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Dozens of summer 2025 concerts in Dallas go on sale for $30

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In what has become an annual summer tradition, concert promoter Live Nation is offering a discount ticket program for summer concert season for 2025, with $30 tickets for a variety of shows at venues across Texas.

Live Nation’s $30 Ticket to Summer is selling tickets for $30 to more than 1,000 shows at select amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada throughout the season, including Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas, The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at The Woodlands in Houston, Germania Insurance Amphitheater, Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park, and Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin.

The initial on-sale begins May 21, and spans a wide range of genres — including pop, Latin, hip-hop, country, R&B, rock, metal, electronic, comedy, and more.

Tickets purchased through this offer include all fees upfront in the $30 cost. Any taxes will be added at checkout as applicable to each city, state, and venue. Tickets are available for select Live Nation shows, while inventory lasts.

How $30 Ticket to Summer works
Starting May 21, in the U.S. and Canada, fans can visit LiveNation.com/TickettoSummer to see the full list of participating events. Once they’ve selected a show, they should look for the ticket type labeled “$30 Ticket to Summer,” add the ticket(s) to their cart, and proceed to checkout.

How to find participating shows
Fans can filter their search on LiveNation.com/TickettoSummer by participating events, venues, or artists. While on the website, fans can also set the location to the closest city and the site will refresh to only include participating shows nearby.

How to buy tickets
The general onsale will begin Wednesday, May 21 at 10 am local time while supplies last at LiveNation.com/TickettoSummer. ($30 Ticket to Summer will be available with T-Mobile and Rakuten early access beginning Tuesday, May 20.)

Here are the cities, venues, and shows where the $30 action is happening.

Dallas
The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at Dos Equis Pavilion:

Halsey
97.1 The Eagle’s BFD with Chevelle, Marilyn Manson
Dierks Bentley
Luke Bryan
Summer of Loud with Beartooth, I Prevail
Stick Figure
Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan
Kesha
Parker McCollum
Jason Aldean
Juntos
Big Time Rush
The Offspring
Pantera
Nelly

Irving
The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory:

Hauser of 2Cellos
Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
Simple Minds
Bini
Babymetal
Tash Sultana
The Driver Era
ALT 103.7 Presents Slightly Stoopid
Kansas
97.1 The Eagle Presents Volbeat
Billy Currington & Kip Moore
Xdinary Heroes
Collective Soul and +LIVE+
Lost 80's Live Ft. A Flock of Seagulls, Big Country
Toto with Christopher Cross & Men at Work
The Flaming Lips & Modest Mouse
KIDZ BOP Live
Simple Plan
Coheed and Cambria
Gavin Adcock
Myke Towers
Alabama Shakes
Eden Munoz
John Legend

Austin
The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater

Drive-By Truckers
Tennis
Thievery Corporation
The Hives
Die Spitz
Matt Maltese

The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Styx with The Kevin Cronin Band and Don Felder
Summer of Loud
Stick Figure
Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic and Fireworks
Russ
+Live+ with Collective Soul
The Offspring
Pantera
Alice Cooper and Judas Priest

The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park:

Peach Pit & Briston Maroney
Blue October
Slightly Stoopid
Billy Currington
Pixies
Coheed and Cambria
Father John Misty
Lake Street Dive

Houston
The $30 Ticket to Summer offer is available for the following shows at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at The Woodlands:

Simple Minds
Styx with The Kevin Cronin Band and Don Felder
Summer of Loud
Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan
Kesha
Rick Springfield
Kansas
Russ
Weird Al Yankovic
Big Time Rush
The Offspring
Kidz Bop Live
Leon Bridges
Charlie Wilson
Keith Urban
Alice Cooper and Judas Priest

More tickets will be added throughout the summer, for chances to score $30 tickets all season long.

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Movie Review

Anne Hathaway caps busy movie year with mediocre thriller Verity

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Anne Hathaway in Verity.

Anne Hathaway has been inescapable for movie fans in 2026, starring in no fewer than five different movies across multiple genres, including Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, and The End of Oak Street. The actor (who’s pregnant and about to take a well-earned break) is wrapping up her supremely busy year with the psychological thriller, Verity.

Hathaway plays the title character, Verity Crawford, a hugely successful author who writes beach read thrillers, often from the perspective of the villain. An unpublicized car accident renders her immobile and mute, and her husband, Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and agents make the decision to recruit someone to ghostwrite her next book in order to continue her legacy.

The person hired for the job is Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), an aspiring author whose books mostly get ignored. She’s eager to take on the project, but the reality of Verity’s situation throws her for a loop. When she discovers a secret file that seems to be Verity admitting to some very bad things, Lowen starts to spin even more, imagining situations that may not actually be happening.

Directed by Michael Showalter and adapted by Nick Antosca from the book by Colleen Hoover, the film initially has a nice rhythm to it, setting up the three main characters well and building up tension. Though current day Verity can’t speak or move, the film gets to the heart of her through old interviews Lowen watches to get to know her mind better. Using that footage and other small moments at the house, a type of rivalry develops between the two characters.

Strangely, though, Showalter and Antosca fail to capitalize on the early momentum. The story stagnates about halfway through the movie and never delivers on what it seems to be promising. Whether they’re too true to Hoover’s original story or change things too much is difficult to tell for those who haven’t read the book, but either way, the result is a big tease with not much in the way of a payoff.

What’s most disappointing about the film is its inability to decide on a tone. There are some points where it feels like over-the-top, campy fun, and others where it seems like the filmmakers are going for a straight-up horror vibe. The down-the-middle approach that they land on serves neither the story nor the characters well. Moments that should be full of suspense or could get laughs often fall flat because of the indecisiveness of the filmmakers.

Due to her character’s affliction, Hathaway is reduced to a supporting role in the film, but she gets by on presence alone and still has a few scenes where she demonstrates her star power. Johnson delivers a good performance despite her typical lack of emotion. Like many of her roles, it’s her body that seems to get more attention than her acting. Hartnett is on a roll thanks to recent roles in Oppenheimer and Trap, and he puts in solid work here, as well.

Verity has the bones of a tense thriller, but it’s filled in with a bunch of questionable story beats that don’t prove as satisfying as the premise. The meta-plot of the authors of thrillers becoming involved in a thriller themselves should have been juicy and full of great twists, but ultimately it’s as catatonic as Verity herself.

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Verity is now playing in theaters.

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