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Home » Hugh Hefner

Tag: Hugh Hefner

Posted inNews & Politics

A longtime Playboy editor on working for Hugh Hefner

by Anne Ford October 25, 2017August 18, 2021

“It wasn’t about the models for me. The mystique of the world I was living in was the writers,” says Barbara Nellis.

Posted inBlogs

How Chicago shaped Hugh Hefner and his Playboy empire, and other news

by Kate Shepherd September 29, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Governor Rauner signs a bill expanding abortion coverage.

Posted inBlogs

Remembering underground comics artists Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson

by Michael Miner March 23, 2017August 18, 2021

Jane Shay Wald, Lynch’s ex-wife, remembers the wild 60s with her former husband, his partner in comics, and their influence on the medium.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago readies Alexander Hamilton statue for Hamilton musical premiere, and other news

by Kate Shepherd April 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the ultimate guide to Playboy’s Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Layoffs possible for Chicago Public Schools teachers and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd February 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the city surpasses 100 homicides for 2016, and the mysterious killing of three young Muslim men in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Posted inBlogs

One primary race could be key to Illinois’s budget crisis, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd February 25, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, body of missing tourist from London found on top of retired Metra train, and Hugh Hefner fights CPS budget cuts to his high school with donation.

Posted inMusic

David Bowie’s ex-girlfriend discusses their love affair, interracial dating, Mick Jagger, and the infamous Labyrinth bulge

by Jake Malooley January 13, 2016August 18, 2021

A Q&A with David Bowie’s ex-girlfriend Ava Cherry

Posted inBlogs

Sixteen fun facts about 16 cartoonists who changed the world

by Jerome Ludwig November 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Local illustrator/designer Monte Beauchamp has two excellent new books out for devotees of comics and pulps.

Posted inBlogs

Donald Trump deserves our thanks

by Michael Miner June 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Trump’s egregious new sign is what Chicago was praying for.

Posted inBlogs

The Third Coast—turning a bunch of stuff that happened into drama

by Michael Miner July 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Thomas Dyja’s history of Chicago finds the story line in 30 years of city life.

The Look of Love
Posted inFilm

The Look of Love and the flaunting of flesh

by J.R. Jones July 10, 2013August 19, 2021

In The Look of Love, Steve Coogan stars as a legendary British sex impresario.

Posted inBlogs

Dubious taste—always correct

by Michael Miner August 15, 2012August 19, 2021

Bad taste is bad taste, but it pays to come as close as you can

Posted inBlogs

Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

by J.R. Jones July 16, 2012August 19, 2021

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

Posted inNews & Politics

1975

by Michael Miner February 3, 2011August 19, 2021

Forty Years: A weekly series in which we take a look at a specific year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader.

Posted inNews & Politics

What Sort of Woman Reads Playboy?

by Katie Buitrago February 4, 2010August 19, 2021

By day Peggy Wilkins runs Unix servers at the U. of C. By night she tends her apartment-size collection of Playboys, moderates the Playboy Mailing List, builds Playmate databases, and even sends free advice to Hef.

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