Michael Kilian

A new security system for U.S.-bound cargo is necessary to prevent seaborne shipping containers being used by terrorists to deploy weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert Bonner warned...

Imagine designing an enormous, 139,000-square-foot building to make it look like a farm. The question that immediately occurs is not so much how one would do that but why. In...

Imagine the extraordinary plays Pablo Picasso or Edvard Munch might have written had they used words instead of paint. Reversing matters, imagine the paintings or photographs the dark, brooding mind...

Just as every young actor dreams of starring on Broadway, every aspiring playwright dreams of having his very first work open on the New York stage. Imagine what life is...

The extraordinary lengths to which women will go to make themselves more aesthetically and biologically appealing has long been an amazement to me --equaling in illogic the ludicrous male notion...

They speak in tongues, and they do it with mirrors. Also, with a woman's shoe, a deadly dangerous telephone answering machine and four of America's most talented actors, who have...

This time, Shirley Temple Black did not sneak out onto the State Department balcony for a smoke. Neither did Faye Dunaway slip behind a curtain in the White House East...

Welcome to the national capital's first Uzi Christmas. President Bush, don't you know, has been urging Americans to stand up to the terrorists by resuming our normal lives. He's asked...

The ideal woman wasn't always Britney Spears. But, over the centuries, she has pretty much been a blond. The capital's National Gallery of Art has opened what it says is...