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Hair-famous music act The Weeknd puts Dallas on 2017 world tour

The Weeknd, who will perform in Dallas in May 2017, now comes with 50 percent less hair.

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Vowel-challenged musical artist The Weeknd has locked in his first-ever world tour, called Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour, for early 2017, with two Texas dates on the itinerary.

The tour will hit Dallas on May 4 at American Airlines Center, and Houston on May 6 at the Toyota Center.

The tour spans Europe and North America, with phase one kicking off on February 17 in Stockholm. It will visit 14 additional cities across Europe including Paris, London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Copenhagen, and more before heading to North America on April 25 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The North American leg of the tour will hit 25 cities across the United States and Canada. The tour supports the The Weeknd's new album, Starboy, due out November 25 on XO/Republic Records.

Known for his betwitching hair, The Weeknd first broke into the music scene with the 2011 mixtape House of Balloons, followed by studio album Kiss Land in 2013 and the widely recognized Beauty Behind the Madness that earned him two Grammy Awards in 2015. Starboy is The Weeknd’s fourth full-length album with a title track featuring Daft Punk.

Tickets for both the North American and European dates go on sale November 4 at ticketmaster.com.

All dates, cities, and venues below subject to change.

February 17, 2017 Stockholm / The Globe
February 19, 2017 Oslo, Norway / Spektrum
February 20, 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark / Royal Arena
February 24, 2017 Amsterdam / Ziggo Dome
February 26, 2017 Zurich / Hallenstadion
February 28, 2017 Paris / AccorHotels Arena
March 2, 2017 Cologne, Germany / Lanxess Arena
March 3, 2017 Antwerp, Belgium / Sportpaleis
March 5, 2017 Manchester, United Kingdom / Manchester Arena
March 7, 2017 London / O2 Arena
March 8, 2017 London / O2 Arena
March 10, 2017 Glasgow, United Kingdom / SSE Hydro
March 11, 2017 Newcastle, United Kingdom / Newcastle Arena
March 13, 2017 Birmingham, United Kingdom / Barclaycard Arena
March 14, 2017 Leeds, United Kingdom / First Direct Arena
April 25, 2017 Vancouver / Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
April 26, 2017 Seattle / Key Arena
April 28, 2017 San Jose, California / SAP Center
April 29, 2017 Los Angeles / The Forum
May 2, 2017 Phoenix / Talking Stick Resort Arena
May 4, 2017 Dallas / American Airlines Center
May 6, 2017 Houston / Toyota Center
May 9, 2016 New Orleans / Smoothie King Center
May 11, 2016 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida / BB&T Center
May 12, 2017 Tampa, Florida / Amalie Arena
May 13, 2017 Atlanta / Philips Arena
May 17, 2017 Charlotte, North Carolina / Spectrum Center
May 18, 2017 Washington, D.C. / Verizon Center
May 19, 2017 Atlantic City, New Jersey / Boardwalk Hall
May 23, 2017 Rosemont, Illinois / Allstate Arena
May 24, 2017 Detroit / Palace of Auburns Hills
May 26, 2017 Toronto / Air Canada Centre
May 28, 2017 Ottawa, Ontairo / Canadian Tire Centre
May 30, 2017 Montreal / Bell Centre
May 31, 2017 Quebec City / Videotron Centre
June 2, 2017 Uncasville, Connecticut / Mohegan Sun
June 3, 2017 Nassau, New York / Nassau Memorial Coliseum
June 4, 2017 Newark, New Jersey / Prudential Center
June 6, 2017 Brooklyn, New York / Barclays Center
June 9, 2017 Cincinnati, Ohio / US Bank Arena

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Texas Touchdown

This new interactive exhibit captures a century of Texas football history

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Football season is just weeks away, and a new online exhibit from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image explores more than a century of the sport's history in Texas.

Football season is just weeks away, and before Friday night lights return and college stadiums roar back to life, Texans can get an early kickoff with Game Film: Texas Football Culture in Motion, a new interactive online exhibit. The project from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image celebrates more than a century of the state's high school, college, and professional football history.

The free digital exhibit uses archival game film, home movies, television broadcasts, and local news coverage to explore how football is woven into the fabric of Texas life. Rather than presenting a collection of videos, the archive has curated an interactive experience that lets visitors discover the people, traditions, innovations, and defining moments behind the state's football culture.

Game Film encourages exploration through interactive features. Visitors can follow a timeline of football milestones spanning high school, college, and professional football, click through an interactive state map highlighting archival footage available from schools and programs across the state, or browse themed collections devoted to Friday night culture and fan traditions.

This project, unveiled July 31, was curated by Katharine Austin, a longtime curator at the Texas Archive, as part of the Texas Film Commission's Texas Moving Image Archive Program.

The interactive timeline traces the sport from its earliest days through the modern era, spotlighting milestones including:

1894: the beginning of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry
1900: the first Red River Rivalry
1914: the formation of the Southwest Conference
1921: the UIL's first state football championship
1938: TCU quarterback Davey O'Brien becoming the first player from a Texas college to win the Heisman Trophy
1959: the founding of the Houston Oilers
1960: the Dallas Cowboys joining the NFL
1987: SMU's NCAA "death penalty"
1996: Drew Brees leading Westlake High School to its first state football championship
1999: Houston being awarded the NFL expansion franchise that became the Texans

Many later entries include original television reports and archival footage from the events themselves.

An interactive state map offers another way to explore the collection, highlighting schools, colleges, and professional teams represented in the archive.

One click reveals a silent film of Austin High School's 20-7 victory over Sunset High in the 1942 UIL state championship, while another captures Timpson High School's homecoming celebration in East Texas, complete with parade floats, marching bands, and community festivities. Other sections spotlight Friday night traditions, Darrell Royal's wishbone offense, Bill Yeoman's Veer defense, behind-the-scenes stories from the Houston Oilers, and the invention of the quarterback flak jacket.

Game Film is the latest in a series of interactive exhibits from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, joining projects including Women on the Move, Journey to the Moon Through Texas, Meet Me in San Antonio, La Frontera Fluid, and Breaking News: Rescuing the First Draft of History.

The archive's broader collection and the nonprofit both accept public donations of historic films, videotapes, photographs, and other moving-image materials, helping preserve Texas stories for future generations.

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