John Cook

WLS-Ch. 7 led the pack among local Emmy nominations for the 2002-03 season, which were announced late Wednesday by the Chicago-Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts &...

WLS-Ch. 7 will expand its midday newscast to an hour in early October, the station announced Monday. Channel 7's news, which currently airs from 11:30 a.m. to noon, will begin...

For the third year in a row, HBO has dominated the broadcast networks in the prime time Emmys race, earning 109 nominations Thursday for its original dramas, comedies, films and...

Last week, while the Supreme Court was busy sussing out such paltry issues as whether racial diversity in federally funded universities is a legitimate constitutional goal, researchers at UCLA were...

It's safe to say that when a new technological trend has captured the attention of my 62-year-old, Social Security-collecting father, its time has come. So it's fitting that my father...

Spam is the new weather--a banal, near-universal experience that we all share, all agree on and can all talk about incessantly when we have nothing better to say. "Don't you...

Today is my 30th birthday. I am, as you may suspect, miserable. "Enjoy the meager remnants of your youth," a friend recently e-mailed, and that pretty much sums it up....

My colleague Ross Werland, with whom I share this space, wants you to smile. Last week, he advanced a cogent and elegant case for participating in the Great American Grump...

The Pentagon has taken pains to convince the American public that the Iraqi military has been violating the laws of armed conflict. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has decried the Iraqis'...