ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the bee’s knees this week and is chock full of rockin’ shenanigans, classic flicks on the big screen, a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, February 15

Kool Kat Amy Pike with Bonaventure Quartet get smokin’ with a night of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz at Hot Jam Swings! Spend the day with Audrey Hepburn during the Aurora Theatre’s (Lawrenceville) screening of William Wyler’s ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)! 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, Lust to Love edition, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! 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! Fire it up with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck 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 16

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of TOKYO-GA (1985) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Glam it up at the Red Light Café with the Bad Ash Allstar Team’s David Bowie Jam! The Decatur Library screens Delbert Mann’s classic MARTY (1955) at 10am. Or make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get the blues with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get some soul with The Hollidays 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 17

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS (1960) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Celebrate 30 years of Howard Deutch’s ‘80s classic, PRETTY IN PINK (1986), screening at several local theatres, including 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! Honkytonk on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Billy Joe Shaver! Or get your Dread Pirate Roberts fix at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Sailing to Denver! The Electromatics deliver a night of Chicago and West Coast blues at Blind Willie’s! 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! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for your last chance to catch their screening of the Mel Brooks’ BLAZING SADDLES (1974) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! 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 18

The Star Bar rocks out with Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye, James Leg and The Bohannons! Get old-time and twenties it up at the Red Light Café with Frank Hamilton’s Folk School, The Georgia Crackers and Jeff Mosier! Nikki Hill and The Southern Ska Syndicate dish out a night of rockin’ ska ‘n’ soul at The Earl! Or get folksy at the Fox Theatre with Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins and Anais Mitchell! Rock out with Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band at Philips Arena! Get your garage rockin’ blues fix with Patrick Sweany, Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and D.C. Rail at Smith’s Olde Bar! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Steve Baskin! Catch a special screening of Edward Zwick’s GLORY (1989) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! Get the rockin’ blues with The 44s at Blind Willie’s! 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, February 19

The Fox Theatre delivers the 12th Annual Atlanta Blues Festival featuring Lattimore, Sir Charles Jones, Theodis Ealey, Calvin Richardson, Lenny Williams and Terry Wright! You don’t have to take it, but make your way to The Plaza Theater anyway for their screening of Andrew Horn’s WE ARE TWISTED F*CKING SISTER! (2014), rocking through Feb. 25! Make your way to the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their screening of Daniel Petrie’s classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1931) at 8pm! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with FrazierBand, Battlefield Collective and Kristina Murray! Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam rocks out at the Variety Playhouse! Film Love Atlanta (Kool Kat Andry Diztler) presents a screening of Jean Rouch’s JAGUAR (1967) at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm! Or get your Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead fix with Cosmic Charlie at Aisle 5! It’s a night of art rock at The Earl with Pylon Reenactment Society and Dressy Bessy! Get folksy with Eliot Bronson and Caleb Caudle at Eddie’s Attic! Funk it up with Rough Draft at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get the blues with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! Or make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Barry Richman! 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! Get saucy with Francine Reed at Blind Willie’s! Get a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move” at Venkman’s! The Stoneberrys pay a rockin’ tribute to the Rolling Stones at Avondale Towne Cinema! And as a special treat, time-warp it up at The Plaza Theater’s The Rocky Horror Time-Warp Prom with Lips Down on Dixie!

Saturday, February 20

Get your Stanley Kubrick fix as SCADShow screens his classic SPARTACUS (1960) at 7pm! Get your rockin’ art fix with Kool Kat Chris Hamer’s (Urbnpop) Drawn & Disorderly event featuring Morgan Wilson (Lux Nova Studio) and live music with Madre Padre at Red Brick Brewing Co.! Make your way to The Star Bar for a night with Blood on the Harp, Ex Wives, Cold Heart Canyon and Revenge Beach! Roll on by the Yaarab Shrine Center as the Atlanta Rollergirls get revved up with a double header at 4pm! Rock out with Agent Orange, In the Whale and El Capitan and the Band With No Name at The Earl! Boogie on down to Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Nightvision Music Video Dance Night! 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! Emory Cinematheque presents episode 1-4 of Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman’s OUT 1 (1971) at 11am! Jazz it up new age style with Yanni at the Fox Theatre! Big Head Todd & the Monsters rock out at the Variety Playhouse! Rock out blues-style with Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ and Thomas Wynn & the Believers at the 120 Tavern & Music Hall! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with The Cazanovas! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with The Hot Club of Atlanta! The Sledgehammers pay tribute to Peter Gabriel at Avondale Towne Cinema! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Dixie Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, February 21

Get funky with Mother’s Finest and Von Grey at Terminal West! 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! Emory Cinematheque presents episode 5-8 of Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman’s OUT 1 (1971) at 2pm! Or get your final Dread Pirate Roberts fix at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) at 2pm! Get folksy with Malcolm Holcombe and Nine Years Apart at the Red Light Café! 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!

