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Guns N' Roses tour reunites Axl with Slash and brings them to Dallas

Slash will reunite with Axl Rose for a 20-city nationwide stadium tour in 2016, including a stop at AT&T Stadium on August 3.

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In perhaps the best April Fool's non-joke of all time, Guns N' Roses revealed plans for a 20-city nationwide stadium tour in 2016, including a stop at AT&T Stadium on August 3.

The appropriately-titled Not In This Lifetime Tour, will see the enigmatic Axl Rose reunited with former GN'R members Slash and Duff McKagan. They'll kick off the tour in Detroit, Michigan, on June 23, visiting almost exclusively NFL stadiums through August 22. They'll also play at NRG Stadium in Houston on August 5.

The announcement follows months of rumor and speculation about a possible reunion, which hit fever pitch after it was announced Guns N' Roses would headline this year's Coachella Music & Arts Festival. In a special preview of the forthcoming tour, Axl, Slash, and Duff will return to the stage at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on April 1, the same spot where the band launched its career.

Guns N' Roses was one of the popular rock bands of the late 1980s and early '90s, hitting it big thanks to albums like Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion I and II. But Rose's eccentric behavior over the years has led to band turmoil and the interminably long wait for 2008's Chinese Democracy, their only album in the past 23 years.

Nightrain official GN'R fan club members will be notified via email with an early presale opportunity. A Citi cardmember pre-sale begins April 4 at 10 am and goes through April 7 at 10 pm through Citi Private Pass. Tickets for the general public go on sale April 8.

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Best time to see the Draconid meteor shower in Dallas this week

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A meteor shower will be visible from most of North America, including Dallas, during the week of October 6-10.

The Draconid meteor shower – also called the Giacobinids – is predicted to produce the most meteor activity on the night of October 7 and through the early hours of October 8. The peak is expected to occur at 12 am on Monday night/Tuesday morning.

But there will still be sightings on subsequent nights, stargazing experts say, with the overall duration of the shower extending from October 6-10.

According to EarthSky, a cool website devoted to all things starry, the Draconids will be visible right after it gets dark, rather than the more common early morning hours most meteor showers are visible.

The best time will be just after sunset, until around midnight. Viewers won't have to stay up until the crack of dawn.

Helping to make the meteor even more visible is a waxing moon, barely a crack — only 27 percent illuminated — which will cast less light and keep the sky darker overall.

EarthSky says that the meteors are radiating from two stars known as the Dragon’s Eyes, called Eltanin and Rastaban, found in the constellation Draco. Which is located in between the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper.

However, the meteor shower will be visible across the sky.

The shower is dubbed a "sleeper" in that it produces only a handful of meteors — 10 per hour. But they move slower, so the duration of each streak of light sometimes lasts longer — one to two seconds, rather than a rapid flash.

Meteor showers consist of debris left behind by comets and asteroids, which throw off bits of rock and ice as they orbit the sun. The Draconids are the result of Earth passing through this trail from the comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. The comet completes an orbit of the sun about every seven years, and according to CNN, the last time got this close to Earth was in September 2018.

The best way to see it is to find a place that's far from artificial light, then lie on your back and look up at the sky with a wide view. No special equipment is needed.

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