17! Duran Duran invades Philips Arena! Funk it up with Kung Fu and Naughty Professor at Aisle 5! Skank on down to the Atlanta Motorama Pre-Party with the Southern Ska Syndicate! Shake a tail feather with Sadie Hawkins at the Red Light Café during her burlesque improv showdown, Last Pasties Standing! The Variety Playhouse dishes out a night with Rumours! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Jackson County Line, Bucky Motter and The Good Graces! Blues it up with Mike Lowery at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get some soul with the Smokin’ Novas at Eddie’s Attic! Catch some rockin’ ‘80s/’90s covers with Saved by the Band at Venkman’s! Folk it up with Casey Camp & Co. and The Boy Jones at Avondale Towne Cinema! Catch Jude Amazon during The High Museum’s Friday Night Jazz series! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at Craze Tavern! Stoney Brooks gets the blues at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Jarekus Singleton 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, April 16

Cash’d Out and guests pay tribute to the “Man in Black” Johnny Cash at The Star Bar! The Arts at Oakland presents Illumine, an evening of light and art in the gardens at 6pm featuring a live performance by The Shoal Creek Stranglers! Boogie on down to Club Famous for ‘80s Music Video Dance Night with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Space is the place with day 2 of TREKLANTA! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for a night with Jethro Tull! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Get some tasty vittles at Historic Grant Park’s Food-O-Rama from 11am-8pm! Get jazzy with Norman Frank at Venkman’s! Or blues on down to the Northside Tavern for their annual Tribute to Sean Costello! Spend the night with Bryan Adams at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre! 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, April 17

Get va-va-vintage at Yaarrab Shriners with a Salvage Spring 2016 event, featuring 50+ venders! It’s day 3 and your last chance to catch this year’s TREKLANTA! The Red Light Café delivers Burly-Q with a twist with the Luxotica Lounge Cabaret! Groove on down to the Fox Theatre for A Night with Janis Joplin! Catch Acoustic Hot Tuna at the Variety Playhouse! Gypsy jazz it up with Rhythm Future Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Django Earnhardt dishes out some gypsy jazz at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get a piece of Retro Atlanta this week and come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, April 4

Shimmy on down to Firefly Studio in Decatur for a night of Burly-Q shenanigans with the Atlanta School of Burlesque! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library and catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at 10:30am! 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! The first Monday of every month is Vinyl Night at the Red Light Café, so come on out and make it funky! 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, April 5

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets bizarre and continues off their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of Peter Greenaway’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1990) at 7pm! Catch a screening of Joe Grant and Dick Heumer’s FANTASIA (1940) at the Stonecrest Library in Lithonia! Burly-Q it up with a night of Twirly Whirly Burly-Q dishin’ out a night of old New York at the Red Light Café, with special guest Sadie Hawkins! Rock out with Ace Frehley at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Mandi Strachota gets the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, April 6

Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Eric Rohmer’ LE RAYON VERT (1986) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Rock out ‘70s Brit blues style with Robin Trower and Josh Taerk at the Variety Playhouse! Get folksy with Driftwood at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get the blues with Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! 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 La Terza Classe! 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, April 7

Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts as the 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) presents the Puppetry Shorts Block and reception, including entry into the Worlds of Puppets Museum featuring the Jim Henson Collection at 7pm! Experience some “fiercely independent” short films at SCADShow’s presentation of the Black Maria Film Festival! Boogie with Prince at the Fox Theatre during his “Piano and A Microphone” tour! Get to the root of it all with Dangermuffin at the Red Light Café! Get funky with Secondhand Swagger at Venkman’s! Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly and tasty cocktails! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get down and dirty 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, April 8

Rev on down to The Star Bar for a night of rockin’ ‘billy shenanigans with The Blacktop Rockets during their CD release party (catch our Kool Kat article soon) with Rodeo Twister! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with They Might Be Giants! Hey you guys! SCADShow eighties it up with a screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 3pm! Or hang out with the Goblin King as the Center for Puppetry Arts presents Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 7pm! Blues it up with The Breeze Kings and Bonemeal Baker at Avondale Towne Cinema! Celebrate 77 years of Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Electric Avenue dishes out an ‘80s MTV Bowie experience at Park Tavern! Get funky with the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra at the Elliott Street Pub! The Tannahill Weavers deliver a night of traditional Scottish tunes at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and rock out at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The Georgia Flood! 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, April 9

Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring King Pelican, Drop Dead Nasty and Genki Genki Panic! Or get rocked revival-style at The Star Bar with Tiger! Tiger!, The Woolly Bushmen and Deadly lo-fi! It’s a night of old-time jazz ‘n’ ragtime at Terminal West with Pokey Lafarge and The Cactus Blossoms! Get old-time and hell-bent at the Masquerade with Stevie Tombstone, Ralph White and I Want Whisky! Folk it up with Kool Kat Mary Fahl at the Red Clay Theatre! Kool Kats The Casket Creatures dish out a time warp blood bath at Mule Camp Tavern! The Highlander will be throwing one helluva 24th Anniversary Party! Get another chance to hang out with the Goblin King as the Center for Puppetry Arts presents Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at 4:30/7pm! Departure pays tribute to Journey at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Get some soul with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Roy Lee Johnson gets the blues at the Northside 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, April 10

Catch the 40th Annual ATLFF’s 30th Anniversary screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986) at The Plaza Theater at 12:30pm! Or you’re your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts for their screening at 5pm! Rock out with the Melvins, Napalm Death and Melt Banana at the Masquerade! Gypsy jazz it up with Django Earnhardt at Venkman’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Charming Disaster and Joe McGuinness! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), runs through April 10! (LAST CHANCE!)

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience invades The Georgia Ensemble Theatre through April 24!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Get exploited and come see what’s shakin’ in Retro Atlanta this week! We’ve got the Atlanta Film Festival, classic cinema, saucy shenanigans, rock ‘n’ roll, the blues and more!

Monday, March 28

Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah dishes out a night of rockin’ garage blues with the release of a new 7” at 529, with Deadly lo-fi! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of David Butler’s ROAD TO MOROCCO (1942) at 10:30am! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with the blues 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!” Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Polka it up with Blast-Off Burlesque as they celebrate Dyngus Day with classic live Polka at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 29

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets bizarre and kicks off their “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” film series with a screening of David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001) at 7pm! Rock out with a night of prog rock in the French persuasion at Aisle 5 with Magma, Muuy Bien and deadCAT! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL every last Tuesday of the month! Spend the night with the Goblin King at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Or celebrate 75 years of the Tuskegee Airmen with a special 7pm screening of Denton Adkinson’s IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN (2012) at theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 (Cumming); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and AMC Southlake 24 (Morrow)]! Broadway it up at the Fox Theatre’s presentation of “Kinky Boots” featuring tunes by Cyndi Lauper, running through April 3! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet 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! 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, March 30

The Clermont Lounge kinks it up with a night of horror punk with The Living Deads and Cadillac Junkies! Get cinematic and time travel with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Alain Resnais’ JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (1968) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Heather Nova! Get the blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Spend one last night with the Goblin King at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986), 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 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, March 31

It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva night of surf rock and rockabilly with The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Folk it up with Angie Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Or make your way to Venkman’s for a night with Alex Guthrie & The Pussywillows! Catch MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta at Eyedrum! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, April 1

Tonight kicks off the 40th Annual Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), running through April 10, delivering a smorgasbord of independent films and classics throughout the city! Alright, alright, alright! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for the ATLFF’s screening of Richard Linklater’s DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) at 9:30pm (free with RSVP)! Folk it up with The War & Treaty, Band of Lovers and Fairshake at the Red Light Café! The Earl rocks out retro-style with Rockin’ Bones, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause and James Hall! Spend April Fools Day at The Star Bar and rock out with The Wild Injuns, Fiend Without a Face, Whiskey Dick and Night Terrors! Swami Gone Bananas gets groovy at Avondale Towne Cinema! Get your ‘70s folk rock fix with America at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music! Get artsy pop culture-style at DooGallery at their “Beats ‘n’ Brushes” event featuring Arthur M. Ball of Above Average Art! Get funky NOLA-style with the Wasted Potential Brass Band at the Northside Tavern! Honkytonk on down to Blind Willie’s for the Golden State Lonestar Revue! Blues it up with JP Blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Boogie on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event gettin’ down under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms! 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, April 2