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 all you lovers and hep vintage rockin’ romantics! It’s a week of love and lust and romance, oh my! So, if you’re searching for that Funny Valentine or would prefer to forget the day, we have everything your wretched little heart could desire! So, come on out and take a peek at what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, February 8

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Daniel Petrie’s classic, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1931) at 10:30am! 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, Country Music edition, 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! Bill Sheffield dishes out his acoustic roots and blues 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 9

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Let Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South spice up your evening with their Tease Tuesday: Hearts & Heartbreakers edition getting’ naughty at the Red Light Café! Paul Leder’s documentary, GOIN’ TO CHICAGO (1991), chronicling the migration of African Americans from the rural south to northern cities after WWII, screens at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center at 4pm! Catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 40th Anniversary screening of Martin Ritt’s THE FRONT (1976) at the Lefont Theatre at 7:20pm! Get funky Big Easy style on Avalon Avenue in Alpharetta during their Mardi Gras Pub Crawl! Or get your Cajun fix and Mardi Gras it up with Hair of the Dog at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky with The Mar-Tans at Blind Willie’s! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 10

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Francois Truffaut’s THE SOFT SKIN (1964) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Catch a screening of Jerry Zucker’s GHOST (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:3opm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents its second 40th Anniversary screening of Martin Ritt’s THE FRONT (1976) at the UA Tara Theatre at 11:30am! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Sans Abri! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! 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! 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 11

It’s a night of murder ballads made popular by Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nirvana and a whole lotta’ bloody maniacal mayhem at The Earl with their second annual Bloody Valentine’s event, featuring Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses an Eye; circus shenanigans with The Thimberling Circus and more bloody romantic fun! Blackhearts and anti-V-day miscreants, rock on down to The Highlander for their Broken Hearts & Bloody Valentines Art Show, delivering a night of multi-media art! Or, for the black-hearted, make your way to Mary’s for their Goth Nite St. Valentine’s Massacre dance party featuring classic Goth anthems!

Mark Michelson & Friends pay tribute to The Eagles at Steve’s Live Music! Joe McGuinness and Bill Sheffield get down and dirty at Eddie’s Attic! Rock out with Wilco at the Tabernacle! It’s a night of gypsy jazz and bluegrass with the Jon Stickley Trio and Control Burn at the Red Light Café! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at The Pointe (Conyers)! Sweet Betty & The Shadows get the blues at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Fatback Deluxe dishes out a night of blues at Venkman’s! It’s a night of Texas country and old-time shenanigans at Smith’s Olde Bar with Kinky Friedman, Brian Molnar and The Jugtime Ragband! 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 12

Valentine’s Day Eve-Eve is chock full of retro shenanigans! Swing on by The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for Douglas Cameron’s 17-piece Big Band! The Famous Pub gets kinky cabaret-style with RITUAL’s Moulin Rouge Valentine’s Day Party, featuring The Black Sheep Ensemble! Get smooth and make your way to Park Tavern for an evening of silly love songs with Yacht Rock Schooner! Or get sinfully seductive at 7 Stages for Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and the burly-Q gals of Syrens of the South’s 9th Annual Vixen’s Valentease Vaudeville & Variety Show! The Highwire Comedy Co. presents their Happy Valentine’s Day Mr. President comedy show at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge! The Red Light Café presents THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES benefit performance for V-Day’s One Billion Rising at 8pm!

Jade Lemons hosts “We Can Be Heroes” celebrating the life and music of David Bowie at Smith’s Olde Bar! Rock out at The Star Bar’s Leather Jacket Night featuring performances by M.O.T.O, The El Caminos and The Go Nowheres! Jazz it up with Anat Cohen and the Gary Motley Trio during the Emory Jazz Fest at the Schwartz Center! Cannibal Corpse invades the Masquerade! Rat Pack Now croons on down to the Red Clay Theatre! Catch the premiere of MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX! Kool Kats, The Head rocks out at the Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Center Stage for a night with Todd Rundgren! ‘80s it up at Wild Wing Café in Dunwoody with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Get old-timey with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & the Gents at Nik’s Place! Funk it up with the Atlanta Funk Society at the Elliott Street Pub! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Variety Playhouse! Get to the root of it all with The Donna Hopkins Band at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Ralph Ellis and The Breeze Kings deliver the blues at the Northside Tavern! Pay tribute to Tom Petty as Refugee rocks out at Venkman’s! Get folksy under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Lilac Wine! Get some soul with Dark Water Rising at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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 13

Shake a tail feather this Valentine’s Day Eve! Boogie down at The Star Bar’s Blackheart’s Ball, featuring The Midnight Larks, Shantih Shantih, Coma Girls, and Emily Marie Palmer & Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer! Find some goodies for your sweet/blackheart and make your way to My Parents’ Basement for The Valentine’s Day Bizarre Bazaar featuring 13 local artists and designers, including Kool Kat Chris Hamer of Urbnpop! Ghosts and love collide at the Historic Oakland Cemetery with their Love Stories of Oakland tours running through Feb. 14! Catch a screening of Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA (1942) at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! ATL Collective presents Sade’s “Love Deluxe” at Venkman’s! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for Hearts Ablaze Production’s Pantheon of Divini-TEASE with Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kate Persephone Phoenix and more! The Center for Puppetry Arts presents their Valentine’s Date Night (adults-only) with puppet shenanigans and complimentary desserts! Get funky and boogie on down to Aisle 5 for their Funky Good Time Valentine’s Dance! The Red Light Café presents a second performance of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES benefit performance for V-Day’s One Billion Rising at 8pm!

It’s a night of avant-garde and experimental film with Film Love Atlanta’s (Kool Kat Andry Diztler) Jane Wodening in Person event at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm [Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Jane Wodening (Brakhage’s first wife)]! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring performances by the Beech Benders, Blacktop Rockets and Gemini 13! It’s Big Band Night with the Gary Motley Trio at the Schwartz Center! Catch a screening of John Singleton’s ROSEWOOD (1997) at the Scott Candler Library at 1pm! Rat Pack Now croons it up at the Red Clay Theatre! The Park Tavern presents Oysterfest, featuring live performances by the Shawn Spencer Band, Secondhand Swagger, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers and Moontower! Get jazzy New Orleans-style with Ruby Red’s Band at Venkman’s, during their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! Bluegrass it up with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Variety Playhouse for a second time! Get the juke joint blues with The Scissormen at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Dirty Bourbon River Show delivers New Orleans gypsy brass circus rock with Rodeo Twister at The Earl! Get folksy with Tom Rush at Eddie’s Attic! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Ike Stubblefield 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, February 14

It’s V-day folks and you know what that means! We’ve dug up a variety of rockin’ vintage shindigs taking place tonight, that we know will get your blood pumping and all set for that shot to the heart, so, keep your eyes peeled for our top picks and comprehensive guide for all things Retro and Valentine-y!

