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Janet Jackson returns to the road for summer 2023 tour with stop in Austin

Janet Jackson, Unbreakable tour, September 2017

Music icon Janet Jackson will be coming to Austin in 2023.

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After four years, Janet Jackson is back on tour — and that includes a stop in Austin. The five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee will return to the road in summer 2023 with her ninth concert tour, called “Together Again."

Produced by Live Nation, the 33-city tour will hit arenas and amphitheaters, launching in Florida in April, followed by stops across North America including New York, Toronto, and California, before wrapping up in Seattle on June 21.

The tour will make three stops in Texas:

Dallas: Friday, June 2, at Dos Equis Pavilion
Houston: Saturday, June 3, at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Austin: Sunday, June 4, at Moody Center

She'll be joined by Grammy Award-winning recording artist (and Fast and Furious actor) Ludacris, who will join Jackson across all dates as a special guest.

Jackson's most recent stop was her "Unbreakable" tour in 2017. She'd planned a summer 2020 tour for her Black Diamond World release, but that was in the throes of COVID-19 and it got canceled.

The “Together Again” Tour will celebrate Jackson's 50th anniversary in entertainment and feature her biggest chart-topping hits, plus new music.

Tickets go on sale Friday, December 16 at 11 am at LiveNation.com.

Presale will be available to Citi cardmembers Tuesday, December 13 at 11 am through Thursday, December 15 at 10 pm via the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

TOGETHER AGAIN TOUR DATES:

Friday, April 14 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live Arena
Wednesday, April 19 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center
Friday, April 21 – Savannah, GA – Enmarket Arena
Saturday, April 22 – Birmingham, AL – Legacy Arena
Tuesday, April 25 – Columbia, SC – Colonial Life Arena
Thursday, April 27 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Saturday, April 29 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
Sunday, April 30 – St Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
Tuesday, May 2 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
Thursday, May 4 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Saturday, May 6 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
Tuesday, May 9 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Friday, May 12 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
Saturday, May 13 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
Sunday, May 14 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Friday, May 19 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
Saturday, May 20 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
Tuesday, May 23 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Wednesday, May 24 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
Friday, May 26 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
Saturday, May 27 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Chicago
Sunday, May 28 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater
Tuesday May 30 – St Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
Friday, June 2 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
Saturday, June 3 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sunday, June 4 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
Wednesday, Jun 7 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion
Friday, June 9 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
Saturday, June 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl (not a Live Nation tour date)
Sunday, June 11 – San Diego, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
Friday, June 16 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
Tuesday, June 20 – Portland, OR – Moda Center
Wednesday, June 21 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

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Movie Review

Nosferatu remake respects the classics with a few added twists

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Lily Rose Depp in Nosferatu

The original Nosferatu from 1922 is one loved by cinephiles, a silent German Expressionist film that is regarded by many as the most influential horror film from early cinema. A loose adaptation of Bram Stroker’s Dracula, it is now being remade for a modern audience by a singular filmmaker in his own right, Robert Eggers.

This Nosferatu plays much like an homage to the original, following the same basic story centered on Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) and Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult). The firm Thomas works for is selling a decrepit mansion to Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), but in order to seal the deal, Thomas must travel to Transylvania to have Orlok sign the papers in person.

Both Ellen and Thomas fall under a type of spell from Orlok, with Ellen having a secret history with the count that she never divulged to Thomas. Insatiable, Orlok pursues Thomas, Ellen, and more across Europe, with his influence causing a mania among a population already afraid of the Black Death.

Written and directed by Eggers, the film is both straightforward in its storytelling and enigmatic in its details. To underscore Orlok’s sorcery, there are a number of sequences that may or may not actually be taking place, with characters waking up as if out of a nightmare. The spooky mood is felt throughout the film through visuals and sound, an unease that’s never all that scary but is unsettling nonetheless.

Eggers seems determined to pay tribute to F.W. Murnau’s film while also putting his own touches on the story. A couple of scenes utilizing shadows are mesmerizing in their execution and in the way they call back to similar scenes in the 1922 version. While most vampire movies have victims being bitten on the neck, Eggers has his characters attacked on the chest, a weird placement that seems designed both to upend expectations and to make things extra creepy.

It’s a good thing Eggers does a great job with the atmosphere of the film because he allows his actors to indulge in melodramatic acting that threatens to take away any power the story has. Given the time period in which the film takes place and the events it features, the technique is somewhat effective, but never fully involving, and could even be considered laughable by some.

Depp is the biggest offender in this regard, and her performance is so over-the-top that it is a slight hindrance to the central role of Ellen. As the villain, Skarsgård can be given more leeway, and he makes the biggest impact with just his choice of voice. Hoult, appearing in his fourth film in 2024, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson give similar solid performances, and Willem Dafoe is typically great as a professor hired to try to end Orlok’s reign of terror.

While there is some blood and gore in the film, this Nosferatu resembles the original most in the way it insinuates horror instead of actually showing it. Eggers — whose previous two films were The Lighthouse and The Northman — loves himself a good period story, and his respect for film history and unique style both shine through here.

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Nosferatu is now playing in theaters,

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