ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Baby, it’s gettin’ cold outside! But no worries! Retro Atlanta promises to get you warm and toasty with a week of rockin’ good times, filled to the brim with nostalgic holiday goodness! So get hep to the jive and come on out to see what Retro Atlanta has in store for you!

Monday, December 7

Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic and start your week with Oxford American Magazine’s annual Southern Music Issue Launch Party featuring Kool Kat Col. Bruce Hampton & the Madrid Express, Robert Lee Coleman and more! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Henry Koster’s THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947), running through Dec. 10! 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!’ Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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!

Tuesday, December 8

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Elia Kazan’s classic, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951), screening in 35mm at 7pm! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café as Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Naughty or Nice event! Have a slapstick holiday at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch Frank Capra’s IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! The Charles D. Switzer Public Library presents Anthony Mann’s THE NAKED SPUR (1953) at 12pm! 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 9

Psychobilly on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with The Living Deads, Southern Ska Syndicate and Cadillac Junkies! Catch a second screening of Jeremiah S. Chechik’s NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Or make your way to the Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; and AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville for a 25th Anniversary screening of Chris Cameron’s HOME ALONE (1990) at 7:3opm! 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! 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 10

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! 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 11

Geek it up at Diesel Filling Station for their 4th Annual Atlanta Bar Wars: The Crawl Awakens event! Shake a tail feather at the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electro Swing Year End Birthday Bash, featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love and more! Dance on over to the Fox Theatre for the Atlanta Ballet’s opening performance of THE NUTCRACKER, running through Dec. 27! Blues it up with Sandra Hall at Blind Willie’s! Rock on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with the Atlanta Rhythm Section! Rev out with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt as he goes solo and acoustic in the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blues it up under the dinosaurs with The Electromatics at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, December 12

Spend the night with The King at the Variety Playhouse as Kool Kat “Big” Mike Geier delivers his annual Kingsized Holiday Jubilee & Toy Drive with Dames Aflame! Or slum it up at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their 9th Annual Gingerbread Trailer Park event! Surf on down, holiday-style, to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp holiday event featuring Chad Shivers & the Silent Knights, The One & Only Bill Davis and The Home Alones, dishing out The Ventures and The Beach Boys’ Christmas albums! Get legendary at The Earl as Stax Records legend William Bell gets some soul! Celebrate 100 years of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” at the Lefont Theatre as they screen Lewis Milestone’s OCEAN’S 11 (1960) at 10:30am! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Get jazzy with Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Ferst Center! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Deep South Deli & Pub in McDonough! 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 13

Spend the night with the “King of Kink” John Waters, at the Variety Playhouse and get Holier & Dirtier! Sing along holiday-style at Pallookaville with Mr. Puddles, Mr. Bigfoot, Matthew Kaminski and more (7pm/9:30pm)! Catch a screening of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 2pm! Get old-timey with Dr. Ralph Stanley at Eddie’s Attic! Make your way to the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club for their annual Lovecrafts: Treasures From the Deep local artists’ sale and more, from 2-6pm! 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 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

Hey all you fabulous retro kiddies! 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 honky-tonk, blues and rock n roll! If you’re lookin’ for a thrill, get off that couch, put on your dancin’ shoes and live la vida Retro!

Monday, November 30

Get possessed with a gargantuan love of art at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s screening of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary, PEGGY GUGGENHEIMM: ART ADDICT (2015) [see our Retro Review here]! Put on your dancin’ shoes and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Gene Kelly’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) at 10:30am! The Plaza Theater screens Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE (1983) and Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), running through Dec. 3! 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! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, December 1

Get your rock ‘n’ soul fix at The Earl with the Seratones and The Marrows! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, VERTIGO (1958), screening in 35mm at 7pm! Rock out with We Were Promised Jet Packs at the Masquerade! Don’t shoot your eye out at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! TCM Presents their second screening of William Wyles’ classic, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Punk on down to 529 for a night with Shocked Minds, Paint Fumes, Vacation and Bad Spell! Make your way to the Charles D. Switzer Public Library for their screening of Anthony Mann’s THE FAR COUNTRY (1955) at 12pm! 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 2

Get cosmic with a night of krautrock at the Masquerade with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind and Hedersleben! Get funky with the Lightning Orchestra Band at Aisle 5! Rock out with Song Missing Presents: Bohemiatlantan Rhapsody at the Village Theatre with performances based on the songs of Queen! 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! Get hellacious at The Plaza Theater with Kool Kat Ricky Hess’ award-winning web series, HORROR HOTEL’s Season 2 premiere! Get a second helping of Bob Clark’s A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) screening at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with the Martin Barre Band! 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! 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 3

Croon on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Michael Feinstein and his Sinatra Centennial Celebration with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! 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]! Rock out at The Earl with Starbenders, The Tip and Rad-Isaurus Rex! Get classically retro at the Shakespeare Tavern with their presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” running through Dec. 23! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to Suite Food Lounge for a night with Ken Ford and Karen Briggs! Rock out blues-style with The John Kadlecik Band (Dark Star Orchestra) at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with Old Sea Brigade, Wyldernesse and Muleskinner MacQueen at the Red Light Café! 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, December 4

The Red Light Café dishes out a weekend of indie rock ‘n’ pop with the International Pop Overthrow (IPO), running through Dec. 6! Rock on down for Day 1 with Scarlett Hill; Pelicans & Their Allies; Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock; Paul Melancon & the New Insecurities; Kenny Howes & The Wow!; and The Shut-Ups! Surf into the holiday season with Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Revue and Los Straitjackets at the Variety Playhouse! Or make your way to Famous Pub for Ritual’s 3rd Annual Nightmare Before Christmas Party! Walk like a camel on down to The Star Bar for a night with Southern Culture on the Skids and The Woolly Bushmen! Rock on down to Stagga Lee’s Goodtime Emporium for Hermon Hitson’s Annual Jimi Hendrix Birthday Tribute! Get witchy and catch a broom down to Diesel Filling Station for the Hogwartz Pub Crawl! Get old-timey and folk it up at The Earl with The Deslondes, Cicada Rhythm and Pat Reedy & the Longtime Goners! Kool Kats The District Attorneys play their farewell show at Smith’s Olde Bar with Blue Blood and Tedo Stone! Rock out roots-style with Donna Hopkins and Ralph Roddenberry at the Crimson Moon Café! Make your way to The Plaza Theater for a screening of Henry Koster’s THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947), running through Dec. 10! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Joey’s Bar & Grille in Douglasville! Groove on down to Aisle 5 for a night with Voodoo Visionary and Johnny Awesome! Rock out with The Spirit of Rush at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky under the dinosaurs with Lethal Rhythms at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! Blues it up with Sweet & Salty 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, December 5

Rock out to Day 2 of the International Pop Overthrow (IPO) at the Red Light Café with Lloyd Rieves; Steve Baskin; Brent Daniel; Murray Attaway & Lee Flier; The Real Hooks; Dot 22; and The Sunset District! Or rock out holiday-style with the Brian Setzer Orchestra at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Wreck the halls during The L5P Annual Krampus Krawl with the Black Sheep Ensemble at 8pm! Or spend A Victorian Holiday at the Oakland Cemetery from 12-4pm, with carols, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas”, hot cocoa and more! Celebrate Gumby’s 60th Anniversary with an evening of your favorite episodes at The Center for Puppetry Arts, curated by Joe Clokey (son of Gumby creator, Art Clokey)! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhouse for the 7th Annual Y’all Tide Celebration with Have Gun, Will Travel; Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers; and The Whiskey Gentry! Get retro at Vintage Soiree’s “Duds for a Dollar” vintage clothing pop-up, from 11am-6pm! Get some funky soul at Aisle 5 with The Congress and The Jauntee! Skate on down to DooGallery for their 11th Annual Deck the Walls skate deck art show at 9pm! Funk it up with Cadillac Jones, Secondhand Swagger and Straw Polly at The Earl! Rock out folk-style with Michelle Malone at the Crimson Moon Café! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Stomp on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Heather Luttrell! 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 6

Day 3 (and your last chance) of the International Pop Overthrow (IPO) rocks out with COLORadio; Misery Loves Chachi; Orange Hat; The Joe & Joe Show; What The…?; and The Soogs at the Red Light Café! ATL Collective presents Burl Ives’ “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” at The Art Farm at Serenbe! Folk it up with Al Stewart at Terminal West! Make your way to Steve’s Live Music for their Holiday DivaPalooza! Boomers Gone Wild gets down at the Crimson Moon Café at 7pm! 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!