Celebrate 30 years of Howard Deutch’s ‘80s classic, PRETTY IN PINK (1986), screening at several local theatres, including 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! Get really retro and catch the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s 85th Anniversary screening of Sidney M. Goldin’s HIS WIFE’S LOVER (1931) at Lefont Theatre! Get funky and rock out with Meshell Ndegeocello at Terminal West! 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 Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center transforms into a Parisian bohemian cabaret as the Atlanta Ballet presents “Moulin Rouge: The Ballet”, shaking a tail feather through Feb. 13! (LAST CHANCE!)

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

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

Shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, February 1

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Stanley Kramer’s classic, GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967) at 10:30am! 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 folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! 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, February 2

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema delivers their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of KINGS OF THE ROAD (1976) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Or join the miscreants in the land of detention at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their screening of the John Hughes’ ‘80s classic THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Bluegrass it up with Control Burn at Steve’s Live Music! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Catch a screening of Harold Ramis’ GROUNDHOG DAY (1993) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! Andrew Black fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, February 3

Rock out with Super X-13, The El Caminos and Lust at the Clermont Lounge! Or get the garage rockin’ blues with Jared Swilley (Black Lips), Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah and Old King Cole Younger at 529! Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Francois Truffaut’s SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents the 40th Anniversary edition of John Schlesinger’s MARATHON MAN (1976) at the GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium (Marietta) at 7pm! Geek it up at Battle & Brew during their Science Fiction Geek Trivia Night at 8pm! The Variety Playhouse delivers a night of rock with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes! It’s your last chance to make it to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of the John Hughes’ ‘80s classic THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Atlanta Boogie dishes out a night of Kansas City and West coast blues at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to The Earl for a night with Low! Eddie’s Attic delivers a night with Parker Gispert (The Whigs) and Slow Parade! 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 In the Wheelhouse! 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! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for 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, February 4

Rock out and honkytonk it up at The Star Bar with The Legendary Shack Shakers, Pine Hill Haints and The Gartrells! It’s a night of gritty rock ‘n’ roll at 529 with Bear Girl, The Fire Tonight, Swank Sinatra and Plague of Pilgrims! It’s “Exile on Amsterdam Avenue” at the Red Light Café with Caroline Aiken, Drew de Man, Jon Waits and Noel Sumrall! Blues it up with Tab Benoit at the Variety Playhouse! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down at Blind Willie’s! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Mojo Davis dishes out a night of blues ‘n’ jazz at Venkman’s! It’s a night of tributes at Smith’s Olde Bar with Stone Tribute Pilots (Stone Temple Pilots) and Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)! 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 5

Get traumatized and HORROR-fied this weekend as the Days of the Dead Convention kills it at the Sheraton Atlanta hotel for three days of ghastly gore-filled events, running through Feb. 7! You won’t want to miss monstrous retro celebrity guests Ted Raimi (EVIL DEAD II); Heather Langenkamp (NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET); Oliver Robins and Martin Casella of POLTERGEIST fame; John Dugan (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE); C. Thomas Howell (E.T.); masked menace Kane Hodder of FRIDAY THE 13TH fame; Tony Todd (CANDYMAN); the 48-Hour Horror Film Fest; a hell raisin’ Friday night party featuring Celebrity Scaryee-Okee and more! So, get your fill of the blood-bath that is, Days of the Dead!

Get experimental with Film Love Atlanta as Kool Kat Andry Diztler presents “An Evening of Stan Brakhage Films” at Emory White Hall at 7:30pm, featuring all 16mm prints [Keep your eyes peeled for our Kool Kat interview with Jane Wodening (Brakhage’s first wife)]! Geek it up at Medieval Times for Dragon Con Night! New Wave it up at Avondale Towne Cinema with Devomatix and The Fantastic Plastics! Rock out with Colin Hay at the Variety Playhouse! Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Graham Nash! The Buggs shake it up at Steve’s Live Music! The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center transforms into a Parisian bohemian cabaret as the Atlanta Ballet presents “Moulin Rouge: The Ballet”, shaking a tail feather through Feb. 13! Funk it up with Cadillac Jones at Venkman’s! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Led Zeppelin 2! Pay tribute to Motorhead at The Highlander with Bitch! Get funky with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! Boogie under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Lethal Rhythms! Rock out roots-style with The Donna Hopkins Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get saucy and blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, February 6

It’s Day 2 to get spooked at the Days of the Dead Convention at the Sheraton Atlanta! Get your blood curdling fill of monsters galore with “Mistress of the Dark” Elvira (today only in full costume!); Billy Dee Williams (STAR WARS); the Son of Celluloid Show; a Chaostume Showdown; and an epic dance party a.k.a. Carnage at 11pm, that will have you rattlin’ your bones deep into the night!

