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Pop stars Kesha and Scissor Sisters slice into Houston on new summer tour

Kesha will play in The Woodlands with Scissor Sisters on July 10 as part of The Tits Out Tour.

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Pop singer Kesha will hit the road in 2025 with the boldly-titled The Tits Out Tour, the biggest live run of her career. The tour will come to The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands on Thursday, July 10.

Comprised of 25 dates in North America, the tour will start in West Valley City, Utah on July 1, lasting a little over a month until the final date on August 10 in Tampa, Florida.

In addition to Houston, Kesha will play in Dallas on July 8. She'll be joined by the recently-reunited Scissor Sisters on all dates, as well as Slayyyter for the two Texas dates.

The tour will be in support of her upcoming new album, . (PERIOD), set for release on July 4. This will be the singer's sixth overall album, and the first on her new independent music label, Kesha Records.

To underscore the title of the tour, Kesha released a politically provocative statement:

“The most political thing we can do right now is love. Love ourselves and love each other,” Kesha said. “Americans need to have more safe, consensual sex. Our administration is so disembodied and disconnected. I’m going TITS OUT this summer to bring as much safety, fun, acceptance, love, connection, and celebration to this country because we are just as much the fabric of this FREE nation as anyone else. We will not be quiet, and we will fight through joy! I think it’s time to make LOVE, not content. LOVE, not anger. LOVE, not hatred, and love, not war."

Additionally, she is teaming up with Feeld, "a dating app for the curious," as part of the tour "in order to bring our sexually liberated selves and give us a place to flirt, meet, connect, and dance."

Fans can sign up now for access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, April 8 at 10 am local time at keshaofficial.com and scissorsisters.com. Additional presales will run throughout the week.

All remaining tickets will be available through a general onsale on Thursday, April 10 at 10 am local time. For complete tour details, go to keshaofficial.com/tour.

KESHA & SCISSOR SISTERS: THE TITS OUT TOUR

July 1 – West Valley City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 3 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 5 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
July 6 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
July 8 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
July 10 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 12 – Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
July 13 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
July 15 – Nashville, TN – Riverfront Park – Ascend Amphitheater
July 16 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
July 18 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
July 19 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 21 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
July 23 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
July 24 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
July 26 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
July 28 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
July 29 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavillion at The Mann
July 31 – Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
August 2 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
August 3 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
August 5 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
August 7 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
August 9 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
August 10 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

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Movie Review

20-year-old YouTube horror creator's Backrooms is an auspicious debut

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Chiwetel Ejiofor in Backrooms.

YouTube has become such a big part of the culture that it was only a matter of time before content creators started making waves in big screen filmmaking. Interestingly, most of them have made their names in the horror genre, including Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me, Bring Her Back), Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach (the recent Iron Lung), and now Kane Parsons with Backrooms.

Set in 1990, the film centers on Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who owns a rundown furniture store in a nondescript city. He is divorced and seemingly depressed, two things that come up in his multiple sessions with his therapist, Mary (Renate Reinsve). Lately, he has taken to sleeping in the store instead of going home, which allows him to notice strange electrical activity when the lights are supposed to be turned off.

When investigating the issues one night, he discovers a mysterious opening that leads to a completely different structure with a seemingly endless amount of rooms and corridors. Some of them are innocuous and some of them contain strange and creepy elements. With nothing else of interest in his life, Clark returns to the area night after night, eventually drawing in his employee, Kat (Lukita Maxwell), her boyfriend Bobby (Finn Bennett), and Mary.

The 20-year-old Parsons, helped by a number of well-known producers, demonstrates an astonishing level of filmmaking prowess for a first-time feature filmmaker. There is no trace of amateurishness in the progression of the story or the visual style of the film. Whatever confusion arises comes from the plot itself, which is designed to raise way more questions than answers.

Clark’s journey into the bewildering collection of rooms is full of intrigue instead of scares for most of the film, but when Parsons decides to amp things up, he really goes for it. The final third of the film contains some haunting imagery that defies description or explanation. It seems clear that Parsons’ preferred method of storytelling is to keep the audience off-balance, unable to predict what comes next.

What he also seems to understand, however, is that you have to give the audience something to hold on to, and in this case it’s the backstories of Clark and Mary. Both seem to be living differing versions of pathetic, uninteresting lives, but things revealed in their sessions broaden the scope of their stories. The strange world they find seems to reflect their respective traumas, giving a tenuous connection to reality that keeps the film from becoming too frustrating.

Ejiofor and Reinsve, both of whom are Oscar nominees, give the film an air of legitimacy that allows viewers to follow whatever odd roads Parsons wants to go down. Because it’s impossible to tell where the film is heading, the steady acting of Ejiofor and Reinsve is crucial in its success. Maxwell, Bennett, and Mark Duplass are good in brief appearances, but don’t appear enough to have a huge impact.

The ambiguous nature of Backrooms lends it the possibility of becoming a franchise, as Parsons could seemingly take it in any direction he wanted and have it feel part of the larger whole. Given how well done this and other recent films by YouTubers have been, the melding of the two seemingly disparate mediums makes more sense than ever.

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Backrooms opens in theaters on May 29.

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