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 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

Hey all you Retro Atlanta kiddies! Start some new holiday traditions this year and let Retro Atlanta guide the way! Whether you’re lookin’ to escape or just needing to get out and breathe, we’ve got a cornucopia of holiday rockin’ fun lined up that will fill you to the brim with giddy! So, come on out and get Retro rockin’ holiday-style!

Monday, November 23

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 really retro and make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of George Cukor’s PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) at 10:30am! Get fanatic at The Plaza Theater as they screen Rob Reiner’s MISERY (1990), running through Nov. 26! The Hollidays dish out a night of rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! 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 “Moto Psychos, Speed Freaks and Auto Obsessions” 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 blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 24

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL (1980) at 7pm! Make your way to Eddie’s Attic for a night with John Oates! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! You won’t want to miss the Susan Chambers Dance Co.’s presentation of “A Christmas Carol – The Musical” at the Gwinnett Center at 11am and 7pm! Blues it up with the Cody Matlock Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, November 25

It’s a night of old-time pandemonium at the Clermont Lounge with Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Blood on the Harp and more! Get funky with Zach Deputy at Eddie’s Attic! Or experience Gimme Hendrix at Aisle 5! Rock on down to the Masquerade for a raucous night with Gwar, Battlecross, Harvester and Apothecary! Get your holiday Broadway fix with Cirque Dreams Holidaze at the Fox Theatre! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of Chicago and West Coast blues with the Electromatics! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 26

Burn off all the extra Turkey Day stuffing in Retro Atlanta! 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 Plaza Theater screens Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE (1983) and Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), running through Dec. 3! 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, November 27

Spend the evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the tune of John Williams, with their Star Wars and More! musical extravaganza at 8pm! The hills are alive at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their sing along and screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) at 8pm! The Blind Boys of Alabama dish out a night of roots, soul and blues at Eddie’s Attic! Skank on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Toasters, Razorcombs and the Southern Ska Syndicate! The Last Waltz Ensemble rock out to the tune of Bob Dylan and The Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Make your way to the Crimson Moon Café for a night with Montana Skies! Get your classic holiday fix with the Northeast Atlanta Ballet as they present “The Nutcracker” at the Gwinnett Center! Stomp on down to the Tabernacle for a night with Blackberry Smoke! Or get the rockin’ blues with the Randall Bramblett Band and Delta Moon at Terminal West! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Get hunted at the Oakland Cemetery with their Harvest Scavenger Hunt, running through Nov. 29! It’s a night of dark ‘80s and industrial with Kool Kat VJ Anthony and his BLACKOUT: Goth Industrial Dance Night at Famous Pub! Make your way to the Red Light Café for Glenn Phillips’ annual Day After Thanksgiving Show! Get your classic rock ‘n’ blues fix with the Barry Richman Band at Steve’s Live Music! Folk on down to The Earl for a night with Thayer Sarrano, 100 Watt Horse and Man Up, Yancey! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rhythm soul and rock ‘n’ roll with The Hollidays! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ 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, November 28

Get historical at the Oakland Cemetery with their Malts & Vaults: Prohibition Edition at 3pm! Or shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for DJ Doctor Q’s Speakeasy Electro Swing’s Athens Invasion! Retro it up rock and pop-style at the Drunken Unicorn with The Head (record release), Sydney Eloise & the Palms and Chelsea Shag! Rock out folk-style with Shawn Mullins at the Variety Playhouse! Steve’s Live Music offers up a plate of Hot Club jamming and Parisian Swing with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet! It’s a night of ‘70s psychedelia at The Earl with Kool Kats Spirits & the Melchizedek Children with All Them Witches! Get a second helping of The Blind Boys of Alabama at Eddie’s Attic, followed by Ellis Paul dishing out a night of rockin’ folk! Rock on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for Tribute’s homage to The Allman Brothers! Get some southern-fried blues with EG Kight at the Crimson Moon Café! Spend a second evening with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to the tune of John Williams, with their Star Wars and More! musical extravaganza at 8pm! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at the Sportsline Bar in Lawrenceville! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 29

TCM Presents William Wyler’s classic, ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Or get your classic holiday fix at the Fox Theatre’s annual free event, “Mighty Mo & More! Organ Concert & Sing-A-Long” featuring George Seaton’s MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) at 4pm! Get your post-punk new wave revival fix with The Wombats and Royal Teeth at The Loft! Make your way to My Parents’ Basement in Avondale Estates for their November Bizarre Bazaar from 2-6pm! Gypsy jazz it up with The Roamin’ Jasmines and the Bonaventure Quartet, featuring Kool Kat Amy Pike at the Red Light Café! Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox dishes out a night of ragtime and swing at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Steve the Blues Dude gets down and dirty at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

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!

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

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

This week in Retro Atlanta is chock full of smokin’ blues, Burly-Q shenanigans, and all sorts of madness and mayhem, so come on out and see what we’ve found for you! And don’t forget all the classic cinema and rowdy nitty gritty rock ‘n’ roll invading Retro Atlanta!

Monday, November 16

Rock out with the Dandy Warhols and The Shivas at Terminal West! Or get your Danish heavy metal fix with King Diamond at the Tabernacle! Resurgens Theatre Co. presents their adaptation of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s “The Changeling” at the Shakespeare Tavern, running through Nov. 20! Folk it up with The Amigos at the Red Light Café! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Blues it up with Atlanta Boogie at Blind Willie’s! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of “Glam Bam Thank You Ma’am” 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 blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 17

Shake ‘n’ shimmy on down to The Star Bar for Roxie Roz’ Thanksgiving Burlesque Show, featuring Sadie Hawkins, Kitty Capone, Luna Lynx and music by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a screening of Robert Rossen’s THE HUSTLER (1961) at 7pm! Get historic and experience A Colonial Thanksgiving meal at Pallookaville! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! The Decatur Library screens Michael Curtiz’ WE’RE NO ANGELS (1955) at 9:30am! Stomp on down to Eddie’s Attic for a night with Cicada Rhythm! Jam it up with Dead and Company at Philips Arena! Blind Willie’s dishes out a night of down and dirty blues with Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck! Blues it up with Little G. Weevil at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! 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, November 18

