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Dallas is one of 2 Texas dates on new Coldplay global stadium tour

Coldplay in all their sustainable glory.

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Rock band Coldplay is coming to Dallas — part of a newly-launched 2022 tour to complement a new record, Music Of The Spheres, which will be released on Friday, October 15.

The tour will hit stadiums around the world, including the Cotton Bowl on Friday, May 6. Tickets go on sale on Friday, October 22 at 10 am.

The only other stop in Texas will be at Houston's NRG Stadium on Sunday, May 8.

The band is also pledging to make tour as sustainable and low-carbon as possible.

The "Music Of The Spheres World Tour" begins on March 18, with the band's first ever show in Costa Rica, before traveling to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, USA, Germany, Poland, France, Belgium, and the UK.

It currently ends on September 10 in Rio De Janeiro at the Rock in Rio Festival. Opening acts will include H.E.R. and London Grammar at selected dates.

The band has had a commitment to make tours as environmentally beneficial as possible since 2019, and this tour will follow a set of sustainability initiatives and environmental commitments including:

cutting direct emissions by 50 percent compared to the band’s most recent tour (2016-17).
powering the show entirely by renewable, super-low emission energy — with solar installations at every venue, waste cooking oil, a kinetic stadium floor, and kinetic bikes powered by fans.
drawing down more CO2 than the tour produces with a range of nature- and technology-based solutions, including planting one tree for every ticket sold.
providing each venue with a sustainability rider requesting best environmental practices.
encouraging fans to use low carbon transport to and from shows via the official tour app built by SAP, rewarding those who do with a discount at venues.
ensuring all merchandise is sustainably and ethically sourced.
offering free drinking water and striving to eliminate plastic bottles at every venue.

They'll also put 10 percent of all earnings into a fund for environmental and socially conscious causes, including ClientEarth, One Tree Planted and The Ocean Cleanup; and establish a partnership with climate change experts at Imperial College London's Grantham Institute — Climate Change and the Environment to quantify the impact of the tour – both positively and negatively — on the environment.

To ensure tickets get into the hands of fans directly, the tour will have a Verified Fan presale available for all U.S. dates. Registration is available now through Sunday, October 17 at 8 pm via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program.

Verified Fan presale begins Wednesday, October 20 at 10 am through Thursday, October 21 at 10 pm.

Tour dates are as follows:

March 18: San Jose, Costa Rica - Estadio Nacional
March 22: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Estadio Olímpico
March 25: Monterrey - Estadio BBVA
March 29: Guadalajara - Estadio Akron
April 3: Mexico City - Foro Sol
April 23: Santa Clara - Levi’s Stadium
April 26: Los Angeles - SoFi Stadium
May 3: Phoenix - State Farm Stadium
May 6: Dallas - Cotton Bowl Stadium
May 8: Houston - NRG Stadium
May 28: Chicago - Soldier Field
June 1: Washington DC - FedExField
June 4: East Rutherford, NJ - Metlife Stadium
June 8: Philadelphia - Lincoln Financial Field
June 11: Atlanta - Mercedes-Benz Stadium
June 14: Tampa - Raymond James Stadium

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Movie Review

Podcaster lets creepy noises get under her skin in Undertone

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Nina Kiri in Undertone.

While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on jump scares and other tropes to deliver their terror. So when a film like the new Undertone tries something different, it should be applauded for the effort, even if it’s not as successful in its execution.

Evy (Nina Kiri) is a podcaster who co-hosts a show called Undertone, which focuses on paranormal videos and sounds they find on the internet. Her co-host, Justin (Adam DiMarco), lives in London, so - for kind of contrived reasons - in order to make the time difference between them work, Evy records at around 3 am her time. Evy - who lives at home with her bedridden, dying mother - is the skeptic of the two, consistently debunking clips that Justin presents to her.

Her doubts are tested when Justin brings in a series of 10 audio clips that purport to be about a boyfriend recording his girlfriend as she talks in her sleep. The audio begins in a lighthearted manner and quickly turns creepy and then sinister as unexplained things start happening. Evy senses that what she’s hearing is bleeding into her own world, especially when inexplicable actions take place in her mother’s bedroom.

Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Ian Tuason, the film is effective early on when it introduces the story concept. Making great use of sound design, Tuason essentially puts the audience inside Evy’s head, where every little sound is heightened. Setting the podcast sessions in the middle of the night ups the anxiety level for both her and the audience.

However, as the film goes along it gets a little tedious watching Evy listen to the audio, even as Tuason attempts to keep the film dynamic by moving the camera around her. The premise of the story - progressively going through 10 clips - and Tuason’s framing of shots that focus as much on the background as they do on Evy seem to promise more interesting results than actually transpire.

What ultimately holds the film down more than anything is its lack of different viewpoints. The only other person who’s actually seen is Evy’s mother, who is unable to speak. Evy speaks to Justin, another friend, and a doctor over the course of the story, and while each broadens our understanding of Evy somewhat, none of them make her a truly three-dimensional person. Getting a little more information about her history might have helped the story work better.

Kiri does her level best to vary her acting in the various podcast scenes, and even when they start to get repetitive, she remains compelling and watchable. It’s difficult to judge the other actors based on audio alone, but knowing that DiMarco also starred in season 2 of The White Lotus helps to visualize him and his acting style.

Undertone does well in creating a spine-chilling mood, but it needed something beyond that to become a truly great horror movie. Tuason shows some promise as a filmmaker, especially in the way he uses the camera to create tension, but a more complete story will serve him better the next time around.

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Undertone is now playing in theaters,

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