It’ll be double the exploitation, double the bloody ruckus at the red carpet world premiere of Kool Kat James Bickert’s FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS at The Plaza Theater! Honkytonk it up at The Star Bar during their Tribute to Merle Haggard featuring Slim Chance & The Convicts, The Downer Brothers, Dry Gulch, Wade Sapp, Georgia Slim & The Crankbaits, Al Shelton and more! Catch ATLFF’s screening of Victor Nunez’ RUBY IN PARADISE (1993) at the High Museum at 7pm! Make your way to Piedmont Park for the 3rd Annual Atlanta Persian Festival, featuring Persian art, food, dance and more! The Atlanta Beltline Boil dishes out life performances by the Darnell Boys, All the Locals, Radiolucent, the Wasted Potential Brass Band and more! The Artifice Club presents the KURIOS Pub Crawl beginning at Twain’s, featuring a special performance by The Ghosts Project! Shimmy down with Kool Kat Kitty Love and Cheeky Belle’s 3rd Annual Flashback event featuring acts celebrating every decade going back to the ‘30s at Taverna Plaka! Celebrate ten years of the Elliott Street Pub with their Decade Party! Geek it up at Hair of the Dragon V, Atlanta’s premier costume photo party at Studio Space Atlanta! Eighties it up at the Basement during their Heyday – ‘80s Dance Party! Get some soul with Francine Reed at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get your stringband/rockabilly fix with Roxie Watson at Eddie’s Attic! Nameless Nameless pays tribute to Nirvana at Venkman’s! Funk it up at Terminal West with Earphunk and the Georgia Soul Council! Head over to Center Stage for a night with Belinda Carlisle! Stomp on over to the Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival and catch The Whiskey Gentry and The Southern Gothic! Bluegrass it up with the Sweetwater Creek Bluegrass Band and Honey Be Nice at the Red Light Café! Rock out Radar at Steve’s Live Music! 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, April 3

Catch the 40th Annual ATLFF’s 25th Anniversary screening of Jon Avnet’s FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (1991) and after party at The Plaza Theater at 12pm! Rock on down to Steinbeck’s in Decatur for their Smoke & Glory Cook-Off featuring live performances by Kool Kat Spike Fullerton’s Russian Roulette Band, The Lizardmen and Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Bay Station, The Stoplight Roses and Stephen Chopek! 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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Are you hep to the jive? ‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta promises the jolt you’ve needed to kick Old Man Winter’s tail and spring into action like the good little misfits and miscreants you are! So come on out, make a little mischief and rock out with the rest of us! Come check out all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 21

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Gregory La Cava’s STAGE DOOR (1937) at 10:30am! Get some soul with Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page 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! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! 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 “SCI-FI” 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 22

Groove on down to the Red Light Café as the BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to Prince! Penny & Sparrow dish out a night of Americana ‘n’ roots at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Joe McGuinness 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, March 23

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Alain Resnais’ HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! It’s a night of comedy and sketches at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge with Scene Missing’s ATLabyrinth! Terminal West presents “A Night of David Bowie” with The Ziggy Stardust Tribute! TCM presents their Big Screen Classics 60th Anniversary screening of Cecil B. Demille’s epic , THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at 2pm/7pm in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal 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)]! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Joe Satriani! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for their Albert Collins Tribute! Join the Muppet mayhem at the Decatur Library as they screen James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) at 1pm! Folk it up with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Jaap Blonk delivers a night of sound poetry celebrating the Dada Centennial at EyeDrum! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Dusty Roads! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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, March 24

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Supersuckers, Jesse Dayton and Dead Soldiers! Get the Led Out pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Fox Theatre! Get some Appalachian soul with Upstate Rubdown and Cortez Garza at the Red Light Café! “Grace Slick meets Led Zeppelin” with The Broadcast as they rock out at The Earl with Autumn Attics! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! Get smooth at Venkman’s with Yacht Rock Schooner! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 25

Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies deliver a night of rockin’ garage blues with The Yawpers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at The Earl! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “Abbey Road”! DJ Doctor Q presents his Speakeasy Electro Swing Atlanta at the Red Light Café featuring the Swingrowers! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Deep South Pub in McDonough! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers followed by the Electromatics featuring Jon Liebman! The 9th Street Stompers dish out a night of hillbilly swingin’ hot jazz at Venkman’s! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! The Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event turns into a ‘20s/’30s speakeasy with The HoboHemians! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! 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, March 26