Hollyfest VIII invades The Star Bar with a night of rockin’ tributes to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, with performances by the Southern Ska Syndicate, Rodeo Twister, Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Johnny McGowan, Kool Kat Caroline & The Ramblers, The Mystery Men?, Skye Paige, Superpill, The Honey Lungs and Burning Truck! Punk rock it up with The Queers, Antagonizers ATL and DDC at the Drunken Unicorn! Snag a new look with a vintage Valentine’s clothes pop-up at Vintage Soiree, from 11am-6pm! Or rock out with Europe at the Masquerade! Get your swampy ragtime fix at Avondale Towne Cinema with Mayhayley’s Grave and Cold Heart Canyon! Make your way to the Georgia Freight Depot for The Pancake & Booze Art Show, featuring 60+ emerging artists, live music and free pancakes, from 8pm-2am! New Wave it up at the Variety Playhouse with The Producers and Indianapolis Jones! Get to the root of it all with Delta Moon at Blind Willie’s! Fire up the blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! The Northside Tavern delivers the Allman Brothers Tribute Band! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Mule Camp Tavern in Gainesville! Funk it up New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans 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, February 7

It’s Day 3 and your last chance to experience the rockin’ blood and horror fest, the Days of the Dead Convention! Today’s events include horrorific panels, including a POLTERGEIST panel, so, come on and check out all the swell and retro horror goodness while you can! You won’t want to miss the Super Sunday Collector’s Con, featuring comics, toys and more at the Atlanta Marriot Century Center from 11am-5pm! The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents the 60th Anniversary edition of Max Nosseck’s SINGING IN THE DARK (1956) at the Lefont Theatre at 11am! Jazz it up with Francine Reed at Eddie’s Attic! Rock on down to the Crimson Moon Café for their Boomers Gone Wild event, delivering a night of ‘60s and ‘70s covers! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center transforms into a Parisian bohemian cabaret as the Atlanta Ballet presents “Moulin Rouge: The Ballet”, shaking a tail feather through Feb. 13!

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

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! From juke joints to musicals to tantalizing burlesque, Retro Atlanta has it all! Come on out and see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, January 25

Get really retro at the Alpharetta Branch Library during their screening of Frank Capra’s classic, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) at 10:30am! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Rock out ‘90s industrial-style with Tool and Primus at the Gwinnett Center! 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 down and dirty and blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Catch a screening of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000) at the Georgia Tech Student Center Theater at 7pm! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 26

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema kicks off their “Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road” series with a screening of ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974) at 7pm, with an intro and Q&A after the screening! Rock out and pay homage to David Bowie with Jerome Newton & the Band Who Fell to Earth at 529! Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month! It’s a battle of rock ‘n’ roll proportions at the Red Light Café with the BadAsh Allstars and their Sun Records artists vs. Chess Records artists showdown! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill at Steve’s Live Music! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires up the blues at Blind Willie’s! Or blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 27

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” double-feature at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Francois Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS (1959) and ANTOINE AND COLETTE (1962) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Robert Earl Keen and The Roosevelts! Or folk it up with City Mouse, Frankie Boots and The Darnell Boys at Eddie’s Attic! 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 The Whiskey Gentry! Kool Kat Scott Glazer & his Mojo Dojo dish out a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ soul at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 28

The Star Bar delivers a hootenanny and a half with The Hooten Hallers, Deadly Lo-Fi and Georgia Slim! Skank it up with Reel Big Fish, The Maxies and Suburban Legends at the Masquerade! Jim White and Kristin Diable dish out a night of bluegrass and Americana at Grocery on Home! Folk it up with The Brookses and The Glumson Brothers at the Red Light Café! The Variety Playhouse delivers a triple threat with three nights of ZOSO, the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands! 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! Blues it up with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get your old-timey kicks with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents at Venkman’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, January 29

Shake it up at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids, the Night Terrors and Sonic Graffiti! Bluegrass it up with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out at Eddie’s Attic! Swing on by the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Atlanta Speakeasy Electro Swing! It’s a night of prohibition era pandemonium at Venkman’s with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers! Celebrate 60 years of Johnny Mathis at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Get mysterious during the ‘20s Haarlem Renaissance with Chesya Burke’s first novel; THE STRANGE CRIMES OF LITTLE AFRICA at Charis Books (see our Kool Kat interview soon)! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Robert Greenwald’s XANADU (1980), followed by an after party at Mary’s! Get funky with Voodoo Visionary, the Kinky Aphrodisiacs (King Koda) and The Night Shift at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Buckhead Theatre for a night with Art Garfunkel! Rock out with the Paradocs at the The Earl Smith Strand Theatre! The Variety Playhouse delivers night two of ZOSO, the ultimate Led Zeppelin experience! Eighties it up at the Craze Tavern (Duluth) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jim White and Kristin Diable dish out a second night of bluegrass and Americana at Grocery on Home! Get your Chicago/West Coast blues fix under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with the Electromatics! Domino delivers their Van Morrison tribute at Steve’s Live Music! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with the Non Stop Blues Band! Get saucy and blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, January 30

Rev on down to The Star Bar for Rockabilly Night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, Crazy Man Crazy and V-8 Death Car! Get intergalactic at the Fox Theatre with Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, delivering 5-decades of Star Trek soundtracks at 8pm! Jazz it up at Venkman’s with their Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with the David Ellington Jazz Trio, followed by Saved by the Band dishing out ‘80s and ‘90s tunes! It’s a night of Big Band music at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center with their presentation of “In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Review” at 2pm/8pm! Get old-timey at the Red Light Café with Don Gallardo, The Vaudevillains and The Waymores! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Tedo Stone, Oak House and Sydney Eloise & The Palms! Jazz it up with Ramsey Lewis and help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of “The In Crowd” at the Rialto Center for the Arts! It’s a night of ‘70s-era disco pop with the Susi French Connection at Eddie’s Attic! Get Cozy and boogie on down with DJ Cozy Shawn at 97 Estoria every Saturday night as he spins a night of classic vinyl! It’s your last chance to rock out with ZOSO at the Variety Playhouse! Get your ‘80s industrial and new-wave fix at the Famous Pub with Dark 80s: New-Wave Music Video Night with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! The Stoneberrys rock out to the tune of The Rolling Stones at Steve’s Live Music! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their I Knew You When: A Tribute to Billy Joe Royal event! It’s a night of rockin’ tributes at Smith’s Olde Bar with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac), The Dirty Doors (The Doors) and Refugee (Tom Petty)! Get to the root of it all with The Rosin Sisters at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Randall Bramblett Band! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets the rockin’ blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get down with Robert Lee Coleman at the Northside Tavern! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues deliver a night of blues, swing and soul with The 24th Street Wailers! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 31

