Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/index.html Chicago Sun-Times http://www.suntimes.com/images/cst_logo_300.gif http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/index.html Copyright 2008 Digital Chicago Entertainment en-us <![CDATA[Truth lies in 'X-Files']]> Roger Ebert: "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" arrives billed as a "stand-alone" film that requires no familiarity with the famous television series. So it is, leaving us to piece together the plot on our own. And when I say "piece together," trust me, that's exactly what I mean. In an early scene, a human arm turns up, missing its body, and other spare parts are later discovered.

]]> <![CDATA[Canasta deals a winning hand in orchestral pop]]> Jim DeRogatis: The ork-pop genre has produced some of the best bands in the Chicago underground in the last decade, starting with Yum-Yum and continuing with the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, the 1900’s and Head of Femur. Canasta certainly deserves a place on this list.

]]> JIM DeROGATIS Pop Music Critic]]> <![CDATA[No Roeper? No Ebert? 'Feels like the end of an era']]> ]]> <![CDATA[O.A.R. stays afloat with free show ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[John Mellencamp still rocks, but ages gracefully]]> Dave Hoekstra: It’s been said that by age 50 you get the face you deserve. So on Tuesday at Charter One Pavilion on Northerly Island, John Mellencamp and opening act Lucinda Williams graced the stage like that grim couple from the American Gothic painting — each of the accomplished singer-songwriters sticking a pitchfork into middle age.]]> DAVE HOEKSTRA Staff Reporter]]> <![CDATA[Scurrilous: Chicago's No. 1 couch potato]]> Big bang for buck]]> <![CDATA[Sony opens up e-book Reader to other booksellers]]> NEW YORK---- With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.

]]> <![CDATA[Amazon shrugs off high gas prices, weak economy]]> NEW YORK---- With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.

]]> <![CDATA[Truth lies in 'X-Files']]> Roger Ebert: "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" arrives billed as a "stand-alone" film that requires no familiarity with the famous television series. So it is, leaving us to piece together the plot on our own. And when I say "piece together," trust me, that's exactly what I mean. In an early scene, a human arm turns up, missing its body, and other spare parts are later discovered.

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Bale's dark side ]]> 'The Dark Knight'' star Christian Bale's alleged ''assault'' in London against his mother and sister is part of a long-simmering family feud.

]]> BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist]]> <![CDATA[No Roeper? No Ebert? 'Feels like the end of an era']]> ]]> <![CDATA[O.A.R. stays afloat with free show ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[John Mellencamp still rocks, but ages gracefully]]> Dave Hoekstra: It’s been said that by age 50 you get the face you deserve. So on Tuesday at Charter One Pavilion on Northerly Island, John Mellencamp and opening act Lucinda Williams graced the stage like that grim couple from the American Gothic painting — each of the accomplished singer-songwriters sticking a pitchfork into middle age.]]> DAVE HOEKSTRA Staff Reporter]]> <![CDATA[Finding Bale's dark side ]]> 'The Dark Knight'' star Christian Bale's alleged ''assault'' in London against his mother and sister is part of a long-simmering family feud.

]]> BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist]]> <![CDATA[Obamas' rules: No whining, make bed ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Scurrilous: Chicago's No. 1 couch potato]]> Big bang for buck]]> <![CDATA[No Roeper? No Ebert? 'Feels like the end of an era']]> ]]> <![CDATA[Neil Patick Harris is the Shoe Fairy on 'Sesame Street']]> Is "Sesame Street" the new "Saturday Night Live"?

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