It’s Rockabilly Night at The Star Bar, so rev on down for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Royal Hounds and Little Lesley & The Bloodshots! It’s a night of psychobilly and horror punk at The Highlander with Burns Like Fire, Wolfspider and Crypt 24! Dad’s Garage Theatre gets porky with Baconfest 2016 featuring carnival games, piggies galore, live performances by The Honkytonk Extravaganza (Kool Kat Rich Desantis), Blast-Off Burlesque, and more! Rock on down to the Park Tavern for their Oyster & Crawfish Fest featuring Cowboy Mouth! Or shuck on down to Tin Roof Cantina for their Sham Jam Shuckfest featuring live performances by Chicago Joe’s School of Rock, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Little Country Giants, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Heavy Chevy, Cousin Dan and more! Get really retro in Marietta at the grand opening of The Viking Alchemist Meadery from 12-8pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for their “Twistin’ in the Lounge” event and boogie the night away as Dusty Booze dishes out the weirdest and kookiest ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll! Byrne & Kelly dish out a night of traditional Irish folk at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Rusted Root at the Variety Playhouse! Steve’s Live Music gets down bluegrass and Dixieland style with La Terza Classe and Escape Vehicle! Jazz it up with the Elgin Wells Group at the Elliott Street Pub! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dale Watson & His Lonestars and Cold Heart Canyon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Little G. Weevil! Blues it up with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get the blues with Grant Green, Jr. at Venkman’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, March 27

Get sinfully saucy at Smith’s Olde Bar as The Candybox Revue presents their Bunny Bash with Delinda D’Rabbit, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! Mike Farris dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminksi at Venkman’s! 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.

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, March 14

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT (1960) at 10:30am! Or catch a screening of Kent Jones’ documentary, HITCHOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015) at the Lefont Theatre at 7pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Red Light Café for the Lending Love Burlesque & Variety Show! Sean Tyrrell dishes out a night of Irish folk at Steve’s Live Music! Get to the root of it all with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!” Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 15

Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night in Hell with Le Butcherettes and The Dead Ships! Get criminal and hang out with the Dark Knight at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Leslie H. Martinson’s BATMAN (1966), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Punk out hillbilly style at the Drunken Unicorn with Larry & His Flask, The Great Perhaps and Agree and The Pure Heart! It’s a night of psych-rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with Black Pussy and Frick! Folk out with Gordon Lightfoot at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Or catch a screening John Ford’s THE QUIET MAN (1952) at the Decatur Library at 10am! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with Chamomile & Whiskey, The Brookses and Hill Roberts! The Whiskey Gentry and Sara Rachele get down at The Earl! Kip Winger delivers a night of experimental classical and rock at Eddie’s Attic! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, March 16

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Agnes Varda’s CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Spider Stacy (The Pogues) and the Lost Bayou Ramblers deliver “Poguetry in Motion: The Songs of The Pogues” at Terminal West! It’s a night of garage punk and rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with Hot Wives, Quiet Hollers, Fake Image and The Marrows! Get the rockin’ blues with Roy Lee Johnson at the Variety Playhouse! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! The Boohoo Ramblers dish out a night of Americana at Blind Willie’s! It’s your last chance to catch Leslie H. Martinson’s BATMAN (1966) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30pm! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) screens Simon Wincer’s FREE WILLY (1993) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Control Burn! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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, March 17

Get lucky in Retro Atlanta tonight! Folk it up with Joan Baez at Atlanta Symphony Hall! 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! Eighties it up at the Masquerade with their Shamrocks & Sabres III: Masquerade 80s Night Reunion! Get old-timey at The Earl with The Darnell Boys, Old Salt Union and Max & Maggie! Rock on down to The Star Bar for their St. Pat’s Day Celebration with Horror Business (Misfit’s tribute); Nevermind (Nirvana tribute); and Devomatix (Devo tribute)! ATL Collective presents U2’s “The Joshua Tree” at Venkman’s! Alex & Todd bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café! It’s a British Invasion jam with Mark Michelson & Friends at Steve’s Live Music! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for their St. Pat’s Festival with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 18

