Jean-François Lapointe is set to leave the Opéra de Québec as General and Artistic Director. According to Opera Magazine, Lapointe will leave on Jan. 31 due to “differences of artistic vision” with ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The winners of Chicago's annual "You Name A Snowplow" contest are finaly here. The Department of Streets and Sanitation picked the top six names submitted and voted on by the ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

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In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it, as a ...

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Psalm 49:15 Barbara “Bobbie” Jean Loupe Laurent, 77, a native and resident of New Roads, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Bobbie worked at J.C. Roberts bulk ...

What's next: To kick off Black History Month on Feb. 1, Pendleton will be on Michigan Avenue again, decorating and honoring Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” She plays Pansy, a Londoner who ...

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

And then you start building a new character from that point.” In Secrets and Lies, Leigh and Jean-Baptiste created the delicately wistful, melancholy character of Hortense Cumberbatch ...