Kiss: This Is The "End Of The Road" World Tour

Kiss: End Of The Road World Tour

After an epic and storied 45 year career that launched an era of rock n roll legends, KISS announced that they will launch their final tour ever in 2019, appropriately named END OF THE ROAD. The initial announcement was made a month ago on NBC's America's Got Talent which sent the internet into overdrive with fans hoping their city would get one final KISS show. 

The band announced today the first set of dates and cities in North America, produced by Live Nation. International markets were also announced simultaneously today. (Tour itinerary detailed below.)

KISS Meet & Greet Experiences will be available beginning Tuesday, October 30th at 10am local time through kissonline.com. KISS Army fan club presales will begin Wednesday October 31st at 10 am local time also through kissonline.com. 

Citi is the official presale credit card for the End of the Road World Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase U.S. presale tickets beginning Wednesday, October 31 at 12:00pm local time until Thursday, November 1 at 10:00pm local time through Citi's Private Pass program. 

⏩ For complete presale details visit citiprivatepass.com. Tickets to the general public will go on sale starting Friday, November 2 at 10am local time at LiveNation.com.

Known for their trademark larger-than-life blistering performances, KISS has proven for decades why they are hands down the most iconic live show in rock n roll. 

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers who have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide have said this tour is devoted to the millions of KISS Army fans.

KISS (photo credit Jen Rosenstein)

"All that we have built and all that we have conquered over the past four decades could never have happened without the millions of people worldwide who've filled clubs, arenas and stadiums over those years. This will be the ultimate celebration for those who've seen us and a last chance for those who haven't. KISS Army, we're saying goodbye on our final tour with our biggest show yet and we'll go out the same way we came in... Unapologetic and Unstoppable," said KISS. 

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Tour Itinerary:

Date	City	Venue
January 31, 2019	Vancouver, BC, Canada	Rogers Arena
February 1, 2019	Portland, OR	Moda Center
February 2, 2019	Tacoma, WA	Tacoma Dome
February 4, 2019	Spokane, WA	Spokane Arena
February 7, 2019	San Diego, CA	Viejas Arena
February 8, 2019	Fresno, CA	Save Mart Center
February 9, 2019	Sacramento, CA	Golden 1 Center
February 12, 2019	Anaheim, CA	Honda Center
February 13, 2019	Glendale, AZ	Gila River Arena
February 15, 2019	Las Vegas, NV	T-Mobile Arena
February 16, 2019	Los Angeles, CA	The Forum
February 19, 2019	Corpus Christi, TX	American Bank Center
February 20, 2019	Dallas, TX	American Airlines Center
February 22, 2019	New Orleans, LA	Smoothie King Center
February 23, 2019	Memphis, TN	FedEx Forum
February 26, 2019	Oklahoma City, OK	Chesapeake Energy Arena
February 27, 2019	Kansas City, MO	Sprint Center
March 1, 2019	Milwaukee, WI	Fiserv Forum
March 2, 2019	Chicago, IL	United Center
March 4, 2019	Minneapolis, MN	Target Center
March 6, 2019	Sioux Falls, SD	Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
March 7, 2019	Omaha, NE	CHI Health Center Omaha
March 9, 2019	Grand Rapids, MI	Van Andel Arena
March 10, 2019	Moline, IL	TaxSlayer Center
March 12, 2019	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center
March 13, 2019	Detroit, MI	Little Caesars Arena
March 16, 2019	Columbus, OH	Nationwide Arena
March 17, 2019	Cleveland, OH	Quicken Loans Arena
March 19, 2019	Montreal, QC, Canada	Bell Centre
March 20, 2019	Toronto, ON, Canada	Scotiabank Arena
March 22, 2019	Long Island, NY	NYCB LIVE's Nassau Coliseum
March 23, 2019	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena
March 26, 2019	Boston, MA	TD Garden
March 27, 2019	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden
March 29, 2019	Philadelphia, PA	Wells Fargo Center
March 30, 2019	Pittsburgh, PA	PPG Paints Arena
April 2, 2019	Quebec City, QC, Canada	Videotron Centre
April 3, 2019	Ottawa, ON, Canada	Canadian Tire Centre
April 6, 2019	Raleigh, NC	PNC Arena
April 7, 2019	Atlanta, GA	State Farm Arena
April 9, 2019	Nashville, TN	Bridgestone Arena
April 11, 2019	Tampa, FL	Amalie Arena
April 12, 2019	Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
April 13, 2019	Birmingham, AL	BJCC

KISS (photo credit Jen Rosenstein)

SOURCE: Live Nation

Older Than Dracula: In Search Of The English Vampire

The Premature Burial. Antoine Wiertz (1854)

The story of Count Dracula as many of us know it was created by Bram Stoker, an Irishman, in 1897. But most of the action takes place in England, from the moment the Transylvanian vampire arrives on a shipwrecked vessel in Whitby, North Yorkshire, with plans to make his lair in the spookily named Carfax estate, west of the river in London.