Get funky folk-style at Avondale Towne Cinema with The Ain’t Sisters, the Donna Hopkins Band and Gibson Wilbanks! Croon on down to Venkman’s for a night with Joe Gransden & His Big Band celebrating 100 years of Sinatra! The Imperial OPA Circus dishes out a night of ballyhoo at 7 Stages with their Grand Cabaret! Make your way to the Red Light Café for a night with Migrant Worker, the Allen Thompson Band and Lindsay Rakers! Bluegrass it up with The Infamous Stringdusters and Nikki Bluhm & The Gramblers at the Variety Playhouse! Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel pays tribute to Simon & Garfunkel at Steve’s Live Music! Blue sit up with Damon Fowler at Blind Willie’s! Broadway’s Liz Callaway pays tribute with “The Carole King Songbook” at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Pop on down to Marietta and The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for the Rock, Pops and More Spring Concert and Symphony on the Square! The Wayward Souls dish out a night of dark Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! 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, March 19

The Northside Tavern gets down with their annual 2-day benefit for Frank Edwards, Chicken Raid 2016, featuring a blues-filled line-up with (Day 1) Listen Hear, Scene of the Crime, Eddie Hinton, Tony Bryant (Juke Joint Rick), the Georgia Flood, Mateo & The Wayward Souls, The Sweet Heart Beets, Chickens & Pigs, Skye Paige, Essie Mae Brooks, Lola, Eddie Tigner, Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck, Atlanta Horns, Stoney Brooks, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Albert White, Roy Lee Johnson, Frankie Lee, Sammy Blue and more! Test your Muppet knowledge at the Center For Puppetry Arts during their Jim Henson Trivia Night at 8pm! Get some ‘60s/’70s soul with Lee Fields & The Expressions at Terminal West! The Clermonts rock out at the Red Light Café! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Small Reactions, Through the Sparks, Black Linen and Flower! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27! The Star Bar delivers a night of tributes with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac), The Dirty Doors (The Doors) and Refugee (Tom Petty)! The Atlanta Rollergirls get down with their March bouts featuring today’s double header at the Yaarab Shrine Center!  Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down with their 3rd Annual Dueling Pianos event! Blues it up with Selwyn Birchwood at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Dallas Pub House! 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, March 20

TCM presents their Big Screen Classics 60th Anniversary screening of Cecil B. Demille’s epic , THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at 2pm/7pm in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal 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)]! It’s your last chance to get down and dirty at the Northside Tavern’s Chicken Raid 2016, with Day 2 featuring Gospel Hour, the Radio Ramblers, the Blues Dude, Mandi Strachota, Shelton Powe, The Rockaholics, Essie Mae Brooks, Nate Nelson (The Entertainment Crackers), Haley Tarkenton, Freddie Vanderford & the Millbillies, Jontavious Willis, Robert Lee Coleman, Cool John Ferguson, Swami, Uncle Sugar and more! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) screens Simon Wincer’s FREE WILLY (1993) at 2pm!

Ongoing

Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20! (LAST CHANCE)

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! This week in Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s MEOW! Check out all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 7

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Fred Zinnemann’s FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) at 10:30am! Stomp on down to The Earl for a night with Andrea Colburn, the Urban Pioneers and Nathan Nelson (The Entertainment Crackers)! Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20! 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! The first Monday of every month is Vinyl Night at the Red Light Café, so come on out for a night of “Albums that just sound better on vinyl!” Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! 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! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 8

Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: Spring Fling edition shakin’ it up at the Red Light Café! AC/DC invades Philips Arena with their “Rock or Bust” tour! Fathom Events takes us back to 1975 with their screening of QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA at Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta), Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee), and AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw)! Blues it up Kansas City style with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Or rock out Brit-blues style with Marty Manous at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, March 9

John Mayall gets down and dirty at the Variety Playhouse! Get your folksy punk fix with Flogging Molly at the Tabernacle! Eighties it up and catch a screening of John Hughes’ classic, SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta)! It’s a rock ‘n’ roll revival at Smith’s Olde Bar with The Howling Tongues, Sunghosts and the John Pagano Band! Sleaze it up at the Drunken Unicorn with The Dirty Magazines, Jerkagram, Cinema Novo and Twin Trances! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo delivers a night of southern soul ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Ain’t Sisters! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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, March 10

