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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Curt Holman and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing the Atlanta Film Festival.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Janelle Monáe is almost finished limbering up in Studio 1 on the first floor of the Atlanta Ballet’s building on West Peachtree, doing her stretches in black leotard and black-and-white floral-print skirt. She has the figure of a ballerina, with a face of brown porcelain and her trademark hair pulled back in a bun.

But this is a world alien to even the interstellar-inspired Monáe. She’s no ballet dancer; she’s a pixie-sized, big-voiced singer from the world of OutKast’s hip-hop and soul. Monáe stares into a wall-to-wall mirror, her reflection moving not to a selection of Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev, but her own song, “Sincerely Jane.”

It’s one of about 10 contemporary songs that will intersect with orchestral music for big, an unprecedented ballet and hip-hop collaboration this weekend between the Atlanta Ballet and OutKast’s Big Boi. In addition to the hip-hop star, artists associated with his Purple Ribbon Entertainment group will perform. Monáe’s the only one who’s actually dancing in the production as well as singing in one of the numbers, so it’s important to nail this down as precisely as possible.

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As part of this week’s cover story on the Atlanta Ballet’s collaboration with Big Boi, David Lee Simmons spoke with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, a group that had previously worked with the Ballet for Shed your skin.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chad Radford and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes talking about the music scene for the weekend.

Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.

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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s David Lee Simmons and WMLB-AM’s Max Arbes discussing this week’s cover story (out today) about big, the collaboration between Outkast’s Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet. big. $25-$125. Thurs.-Sat., April 10-12, 8 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., April 12-13, 2 p.m.; Sun., April 13, 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. 404-817-8700. www.foxtheatre.org.

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Here is today’s Air Loaf featuring CL’s own Ken Edelstein and Rodney Carmichael chatting about local musician Algebra Bassett. Check her out live at Center Stage Sat., April 12. 7:00 p.m. $30. 404-885-1365. www.centerstage-atlanta.com.

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Theatrical Outfit’s ATLEXIS 2008 fundraiser offers “an evening of Words, Wit and Wisdom from Southern Literature,” of which there’s a ton, with readings and music by a host of celebrity guests Sat., APRIL 5. The most notable of the group, besides our own Mayor Shirley Franklin (natch), is actor Tony Shalhoub (right), the three-time Emmy-winning star and executive producer of TV’s “Monk.” (Shalhoub’s sister, Susan Shalhoub Larkin, is a local theater figure, and will also read.) Shalhoub will be joined by wife/actress Brooke Adams in reading from Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Other, more local celebs include Tom Key, Monica Pearson and Ferrol Sams, along with singer/songwriter Kate Campbell and WSB-AM’s (750) Scott Slade hosting. $110 gala tickets; VIP tickets sold out. Reception, 6 p.m.; performance, 7:30 p.m. Rialto Center for the Arts and Balzer Theater, 80 Forsyth St. 678-528-1511. www.theatricaloutfit.org.

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DAN VEACH is the editor and publisher of The Atlanta Review, and the creator of the nonprofit Poetry Atlanta. He won the Sotheby’s International Poetry Competition in 1982 and has published multiple poems in various journals. April is National Poetry Month and Veach, along with poet Turner Cassity, will give a reading Wed., APRIL 9, at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. $3-$5. 8:15 p.m. 980 Briarcliff Road. 404-872-5338. www.callanwolde.org.Download

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