But Dracula wasn’t the first vampire in English literature, let alone the first to stalk England. The vampire first made its way into English literature in John Polidori’s 1819 short story “The Vampyre”. Polidori’s vampire, Lord Ruthven, is inspired by a thinly disguised portrait of the predatory English poet, Lord Byron, in Lady Caroline Lamb’s novel Glenarvon (1816). So the first fictional vampire was actually a satanic English Lord.

It is nearly 200 years since this Romantic/Byronic archetype for a vampire emerged – but what do we know about English belief in vampires outside of fiction? New research at the University of Hertfordshire has uncovered and reappraised a number of vampire myths – and they are not all confined to the realms of fiction.

The Croglin Vampire reputedly first appeared in Cumberland to a Miss Fisher in the 1750s. Its story is retold by Dr Augustus Hare, a clergyman, in his Memorials of a Quiet Life in 1871. According to this legend, the vampire scratches at the window before disappearing into an ancient vault. The vault is later discovered to be full of coffins that have been broken open and their contents, horribly mangled and distorted, are scattered over the floor. One coffin only remains intact, but the lid has been loosened. There, shrivelled and mummified – but quite intact – lies the Croglin Vampire.

Elsewhere in Cumbria, the natives of Renwick, were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown out of the foundations of a rebuilt church there in 1733. The existence of vampire bats, which sucked blood wouldn’t be confirmed until 1832, when Charles Darwin sketched one feeding off a horse on his voyage to South America in The Beagle. The creature in Renwick has been referred to as a “cockatrice” – a mythical creature with a serpent’s head and tail and the feet and wings of a cockerel – by Cumbrian County History. But it’s the myth of the vampire bat that has prevailed in the surrounding villages and is recorded in conversations in local archives and journals

What picture emerges then in this history of the English vampire? The Croglin Vampire has never been verified – but it has an afterlife in the 20th century, appearing as The British Vampire in 1977 in an anthology of horror by Daniel Farson, who turns out to be Stoker’s great-grandnephew.

The Nightmare. John Henry Fuseli (1781)

Nightmare in Buckinghamshire

But there is one case that has no connection to fiction, the little-known Buckinghamshire Vampire, recorded by William of Newburgh in the 12th century. Historical records show that St Hugh, the Bishop of Lincoln, was called upon to deal with the terrifying revenant and learned to his astonishment, after contacting other theologians, that similar attacks had happened elsewhere in England.

St Hugh was told that no peace would be had until the corpse was dug up and burned, but it was decided that an absolution – a declaration of forgiveness, by the church, absolving one from sin – would be a more seemly way to disable the vampire. When the tomb was opened the body was found to have not decomposed. The absolution was laid inside on the corpse’s chest by the Archdeacon and the vampire was never again seen wandering from his grave.

The Buckinghamshire revenant did not have a “vampire” burial – but such practices are evidence of a longstanding belief in vampires in Britain. Astonishingly, the medieval remains of the what are thought to be the first English vampires have been found in the Yorkshire village of Wharram Percy. The bones of over 100 “vampire” corpses have now been uncovered buried deep in village pits. The bones were excavated more than half a century ago and date back to before the 14th century. They were at first thought to be the result of cannibalism during a famine or a massacre in the village but on further inspection in 2017 the burned and broken skeletons were linked instead to deliberate mutilations perpetrated to prevent the dead returning to harm the living – beliefs common in folklore at the time.

‘Vampire graves’ have been found at the abandoned village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire. Paul Allison via Alchemipedia, (CC BY)

Vile bodies
The inhabitants of Wharram Percy showed widespread belief in the undead returning as revenants or reanimated corpses and so fought back against the risk of vampire attacks by deliberately mutilating their own dead, burning bones and dismembering corpses, including those of women, children and teenagers, in an attempt to stave off what they believed could be a plague of vampires. This once flourishing village was completely deserted in the aftermath.

Just recently at an ancient Roman site in Italy the severed skull of a ten-year-old child was discovered with a large rock inserted in the mouth to prevent biting and bloodsucking. Then skull belongs to a suspected 15th-century revenant which they are calling locally the “Vampire of Lugano”.

