BANGKOK -- Forty-five years after vanishing into a jungle without a trace, "Silk King" Jim Thompson remains a daily presence in Thailand: Shoppers cro...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 11.08.2011
CHICAGO — Fifteen incarcerated men who claim they were sent to prison by confessions that were beaten, burned and tortured out of them by convic...
Melanie Nayer | Posted 06.12.2011
I wasn't sure quite what to expect when I landed in Bangkok on a Tuesday afternoon. I had visions of massage parlors, bargirls, open bars, solicitors ...
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
In this roundup of new DVDs and Blu-Rays, we take a look at the darker-than-dark noir film The Killer Inside Me, the "Mexican New Wave" drama I'm Gonna Explode, and a slew of recently released TV shows.
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to take out the killer in us and transform that negative energy bringing down the US into something creative and positive that binds us together and builds us back into a strong healthy country.
Kim Alexandriuk | Posted 05.25.2011
No need to go overseas for a European experience, an evening at the Getty will do. Being elevated above the city immediately puts you in a "dream like" state of mind.
Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011
Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011
The violence in Killer is monotonous. I mean, after one left hook to Alba's eyeball, we kinda get the point about Ford, do we need to see more? The complete disassembling of a face from soup to nuts?
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's a case where style (and the uber-creepy performance by Casey Affleck) inject the film with an energy and tension that almost compensate for its flaws.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
How twisted? This book leaves "Silence of the Lambs" in the dust.
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson said today that he and four other lawyers from the law firm of Winston & Strawn were hired this week by Morgan Stanl...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (AP) - A lawyer for former Illinois Gov. George Ryan says he'll ask President Barack Obama to commute his more than 6-year sentence. Ryan's a...
Chicago Public Radio | Sam Hudzik | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan will ask President Barack Obama to commute his 6-and-a-half-year sentence for political corrupption. That's accor...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
From The AP: Convicted former Ill. Gov. George Ryan says he's sorry for crimes he committed as the state's chief executive. In a statement read Frid...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson says current Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest hurts the chances of a presidential pardon for another former governor, G...
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 05.25.2011
Lawyers for former Illinois Governor George Ryan finally submitted a request yesterday asking President George Bush to let their client out of jail. ...
NBC 5 | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson defended the McCain campaign's vetting of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin in an interview with Carol Marin at ...
AP | By DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 01.19.2012