Get some soul at Ferst Center with Mavis Staples and Joan Osborne! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema presents a magical 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant/Dick Huemer’s Disney classic, FANTASIA (1940) at 7pm! Emory Cinematheque presents Isao Takahata’s MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (1999) at 7:30pm in White Hall, during their Japanese Anime series! Rock out Argentinean-style with Vilma Palma e Vampiros at Smith’s Olde Bar in the Music Room! Or get funky in the Atlanta Room with Remembering January, Laney Jones & the Spirits and Why Hotel! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Joe McGuinness! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s HOOK (1991) at 7pm! The hills are alive at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with a second screening of Robert Wise’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 19

Get down and dirty at The Star Bar with Stolen Rhodes, The Scragglers, Red Dirt Mountain and JP Blues! Or jazz it up bluegrass-style with Kenosha Kid and The Hibbard/Wright Project at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with The Way Down Wanderers at the Red Clay Theatre! Get really retro and start the holiday season with the Alliance Theatre as they present their adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol”, running through Dec. 24! Get your rockin’ blues fix with Debbie Davies at Blind Willie’s!! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with and a couple of 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 20

Get some ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at the High Museum! Or swing on by Cajun-style to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Zydeco Ya Ya! Get artsy retro-style with Kool Kat Chris Hamer of UrbnPop at his Drawn & Disorderly art show at the Red Brick Brewing Company! Denny Laine (The Moody Blues/Wings) gets down at the Red Clay Theatre! Get fanatic at The Plaza Theater as they screen Rob Reiner’s MISERY (1990), running through Nov. 26! Rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with Motor Earth, The Halls of Jupiter and Hot Wives! Funk it up with the Rebirth Brass Band and Naughty Professor at Terminal West! Leigh Nash delivers a night of vintage pop at Eddie’s Attic! Hop a broom to the Diesel Filling Station for stop one of the Potter Pub Crawl! Eighties it up at Wild Wing Café (Gainesville) with Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch and Denim Arcade! Joe Bonamassa rocks out blues-style at the Fox Theatre! Get your fill of classic rock, ‘80s and funk with the Uncle Mike Band at Steve’s Live Music! Blues it up with George Hughley & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Make your way to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their opening screening of Jeffrey Schwarz’ documentary, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (2015)! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues dishes out a night of rockin’ blues with Plate Full of Blues! Or get the blues with Stoney Brooks at Northside Tavern! Make your way to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Men in Blues! It’s Salsa Dance Night at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event, so cha-cha under the dinosaurs with the Salsambo Dance Studio while sippin’ a few cocktails! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 21

The Highlander delivers a night of down and dirty debauchery with the Spectremen, Kool Kats The Casket Creatures and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! Cast a spell and make your way to the Masquerade for a night of sinister seduction at the Atlanta’s Wizard Ball 2! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Cheap Thrills! event! The Scragglers rock out at Kavarna! The ultimate Michael Jackson tribute, Who’s Bad, gets down at the Variety Playhouse! Stomp over to Steve’s Live Music for a night with Michelle Malone! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles fire it up at Dixie Tavern! Blues it up with Tab Benoit at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get your ‘90s jazz fix with Kenny G at the Buckhead Theatre! Or put on those dancin’ shoes and get ready for a night of retro rock, Motown, funk, Big Band and more at The Basement for Electric Western’s Keep on Movin’ Rock and Soul Dance Party! Get funky with The Mike Dillon Band at the Drunken Unicorn! Make your way to Vinyl for a night with Zangaro, The Extraordinary Contraptions and The Listening Wall! Blues it up with Big Bill Morganfield at Blind Willie’s! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for The Art of Tiki seminar at 5pm! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins delivers some rockin’ blues at the Northside Tavern! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 22

Shimmy on down to 7 Stages for a good cause and a tantalizing tease! Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South present their annual Tits For Tots For Toys Burlesque Variety Show, featuring performances by Annette Coquette, Greta Vontrol Lop, Bourgeois Betty, Fianna Flowerchild, Bunny Wigglebottom, Flame Cynders and more! Get adventurous at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their second screening of Steven Spielberg’s HOOK (1991) at 2pm! Stomp on down to the Variety Playhousefor a night with Shakey Graves! The Wizards of Winter rock out at Center Stage! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre and David Crowe (dir.) present Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, running through Nov. 22! (LAST CHANCE!)

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!

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 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

Forget the horrorific daily grind and take a peek at what we have in store, kiddies! Let Retro Atlanta fill you with a week’s worth of swingin’ good times; from vintage, fuzzed out rock ‘n’ roll to bloody fangtastic films to steamy burlesque to classic cinema galore! It’ll be a bloody good time, so get out and get retro!

Monday, November 9

Get mischievously rockin’ and doo-wop on down to The Earl for a night with The King Kahn BBQ Show with Milk Lines! Honkytonk it up with Joe Ely at Eddie’s Attic! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for the second performance of “Gotham: A Tale of Two Faces” presented by Hysteria Machines, featuring drama, defiance, debauchery and more! Get funky and groove on down to Café 290 every second and fourth Monday of the month for a taste of Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’ Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by the Georgia Ensemble Theatre for a night with  Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! 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 blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a taste of the Pork Belly’s and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, November 10

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with a 35mm screening of John Huston’s THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (1948) at 7pm! It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Stripsgiving event featuring performances by Bunny Wigglebottom, Anna Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Make your way to the Center for Puppetry Arts as they present their annual puppet adaptation of Larry Roemer’s holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964), sleighing through Dec. 27! Catch a 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant and Dick Heumer’s FANTASIA (1940) at Cinebistro and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Blues it up with Cody Matlock at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, November 11

Funk it up with Turkuaz and The Get Right Band at Aisle 5! The Earl rocks out with Fuzz, WALTER and The Compartmentalizationalist (with Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer)! Catch a 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinneman’s OKLAHOMA (1955) at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Get some blues ‘n’ soul mojo at Blind Willie’s with Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Celebrate 25 years of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 4:30pm/7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets the blues with Frankie’s Blues Mission! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) screens Nora Ephron’s YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) at 7:30pm! Steve’s Live Music delivers a night of ragtime jazz with Penny Serenade! Get funky with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 12

Get your rock ‘n’ roll legend fix with Patti Smith at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with The Kinsey Report at Blind Willie’s! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns dish out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Get your punk and metal fix at The Star Bar during Jabroni Fest 3, rocking through Nov. 14! Bluegrass it up with The Brummy Brothers and Wisewater at the Red Light Café! The Imposeurs play Elvis Costello and more at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party with and a couple of 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 13

Emory Film & Media Studies presents Penelope Spheeris “Movies & Rock –n- Roll”, with a special screening of her documentary THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (1979) at 7:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt’s solo acoustic show at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Honkytonk down to Hottie Hawgs BBQ for a night with Kool Kat Rich Desantis’ Whiskey Belt! Get folksy with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Spend the night with Zappa/Mother’s synth legend, Don Presten and his Akashic Ensemble 2015, featuring Andre Cholmondeley and Mike Dillon at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for an evening with Judy Collins! Sandra Hall & the Shadows get down at Blind Willie’s! Get the rockin’ blues with Hurricane Ruth at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Or get the old-school blues with Eddie Tigner at Northside Tavern! Folk it up with Nathaniel Ratecliff and Caroline Rose at The Earl! Rock out with The Wood Brothers at the Buckhead Theatre! Netherworld Haunted House haunts one more weekend this spooky season, through Nov. 14! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night with Sana Blues! Catch a screening of Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Get old-timey at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The HoBoHemians and jazz it up 20s/30s style under the dinosaurs! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 14