Tiki it up The Earl with performances by Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s The Compartmentalizationalists, Tag Team, A Drug Called Tradition, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor and Nest Egg! It’s a night of horrorific mischief and mayhem at Big Ass Horror Bash 2, the official Days of the Dead 2016(DOTD) pre-party, presented by Son of Celluloid and DOTD at the American Tavern in Loganville, featuring performances by Kool Kats The Casket Creatures, Crypt 24, Graveyard Gospel and more! Or for something a bit less sinister, The Park Tavern presents, “Americana in the Park” with performances by Donna Hopkins, Cigar Store Indians, Milagro Saints, Roxie Watson and Russ Still & the Moonshiners! Get folksy and jazz it up with Lilac Wine during Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch! It’s a night of rockin’ blues at the Crimson Moon Café with the Whispering Gypsies! Jamie Laval gets folksy at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul and 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

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

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

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Get revved and rock out in Retro Atlanta this week!

Monday, January 18

Rock out with the Subsonics and Debbey Richardson (Magic Bone) at 529! Get possessed with a gargantuan love of art at Lefont Theatre’s screening of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary, PEGGY GUGGENHEIMM: ART ADDICT (2015) [see our Retro Review here]! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 19

Gypsy jazz it up with the Gonzalo Bergara Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Spend the night with the dinosaurs during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or catch George Ray Hill’s THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (1964) at the Decatur Library at 10am! The Imposeurs play R.E.M. at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Make your way to Pallookaville for Tuesday Night Trivia at 7pm! Get some soul with The Hollidays at Blind Willie’s! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 20

Catch a screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) during TCM’s “Big Screen Classics” series in theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Get cinematic French-style at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Claude Chabrol’s LES COUSINS (1959) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get a second chance to catch Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) during the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Madonna, the “Material Girl” invades Philips Arena! It’s a night of adventure at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 7pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Battlefield Collective! Get the Chicago/West coast blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 21

It’s a night of mayhem and rockin’ madness at Terminal West with Reverend Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson and Nashville Pussy! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Rock out and pay tribute with Built For Speed (Motorhead) and Pretty Vacant (The Sex Pistols) at The Star Bar! Bluegrass it up with The Bluegrass Playboys and Dusty Roads at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of rockin’ retro tunes at Venkman’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, January 22

Get down and dirty with Bad Friend, Bold Ashes and Russian Roulette at The Star Bar! A night of mystery and suspense ensues at SCADShow with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s THE LADY VANISHES (1938) at 7pm! Folk it up during The Kennedys’ 20th Anniversary Triple CD Release Party at the Red Clay Theatre! Sadie Hawkins presents The Men’s Room: A Burly Brolesque & Virile Variety Revue at the Red Light Café! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Nils Lofgren! Get folksy with Dylan Leblanc and Anthony Aparo at Eddie’s Attic! Get your traditional jazz fix with Madoca during Colbeh Persian Kitchen’s “Live on the Square” event! Steve’s Live Music rocks out with Tribute! Groove on down to the Northside Tavern for a night with Swami Gone Bananas! The “Ambassador of the Blues” James Armstrong gets down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with The Bobby Thompson Project at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 23

It’s a colossal fight of monstrous proportions at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with a screening of Ishiro Honda’s KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962) at 8pm! Andrea Colburn performs “Sad Songs & Switchblades” (CD Release party) with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents and Cold Heart Canyon at The Basement! The Actors Express murders with their opening night presentation of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at 8pm killing through Feb. 28! Rock out with Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) & the BFGs and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown at the Variety Playhouse! The Vegabonds and the Dead 27s dish out a night of Zeppelin-esque rock and southern soul at Aisle 5! Get some old-school soul with the Ben Wade Band and The Ormewoods at the Red Light Café! Boogie on down to the Opera Nightclub for Clash of the Decades: Music Video Dance Party with Kool Kat VJ Anthony! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Glen Iris, The People and Springwild! 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! Julie Christensen (Divine Horsemen) folks it up at the Red Clay Theatre! Make you way to Venkman’s for their Brunch with Dusty’s Ragtime & Silent Movies event! Blues it up and get funky with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get absurd and rock out with Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton at the Northside Tavern! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for their Bob Dylan Tribute Jam! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 24

Go on an adventure to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for their screening of Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) at 2pm! The Georgia Crackers deliver a night of vintage ‘20s string tunes at Steve’s Live Music! Get some soul and 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

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

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

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 back in the swing of things with Retro Atlanta! Take a peek at all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, January 11

Get really retro at the Alpharetta Branch Library during their screening of Mark Sandrich’s TOP HAT (1935) at 10:30am! Celebrate the birth of “The King” at the Lefont Theatre with their screening of Denis Sanders’ documentary ELVIS: THAT’S THE WAY IT IS (1970) at 7pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 12