There has been a wealth of other stories from the UK and other parts of Western Europe – but, despite this, thanks to the Dracula legend, most people still assume such practises and beliefs belong to remote parts of Eastern Europe. But our research is continuing to examine “vampire burials” in the UK and is making connections to local myths and their legacy in English literature, many years before the Byronic fiend Count Dracula arrived in Yorkshire carrying his own supply of Transylvanian soil.

About Today's Contributor:
Sam George, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Hertfordshire

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 

(Just in Time for Halloween!) "Face of Evil" Haunting Soundtrack Has Now Been Released

"Face Of Evil" (F.O.E.) - Poster

The original motion picture Soundtrack to the Best Horror Feature New York City International Film Festival, "Face Of Evil" (F.O.E.), is now available on all music platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, Napster, Google Play, Amazon, Tidal, Deezer, Traxsource, iHeartRadio, 7Digital, Medianet, Pandora, Shazam. 

The soundtrack captures the true essence of the thriller/horror movie in an incredible hybrid of different music types, ranging from Electronica Ambient/Progressive/Downtempo/Industrial/Dubstep to Rock, Pop, Trip-Hop and Hip-Hop, with artists like Gram Rabbit, Kid Hustle, Raven Hughes and filmmaker/composer Vito Dinatolo.

⏩ F.O.E. (Face Of Evil) has raised consensus around the country for its very topical issues. The film is about a war vet with PTSD who returns home and sees demons... 

"It's about our fears, of epidemics, terrorism, big brother, of each other... It's about a scapegoat in a devious system... What happens in the mind of the executioner during a shooting rampage? Spoiler alert!" says one man band filmmaker Vito Dinatolo. 

The cast includes up and coming talents like Jamie Bernadette, Janet Roth, Scott Baxter, Chad Bishop, Bryan Howard, Charmane Star.

"Face Of Evil" (F.O.E.)

More About F.O.E. (Face Of Evil):
(Warning! Spoiler Alert!)

Breaking News! War vet with PTSD shoots among the crowd!… Maybe he saw enemies, monsters… It’s about real life. It’s about F.O.E. This is not another shootout zombie flick. It’s about the inner journey of a person on the run from his demons, real or not, from an unknown enemy, who may attack anywhere, anytime. Perhaps it’s the story of a victim, a brainwashed pawn, a scapegoat in a devious system, or perhaps it’s just the story of an unwilling executioner. As fear confuses and deforms reality, Jay meets surreal characters and learns bits of truth on his way to salvation, or perhaps to damnation. The movie touches contemporary issues, like mysterious epidemics, terrorism paranoia, vets PTSD, mass shootings, big brother conspiracy and more. It’s a contemporary tale of realistic madness. Yet, it never loses its focus on entertaining, which is why we watch movies, after all.

"Face Of Evil" (F.O.E.)

F.O.E. is a V-Movie production and is distributed worldwide by Gravitas Ventures on VOD and DVD. The Soundtrack is distributed by Awal. 

All links to film and music platforms can be found on the film's official web page

The main links to F.O.E. Soundtrack are also on Awal's page

"Face Of Evil" (F.O.E.)

SOURCE: V-Movie

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Warner Bros. Pictures' "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" to be Released in ScreenX

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in ScreenX

CJ 4DPLEX announced today that one of the year's most anticipated films, Warner Bros. Pictures' "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", will be released in ScreenX, bringing the Wizarding World to the big screen for the first time ever in the immersive, one-of-a-kind format. The all-new adventure comes to ScreenX theaters worldwide beginning November 16. 

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is the third film in a multi-picture agreement between Warner Bros. Pictures and CJ 4DPLEX, following the globally successful ScreenX engagements of the blockbusters The Meg and The Nun. 

The ScreenX slate continues in December with the much-anticipated undersea epic Aquaman, followed by the first solo feature of fan-favorite Shazam! in April 2019.

ScreenX is the world's first multi-projection theatre technology that allows a 270-degree panoramic movie watching experience. ScreenX allows the audience to go beyond the frame of the traditional movie screen, utilizing a proprietary system to expand the center screen image to the side walls, surrounding audiences with imagery and providing a sense of being inside the movie.

"We are thrilled to bring the ScreenX experience to 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' through our partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures," stated CJ 4DPLEX. "We are certain the expansive, 270-degree screen will immerse audiences in the Wizarding World as never before and deliver all the magic, mystery and adventure this much-anticipated epic has to offer."

Thomas Molter, EVP of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, added, "We're excited to continue our relationship with CJ 4DPLEX on this new 'Fantastic Beasts' adventure.  The Wizarding World has always been a thrilling destination for fans, but this will be their first opportunity to experience this magical universe with the full immersion of ScreenX."