Let the weirdly wild and bone-chilling adventure begin with day one of the 10th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival, Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival getting grotesquely gory at Synchronicity Theatre, with a special presentation of Dario Argento’s DEEP RED (1976) ($10/screening; $50/all-access) (with Kool Kats Blake Myers and Luke Godfrey)! Surf on down to Kavarna for Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring the Southern Ska Syndicate, the Rondo Hatton Band and Revenge Beach! Run away and join the Dirty Circus and rock out with The Sideburners, the Screamin’ Demons and some crazy acrobatics with The Off-Centered Project! You won’t want to miss the Grande Opening of the Worlds of Puppetry Museum at the Center for Puppetry Arts, and get your fill of Jim Henson’s world and more, at 11am! Rock out with The Pietasters, Patriot, Soul Radics, Antagonizers ATL and Bastard Brigade at Famous Pub! The Plaza Theater screens Jennie Livingston’s PARIS IS BURNING (1991) for one night only, at 9:30pm! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles at Stix Bar & Grill in Vila Rica! Galactic gets funky at the Variety Playhouse! Bluegrass it up with the Jon Strickley Trio at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Go down under and get your Australian blues ‘n’ roots fix with Harper & Midwest Kind at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Albert White goes old-school blues-style at the Northside Tavern! Joe McGuinness gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Mr. Chapman’s Revue delivers the blues 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, November 15

It’s day two of Atlanta’s premiere horror film festival, the 10th Annual Buried Alive Film Festival featuring a grotesque line-up of bone-chilling feature-length and short horror films at Synchronicity Theatre! Skank on down to Terminal West for a night with The English Beat and the Southern Ska Syndicate! Get your Broadway and show tunes fix at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with organist Kool Kat Ron Carter during their Open House & Variety Show at 3pm! It’s an evening of Gypsy jazz with Ultrafaux and Kool Kat Amy Pike and The Bonaventure Quartet at the Red Light Café! Rock out at The Earl with Jungol; Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun; Stokeswood; The Locksmyth; and The Boy Jones! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Blues it up with Stephen 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 Georgia Ensemble Theatre and David Crowe (dir.) present Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, running through Nov. 22!

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!

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 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

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Shake a tail feather and come see what we’ve dug up for you this week! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, November 2

Rock into this week at the Masquerade with Soul Asylum, the Meat Puppets and Hope Country! Get some rockin’ soul and blues it up with Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with the JP Blues Band at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 3! 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! Get folksy with Jamie Laval at Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! And Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, November 3

Hey all you miscreants, rock on down to The Star Bar for a night with The Coathangers, The Birth Defects and Paralyzer! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema dishes out classic cinema with Vittorio De Sica’s UMBERTO D (1952) at 7pm! Get your ‘90s rock fix at The Loft with Everclear’s Sparkle & Fade 20th Anniversary Tour! May all your dreams come true at the Fox Theatre with their presentation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, running through Nov. 8! Get your Dixieland fix at Steve’s Live Music with La Terza Classe! Or get adventurous at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch a 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinneman’s OKLAHOMA (1955) AT Cinebistro at 7pm and the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7pm! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, November 4

Get funky with BJ Wilbanks at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! It’s your last chance to spend the night with Harrison Ford at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern with their screening of Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Make your way to Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Cameron Crowe’s JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Lola at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, November 5

The Star Bar dishes out a night of debauchery with Blue Tower, Forsaken Profits, X-Ray Vision, American Discord, Cadillac Junkies and The Red Phantoms! Sex, Drugs & Bluegrass presents a heinous hootenanny with Kool Kat Caleb & The Gents, the Glen DeMerritt Trio and B.R. Lively at the Red Light Café! Get your psych rock fix with The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with the Karp Foley Band at Steve’s Live Music! Rock down to The Earl for a night with Goodnight Buffalo, Faithless Town and New Terminus! Catch the Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, directed by David Crowe, running through Nov. 22! 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! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, November 6

It’s a night of secret agents and espionage at The Highlander as they celebrate the release of the new Bond film, SPECTRE, with a helluva party featuring Band. James Band (See our Kool Kat interview soon!), Map of the Moon and The Shut-Ups! Get funky with Lettuce at the Buckhead Theatre! Catch Film Love Atlanta’s screening of Andy Warhol’s THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO (1965) at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center at 7pm! Get jazzy at The Plaza Theater as they screen Jeff Lieberman’s documentary, THE AMAZING NINA SIMONE (2015), running through Nov. 12! Rock out ‘80s-style at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with Van Heineken (Van Halen tribute), Radio Cult and performances by Blast-Off Burlesque! Folk it up with the Milk Carton Kids at Atlanta Symphony Hall! Rock out blues-style with Loudon Wainright III at Eddie’s Attic! Get gangsta ‘20s-style at the Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre with their presentation of “Bugsy Malone”, running through Nov. 8! Stomp on down to the Atlanta Room at Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Skye Paige, The Western Sizzlers and the Todd Prusin Experience. Or funk it up with Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Myles Brown and Alexandria Lushington in the Music Room! Catch a screening of Victor Nunez’ ULEE’S GOLD (1997) at the Toco Hills-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Get the Chicago/West Coast blues with the Electromatics at Steve’s Live Music! Get funky with The 200s at the Elliott Street Pub! Stomp on down to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event and boogie under the dinosaurs with The Villain Family! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, November 7

Get your fill of some tasty chili and a whole lotta foot stompin’ tunes at the 2015 Chomp & Stomp Chili Cook-Off and Bluegrass Festival, featuring the Packway Handle Band; Smokey’s Farmland Band; Little Country Giants; Pretend Sweethearts; the Jugtime Ragband; the Georgia Crackers; Slim Chance & the Convicts; Ghost Dance; The Bow Weevils; Alex & Todd; the HotHouse Peaches; the Front Porch Session Players, In the Wheelhouse and more, beginning at 11am! Shimmy on down to the Shakespeare Tavern for “Gotham: A Tale of Two Faces” presented by Hysteria Machines, featuring drama, defiance, debauchery and more! Or rev on down to The Star Bar for a night with the Belmont Playboys, The Blacktop Rockets and Kool Kat Spike Fullerton with Ghost Riders Car Club! Rock out to some ‘60s/’70s tunes with the Rainmen and Radar at Smith’s Olde Bar! Yacht Rock Schooner gets down at the Little Black Dress Party at the Buckhead Theatre! Get funky with War at the Variety Playhouse! Gareth Asher & Nicki Thrailkill dish out Love Songs with a Side of Whiskey at Steve’s Live Music! Get the soul of Flamenco with Paco Pena at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with the Grassland String Band! Or get some soul, Americana-style with the Smokin’ Novas at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with the Jeff Jensen Band at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, November 8

Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) presents a 75th Anniversary screening of Joe Grant/Dick Huemer’s Disney classic, FANTASIA (1940) at 2pm and 7pm! Celebrate 25 years of Chris Columbus’ holiday classic, HOME ALONE (1990) in theatres across the Atlanta area at 4:30pm/7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with the Toadies and In the Whale at the Masquerade! Kevn Kinney gets down at the Crimson Moon Café! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! (LAST CHANCE!)

The Georgia Ensemble Theatre and David Crowe (dir.) present Shakespeare’s classic, “Romeo & Juliet”, running through Nov. 22!

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 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

Hey all you Retro kiddies and blood-lusting miscreants! Get out and get spooked this week as Retro Atlanta gets gory, gussied up and ghostly in celebration of the most haunted and eerie time of the year! Retro Atlanta has everything your wicked little black heart could ever desire, from rockin’ tunes to nightmare-inducing flicks to horrifically exciting Halloween parties you won’t want to miss! So, come on out and haunt with the rest of us!

