Michael Kilian

This Father's Day, give dear old dad something he'll long remember: Michele Lee, wearing only diamonds and rhinestones. This caring gift requires only two things, both of them tickets. One...

"Vitya, I'm certain this letter will reach you, even though I'm now behind the German front line, behind the barbed wire of the Jewish ghetto. I won't receive your answer,...

The Old West, like art, should be able to speak for itself. That message is abundantly clear in a pair of new exhibitions just opened at the capital's Corcoran Gallery...

One of the hottest theater tickets in town is an off-off Broadway, neo-Brechtian musical called "Urinetown," about a global ecological disaster exploited by a corrupt corporate pay toilet monopoly. It...

This sleepy old Potomac River town two miles south of the Antietam Battlefield always puts me in mind of the Civil War and such illustrious names as Robert E. Lee,...

Among the many attractions of the annual black-tie swarm and swill known as the White House Correspondents Dinner are its bountiful examples of both the sublime and the ridiculous. At...

I am sitting in a backstairs basement stairwell on the premises of a now defunct but sacred hip cultural venue called the Village Gate. I'm talking to a nervously laughing,...

It is no surprise that Popeye the Sailor Man's main squeeze -- Olive Oyl -- would one day end up on the stage. L'il Abner, Peanuts and Doonesbury, after all,...

In their essence, all the world's cultures are much all the same. In West Africa, you will find a design in rectangular-shaped, wooden-frame village meeting places that also can found...

Laura Bush made her first official visit as first lady to an art museum last week, and you will doubtless not be overwhelmed with amazement to learn that her chosen...