Michael Kilian

I'm so old, I knew the Smothers Brothers before they were political. It was more than 40 years ago. I was with a small TV station in San Jose, Calif.,...

In 1979, the fabled fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon embarked on a five-year project that came to be called "In the American West" -- a series of stark, arresting,...

When the hit "Flower Drum Song" first opened on Broadway in 1958, it was greeted both warmly and frostily by the Asian-American community. Warmly, because the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical...

A decade or more ago, when this space was more frequently devoted to the thrilling entertainments of the social set, I found myself in a certain large Midwestern city, reporting...

Charlayne Woodard came to this town straight out of the Goodman Theatre School of Drama in 1977, despite suggestions she try acting in Chicago a while to "get my feet...

Propelled by the excitement that only centennials and bicentennials can generate, I went over to the National Air and Space Museum last week to join some of the greatest names...

The security may have been on a par with the Pentagon's, and she may have been exposed to a perhaps unfortunate flatulence remark from one of America's most esteemed authors,...

Once upon a time there were two little girls who lived on Hartzell Street in Evanston, where they played "freeze tag" with neighborhood children and enjoyed the sort of life...

Few things on the screen -- not even "XXX" or aging Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies -- can be quite so exciting, don't you think, as a gigantic, three-dimensional IMAX...

There is good news from the nation's capital -- alas, having nothing to do with the Bush family crusade against Saddam Hussein or the nation's expiring economy. More important, it...