Michael Kilian

The Commies redux. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author and playwright Jules Feiffer (the name as published has been corrected here and in subsequent references in this text) has opened a new...

Jane Alexander has returned to the nation's capital as a woman haunted by ghosts. Ghosts are vestiges of the past, and Washington has figured much in hers. It was here...

Forget Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale, John Trumbull and the other trifling amateurs who have attempted to capture on canvas the Father of Our Country and his extraordinary character. If...

While the U.S. has made great strides in improving the environment during the last 30 years, the government still needs to address serious problems involving air, water and land pollution,...

I am in historic (JFK and Jackie used to breakfast here) Martin's Tavern in Georgetown, breakfasting with NBC's Willard Scott. He is here to talk about his new book, "The...

Nothing so emphasizes the impoverishment of our dull, dreary modern age than looking back at the richness of previous "modern" eras. We are, we are told, living in a truly...

The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who died 100 years ago next month, was famous for many things: his mother; his nocturne paintings; his brilliant, full-length society portraits; his wit;...

NEW YORK -- I am sitting in the dark here in what must be the coolest, hippest, most intellectually dangerous theatrical space in Manhattan -- Soho's Ohio Theater, on Wooster...

If you think winning an Oscar is hard, ponder acclaimed actor Chris Cooper's really big challenge: acting in the same set, scene and film frame with 68-year-old Dame Maggie Smith....

Armed with an extra $25 million in federal funds that President Bush tossed their way, First Lady Laura Bush, Second Lady Lynne Cheney and other administration worthies this month have...