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Who's got the purp? Why, the Atlanta Ballet! Big, the company's collaboration with Outkast's Big Boi, debuted Thursday. "For me [Big Boi's music] sounds like Shostakovich, Stravinsky a little ... just today's Stravinsky," says chorographer Lauri Stallings. No doubt! More »

Like a Harry Smith who caught the Unabomber, Janet Reno has put together a three-disc box set that features "50 songs, reinterpreted by artists including John Mellencamp, the Black Crowes, Martha Wainwright and Devendra Banhart, the story of America and the different challenges it has faced, from war to racism to the Depression, is retold for today's audiences." Our former Attorney General is a freak-folkie. Also she is confident the Black Crowes can teach you stuff about America that you never knew before. More »