Big Boi of OutKast teams up with Atlanta Ballet
ByPIERRE RUHE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/30/2007
Earlier this season, the Atlanta Ballet axed its pit orchestra, but for a world premiere next season it's looking to the stars for musical accompaniment.
Big Boi, half of the chart-topping Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, will perform on stage with the ballet in a new work scheduled for April 10-13, 2008. Few details of the yet-to-be-named work have been decided, according to ballet spokesman Jeff Al-Mashat.
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Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton, part of OutKast, is in discussions with the Atlanta Ballet about a 2008 performance.
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Big Boi will collaborate with choreographer Lauri Stallings and performers from Purple Ribbon Entertainment. The parties plan to meet Tuesday to discuss the project.
Atlanta Ballet has staged works with pop performers before. In October 2001, the ballet collaborated with the Indigo Girls on "Shed Your Skin," which featured the Decatur duo performing songs onstage behind dancers. It was presented again in 2004.
The ballet's season announcement includes five other shows, opening Oct. 25 with artistic director John McFall's production of "Peter Pan."
For tickets and information, http://www.atlantaballet.org/.
Ugmosis!
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For the last few years of the draft we have gone through this emaculate concpetion of the "the white quaterback" - ESPN gives me the biggest migraine known to mankind!
Last year they were all teary eyed b/c Matt Leinhart didn't go as high as they predicted - I thought they were going to draft this dude them damn selves. Start an ESPN Team right there on the air and start drafting niggas like they trade stock on the floor…
The year before that it was Aaron Rogers - these ESPN dudes cried their heart outs til dude was drafted by Green Bay - oh shit he should have gone way higher than that - I don't believe that he went so low… these ass wipes are the most oral masters - better than Hookers at the Point on HBO -
But I digress - last year was Vince Young's year of the draft & this year was JaMarcus Russell's - after all that talk and all that behind the scenes bidding and campaigning done by the players and ESPN on the behalf of Brady Quinn he finally found a home in Cleveland…lol Good looking out ESPN - your work is done! Damn you should get a major salary for the weekend work that you put in on behalf of another one of your highly overrated QB's…
Thats right bitches!
Randy Fucking Moss
for a 4th round pick and only 3mill per yr
Its a no brainer
In no way does this guarantee any fucking thing
but it does make us the most scariest fucking team on paper I have ever seen
Between Brady, Maroney, Moss, Stallworth, Ben Watson and R Caldwell on offense and Bruschi,Seymour,Samuel, Harrison, Colvin, Adailous Thomas and Warren on defense
I can smell another possible 3 superbowls
Eat your hearts out Bitches
Weed it & weep! Granny's busted
BY CHRISENA COLEMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 30th 2007, 4:00 AM
Cancer survivor Barbara Jackson talks with her head held high about her pot rap.
She is 71 years old, a great-grandmother - hardly the type of person you would expect to see in Bronx Criminal Court to answer charges of buying two dime bags of pot.
Yet at the appointed time today, Barbara Jackson will make her way to the courthouse, a colorectal cancer survivor ready to plead her case.
"I smoke it to live," the feisty granny told the Daily News. "I don't think I should have been arrested."
Jackson said she started smoking the green, leafy drug eight years ago - a year after being diagnosed with cancer - to restore her appetite after chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
"After cancer treatments, I was very sick," she said. "I couldn't eat and could not stand the smell of food."
Even though her cancer is in remission, she lost her appetite, Jackson said.
On March 13, she set out to find some more of the illegal drug shehas grown dependent on. She found some close to her house on E.179th St. and began walking down Walton Ave.
Plainclothes cops suddenly descended on her and found the two bags of marijuana on her.
"I am looking for a dismissal in the interest of justice," said Ron Kuby, one of two lawyers representing Jackson. "I would hope the Bronx district attorney's office has more important cases than prosecuting a great-granny for medicinal marijuana."
After her arrest, Jackson was handcuffed and brought to jail. She was taken to the 46th Precinct stationhouse, photographed, fingerprinted and issued a desk appearance ticket that she must answer today.
Her other lawyer, David Pressman, said it's heartbreaking to see a senior citizen who was "just trying to survive" handcuffed and held in police custody for five hours.
Steven Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx district attorney's office, said his office is not aware of the case because it hasn't come into the the DA's office.
Jackson hopes to get a chance to tell her story.
She weighed 99 pounds when she entered Lincoln Hospital in 1998. After surgery and treatments she lost even more weight. Jackson said her doctor prescribed an appetite enhancer, but it made her sick.
"The medicine gave me a terrible headache," said Jackson, who was raising three great-grandchildren at the time. "I was very weak and sick after treatments. I had diarrhea and was vomiting all the time.
"The smell of food made me sick and I was nauseous," she said. "The marijuana calmed me down and gave me back my appetite. My taste buds are gone, but the marijuana helps me get the food down."
Jackson said she puffed marijuana twice a day in the privacy of her home. Jackson, who now weighs 124 pounds, credits the marijuana with saving her life.
"The marijuana has kept me alive; I wouldn't be here if I didn't smoke," Jackson said. "I know it's illegal, but I did what I had to do to make myself comfortable and restore my quality of life."
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This is pure pimp shit. Fuck what you think….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVr8qbRfsE
Sammie - Come With Me
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willyj says…
*golf clap*
Dude has a new song called Fully loaded clip
its not quite Piggy Bank but this dudes is pretty much daring someone to say sht to him
The chorus goes:
While Jay and Beyonce was EM EM kISSING
i was cookin 1000 grams in the kitchen
When Nas was telling Kelis I love you boo
I was shinin my nine, you know how I do
I gotta fully loaded clip, I be on dat sht
http://www.hhnlive.com/main
On the homepage if you view the media section and click on it you can give it a listen and music box will pop up and its the first song
Willy this is why I couldn't really give you the Dangelo site
the sht kinda funny to me
but he's officially a complete asshole
He also flips it on the second chorus and replaces Jay and Beyonce wit JD and Janet and replaces Nas and Kelis with Jeezy and Kiesha
This is gonna be interesting I guarantee the Net will go into an uproar about this I can here Reckless writing her fk 50 blog now
but technically he's not dissing em but definitely fkin wit em though
Lets See whose the first to Stand up for their chick
cause you know all of em are gonna hear
You gonna let him talk about me like dat
So Im curious Ladies
If this was you would you be heated if you man didn't say sht?
How would you play it.
What a week for HIPHOP.
I mean damn.
After cruising the net and seeing what I could see, I feel the need to provide the blogging balance thats missing from the various issues and discussions going on at the moment.
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