Rock out at 529 with Glen Iris and Out of the Fire! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their Tease Tuesday Burlesque 2nd Anniversary Show, featuring performances by Circus Bitties, Bunny Wigglebottom, Annette Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! The Boohoo Ramblers get to stompin’ at Blind Willie’s! Get old-timey with The Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers at Steve’s Live Music! Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm! Get the blues with Cody Matlock at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 13

Hey all you mischievous miscreants, make your way to The Earl for a night of old-school punk and mayhem with X___X, Obnox and Shocked Minds! Get cinematic French-style at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Jean-Pierre Melville’s BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1955) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with the Georgia Crackers! Get your vintage Kansas City/West Coast swing fix with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Spend the night with the Pink Ladies at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their screening of Randal Kleiser’s GREASE (1978) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 14

Glam it up at The Earl for T.T. Mahoney’s Bowie In Sweats event, celebrating Bowie’s 69th birthday with Alexa Dexa, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters and The Compartmentalizationalists! Get your post punk dark-wave fix with The Soft Moon at Terminal West! Riff Trax Live gets intergalactic with a screening of Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) across Atlanta at 7:30pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! ATL Collective presents Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” at Eddie’s Attic! Get experimental and rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Eat Lightning, Lilac Shades, Think Never and the Dirty Magazines! Bluegrass it up with The Band of Desperate Men and In the Wheelhouse at the Red Light Café! Railroad Earth delivers a night of rockin’ bluegrass at the Variety Playhouse! Get down and dirty with Sandra Hall & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Jazz it up with Jeff Lorber and Andy Snitzer at Suite Food Lounge! Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of rockin’ retro tunes “unplugged” at Venkman’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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, January 15

Get your throwback to the ‘70s rock fix at The Star Bar with Bigfoot, Beitthemeans and The Stacktone Slims! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Lloyd’s Rocksteady Revue gets down with a night of ‘60s and ‘70s Jamaican soul at Venkman’s! Get the blues with Mike Farris at the Buford Community Center! It’s Friday Night Jazz at the High Museum, so come on out for a night with Mike Walton! Get your second helping of Railroad Earth at the Variety Playhouse! Hop on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing event! Atlanta Boogie gets down at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of “The Material Girl” with The True Blue Madonna Experience! Blues it up with George Hughley & The Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to the Northside Tavern for a night with Stoney Brooks! 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! Get down with The Rhythm Yard at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 16

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half during their All-Star Benefit for Greg, featuring Deke Dickerson, the Blacktop Rockets, Rodeo Twister, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Slim Chance & the Convicts, plus Kool Kat Julea Thomerson will be spinnin’ your favorite classic country and rockabilly tunes! Catch Robert Mulligan’s classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) on the big screen at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre at 8pm! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Norman Frank & The Ghost Dance and The Dirty Doors! Get old-timey with Tray Dahl & The Jugtime Ragband at Venkman’s! Back in the Saddle, Gwen Hughes and Matthew Kaminski present “The Other Side of Johnny Mercer” at the Red Clay Theatre! Get the blues at night two of Mike Farris at the Buford Community Center! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café (Gainesville) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Get revved with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta! Rock out at the Variety Playhouse with The Grapes and The Jeff Mosier Band! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Blind Willie’s! The Steel City Jug Slammers dish out a night of Delta blues and old-time jug music at the Crimson Moon Café! It’s a night of ‘30s-‘50s jazz standards at the Red Light Café with The Moonlighters Jazz Band and the “Little” Big Band Atlanta! Get bluesy with Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 17

Catch a screening of George Ray Hill’s classic, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) during TCM’s “Big Screen Classics” series in theatres across Atlanta at 2pm/7pm [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Get your bluegrass, punk ‘n’ folk fix at the Masquerade with Gallows Bound, Blood on the Harp and I Want Whiskey! The Shoal Street Stranglers folk it up at the Crimson Moon Café! Cristian Puig dishes out a night of Flamenco at the Red Light Café! Get some soul and 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

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

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 Star Bar delivers Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, every Tuesday!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow this week, kicking off the year with a whole lotta shakin’ shenanigans! Take a gander at all the Retro cinema! Come see what the Kat drug in and live la vida Retro!

Monday, January 4

Start the week off right and spend the day with the “Duke” at the Alpharetta Branch Library during their screening of Henry Hathaway’s TRUE GRIT (1969) at 10:30am! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of The Pork Bellys!

Tuesday, January 5

Get your time travel fix at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE III (1990), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Blues it up with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 6

Eddie’s Attic delivers a night of garage rock revival with Parker Gispert, lead singer of The Whigs! Rock out folk, punk ‘n’ roots style with Possessed by Paul James at Smith’s Olde Bar! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Curtis Jones & Primal Roots! 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! It’s your last chance to time travel to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE III (1990), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Stomp on down to The Star Bar for 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! Get some rhythm and soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 7

Celebrate “The King” as he invades Atlanta via screenings of Denis Sanders’ documentary ELVIS: THAT’S THE WAY IT IS (1970) at The Plaza Theater at 7:15pm/9:15pm and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7:30pm! Stomp on down to the Red Light Café for their Bluegrass Pickin’ Party! Get jazzy with Pamela “The Saxtress” Williams at Suite Food Lounge! Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of rockin’ retro tunes at Venkman’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for a night of cool island tunes and a couple Mai Tais! 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, January 8

Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for a good belly laugh as they screen Charles Lamont’s ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS (1955) at 8pm! Or catch the sequel that’s sweeping the underground, SAMURAI COP 2: DEADLY VENGEANCE (2015) at The Plaza Theater with a Q&A featuring actor Mark Frazer, moderated by local actor/filmmaker and Kool Kat Mike Malloy, screening through Jan. 14! Yacht Rock Schooner plays Steely Dan at Terminal West! Honkytonk it up at The Earl with Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Midnight Larks and A Drug Called Tradition! Eighties it up at the Suburban Tap (Marietta) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! SteamPunk on down to Famous Pub for RITUAL’s SteamPunk/Victorian Party! Get jazzy with the Kerry Hill Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Rock on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Deerhunter! Get folksy with Steve Forbert at the Red Light Café! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Almost Billy Joel and the Allentown Band! Get your zydeco/funk fix with Zydefunk at the Northside Tavern! Get funky under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with J.J. Thames at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, January 9

The Star Bar dishes out a hootenanny and a half with A Tribute to Buck Owens and Don Rich, featuring Ghost Riders Car Club with Kool Kat Spike Fullerton; Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles; Dave Weil (Blacktop Rockets); Willie Heath Neal & Kira Annalise; Mark Kirby; Dry Gulch and more! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp! featuring The Original Shake Charmers; Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello and Dick Dave & the Scavengers! Eddie’s Attic dishes out a night of gypsy jazz with Kool Kat Amy Pike with The Bonaventure Quartet! Yacht Rock Revue throws down with A Rock Fight between Led Zeppelin and The Who, featuring special guest Peter Stroud at Venkman’s! Blues it up with the AJ Ghent Band and Seth Winters at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get folksy with a tinge of the blues at Grocery on Home with Marshall Ruffin and Julia Haltigan! Pay tribute to the Allman Brothers with Live at the Fillmore at the Variety Playhouse! Folk it up with The Skipperdees, Megan Saunders & The Driftless and The Threadbare Skivvies at the Red Light Café! Get intergalactic and boogie on down to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their Post Holiday Dance Party! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Russ Still & the Moonshiners! Blues it up with Frankie’s Blues Mission at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! 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, January 10

Start the day off right with Venkman’s Bottomless Mimosa Brunch with The Matthew Kaminski Trio! Get some soul and blues it up with Fatback Deluxe at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get your second helping of Marshall Ruffin and Julia Haltigan at Grocery on Home! Get star-crossed at the Fox Theatre as The State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo and Juliet”! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

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

It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day, and 2016 finally arrives this week! So start the year off right and let Retro Atlanta show you what to do! We’ve got all the rockin’ swell events you won’t want to miss! Get dolled up, get your dancin’ shoes on and live la vida Retro! Come see what we have in store for you this week!

Monday, December 28

Get down and dirty with a night of ‘70s dive bar rock at The Earl with the Barreracudas, Thelma & The Sleaze and An English Place! Get witchy at Battle & Brew in Sandy Springs with 10 courses of brews and tasty treats during their Hogwarts Christmas Feast! Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Hugh Hudson’s CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981) at 10:30am! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! The Plaza Theater has retro fantastic gifts to give with their screenings of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939); Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) and Jerry Zucker’s GHOST (1990), all screening through Dec. 31! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast!

Tuesday, December 29

Yacht Rock Revue dishes out a night of acoustic Beatles at Venkman’s! Catch a screening of Henry Koster’s classic, HARVEY (1950) at the Charles D. Switzer Public Library at 12pm! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 30

Get funky with Funk You and Heavy Chevy at Terminal West! Or funk it up with Dyn-O-Mite at Smith’s Olde Bar! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo dishes out a night of blues, jazz ‘n’ southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Rock out blues-style with Gregg Allman at Atlanta Symphony Hall! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with The Mars Hill Porch Pickers! Jam it up with Widespread Panic at the Fox Theatre! Absynthe Makes the Art Garfunkel rocks out to the tunes of Art Garfunkel at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Get funky and rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Georgia Flood! 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, December 31

It’s New Year’s Eve, folks! Out with the old and in with the new! Although, we here at ATLRetro prefer the old, so we’ve put together a swell Throwback to the 20^th Century New Year’s Eve Guide, that will lead the way as you boogie on down to your final destination in 2015 (keep your eyes peeled)! Ring in the New Year in style and toast 2016 in Retro Atlanta! We wish you a very vintage and rockin’ Happy New Year!

Friday, January 1

Stomp on down to The Earl for a night of old-time mischief and mayhem with Blood on the Harp, Reverend Hylton and 16 Coaches! Bluegrass it up with The Gibson Brothers, followed by the vintage rock of Tony Levitas at Eddie’s Attic! 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, January 2

Clown around and get two heaping helpings of Puddles Pity Party at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room! Or rock on down to the Atlanta Room for tribute night with Built For Speed (Motorhead); Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols); and The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett)! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for their screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) backed by ASO’s presentation of John Williams’ score played live at 8pm! Too Slim & the Tail Draggers get the rockin’ blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Get your roots rock fix with Delta Moon at Eddie’s Attic, followed by a folksy twist with Caroline Aiken! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, January 3

The Indigo Girls folk rock it up for a cause, benefiting Save the Libraries at Terminal West! It’s your last chance to make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for their screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) backed by ASO’s presentation of John Williams’ score played live at 3pm! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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

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 all you retro-lovin’ kiddies! It’s that time of year again! The big jolly fella may be spying to see if you’re naughty or nice, so show ‘em how good (or bad, we don’t mind!) you are by gettin’ out and seeing what Retro Atlanta has in store for you! It’s a week of holiday cheer, retro-style, so whether you’re hankerin’ for a good classic flick or are needing to get your retro rockin’ fix, come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, December 21

Get your holiday fix, retro-style at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their holiday movie marathon featuring Frank Capra’s classic, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946), with screenings at 12pm; 3pm; 6pm and 9pm, with a holiday pre-show and sing-along! ATL Collective gets funky with their presentation of James Brown’s “Funky Christmas” at Terminal West! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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! Or make your way to the Fox Theatre for Keith & Kristyn Getty’s “An Irish Christmas”! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Toyland” edition, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast!

