Theresa Vargas

'Playboy' magazine founder and publisher Hugh Hefner with 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Canadian model and actor Dorothy Stratten.

Hugh Hefner, the murder of Dorothy Stratten and the dark side of Playboy

June 2, 2018 at 5:10 a.m.

Hugh Hefner grieved in green silk. One of his most promising Playboy Playmates, 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten, had been murdered, and Hefner was giving Village Voice writer Teresa Carpenter a glimpse...

Can a grandmother and Harvard save girls from domestic violence?

June 5, 2018 at 2:46 p.m.

Her daughter wouldn't tell her anything over the phone. It wasn't until L.Y. Marlow drove from Maryland to her daughter's Philadelphia apartment and saw the bruises on the young woman's...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Eddie Vedder donates $10,000 to help save Christmas for a Maryland family

June 8, 2018 at 1:14 p.m.

Donnell Booker Jr. tore through the wrapping paper on Christmas morning, revealing a seven-inch Kindle Fire and a smile nearly as wide. "This is my tablet," the 8-year-old said. "My...

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