Country Concert

Country duo Dan + Shay will bring heartbreak to Dallas on upcoming tour

Dan + Shay will tour this spring and summer.

Photo courtesy of Dan + Shay

Country act Dan + Shay are coming to Dallas: The duo has extended its 2024 The Heartbreak On The Map Tour, and will now include a stop at Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas on Friday, August 30.

Originally scheduled to run from February 29-April 13 and to hit only 19 cities, the tour has been extended through the summer, picking up on July 18 in Cincinnati, Ohio, then traveling to 30 more cities over two months, before ending on September 12 in Denver, Colorado.

Dallas is one of two new dates added in Texas, along with Houston on August 31.

Texas stops will now include:

Austin (March 7)
Fort Worth (March 8)
Dallas (August 30)
The Woodlands (August 31)

The tour is named after the third single, “Heartbreak On The Map,” from Dan + Shay's fifth album, Bigger Houses, which was released in September 2023.

They will also soon be returning to NBC's The Voice, this time as the first-ever coaching duo in the show’s history. They'll be joined on season 25 - which starts on February 26 - by Reba McEntire, John Legend, and Chance the Rapper.

Tickets for the tour will be available starting with presales beginning February 20 at 11 am, and a Dan + Shay presale at 12 pm. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on February 23 at 10 am.

The Heartbreak On The Map Tour dates

Thu, Feb 29: Greenville, SC - Bon Secours Wellness Arena
Fri, Mar 1: Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena
Sat, Mar 2: Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Thu, Mar 7: Austin, TX - Moody Center ATX
Fri, Mar 8: Fort Worth, TX - Dickies Arena
Sat, Mar 9: Oklahoma City, OK - Paycom Center
Thu, Mar 14: Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
Fri, Mar 15: Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
Sat, Mar 16: Knoxville, TN - Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center
Wed, Mar 20: Savannah, GA - Enmarket Arena
Thu, Mar 21: Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
Fri, Mar 22: Chicago, IL - United Center
Thu, Apr 4: Milwaukee, WI - Fiserv Forum
Fri, Apr 5: Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
Sat, Apr 6: Omaha, NE - CHI Health Center Omaha
Sun, Apr 7: Kansas City, MO - T-Mobile Center
Thu, Apr 11: Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
Fri, Apr 12: Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
Sat, Apr 13: Boston, MA - TD Garden
Thu Jul 18: Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
Fri Jul 19: Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center
Sat Jul 20: St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Thu Jul 25: Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
Fri Jul 26: Syracuse, NY - Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview
Sat Jul 27: Gilford, NH - BankNH Pavilion
Thu Aug 01: Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre
Fri Aug 02: Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake
Sat Aug 03: Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
Fri Aug 09: Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
Sat Aug 10: Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
Sun Aug 11: Bangor, ME - Maine Savings Amphitheater
Thu Aug 15: Charleston, SC - Credit One Stadium
Fri Aug 16: Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
Sat Aug 17: Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park
Thu Aug 22: West Palm Beach, FL - iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Fri Aug 23: Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 24: Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Thu Aug 29: Rogers, AR | Walmart AMP
Fri Aug 30: Dallas, TX | Dos Equis Pavilion
Sat Aug 31: Woodlands, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Thu Sep 05: Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
Fri Sep 06: Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
Thu Sep 12: Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Fri Sep 13: Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Sat Sep 14: Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sun Sep 15: Stateline, NV - Lake Tahoe Harveys Outdoor Arena
Thu Sep 19: Nampa, ID - Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
Fri Sep 20: West Valley City, UT - Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater
Sat Sep 21: Denver, CO - Fiddlers Green Amphitheater

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Movie Review

Comedy all-stars Jack Black and Paul Rudd can't save Anaconda sequel

Photo by Matt Grace

Jack Black and Paul Rudd in Anaconda.

In Hollywood’s never-ending quest to take advantage of existing intellectual property, seemingly no older movie is off limits, even if the original was not well-regarded. That’s certainly the case with 1997’s Anaconda, which is best known for being a lesser entry on the filmography of Ice Cube and Jennifer Lopez, as well as some horrendous accent work by Jon Voight.

The idea behind the new meta-sequel Anaconda is arguably a good one. Four friends — Doug (Jack Black), Griff (Paul Rudd), Claire (Thandiwe Newton), and Kenny (Steve Zahn) — who made homemade movies when they were teenagers decide to remake Anaconda on a shoestring budget. Egged on by Griff, an actor who can’t catch a break, the four of them pull together enough money to fly down to Brazil, hire a boat, and film a script written by Doug.

Naturally, almost nothing goes as planned in the Amazon, including losing their trained snake and running headlong into a criminal enterprise. Soon enough, everything else takes second place to the presence of a giant anaconda that is stalking them and anyone else who crosses its path.

Written and directed by Tom Gormican, with help from co-writer Kevin Etten, the film is designed to be an outrageous comedy peppered with laugh-out-loud moments that cover up the fact that there’s really no story. That would be all well and good … if anything the film had to offer was truly funny. Only a few scenes elicit any honest laughter, and so instead the audience is fed half-baked jokes, a story with no focus, and actors who ham it up to get any kind of reaction.

The biggest problem is that the meta-ness of the film goes too far. None of the core four characters possess any interesting traits, and their blandness is transferred over to the actors playing them. And so even as they face some harrowing situations or ones that could be funny, it’s difficult to care about anything they do since the filmmakers never make the basic effort of making the audience care about them.

It’s weird to say in a movie called Anaconda, but it becomes much too focused on the snake in the second half of the film. If the goal is to be a straight-up comedy, then everything up to and including the snake attacks should be serving that objective. But most of the time the attacks are either random or moments when the characters are already scared, and so any humor that could be mined all but disappears.

Black and Rudd are comedy all-stars who can typically be counted on to elevate even subpar material. That’s not the case here, as each only scores on a few occasions, with Black’s physicality being the funniest thing in the movie. Newton is not a good fit with this type of movie, and she isn’t done any favors by some seriously bad wigs. Zahn used to be the go-to guy for funny sidekicks, but he brings little to the table in this role.

Any attempt at rebooting/remaking an old piece of IP should make a concerted effort to differentiate itself from the original, and in that way, the new Anaconda succeeds. Unfortunately, that’s its only success, as the filmmakers can never find the right balance to turn it into the bawdy comedy they seemed to want.

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Anaconda is now playing in theaters.

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