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    Concert News

    Swedish rock band Ghost invites Houston to dance macabre on new tour

    Alex Bentley
    Oct 28, 2024 | 12:30 pm
    Swedish rock band Ghost

    Swedish rock band Ghost will play at Toyota Center on August 16, 2025.

    Photo by Ryan Chang

    Billed as a "theatrical rock band," Swedish group Ghost will embark on its biggest world tour to date in 2025, including a stop at the Toyota Center in Houston on Saturday, August 16, 2025.

    Starting on April 15 in the United Kingdom, Ghost will play more than 50 shows around the globe over the course of five months. In addition to Fort Worth, they will also play in Austin on August 14 and Fort Worth on August 15.

    Ghost are no strangers to North America; they also came to Dallas, Austin, and Houston in 2023 in support of their 2022 album, Impera.

    They released a feature-length concert film from that tour, Rite Here Rite Now, this past July, which was recorded during their shows in Los Angeles.

    Impera was the band's fifth album overall, a career that has seen them notch four No. 1 albums in their native Sweden. Impera was their highest-charting album in the U.S., coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

    They've also been mainstays on the Mainstream Rock chart, with five of their songs going to No. 1, most recently "Call Me Little Sunshine" in 2022.

    Tickets for the U.S. dates will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning on Tuesday, October 29 at 10 am. The artist presale will begin two hours later at 12 pm.

    Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, November 1 at 10 am at ghost-official.com.

    GHOST WORLD TOUR 2025 DATES

    • Tue Apr 15 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena
    • Wed Apr 16 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
    • Sat Apr 19 – London, UK – The O2
    • Sun Apr 20 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena
    • Tue Apr 22 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis
    • Wed Apr 23 – Frankfurt, DE – Festhalle Frankfurt
    • Thu Apr 24 – Munich, DE – Olympiahalle
    • Sat Apr 26 – Lyon, FR – LDLC Arena
    • Sun Apr 27 – Toulouse, FR – Zénith Toulouse Métropole
    • Tue Apr 29 – Lisbon, PT – MEO Arena
    • Wed Apr 30 – Madrid, ES – Palacio Vistalegre
    • Sat May 3 – Zürich, CH – Hallenstadion Zürich
    • Sun May 4 – Milan, IT – Unipol Forum
    • Wed May 7 – Berlin, DE – Uber Arena
    • Thu May 8 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome
    • Sat May 10 – Lodz, PL – Atlas Arena
    • Sun May 11 – Prague, CZ – O2 Arena
    • Tue May 13 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena
    • Wed May 14 – Oberhausen, DE – Rudolf Weber-ARENA
    • Thu May 15 – Hannover, DE – ZAG Arena
    • Sat May 17 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena
    • Tue May 20 – Tampere, FI – Nokia Arena
    • Thu May 22 – Linköping, SE – Saab Arena
    • Fri May 23 – Sandviken, SE – Göransson Arena
    • Sat May 24 – Oslo, NO – Oslo Spektrum
    • Wed Jul 09 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
    • Fri Jul 11 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
    • Sat Jul 12 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
    • Sun Jul 13 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center
    • Tue Jul 15 – Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center
    • Thu Jul 17 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
    • Fri Jul 18 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
    • Sat Jul 19 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
    • Mon Jul 21 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
    • Tue Jul 22 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
    • Thu Jul 24 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
    • Fri Jul 25 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
    • Sat Jul 26 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
    • Mon Jul 28 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
    • Tue Jul 29 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
    • Wed Jul 30 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
    • Fri Aug 01 – Rosemont, IL – Allstate Arena
    • Sat Aug 02 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
    • Sun Aug 03 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center
    • Tue Aug 05 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
    • Thu Aug 07 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena
    • Sat Aug 09 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
    • Sun Aug 10 – San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena
    • Mon Aug 11 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
    • Thu Aug 14 – Austin, TX – Moody Center
    • Fri Aug 15 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
    • Sat Aug 16 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
    • Wed Sep 24 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes
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    let's go to the movies

    18th annual Cinema Arts Festival promises to be the most Houston yet

    Craig D. Lindsey
    Sep 29, 2026 | 3:00 pm
    Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother film still
    Courtesy of Houston Cinema Arts Festival
    Mahershala Ali's Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is set in Houston.

    Is it safe to say that, out of all the years the Houston Cinema Arts Festival has been up and running, this year’s fest is – the most Houston ever?

    Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother film still

    Courtesy of Houston Cinema Arts Festival

    Mahershala Ali's Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is set in Houston.

    The 18th-annual film festival — running from this Thursday, October 1, until Sunday, October 11 — will showcase several Houston-centric films and filmmakers in their “Spotlight on Texas” and “Texas Icons” programs. Pakistani-born, Clutch City-bred filmmaker Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) directed the opening-night film, the Mahershala Ali action drama Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which is also set in Houston.

    Vicky Wight, another H-Town filmmaker, will screen two films: the narrative drama The Body Is Water and Zina, a documentary short on Houston tennis great Zina Garrison. DJ Screw, Brittney Griner, the Fourth Ward, and the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs “Battle of the Sexes” match that went down at the Astrodome will also get screen time this year. And don’t forget about the 30th anniversary screening of Bottle Rocket, written and directed by hometown hero Wes Anderson.

    “Houston was such a major source of inspiration for the festival,” says lead HCAF programmer Michael D. Robinson. “We have that idea of reflecting Houston back to itself, but also, for me, it was reflecting Houston to the world and the world back to Houston.”

    Now in its 18th year, the HCAF (created and programmed by the Houston Cinema Arts Society) continues to look for cinematic art both regionally and internationally. The fest will screen the latest from acclaimed international filmmakers, including Possible Love, from South Korean dramatist Lee Chang-dong (Burning); and Fatherland, from Oscar-nominated Pole Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War). A wide array of features and shorts will also be shown, ranging from films directed by female filmmakers to films centered on African American and LGBTQ+ themes.

    “My Eyes Are Playing Tricks on Me” is a themed program dealing with the complicated relationship between image and truth, particularly in this increasingly-troublesome age of AI. Robinson gives props to HCAS for giving him more room to expand the lineup.

    “There are 10 more features than last year, and I'm very happy that they let me do that,” he says. “But I definitely was more ambitious and, just looking at this year in film, there are so many great options. And it kind of became a moment of being like, if we can, let's just try to give audiences as many of these great films from international festivals — but also from [South by Southwest].”

    The 11-day fest will be a sprawling affair, with screenings happening at various venues (including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rice Cinema, River Oaks Theatre, and the DeLUXE Theater) along with parties, panels, and other events going on in other spots. Just as the festival wants to salute Houston on-screen, the organizers also want Houstonians to experience the spaces where you can see these films.

    “Houston is not like [former Sundance Film Festival home] Park City, Utah, where everything is a mile away from each other, and you have 100 different theaters that you can walk to,” says HCAS executive director Katie Creeggan-Rios. “We are a big, sprawling, metropolitan area with a lot of different neighborhoods and a lot of our cultural identities. And it's been important to Michael and me from the beginning to make sure that we are programming site-specific, that we're thinking about what is important to an audience at the DeLUXE Theater, and what kind of movies feel at home at the River Oaks. And it's one of the things that makes our audience so special, and makes our festival so exciting.”

    For more information on the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, go to the festival website.

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