It’s a night of “twist stomp slop” ‘n’ sleazy surf rock at The Star Bar with Guantanamo Baywatch, The Gooch Palms and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello’s The Mondellos! The Earl folks it up and rocks out with Pony League, Blue Blood, New Junk City and Jeremy Ray! It’s a night of folk ‘n’ Americana at Venkman’s with Cicada Rhythm and Caleb Caudle! Get brassy NOLO retro-style with the No BS! Brass Band at Aisle 5! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for a night with The Ain’t Sisters, She Returns from War, Brian Robert and Jason Waller! Catch a screening of Jeff Kanew’s TROOP BEVERLY HILLS (1989) at The Plaza Theater at 8pm! Jazz it up Middle Eastern/Cuban style with the Hadar Noiberg Trio at Steve’s Live Music! Sweet Betty and The Shadows get sweet and low down at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Further Seems Forever! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 11

It’s a weekend of mischief and mayhem at The Star Bar with their Hammerhead Fest V! Night one brings you The Goddamn Gallows, Bigfoot, The Vaginas, Shehehe, Duell and Frick! Or make your way to the Little Vinyl Lounge downstairs for a night with Alexa Dexa, Emily Marie Palmer & Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer, Ben Trickey and Amy O’Dell! Come one, come all, creatures of the night to RITUAL’s Phantasmagoria at Famous Pub! Get your traditional NOLA jazz fix at the Red Light Café with Nolatet! Bill Sheffield and The Entertainment Crackers blues it up at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rock on down to Venkman’s Yacht Rock Revue’s “Led Zeppelin vs. The Who” event! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt at The Alamo (Newnan)! Get down with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with the Barry Richman Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Cool John Ferguson dishes out a night of the blues at the Northside Tavern! Bluegrass it up with The Chuck Nation Band at the Crimson Moon Café! Get the blues with Randall Bramblett at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Time-warp it up during the Rocky Horror Pub Crawl, beginning at 7pm, with the final stop being The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 12

Hey kiddies of all ages! Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention invades the Atlanta Marriott Century Center for 2 days only, through March 13! If you love vintage toys, stop-motion animation, comics, cosplay, pop culture and more, you won’t want to miss this two-day toy extravaganza including dealers tables, celebrity guests! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Bettie Bullet Presents: Sex Ed Burlesque featuring Kool Kat Lola LeSoleil, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! It’s day 2 of Hammerhead Fest V at The Star Bar featuring Ramming Speed, Sadistic Ritual, Dusty Booze & the Babyhaters, Death of Kings, Invasion and Old Thrones! Skank on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Slackers, The Duppies and Eddie Rascal! Catch Kent Jones’ documentary, HITCHOCK/TRUFFAUT (2015) at the Lefont Theatre at 10:30am! Kool Kat Chad Shivers brings us another rip roarin’ pary at Kavarna with his Southern Surf Stomp!, featuring Ouroboros Boys, McPherson Struts and Moonbase! Shop all things retro at Vintage Soiree’s pop-up sale, 11am-7pm! Rock out with The Moody Blues at the Fox Theatre! Or surf rock your face off at The Highlander with Fiend Without a Face, Timmy James & The Blue Flames and Catfight! For one day only, the Center For Puppetry Arts presents “The Sound of Music” performed by Austria’s Salzburg Marionette Theatre with two shows at 2pm/7pm! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get old-timey with Freakwater at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra (GSO) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! Dixieland it up at Venkman’s for a night with the Jugtime Ragband! Glam it up at the Red Light Café for “A Celebration of Bowie’s Life and Legacy” featuring Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell to Earth, Lingua Franca and Musee du Coeur! Get lucky at Park Tavern during their Lucky Fest featuring Zale, the Lefty Williams Band, Radio Birds and Ian Schumacher! Laura Rain & The Caesars get some soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Gainesville during their ‘80s Party and Costume Contest! The Imposeurs pay tribute to R.E.M. at Steve’s Live Music! 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, March 13

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre gets really retro with their screening of Fred Niblo/Charles Brabin’s BEN HUR: A TALE OF CHRIST (1925), with a pre-show on the Almighty Allen Theatre Organ played by Kool Kat Ron Carter! It’s a night of old-time western swing at the Red Light Café with The Waymores, The Vaudevillians and Ellis Dyson & The Shambles! It’s day 2 and your last chance to experience the Joelanta & the Great Atlanta Toy Convention at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center! Altan delivers a night of traditional Irish tunes at Eddie’s Attic! Nancy Gaddy gets saucy with her “Sexy at Sixty” cabaret show at Steve’s Live Music! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Take a trip to 1793 Paris and catch Lauren Gunderson’s new play, “The Revolutionists” at 7 Stages, reigning terror through March 20!