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" - Teaser Poster (Via Harry Potter Wiki)

About Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:

Warner Bros. Pictures' "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is the second of five all new adventures in the Wizarding World created by J.K. Rowling. 

At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). 

But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp. The cast also includes, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, and Poppy Corby-Tuech.

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Heyday Films Production, a David Yates film, "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," to be distributed worldwide in 2D, 3D, 4D, Dolby Cinema and ScreenX in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures.  

SOURCE: CJ 4DPLEX

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Why Are Extraterrestrials Bald?

Baldness, one of the usual characteristics of extraterrestrials as we represent them.(Flickr / GroupET8aliens , CC BY-SA)

When looking for "extraterrestrial" on the search engine Google images, dozens of illustrations are proposed. The human imagination has not been stingy throughout the last century to give a thousand shapes to these mysterious invaders from another world. Sometimes large, sometimes tiny, sometimes with three eyes, sometimes one, these visitors, whether peaceful or aggressive, are very different from each other. Their description could fill an entire book of "exozoology," as once were the reasoned collections of the different varieties of the living that naturalist amateurs could meet. As diverse as these figures are, one point is striking in its constancy: most of our "space brothers" are bald. Whether ET, the little gray or the Annunaki, as the experts sometimes call them, these visitors do not have a hair on their skulls. Is this really a coincidence?

Most stories about extraterrestrial life describe civilizations above ours (which explains why they have the technological means to visit us). What may well be at work here is a certain representation of the theory of evolution. Indeed, the implicit hypothesis that supports the physical description of these beings is that, far ahead of us, they would represent, in a way, our future biological development. Often endowed with skull disproportionate to their bodies, these extraordinary beings obscurely constitute the ultimate stage of our future.

In 1982, the extraterrestrials were already bald. (Allociné)

Thus the hair, this cousin of the body hair, is undoubtedly seen as an ersatz animal that does not suit a higher consciousness. In addition, the hair and body hair, which may have been useful in times when men were suffering from the rigors of temperature, would be doomed, the function creating the organ, to disappear slowly to reveal the power of a cortex whose fate would be to become ever larger. This vision of biological evolution - should we be surprised? - does not respect much of the orthodoxy of Darwinian theory. Indeed, it has rather frankly Lamarckian accents. Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Knight of Lamarck, considered with Darwin that the species were not immutable, but his theory, unlike that of Darwin, admitted that beings evolved according to the laws of a mysterious vital force, contained in all life, which guided biological evolution. The emblematic example of this theory is the idea that giraffes have long necks because the life force has lengthened them, their food being on the treetops. This acquired adaptation then became innate. The natural environment would have an influence here, which can not be explained otherwise than by the intervention of a metaphysical hypothesis: the vital force, on the biological structuring of beings. This acquired adaptation then became innate. The natural environment would have an influence here, which can not be explained otherwise than by the intervention of a metaphysical hypothesis: the vital force, on the biological structuring of beings. This acquired adaptation then became innate. The natural environment would have an influence here, which can not be explained otherwise than by the intervention of a metaphysical hypothesis: the vital force, on the biological structuring of beings.

Darwin, on the other hand, conceived of the evolution of species as the consequence of a natural process of selection which allows the survival of the best adapted individuals. In other words, individuals do not adapt biologically to their environment: if they survive, it is because they are, by chance, genetic combinations, better adapted than others. In this theory, giraffes did not suddenly see their necks growing, but chance has made some have longer necks than others. They had more facilities to feed themselves, and therefore to reproduce. Gradually, or suddenly depending on the case, the most adapted species saw its genotype spread, while the other saw it go out.

If we return to our extraterrestrials, this representation of higher beings statistically devoid of hair appears to betray the Lamarckian imagination of those who conceived them. To put it bluntly, it would be a remarkable miracle if all these brothers of space had evolved in the same way towards baldness. Of course, extraordinary coincidences sometimes occur. But in this particular case, perhaps it would be wiser, and in any case more parsimonious intellectually, to take seriously the idea that these descriptions are mere human inventions that would betray the bad conception that we usually have of the theory of evolution.

About Today's Contributor:

Gérald Bronner, Professor of Cognitive Sociology, Paris Diderot University - USPC

"Cabinet of Social Curiosities" - Front Cover

Gérald Bronner is the author of "Cabinet of Social Curiosities", from which this text is an excerpt. The book was published by PUF / Humensis in September 2018.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

(Translated from French to English for LoupDargent.info by Loup Dargent.)