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The reviews are so gushy that they’d have to go straight to your head. For the comic actress Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push’ by Sapphire, opening Friday in the Metroplex, has become the classic "big break," that once-in-a-lifetime star turn that changes a career.Read more

The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter will make his Bass Hall solo debut Saturday.Read more

Emmy Award-winning actor Charles S. Dutton comes to Fort Worth on Saturday for a performance of his one-man show, From Jail to Yale . . . Serving Time on Stage. In it, Dutton chronicles how he went from being a dropout and felon to using the theater as a way to escape his past. He went on to graduate from the Yale School of Drama, star in and executive-produce the comedy series Roc, direct the HBO miniseries The Corner and co-star in such recent films as The Express and Fame.Read more

TCU’s Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is under new management. While there isn’t a sign out front boasting that, be assured that the experimentally edgy space is in the capable hands of former Dallas gallerist Christina Rees. Her first outing is a show of work by 13 artists, including the venerable Vernon Fisher and Terri Thornton, the Modern’s education curator and coordinator of the Tuesday Evenings lecture series.Read more

It’s going to be a weekend of loud cars and louder crowds as Texas Motor Speedway continues its Dickies 500 weekend, which began Thursday. Friday features the Truck Series WinStar World Casino 350K at 8 p.m., Saturday showcases the Nationwide O’Reilly Challenge at 11:30 a.m., and Sunday features the Dickies 500 at 2 p.m., with a pre-race set by ZZ Top at 11:45 a.m. Start your engines.Read more

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Ryan Bingham Nov. 27. House of Blues, Dallas. $15-$25, on sale Friday. Ticketmaster.Read more

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