Monday, October 26

Start your week with a classic with LeFont Theatre’s screening of Orson Welles’ CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 7pm! Or make your way to The Plaza Theater for their killer screening of Gerald Kargl’s ANGST (1983), running through Oct. 29! Rock on down to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)! Blind Willie’s delivers the blues with Fatback Deluxe! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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!’ 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 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, October 27

The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema gets really retro and screens Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES (1948), during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Or get beastly and make your way to the Chamblee Library for a screening of Don Taylor’s film adaptation of H. G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977) at 1pm. Rock out with heavy cello at The Earl with Rasputina! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Retro-Soul, Funk ‘80s & ‘90s Dance Party! Celebrate the Atlanta Chamber Players’ 40th Anniversary Season at the Shakespeare Tavern! Cody Matlock delivers the blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues! Bluegrass it up with the Elie Cohen Quartet at Steve’s Live Music! Or take a soulful trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Sidney Lumet’s THE WIZ (1978) at 12pm! Get your Steam Punk/neo-classical fix with Fable Cry, The Extraordinary Contraptions and Sarah and the Safe Word at Red Light Café! Get the blues with Cadillac Assembly at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, October 28

Get old-timey and rock out at The Earl with Rrest, Book Club, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Ben Trickey, Sydney Eloise & the Palms, Ian Fisher and The Quaildogs! TCM Presents a diabolical double feature with the English and Spanish versions of Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) at theatres across town at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! The 9th Annual Atlanta Horror Film Festival kicks off at DooGallery featuring 70 independent horror films from across the world, and runs through Oct. 30! Catch a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm! Babes in Toyland rock out at the Masquerade! Get satirical and make your way to The Plaza Theater for their screening of Mel Brooks’ classic, SPACEBALLS (1987), running through Nov. 6! Get the blues with the Electromatics at Blind Willie’s! Rory Block delivers a night of country blues at Red Light Café! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, October 29

Rock out ‘70s post-punk style with Jowe Head (Swell Maps), Cole Alexander (Black Lips), Omni and Flight Mode USA at Eyedrum! Make your way to The Earl for a night with The Lonely Biscuits, Flower and Kaleigh Baker! Get haunted in Atlanta this week with screenings across town of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) at 7:30pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Rock out with Black Linen at The Star Bar! Get old-timey with The Law Band, The Darnell Boys and Marshall Seese at Smith’s Olde Bar! Vinyl delivers a night of roots and Americana with Bronze Radio Return and The Roosevelts! Funk it up with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get jazzy with Ronnie Laws and Tom Browne at Suite Food Lounge! Bluegrass it up with Earth by Train and 22 Kings at the Red Light Café! Maria Muldaur dishes out a night of folk ‘n’ blues at Blind Willie’s! Blues Rendezvous gets the rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party with The Mystery Men? and Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And get gothic at Mary’s during their Goth Nite Dance Party!

Friday, October 30

Spooky shenanigans ensue as Retro Atlanta kicks off Halloween weekend! ATL Collective raises the dead with their performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Go, go Godzilla on down to the Variety Playhouse for a night with the Blue Oyster Cult! Rock out retro-style with The B-52s during their “Halloween Scream” show at the Fox Theatre! Ghosts invade Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) with their 30th Anniversary screening of Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) at 7pm/9:30pm! Get hairy and hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Werewolves of London & Pina Colada event! Or rattle your bones during Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX’s Fright Night Halloween Party, dripping with devilish drinks, costume contests and more! It’s Hell Night at The Star Bar, so come on down and rock out with BigFoot, Timmy James & the Blue Flames and Night Terrors! The Earl gets monstrously metal with their Halloween party featuring Wolf Eyes, Timmy’s Organism, Video and Uniform! Get ghastly and groove on down to Mary’s for their Hallo-Weenie Dance Party! UnionEAV hosts DooGallery’s Day of the Dead Art Show, featuring 20+ artists and life music with the Clibber Jones Ensemble, Misery Loves Chachi and more! Smith’s Olde Bar terrifies with their Howl ‘o’ Ween rockin’ tribute night featuring The Cherry Bomb (Joan Jett); Learning to Count (Ramones); and TNT (AC/DC)! Spook on down to Callanwolde Fine Arts Center for their “Halloween Night on Callanwolde Mountain” family-friendly party featuring trick-or-treating, live music with the Callanwolde Concert Band featuring Matthew Kaminski, costume contests and more! Haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, spooking through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Atlantic Station screens Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS (1993) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Catch Victor and Edward Halperin’s monstrous classic, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) at The Plaza Theater! Stick around and Time-Warp it up with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight, with special Halloween treats! Or celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm!

Stomp on down to Grocery on Home for a night with Julia Haltigan! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Jazz it up with Elgin Wells at the Crimson Moon Café! Or blues it up with Tinsley Ellis at the Red Clay Theatre! Honkytonk on down to Terminal West for Whitey Morgan & the 78s! Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt and the Psycho-DeVilles rev it up at Motorheads in McDonough! Folk it up with Shawn Phillips at Red Light Café! Steve’s Live Music gets the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins! Or blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre for their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8! And hear your favorite ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s favorites with the Way Back Band at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack!

Saturday, October 31

IT IS FINALLY HERE! Get mischievous all you miscreants, spooks and ghouls! Pull out your ghastly costumes and get spooky and see what gory galas Retro Atlanta has in store for you! Get creepy and murderous at The Earl Smith Strand Theatre with their screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror masterpiece, PSYCHO (1960) at 8pm! It’s a night of gothic chills at Atlanta Symphony Hall as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra delivers a night of Danny Elfman’s music from the films of Tim Burton at 8pm! Do the Monster Mash with DJ Evil Jet at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club’s Annual Halloween Bash! Denim Arcade (Kool Kat Becky Cormier Finch) delivers a rockin’ ‘80s Halloween show at the Dallas Public House! The Arts Exchange spooks it up with their Halloween 2015 party! ATL Collective raises the dead with their second performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Vinyl! Get psychotic and psychedelic at the Red Light Café with their Night of the Dead Halloween Party featuring gr8FLdude and Dead Affect! Make your way to My Parent’s Basement in Avondale Estates for their Halloween Comic Fest at 11am! Hop across the pond to Steve’s Live Music for a spooky night with The Lizardmen and Devomatix (Devo tribute)! Or party it up in Virginia Highlands with their Halloween Night in the Highlands event featuring costume constests and more! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck and the Atlanta Horns deliver their annual Halloween Bamboo Au Go Go Party with The Reverend & the Lady and Yoshito Kiyono at the Northside Tavern! Get your horror punk fix at The Star Bar with their 24th Anniversary Party & Halloween Bash featuring Horror Business, Pretty Vacant, Salad Days, Road to Ruin and Kool Kats The Casket Creatures! Pallookaville celebrates Halloween and two years of slingin’ corn dogs with their Ice Scream Ball & Halloweiener! The Basement dishes out forty thousand years of funk with their Keep on Movin’ Halloween Dance Party! It’s a night of Scary-oke! and costume contests at Mary’s Halloween night shindig! Jam it up with Honeywood during their Halloween show at the Crimson Moon Café! Smith’s Olde Bar rocks out for Halloween with Kool Kats Blackfoot Gypsies and a rockin’ Bowie tribute, PINUPS! Groove on down to the The Music Room for the Dangerfeel Newbies’ Soul of Jazz Halloween Jam! It’s “Hawgtoberfest” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ with Swami! Sci-fi it up during the Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival presented by The Multi-Cultural Sci-Fi Organization at the Fulton County Aviation Community Cultural Center from 1pm to 9pm! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! 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, November 1

Get your Rodgers & Hammerstein fix at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) with their 60th Anniversary screening of Fred Zinnemann’s classic, OKLAHOMA (1955) at 2pm/7pm! Jazz it up with Emile Worthy at Steve’s Live Music! Or get sinfully sultry at the Masquerade with the Suicide Girls’ Blackheart Burlesque! Get the Dixie blues with Seminole Jackson at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1! (LAST CHANCE!)

