Cook: The monk and the wrestler
Before he lived alone in a hut in an English forest, speaking to no one for an entire year, Randy Weinberg, blue eyes the color of the sky, was a wrestler. A very, very good one.
Cook: Carrie Underwood and the animals Vs. Haslam
The way we get our food - especially our meat - is the most important system in America. There's no other system so deeply affecting us that we're so enormously ignorant of. No other system. Not one.
David Cook: TCAP stole your kid
It's TCAP time in Tennessee, when prepubescent kids - chocolate milk stains on their shirts and stubby No. 2 pencils clutched tightly in their grip - spend hours and hours bubbling in question after standardized question.
David Cook: Josh Bailey and his ghost
Need something to feel good about? A double espresso of pick-me-up joy amidst the doom-and-gloom headlines?
Cook: A war for your mind
Monday night, several hours after the Boston Marathon attack, the governor of Massachusetts held a nationally televised news conference.
Cook: Quite filling, tastes great
Reason No. 1,352 that Chattanooga is good and becoming great?
David Cook: Mile 27 to test us all
A marathon is 26 miles of life and many attempts at outrunning death.
David Cook: So help us God
For years, our city has been making headlines near and far. Best outdoor city. VW. The Gig and 21st century tech-entrepreneurship. Downtown. Known across the land for this. Or that.
Cook: Little Darth Vaders
The other day, I watched my kids tinker with the family iPad. Sliding their sticky fingers left and right on the screen - like working the eye slot on some old speakeasy door - they did the work of gods.
The stadium Robinson built
Can a stadium win best supporting actor?