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!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Hey kiddies! Check out what we’ve found for you this week! We’ve got all the swell shenanigans your mischievous little hearts could desire, from rockin’ ‘billy to funky grooves to the blues to a whole lotta foot stompin’ pandemonium! So, get off that couch and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 29

Catch a screening of Alfred E Green’s THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (1950) at the Alpharetta Library! The Plaza Theater screens Mark Robson’s EARTHQUAKE! (1974), running through March 2! 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! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! 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, March 1

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of WINGS OF DESIRE (1988) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Get cozy with the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Metal, Doro at the Variety Playhouse with Madam Mayhem! Rock on down to Union EAV for a night with Joe Jack Talcum (The Dead Milkmen), Swank Sinatra, Doesin and more! Play hooky and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The hills are alive, Broadway-style at the Fox Theatre as Jack O’Brien presents, “The Sound of Music,” through March 6! 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, March 2

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s WEEKEND (1967) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) at 7:30pm! Play hooky one last time and make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the John Hughes’ FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Bluegrass it up at Smith’s Olde Bar with Old Salt Union, I Want Whisky and the Front Porch Session Players! 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! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Georgia Mountain String Band! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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, March 3

Get the Cajun blues with Hair of the Dog at the Red Light Café! Hop across the pond to the Variety Playhouse for a night with The Mersey Beatles! Bluegrass it up at The Earl with Reverend Hylton, Blood on the Harp and Coldheart Canyon! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with The Vinyl Suns! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 4

Thelma & the Sleaze dish out a night of ‘70s-esque rock ‘n’ roll with Dinos Boys at The Star Bar! It’s a night of outlaw country and folksy noir at the Avondale Towne Cinema with Andrea Colburn, Rondo Rigs and The Wayward Souls! Get smooth and rock on down to Venkman’s for a night of acoustic Beatles with Nick of Yacht Rock Revue! Geek it up and make your way to the Masquerade for their INFESTATION 5: Halfway to DragonCon 2016 event! Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours deliver a night of “folk-a-billy” at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Tribute at Steve’s Live Music! Experience an epic twist on a Dickens classic at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their presentation of “Ghosts of Rock” at 7pm! Surf on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with *repeat repeat, Grand and the American Roommates! Get some soul under the dinosaurs with Scotty Cram at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with Heather Luttrell at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get the blues with Chicago Joe Jones at Northside Tavern! 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, March 5

It’s a night of mischief and mayhem at The Star Bar with the Kentucky Bridgeburners, Kool Kat Phil Stair’s Rocket 350, Bigfoot, Dusty Booze & the Babyhaters and The Trash Hats! Catch our upcoming Kool Kat, Darcy Malone & The Tangle at Smith’s Olde Bar! Geek it up at Challenges Games & Comics as they deliver their free 2-day Atlanta Sci-Fi & Fantasy Expo! Celebrate 20 years of the Dropkick Murphys at the Tabernacle! Honkytonk on over to Venkman’s for a night with the Georgia Soul Council! Or stomp on down to the Avondale Towne Cinema for a night with The Texas KGB! Get a second helping of Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours as they deliver a night of “folk-a-billy” at the Red Light Café! The Sledgehammers pay tribute to Peter Gabriel at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul with Gracie Curan at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at the Northside Tavern! Michelle Malone rocks out at Eddie’s Attic! It’s your last chance to experience an epic twist on a Dickens classic at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their presentation of “Ghosts of Rock” at 7pm! Get your bubblegum art punk fix with Starbenders at the Drunken Unicorn! Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade 80s it up at the Wild Wing Café in Suwannee! Rev it up acoustic-style with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt at The Pointe in Conyers! 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, March 6

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Wim Wenders finale with his UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) screening at 4pm! Get your country western fix with Back in the Saddle at Steve’s Live Music! Rock out blues-style with Denny Laine at Eddie’s Attic! 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!

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.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Atlanta is a rockin’ inferno of all things Retro this week! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you! We’ve got whatever your little vintage heart desires! So, Don’t be square, get out and get Retro!