Tuesday, December 22

The Northlake Festival Movie Tavern delivers your retro holiday fix with a screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, , IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 23

TCM presents George Seaton’s holiday classic, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Make your way to the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern for their screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, , IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Get funky and rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Georgia Flood! 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, December 24

It’s your last chance to catch Frank Capra’s holiday classic, , IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their special Christmas Eve presentation of their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party and a couple cocktails! 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, December 25

It’s a retro Christmas, folks! For those of you wondering, Retro Atlanta is alive and hopping today, so come on out and see what the jolly old fella has up his big red sleeve! The Plaza Theater has retro fantastic gifts to give with their screenings of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939); Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980) and Jerry Zucker’s GHOST (1990), all screening through Dec. 31! Rock out and get your fill of cosmic sludge with Motherfucker and MTN ISL at The Earl! 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, December 26

Get kinky and shimmy ‘n’ shake on down to The Star Bar and celebrate all the kids on the naughty list during Roxie Roz’ Holiday Kink Burlesque Show featuring performances by Kitty Capone, Kool Kat Katherine Lashe, Mary Strawberry, and music by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! Brother Hawk and Stonerider rock out at The Earl! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at the Red Clay Theatre! Glam it up and rock out with The Swinging Richards and Pinups at Smith’s Olde Bar! You’re your way to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Glenn Phillips! 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, December 27

Bluegrass it up with the Dave Rawlings Machine at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Snake Legs at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” through Dec. 23! (LAST CHANCE)

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24! (LAST CHANCE)

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27! (LAST CHANCE)

Atlanta Ballet presents THE NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, running through Dec. 27! (LAST CHANCE)

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

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow this ho-ho holiday season! We’ve got cult holiday flicks to Halloween in December to a whole ‘lotta of honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill and the weather’s got you down, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and get Retro!

Monday, December 14

Celebrate 100 years of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” at the Lefont Theatre as they screen Lewis Milestone’s OCEAN’S 11 (1960) at 7pm! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! 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 folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Michael McDonald! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! And Fat Matt’s Rib Shack dishes out a night of BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast!

Tuesday, December 15

The Earl Smith Strand Theatre delivers an Atlanta holiday tradition with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s tribute to Vince Guaradli and “A Charlie Brown Christmas”! Jingle on down with show openers Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, followed by Kool Kat Chad Shivers and the Silent Knights performing their Beach Boys Christmas tribute! Geek it up at Diesel Filling Station with Star Wars Nerd-Core Trivia night! Get in the spirit retro-style at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Michael Curtiz’ holiday classic, WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get weird this holiday season with RiffTrax Live 2015’s presentation of Barry Mahon’s SANTA & THE ICE CREAM BUNNY (1972) at theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Perimeter Pointe 10; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Twain’s in Decatur every Tuesday at 9 pm! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, December 16

Join the old-timey pandemonium at The Earl with Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Avi Jacob and Poison Coats! STAR WARS it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as SCENE MISSING Presents: The Force Atlantans, featuring music, comedy and all around shenanigans based on STAR WARS films at 9pm! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a night with Mothership! It’s your last chance to get in the spirit retro-style at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Michael Curtiz’ holiday classic, WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) for a screening of Chris Columbus’ HOME ALONE (1990) at 7pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Get funky and rock on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Georgia Flood! 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, December 17

Celebrate the hellidays at The Star Bar’s Rock and Roll Christmas Pageant with Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, Night Terrors, Metal McDonald and more! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party and a couple cocktails! 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, December 18

Rock out with The Whigs at Aisle 5! Catch a screening of Amy Berg’s documentary, JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE (2015) at The Plaza Theater, running through Dec. 24! The Earl delivers night one of an Atlanta holiday tradition with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s tribute to Vince Guaradli and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with Book of Colors and Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Motorheads in McDonough! Geek it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as Highwire Comedy Company presents “The Farce Awakens”! 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, December 19

Rock out for a cause at The Star Bar during their Rock ‘n’ Roll Toys for Tots event featuring Dry Gulch, McPherson Struts, Bad Friend, Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club, The Downer Brothers, Bully and The Trash Hats! The Earl delivers night one of an Atlanta holiday tradition with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer’s tribute to Vince Guaradli and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with Book of Colors and Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers a night of Goth, dark ‘80s and industrial during his Coffin Classics event at Famous Pub! We know you’ve been naughty, so make your way to the Village Theatre for The Holiday Puckin’ Fuppet Show! Get a second rockin’ helping of Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles as they fire it up at the Dixie Tavern! Rock on down to Terminal West for a night with Drivin’ ‘n Cryin’ and Kool Kat Blackfoot Gypsies! 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, December 20

Get sinister with Santa with Chambers of Horror during their Slaytanic XXXmas event featuring Fiend Without a Face, Degradations, Harvester and more! TCM presents George Seaton’s holiday classic, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Swing on by Eddie’s Attic for Joe Gransden and his 16-piece orchestra’s Christmas Special! Rock on down to Terminal West for a night with Drivin’ ‘n Cryin’ and Kool Kat Blackfoot Gypsies! Geek it up shop till you drop for those last-minute gifts at My Parents’ Basement during their December Bizarre Bazaar, from 1-6pm!! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Shakespeare Tavern presents Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” through Dec. 23!

The Alliance Theatre presents Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24!

Center for Puppetry Arts presents their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27!

Atlanta Ballet presents THE NUTCRACKER at the Fox Theatre, running through Dec. 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!

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.