Michael Kilian

Having long endured this most egregiously awful of presidential election campaigns, you truly deserve something completely different. George Washington. He is, of course, dead (I was honored to place a...

Let us now contemplate Irish women. Or rather, let us now contemplate how Irish writer Edna O'Brien sees Irish women. During her long career, the fiery, famous and intensely Irish...

Not since I once had a few belts in a bar with devil-may-care first astronaut Alan Shepard had I so looked forward to an encounter with a celebrity. William Hamilton...

For all the clamor about the contested vote in Florida electing President Bush in 2000, one could just as easily say he owes his presidency to West Virginia. Bush prevailed...

President Bush has received an "F" rating from the Sierra Club, and the comparatively conservative National Parks Conservation Association has declared his administration an official threat to the parks. Other...

So, what's the deal with Lady MacBeth? Actress Kelly McGillis wonders, Could it have been that she wasn't a mom? The motives and mental makeup of this most fiendish of...

You radio fans of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" who have wondered what detective Guy Noir looks like will soon (by January) have an answer. And that answer may...

You could call it a war movie with real bullets. "The September Tapes" was shot in Afghanistan two summers ago and just has to be the riskiest production in the...

It doesn't seem to have hurt his poll standings much, but President Bush is being hectored by moviemakers (Michael Moore, "Fahrenheit 9/11"; John Sayles, "Silver City"), book writers (Kitty Kelley,...

Few things are less permanent than a map. If the world of yore had been as stable as some like to think it is now, much of Europe might still...