Michael Kilian

Hear the words of William Colbert, a former slave describing the punishment accorded his brother January, also a slave, for being an hour late returning to his plantation in the...

Minutes before the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas, monitors showed an "abnormal" rise in temperatures along the craft's left wing and wheel well, NASA officials said Sunday. The rise...

The best of artists often come in pairs. Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin painted together -- differently, unhappily, but driven variously by drugs, absinthe, genius or madness to the...

Among their other abilities, artists can see things coming. Reflect upon how much the onset of World War I, its accompanying horrors and the depravity and economic chaos that followed...

Cheers to another new Chicago playwright for having successfully brought a Chicago work to New York. John Corwin and his "Gone Home," now enjoying a winter's run at the Manhattan...

The Environmental Protection Agency took action Friday to curb the authority of its field agents to enforce rules protecting the nation's wetlands, and it began a process that could cut...

Every American schoolboy knows that Benedict Arnold was this country's greatest traitor. I take that back. According to surveys, nowadays, American schoolboys and even schoolgirls are hard put to tell...

It was one of the strangest ideas of Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-fighting New Deal. The federal government would hire several hundred unemployed artists and set them to work making watercolor paintings...

It has always been hard to tell if tough-guy Anthony LaPaglia is a good guy or a bad guy. Entering one of his Greenwich Village hangouts here dressed all in...

It's all in the words. There is nothing new about theatrical readings from the stage. The great English actress Fanny Kemble was performing Shakespeare from a chair that way in...