Travel back to 1910 Atlanta at the Alliance Theatre with their presentation of Pearl Cleage’s TELL ME MY DREAM, running every weekend through Nov. 8!

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 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 massacres this spooky season with all the haunting and bone-chilling madness your little black hearts desire! We’ve got horror and slasher flicks! We’ve got sinister seduction and the unruly undead! We’ve got ghosts and goblins and monsters, oh my! Become one with the creatures of the night this week and rock out with a helluva lot of spooktacular shenanigans!

Monday, October 19

Glam it up with The Struts and Karma Killers at The Earl! Get blood-splattered during The Plaza Theater’s screening of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE (1976), running through Oct. 22! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Elvis Costello! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! 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! 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 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, October 20

Shake a tail feather during The Star Bar’s Halloween Burlesque Show with Roxie Roz, featuring performances by Candi Lecoeur, Kitty Capone, Luna Lynx, Annette Coquette, and rockin’ tunes by Kool Kat Joshua Longino and The Disapyramids! The Landmark Midtown Art Cinema screens Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON (1975) in 35mm, during their “Midtown Cinema Classics” weekly event, at 7pm! Boogie on down to Terminal West for a night with Vintage Trouble and Greg Holden! Spook it up with William Castle’s HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) and Cinebistro (Brookhaven) during a 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 7pm! Catch Peter Bogdanovich’s WHAT’S UP DOC? (1972) at the Decatur Library at 9:30am! Or take a trip down the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Walter Murch’s RETURN TO OZ (1985) at 12pm! Folk it up with War & Treaty at the Red Light Café! Bluegrass it up with Alex & Todd at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, October 21

The day you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! BACK TO THE FUTURE mayhem ensues as Atlanta gets its ‘80s time travel fix with screenings of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy all over town! Catch BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985); II (1989) and III (1990), starting at 4:30pm at AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; AMC Southlake 24 in Morrow; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; AMC North Dekalb Mall in Decatur; AMC Fork & Screen in Buckhead; AMC Parkway Pointe and AMC Phipps Plaza! To catch the trilogy at 5pm, make your way to Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Regal Perimeter Pointe 10; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Regal Atlantic Station! BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) screens at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern at 7:30pm; Landmark Midtown Art Cinema at 7pm; several show times at the Aurora Cineplex; the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) at 7pm; and the Charles D. Switzer Library (free) at 6:30pm! Or make your way to Movies ATL 14 for their screening of BACK TO THE FUTURE I and II at 7pm! Then make your way to the Masquerade for their Back to the Future Party!

Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a night with John Cleese & Eric Idle! Get funky with Bosley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Emory Cinematheque presents Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) at 7:30pm! Get down and dirty with Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds with Autumn Attics at Aisle 5! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, October 22

Get your fill of Kool Kats galore at The Star Bar during the Butzer Birthday Bonanza with performances by The Compartmentalizationalists, Bruce Joyner & Atomic Clock, Kool Kat Jeffrey Butzer & the Bicycle Eaters, DJ Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, a puppet show and more! Film Love Atlanta is back with Kool Kat Andy Ditzler, so come on out to Beautiful Briny Sea in Grant Park for their Film & Site event, featuring avant-garde screenings of ‘70s films by Robert Smithson and J.J. Murphy at 7pm! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with The Membranes, Bataille and Eureka California! The Atlanta Bluegrass Cartel pays tribute to Tony Rice’s “Manzanita” at the Red Light Café! Get your old-timey and delta blues fix with the California Honeydrops and Caryn Womack at Smith’s Olde Bar! Jazz it up with Joey Sommerville at Suite Food Lounge! The Atlanta Independent Film Fest presents a screening of Kool Kat Ricky Hess’ web series HORROR HOTEL at the Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre at 7:30pm! Make your way to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center for a second helping of John Cleese & Eric Idle! Lazer Lloyd gets the rockin’ blues at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 23

Get immersed with Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse’s Dead-End event, presented by Red Robin Realtors, haunts through Oct. 24! If ghastly things are your preference, haunt on down to the Historic Oakland Cemetery for their annual Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, through Oct. 31! Tiptoe through the graves, make a few new spirited friends and hear the hallowed tales of some of their eternal residents! Get your Kool Kat fix at The Star Bar with Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah, Deadly Lo-Fi and Kool Kat Sen. Artie Mondello! Get sultry spook-style during DJ Doctor Q’s Spookeasy Electro Swing event at the Red Light Café, featuring performances by Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix and more! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Low Cut Connie, The Howling Tongues, Tesla Rossa and The Dirty Souls! Make your way to the Variety Playhouse for a night with Leo Kottke! Atlantic Station screens Barry Sonnenfeld’s THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a night with Paul Thorn! Kool Kat VJ Anthony delivers his 80s Music Video Dance Party at the Famous Pub! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Blues it up with Albert White at the Northside Tavern! Get the blues with Funky Bluester at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Get your folksy jazz fix under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with Mr. Blue Sky! 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, October 24

The Star Bar dishes out a rocking musical lineup with their Corndogorama #19 with Shocked Minds; The People; Love Letter; Rrest; Uncle Van; Twin Trances; Memes; Hip to Death; The Meeks Family; Muleskinner; Kool Kat Aileen Loy with Till Someone Loses and Eye; The Boy Jones; Chickens and Pigs; The Skylarks; and The Stixx! Haunt on down to DooGallery for their 12th Annual Haunted Art Show, featuring over 20 artists (including Kool Kat Shane Morton), live music, costume contests, raffles and more! Or catch The Halloween Puckin’ Fuppet Show at the Village Theatre! Make your way to LeFont Theatre as they screen Orson Welles’ classic, CITIZEN KANE (1941) at 10:30am! Andra Day gets some soul at Eddie’s Attic! Stomp on down to the Red Clay Theatre for a second helping of Paul Thorn! Gypsy jazz it up with Kool Kat Amy Pike and the Bonaventure Quartet along with 9-String Theory at the Red Light Café! Vinyl rocks out with The Black Cadillacs and Future Thieves! Paul Melancon does Ziggy Stardust at Kavarna! Shimmy on down to Jerry Farber’s Side Door for a night of Cheeky Belles Burlesque with performances by Kool Kat Kitty Love, JudyAnne Fox, Valkyre Jones and more! Get your old-time fix at the Variety Playhouse with The Devil Makes Three and The Deslondes! Beverly “Guitar” Watkins gets down and dirty at Northside Tavern! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack gets down with The Hollidays! 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, October 25

Stumble on down to Chambers of Horror Haunted House as Kool Kat Luke Godfrey leads the 10th Annual Zombie Walk Atlanta, haunting from 4-11:45pm! The Earl Smith Strand Theatre creeps it up with organist and Kool Kat Ron Carter during their screening of Paul Leni’s silent classic, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) at 3pm! TCM Presents a diabolical double feature with the English and Spanish versions of Tod Browning’s DRACULA (1931) at theatres across town at 2pm/7pm [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 in Cumming and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta/Duluth) delivers a second screening of Robert Zemeckis’ BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) at 7pm! Hillbilly it up at The Earl with The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band and The Muckers! Or spook on down to the Fox Theatre as they get haunted during their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, chilling your bones through Oct. 29! Get the blues 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 Fox Theatre spooks with their annual Fox Theatre Ghost Tours, running through Oct. 29!

