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2 Dallas concert venues offer VIP lawn pass for entire season

Have they got a deal for you.

Photo courtesy of Toyota Music Factory

Concert promoter Live Nation, which is the brains behind such venues as Dos Equis Pavilion, has a new ticket deal for 2019.

Called the Live Nation Lawn Pass, it gets you unlimited lawn admission to all concerts at any participating Live Nation amphitheater throughout the 2019 season for one price.

So basically, it's like a season ticket, with your seat being the lawn.

Two Texas venues are participating, both in Dallas-Fort Worth: Dos Equis Pavilion and the Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving.

The one-time ticket price to see any concert on the lawn at Dos Equis or Toyota Music Factory is $299.

Let us not forget that the 2018 season had more than 28 concerts. No promises on the 2019 season but surely it will be in the same ballpark.

This includes even sold out shows, although it is not valid for special events, third party rentals, or festivals.

Each ticket comes with:

Free venue lawn chair rental
Personalized credentials that acts as your entry pass for all shows. (ID may be required for entry.)
Access to ticket offers for your family and friends
Fast Lane Entry at your venue

Lawn Pass will go on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, December 4 and be available through December 18 or while supplies last. Perfect for a Christmas present, for someone you were planning to spend $300 on.

To purchase the pass, fans can go to lawnpass.livenation.com and use the dropdown menu to select a desired amphitheater. Each fan will receive a custom laminate with their name and unique barcode that serves as their ticket on show day. Once fans scan in, they are all set to dance the night away on the lawn.

The full list of participating amphitheaters found below. Pricing varies per amphitheater and further details and restrictions for the Lawn Pass can be found at lawnpass.livenation.com.

Ak-Chin Pavilion (Phoenix, AZ)
BB&T Pavilion (Camden, NJ)
Blossom Music Center* (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood (Atlanta, GA)
Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek (Raleigh, NC)
Concord Pavilion (Concord, CA)
Coral Sky Amphitheatre (West Palm Beach, FL)
Darien Lake Amphitheater (Darien Center, NY)
Glen Helen Amphitheater (San Bernardino, CA)
Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - Chicago (Tinley Park, IL)
Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
Isleta Amphitheater (Albuquerque, NM)
Jiffy Lube Live (Bristow, VA)
KeyBank Pavilion (Burgettstown, PA)
MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre (Tampa, FL)
North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre (San Diego, CA)
PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, NJ)
PNC Music Pavilion (Charlotte, NC)
Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center (Noblesville, IN)
Saratoga Performing Arts Center (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Shoreline Amphitheatre (Mountain View, CA)
Dos Equis Pavilion (Dallas, TX)
The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (Scranton, PA)
The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory (Irving, TX)
The XFINITY Theatre (Hartford, CT)
Toyota Amphitheater (Wheatland, CA)
Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach (Virginia Beach, VA)
White River Amphitheatre (Auburn, WA)
Xfinity Center (Mansfield, MA)

This is a new deal from Live Nation, which is no stranger to creative ticket specials. In 2016, they launched a discounted ticket promotion at the beginning of the concert season, with $20 tickets offered for a slew of major shows an offer they continued in 2017 and again in 2018. But this Lawn Pass, this is something new.

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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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