Monday, February 22

Catch a screening of Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) at the Alpharetta Library! 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! 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!’ Get some roots ‘n’ soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, February 23

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of PARIS, TEXAS (1984) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Get folksy at the Red Light Café with Traveling Broke & Out of Gas, Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and The Boy Jones! Get ‘yer old time country fix with Jimmy Webb at Eddie’s Attic! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL every last Tuesday of the month! Fatback Deluxe gets the blues 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, February 24

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s MADE IN THE USA (1966) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Catch a special screening of Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) at Cinefest, screening through Feb. 26! TCM presents John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Georgian Stadium in Newnan and Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee) at 2pm/7pm! Or make your way to the Decatur Library for their screening of Lasse Hallstrom’s CHOCOLAT (2000) at 6pm! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up folk-style with Peter Case at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with City Mouse! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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! Get the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, February 25

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents “The Frankenstein Symphony” featuring music from Mark Grey’s full-length opera, based on Mary Shelley’s novel at 8pm! The Star Bar rocks out with Shocked Minds, Bad Spell and Invasion! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! 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! Party with the Past at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, once home to Charles Candler, and enjoy an evening of free history and cold beer at 6:30pm! Get smooth and rock on down to Venkman’s for a night with Yacht Rock Schooner! Get the rockin’ blues 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! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, February 26

For those who prefer alternate history to reality and Victorian-era lifestyles and fantasy, travel back in time to the Weird Wild West-Themed AnachroCon 2016, a 3-day event celebrating historical reenactments, Steampunk, science-fiction, classic horror, literature, fashion and a cornucopia of indulgences! So, catch a train and head on over to the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, where you’ll catch informative panels discussing Steampunk as Victorian science-fiction, time travel, Gothic literature, vintage tales of terror (Lovecraft, Poe, Stoker), ghost stories and the classic monster flicks of Universal and Hammer and a vendors room chock full of goodies, including our pals at Horror in Clay (see our Shop Around feature here)! Steampunk it up at the Red Light Café during DJ Doctor Q’s ElectroSwing Atlanta KURIOS Salon at 8pm with Kool Kat Talloolah Love headlining!

Make your way to the Rialto Center for the Arts for their Johnny Mercer Celebration featuring Joe Gransden, Kathleen Bertrand and Marilyn Maye at 8pm! Eighties it up at Famous Pub during Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s PRETTY IN PINK: Atlanta’s Only 80s Music Video Dance Night! The Plaza Theater screens Mark Robson’s EARTHQUAKE! (1974)! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Motorheads! Rock out at The Star Bar during their tribute to Weezer featuring el scorcho, EL CHEAPO and Hyper Space! Get some soul with Gareth Asher & the Earthlings at Park Tavern! Shimmy on down and get your circus shenanigan fix at 7 Stages with The Imperial OPA’s Grand Cabaret & Variety Show! Or make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Red Head Diamond! Get funky under the dinosaurs with The Mar-Tans at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with the Nighthawks at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Harper & Midwest Kind deliver a night of Australian roots and blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Saved By the Band gets down at Venkman’s! The Natti Love Joys pay tribute to Bob Marley at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!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, February 27

It’s day 2 of AnachroCon 2016, dishing out anything and everything Victorian, steampunk, the Weird Wild West and more! Shake a tail feather on down to The Star Bar for a night of ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll with Roxie Roz’ Burly Q Burlesque Show, featuring Candi LeCoeur, Kitty Capone, Mary Strawberry (see our Kool Kat interview soon!), Sadie Hawkins and music with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Make your way to the EQ Nightclub for an homage to “The Art of HC. Warner”! Rock on down to the Fox Theatre for Experience Hendrix! Goth on down to the Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s COFFIN CLASSICs Goth and dark ‘80s music video night! Kurt Vile & the Violators rock out folk-style at the Variety Playhouse! The Rainmen deliver their Beatles Pepperland Benefit Jam at the Red Light Café! Put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Blues it up with Nick Nixon at Blind Willie’s! Marty Manous dishes out a night of rockin’ Brit blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get folksy with Livingstone Taylor at Eddie’s Attic! Rumours pays tribute to Fleetwood Mac at Venkman’s! Rock out with Tribute at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Way Back Band! 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, February 28

Step right up folks! It’s day 3 and your last chance to experience the Victorian life and alternate history at AnachroCon 2016! Get the garage rockin’ blues with Low Cut Connie and Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah at The Earl! Booker T. Jones dishes out a night of soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Make your way to the High Museum for their Basquait – The Unknown Notebooks exhibit, running through May 29! Get the blues with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Actors Express murders with their presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm, killing through Feb. 28! (LAST CHANCE!)

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!

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.