“The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31!

Historic Oakland Cemetery’s Capturing the Spirit of Oakland 2015 Ghost Tours, haunt through Oct. 31!

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1!

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

Get spooked in Retro Atlanta this week! The days are creeping closer and closer to that most haunted pinnacle of fright and terror and we’ve dug up all the spooktacular events in Retro Atlanta this week! Atlanta gets Retro this week with monsters and spooks and gore, oh my! And don’t forget, Retro Atlanta always offers a retro-rockin’ good time! Don’t be a scaredy cat! Come on out and play! We can’t promise you’ll make it home alive, but we can promise you a horrifying good time!

Monday, October 12

Get terror-filled and catch Roger Corman’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 15! Rock on down to The Earl for a night with Jeff the Brotherhood and Stonerider! Or rock out and funk it up with Flow Tribe and Saturn Valley at Smith’s Olde Bar! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Blues it up with Bill Sheffield at Blind Willie’s! The Little Vinyl Lounge is rockin’ with a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm, followed by the “Queen of Slide Guitar” Skye Paige! 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!’ Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only trivia, “Superstitions & Pagan Traditions” 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 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, October 13

It’s a night of burly-Q shenanigans with Kool Kat Katherine Lashe and Syrens of the South, at the Red Light Café with their Tease Tuesday Burlesque: Boolesque Spooktacular! event featuring performances by Ada Manzhart, Bunny Wigglebottom, Anna Coquette, Fianna Flowerchild and more! Or come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Catch John Brahm’s THE LODGER (1944) at the Chamblee Library at 1pm! Or follow the yellow brick road to the Charles D. Switzer Library for their screening of Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) at 12pm! Bluegrass it up with Curtis Jones & the Primal Roots at Steve’s Live Music! Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, October 14

The Earl rocks out with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Telekom and Twisty Cats! Get your ‘70s punk rock fix with the Barreracudas, Shocked Minds, Deaf Wish and GHB at 529! Get spooked and be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, through Nov. 1! Or catch “The Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” opening at the Center for Puppetry Arts, featuring a costume contest, games, creepy tales, devilish dances and more, creeping through Oct. 31! Evil ensues at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Or come come on down for your last chance to come to pieces at the Northlake Festival Movie Tavern’s screening of Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974), during their “Classic Films on the Big Screen” series at 7:30! Get some soul with Liz Vice at Eddie’s Attic! Folk it up with Ben Sollee and Mother Falcon at Terminal West! Here’s looking at you kid! Make your way to the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) for their screening of Michael Curtiz’ classic CASABLANCA (1942) at 7:30pm! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the BooHoo Ramblers! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, October 15

Get your old-school post-punk goth rock fix in Hell with The March Violets at the Masquerade! Joe Jackson dishes out a night of old-school punk and new wave at Center Stage! Catch the opening reception for “The Atlanta Matriarchs of the Civil Rights Movement”, from 5-8pm at Mammal Gallery! Get old-timey with the Bumper Jacksons and Patrick Kinsley & a Fistful of Dollars at the Red Light Café! Folk it up with Patty Griffin at the Variety Playhouse! Get some soul with Aaron Neville at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Rock out with the Old 97’s and Banditos at Terminal West! Cooper Tisdale gets funky at Steve’s Live Music! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with Heather Luttrell! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 16

Get your down and dirty rockin’ scumbag revival fix with Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters, The Hooten Hallers, The Atom Age and Phantom Killers at The Star Bar! It’s prohibition pandemonium at Matilda’s Under the Pines with Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & the Hookers! Shimmy on down to the Red Light Café for Sadie Hawkins’ Last Pasties Standing: One Hit Wonders event! Atlantic Station screens Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (1985) during their “Spooky Film Fest” at dusk! Take a bite out of RITUAL’s 7th Annual Vampire Ball at Famous Pub! Make your way to the Arbor Place Mall Books-A-Million (Douglasville) for two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Joe McKinney’s signing of the latest in his Dead Land series, THE DEAD WON’T DIE, from 6-7pm! Prom it up at The Plaza Theater for their screening of Brian De Palma’s horror classic, CARRIE (1976) at 7pm! Get your jazzy folk fix with Rasheeda Ali & Mr. Blue Sky at the High Museum! Bluegrass it up with the Packway Handle Band at Eddie’s Attic! It’s Beatle Mania at Atlanta Symphony Hall with the Classical Mystery Tour! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Blues it up with Stoney Brooks at the Northside Tavern! The Rainmen dish out a night of ‘60s and ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll at Steve’s Live Music! Get the outlaw blues with Blue Roads at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blind Willie’s delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Blues Hall of Famer, Lazy Lester & the Shadows! 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, October 17

Today is the day all you ghosts and goblins have been waiting for! Little 5 Points business district hosts its annual L5P Halloween Festival & Parade! So, come on out dressed to the bloody nines in your spookiest Halloween costume and get horrorifically haunted! Get fed! Get rocked! And get your flesh to the biggest Halloween parade in the south! The event wakes from the dead at noon and haunts until 11 pm, with an artists’ market, food venders, as well as two stages for live entertainment, The Finley Plaza Stage and the Main Stage. The spooktacular parade of horror runs from 4 to 6 pm on Euclid and Moreland and promises to spook even the bravest of the brave, so pick a spot and hold on tight! Get your faces rocked off with Kool Kats galore and more at the Finley Plaza Stage, with chilling retro-esque performances by the Starbenders, The Mystery Men?, Kool Kat Caroline & the Ramblers, Rumours, Dry Gulch, Metal McDonald and The Dirty Doors! Or rock on down to the Main Stage for Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies, Midnight Larks, The Coathangers and The Biters! Get ghastly, grotesque and rock out at the wildest Halloween party in town! Or cruise on over to the B3 Bar & Grill for their Mama Casino’s Midnight Mass Drive-In Creature Feature at 9pm! Or maybe get monstrous at Hellbender’s Harley Davidson in Marietta during their Monster Mash Anniversary Bash featuring live music, freakshows, a performance by Ghouella Deville, monster pin-ups and more!

Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Bottle Rockets and Mark Olson (The Jayhawks) in the Music Room! Or rock on over to the Atlanta Room for a night with the Stacktone Slims, Mike Borgia & the Problems and Aneurysm! Catch another book signing by Joe McKinney at the Canton Marketplace Books-A-Million from 4:30-6pm! Get a helping of the Classical Mystery Tour at Atlanta Symphony Hall! The Buried Alive Film Festival and Contraband Cinema presents a screening of Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO: THE IRONMAN (1992) at Eyedrum! Boogie on down and get zombified at the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue presents a tribute to Michael Jackson’s THRILLER! Hula on down to Trader Vic’s for their Rum Tasting Seminar event! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Dixie Tavern! Zoo Atlanta begins their “Boo at the Zoo” event! Folk it up with Collins Drive at Kavarna! Get the blues with Steve “The Blues Dude” at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! Evil ensues once again at The Plaza Theater with their screening of Tobe Hooper’s ‘80s horror classic, POLTERGEIST (1982) at 7:30pm! Catch Don Henley at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center! Grant Green, Jr. gets the blues at Northside Tavern! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Get your ‘80s fix with The 80ators at Steve’s Live Music! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of jump, West Coast and Chicago blues with Toots & the Traffics! 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, October 18

The Red Light Café gets wildly frisky and risqué as they host the madness that is Freaksheaux to Geaux, the live musical and Vaudevillian extravaganza of debauchery that hails from the Big Easy and will be dispersing their twisted brand of flair! Their show will feature the Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, Atlanta’s very own Sadie Hawkins, and a rockin’ cornucopia of music and circus sideshows with a southern gothic twist! It’ll be a shocking night of shenanigans you won’t want to miss! Spend the night with Audrey Hepburn at the Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) during their 50th Anniversary screening of George Cukor’s MY FAIR LADY (1964) at 2pm/7pm! Polka on down to Steve’s Live Music for a night with The Georgia Polka Connection! Get the blues 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 Ghastly Dreadfuls: Raising Spirits” spooks at the Center for Puppetry Arts, through Oct. 31!

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

Be the Headless Horseman’s next victim at Serenbe Playhouse’s chilling presentation of THE SLEEPY HOLLOW EXPERIENCE, haunting through Nov. 1!

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 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

Hey kiddies! Retro Atlanta is the Kat’s meow! Shake a tail feather and come see what we’ve dug up for you this week! Live la vida Retro!

Monday, October 5

Kick off the spook season at the Highland Inn Ballroom with The Rookery Radio Hour LIVE “Night of the Werewolves” – a Halloween spooktacular! Rock out at The Earl with The Shrine and Gunpowder Gray! Get your Kubrick fix at The Plaza Theater with their screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING (1980), running through Oct. 8!Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! 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! 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 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, October 6

Get your sleazy vintage surf noir rock and roll fix at The Earl with Shannon & the Clams, Cool Ghouls, Midnight Larks and Dusty Booze & the Baby Haters! Get monstrous at Chamblee Library’s screening of James Whale’s classic FRANKENSTEIN (1931) at 1pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Fox Theatre for Broadway’s JERSEY BOY, a musical tale about Franki Valli and The Four Seasons, running through Oct. 11 (see our Kool Kat interview soon)! Get your ‘70s psych fix in the Basement with Kool Kats Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, Seluah, Chew and A Drug Called Tradition! Bluegrass it up with Cedar Hill and Classic Mountain Fiddles at Steve’s Live Music! Take a crack at Richard Park’s MIAMI CONNECTION (1987) during Riff Trax Live 2015, screening in theatres across Atlanta [Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, Perimeter Pointe 10; AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 in Lawrenceville; Avalon Stadium 12 in Alpharetta; AMC Barrett Commons 24 in Kennesaw; Cinemark Tinseltown 17 in Fayetteville; GTC Merchant’s Walk Stadium 12 in Marietta; Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium in Newnan]! The Imposeurs play Elvis Costello at the Red Light Café! Blues it up with Andrew Black at Blind Willie’s! Or get the blues with JT Speed at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a night of trivia and corndogs at Pallookaville, with their “Trivial Matters” event! 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, October 7

It’s Beatles mania at Eddie’s Attic as AM1690 presents: Beatles in the Attic featuring The Buggs! Rock out with Electric Six (formerly The Wild Bunch) and Yip Deceiver at The Earl! It’s a night of horror-themed geek trivia at Battle & Brew! Emory Cinematheque presents Kakaku Kidotai’s GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) at 7:30pm! Or catch John McTiernan’s THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) at Studio Movie Grill (Alpharetta) at 7:30pm! 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! Kool Kat Scott Glazer’s Mojo Dojo gets jazzy and dishes out a night of blues and southern soul at Blind Willie’s! Get your rhythm ‘n’ soul and rock ‘n’ roll fix with The Hollidays at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! It’s a hootenanny and a half at The Star Bar with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes! 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, October 8

Get your old-school punk fix with The Vibrators, Burns Like Fire, The Riggs and Kool Kat Rev. Andy at the Masquerade! Get down and dirty with a night of old-time ragtime blues and Dixieland with Kool Kat Caleb Warren & the Gents and Waits & Co. at the Clermont Lounge ! Rock out at The Star Bar with Go!Zilla, Shantih Shantih and Metal McDonald! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva island party! Get funky with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and The Space Time Travelers at Aisle 5! Get your New Orleans’ funk fix with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Get down with Sweet Betty & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Bluegrass it up at the Red Light Café with the Dave Hardin Band! Bluegrass it up with the DejaBlue Grass Band at Eddie’s Attic! 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! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, get your boogie on at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, October 9

Atlantic Station kicks off their “Spooky Film Fest” with Tim Burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) at dusk! Or catch Roger Corman’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) at The Plaza Theater, running through Oct. 15! Catch Landmark Midtown Art Cinema’s premiere screening of Stanley Nelson, Jr.’s THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION (2015)! It’s tribute night at The Star Bar, so rock on down for a night with Rumours (Fleetwood Mac); The Dirty Doors (The Doors); and Refugee (Tom Petty)! Celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! The Variety Playhouse gets funky with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Dumpstaphunk! The Northside Tavern celebrates John Lennon’s birthday with Tullamore Road! Get your Americana fix with The Roosevelts at Eddie’s Attic! Bluegrass it up with Alex & Todd and Escape Vehicle at Steve’s Live Music! Atlanta Boogie dishes out a night of Kansas City and West Coast jump blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack! Blues it up with Sandra Hall & the Shadows at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs with Highbeams at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event! And as always, Time-Warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, October 10

Rock out surf-style at Kavarna with Kool Kat Chad Shivers’ Southern Surf Stomp, featuring Fiend Without a Face, The KBK and Bad Friend! Nikki Hill dishes out a night of rock ‘n’ soul with Black Linen at The Earl! Party on down to the Ponce City Market for their “Party on Ponce” event, featuring The Indigo Girls, Shawn Mullins and more! Get dark and gloom on down to Famous Pub for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Coffin Classics: Goth, Dark ‘80s and Industrial music video party! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at Mule Camp Tavern! It’s a night of murder, mystery and comedy at Georgia Ensemble Theatre with “One Mysterious Evening”! Pay tribute to The Allman Brothers at Northside Tavern! Get your folk rock fix at Eddie’s Attic with The Ballroom Thieves and Hannah Aldridge! Rock out with Warren Haynes at the Tabernacle! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with The Cazanovas! Get another chance to celebrate 40 years with Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Jim Sharman’s cult classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) at AMC Phipps Plaza at 10pm! Get the blues with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Mark Michelson pays tribute to Pink Floyd at Steve’s Live Music! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack delivers a night of rockin’ blues with Dry White Toast! 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, October 11

The Atlanta Film Fest presents a screening of Wim Wenders’ BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (1999), at the Rialto Center for the Arts at 5:30pm! Rock out folk-style with Matt Nathanson at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Tommie Macon & the Perfect Gentlemen at Steve’s Live Music! And get the blues with Fatback Deluxe at Blind Willie’s! Get groovy as Swami Gone Bananas gets down at Hottie Hawgs BBQ! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

The Atlanta Opera presents Giocomo’s “La boheme” at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center, running through Oct. 11! (LAST CHANCE!)

Chambers of Horror Haunted House terrifies with their adults-only gore-fest and blood-splattering through Nov. 1!

Netherworld Haunted House haunts every weekend through Nov. 1!

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 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!

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