Michael Kilian

The American Civil War was richly on display this weekend, with some 13,000 re-enactors whooping up the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam in a local farm field. Among...

The Air Force has lodged criminal charges against the two Illinois Air National Guard fighter pilots involved in a "friendly fire" night attack in Afghanistan last April that killed four...

Some actors find stardom overnight. Julia Roberts went from nobody to somebody with a low-budget picture called "Mystic Pizza." I recall Robert Redford, in an interview about his film "A...

When newly appointed Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser grandiosely announced last year that the capital's hulking riverside performing arts center would devote itself to a festival of Stephen Sondheim musicals...

I now know how to bake a potato, but more about that later. Last week, you see, I was fortunate enough to have a kitchen table chat with Julia Child...

Crossing the high New Jersey Turnpike bridge here countless times on the way to and from Manhattan, I've passed over this grubby, grungy little waterfront community without once giving thought...

Many an artist stays in one place. Others journey. Vincent van Gogh began his art in the harsh coal fields of the laboring poor, came to Paris to paint and...

The nation's capital is embracing women this summer, not in the Gary Hart, Gary Condit, Bill Clinton sense, but from the loftier perspective of women and womanhood as the subjects...

All art should be able to speak for itself -- and certainly no art speaks for itself so eloquently and exactly as that of New Mexico's (and the world's) Georgia...

With its just-opened, Harrison Ford, Russian submarine action epic, "K-19: The Widowmaker," the prestigious National Geographic Society has plunged into big-time Hollywood movie-making for the first time. Unfortunately, it's axiomatic...