Going Gaga

Super Bowl queen Lady Gaga launches global tour including Dallas show

Lady Gaga released Joanne, her last album, in October.

Photo courtesy of Interscope

Lady Gaga knows how to capture momentum. Fresh off her Super Bowl appearance, she's unveiled a new 2017 tour traveling the globe, with three stops in Texas in December.

The Joanne World Tour begins in August in Vancouver, British Columbia, veering through Europe and the UK in the fall, before returning to the United States in November.

Her sweep through Texas will start in Houston on December 3, when she'll perform at Toyota Center. She'll hit Austin's Frank Erwin Center on December 5, and come to Dallas on December 8 when she'll play at American Airlines Center. Tickets for the concerts in Dallas, Austin, and Houston will go on sale February 20 at 10 am at Ticketmaster.com.

The tour supports Gaga's fifth studio album, Joanne, which was released in October 2016. The album features songwriting collaborations with Mark Ronson and Father John Misty, plus a duet with English singer Florence Welch.

All arena performances will feature general admission on the floor. The four U.S. stadium shows, which do not include any of the dates in Texas, have reserved seating on the floor with reserved seating in all venues in the stands. There will be a ticket limit of 8 tickets per transaction for all first-day sales.

For the three Texas dates, Citi cardmembers get a pre-sale from February 15-19; for details visit citiprivatepass.com. There is an eight ticket limit per transaction.

The itinerary is as follows:

Aug 1 Vancouver / Rogers Arena
Aug 3 Edmonton / Rogers Place
Aug 5 Tacoma / Tacoma Dome
Aug 8 Los Angeles / The Forum
Aug 11 Las Vegas / T-Mobile Arena
Aug 13 San Francisco / AT&T Park (Stadium)
Aug 15 Sacramento / Golden 1 Center
Aug 19 Omaha / CenturyLink Center
Aug 21 St. Paul, Minnesota / Xcel Energy Center
Aug 23 Cleveland / Quicken Loans Arena
Aug 25 Chicago / Wrigley Field (Stadium)
Aug 28 New York City / Citi Field (Stadium)
Sep 1 Boston / Fenway Park (Stadium)
Sep 4 Montreal / Bell Centre
Sep 6 Toronto / Air Canada Centre
Sep 10 Philadelphia / Wells Fargo Center
Sep 15 Rio De Janeiro / Rock In Rio Festival
Sep 22 Barcelona / Palau Sant Jordi
Sep 24 Zurich / Hallenstadion
Sep 26 Milan / Mediolanum Forum
Sep 29 Hamburg / Barclaycard Arena
Oct 1 Antwerp / Sportpaleis
Oct 3 Amsterdam / Ziggo Dome
Oct 7 Paris / AccorHotels Arena
Oct 9 London / O2 Arena
Oct 15 Birmingham / Barclaycard Arena
Oct 17 Manchester / Manchester Arena
Oct 21 Copenhagen / Royal Arena
Oct 23 Stockholm / Ericsson Globe
Oct 26 Berlin / Mercedes-Benz Arena
Oct 28 Koln / Lanxess Arena
Nov 5 Indianapolis / Bankers Life Fieldhouse
Nov 7 Detroit / Little Caesars Arena
Nov 10 Uncasville, Connecticut / Mohegan Sun
Nov 13 Louisville / KFC Yum! Center
Nov 15 Kansas City / Sprint Center
Nov 16 St. Louis / Scottrade Center
Nov 19 Washington, DC / Verizon Center
Nov 20 Pittsburgh / PPG Paints Arena
Nov 28 Atlanta / Philips Arena
Nov 30 Miami / American Airlines Arena
Dec 1 Tampa / Amalie Arena
Dec 3 Houston / Toyota Center
Dec 5 Austin / Frank Erwin Center
Dec 8 Dallas / American Airlines Center
Dec 9 Oklahoma City / Chesapeake Energy Arena
Dec 12 Denver / Pepsi Center
Dec 14 Salt Lake City / Vivint Smart Home Arena

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Movie Review

Shaun the Sheep gets PG-spooky in new movie for the Halloween season

Photo courtesy of Aardman / Sky UK LTD / StudioCanal 2026

Shaun the Sheep in Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.

Since his introduction over 30 years ago, the Aardman Animations character Shaun the Sheep has been almost as popular as the studio’s flagship characters, Wallace and Gromit. There is never a shortage of trouble Shaun can get into as he leads his flock and proves to be a thorn in the side of his farmer and Bitzer, the farmer’s loyal sheepdog.

His antics lead everyone down some slightly spooky roads in the new film, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. At first, things are only slightly awry as Shaun and the flock are growing a secret pumpkin patch to have their own jack-o-lanterns. But when the farmer accidentally destroys the pumpkin patch, Shaun tries to regrow it quickly with a Frankenstein-esque experiment.

However, disaster looms when Shaun uses an old bottle of Hair-Gro as the container for the serum he creates. Naturally, the balding farmer uses it on his head, and everyone soon discovers how truly successful it is, with pumpkins growing out of control and the farmer sprouting hair all over his body. Through a series of mishaps, the farmer becomes the titular beast, creating mayhem while Shaun and others try to stop him.

Directed by Steve Cox and Matthew Walker, and written by Mark Burton and Giles Pilbrow, the film goes down just as easy as every other Aardman project has. They get the Halloween vibes started from the opening credits, with things like the sheep doing the “Thriller” dance, and continue the fun throughout, referencing everything from Psycho to Friday the 13th in a nice, PG way.

With no script — every character is mute save for reaction noises — the movie relies on sight gags for its humor, and the Aardman team is endlessly inventive in that respect. Sometimes it’s small things like a sheep using toilet paper rolls as binoculars, and sometimes it’s something like forcing the Bigfoot-like farmer to be shaped into a rectangle as he escapes through a window. But there’s a never-ending stream of such moments, so even if one doesn’t tickle your funny bone, chances are the next one will.

The biggest benefit of the characters not talking is that there’s no need for deep character development. The filmmakers do a great job of giving the basic traits of each character, and then use those attributes to color everyone’s actions for the rest of the film. Shaun is the troublemaker, the farmer is a bumbling fool, Bitzer is preternaturally smart, and the town’s vet is empathetic, and the combination of those characters and others makes for a highly entertaining blend.

Like all Aardman creations, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is a fun lark that doesn’t make its audience think too hard. With just enough references to keep viewers engaged but not so many as to be overbearing, the film puts its well-worn characters to good use once again, delivering a Halloween season story that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is now playing in theaters.

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