On a recent visit to Willowridge High School, her alma mater, poet-actress-playwright Melanie Wilson was approached by a bold student. “She asked to use my cell phone,” Wilson recalls. “I said, ‘For ...

Winner of eight Cesar Awards and a Restoration-era “Wolf of Wall Street,” Xavier Giannoli’s “Lost Illusions” aka “Illusions perdues” is a classic bildungsroman about a young man from the province of ...

It’s one of Chicago’s most infamous unsolved murders. Two sisters on their way home from a movie theater in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood went missing. They were later found dead. For decades, ...