Hal Higdon

The Playboy Mansion, 1340 N. State Parkway, in Chicago on Dec. 9, 1974.

Working with Hef while viewing the sexual revolution from the sidelines

May 31, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

Graduated from college, discharged from the Army, newly married, young, restless, I decided to quit my job as a magazine editor and seek fortune, if not fame, as a freelance...

Politicians and reporters: Lasting frenemies?

May 11, 2019 at 3:59 a.m.

Many, many, many presidential elections ago, I found myself on a campaign plane in the same row and only two seats away from Robert F. Kennedy. A freelance writer, I...

Spray from a boat's wake can be seen in front of the city skyline Thursday, June 30, 2016 on Lake Michigan near Chicago.

Saving Chicago’s skyline

May 11, 2019 at 3:57 a.m.

Half a century ago, I moved my family from an apartment on the South Side of Chicago around the bottom of the lake to our current home in Long Beach,...

In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is depicted in federal court in Boston last month for a pretrial hearing.

Mr. Tsarnaev, meet Mr. Leopold and Mr. Loeb

May 11, 2019 at 2:06 a.m.

Cathleen O'Connell, the PBS documentarian, cut right to the core with her first question about the Leopold and Loeb case from 1924: "Why among all brutal murders was this one...

PAN-AM ALIVE

August 20, 2021 at 6:45 a.m.

In Mike Conklin's Jan. 1 Tempo scorecard on how many predictions in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" came true, he states about Pan-Am spacecraft shuttles: "We've got the shuttles,...

Yes, it was nice to see the special section featuring the late Jeff MacNelly's work. But, disturbingly, the eight-page section features two full-page advertisements, one for "distinctive appliances at direct...