PHILADELPHIA -- It's not hard to find examples of rappers who have spent time behind bars and emerged with their careers intact.

In fact, it's a time-honored tradition in a genre in which authentic experience on the streets is prized. Tupac Shakur released the most popular albums of his career after serving eight months for sexual assault in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Meek Mill's case is not over.

The rapper secured his release from prison Tuesday thanks to an order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, bringing his controversial five-month incarceration to a close.

He celebrated by heading straight to the Philadelphia 76ers game, ringing the bell before tip-off and sitting courtside next to ...Read more

Every time I review a Marvel movie (with the exception of "Black Panther"), I can't help but use a simile that popped up while reviewing "Captain America: Civil War." These movies are like eating at a chain restaurant. It's comforting because you know what you're going to get, but it's never anything new or exciting. To extend the metaphor to "...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of April 16:

1. The Commuter -- Lionsgate

2. The Greatest Showman -- Fox

3. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle -- Sony

4. The Post -- Fox

5. Father Figures -- Warner

6. Proud Mary -- Sony

7. Ferdinand -- Fox

8. Deep Blue Sea 2 -- Warner

9. All the Money in the World -- Sony

10. Insidious...Read more

Any questions on how a modern, democratic society devolves into a brutal, authoritarian regime almost overnight are addressed within the first few moments of "The Handmaid's Tale" when it returned to Hulu on Wednesday.

The bold Season 2 opener picks up where the 2017 finale left off, with handmaid Offred, aka June (Elisabeth Moss), being ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "The Handmaid's Tale" is moving on without its most influential superstar.

That would be Margaret Atwood, whose nightmare of a novel drove the first season of the series about an America taken over by religious zealots who have forced fertile women into bondage.

But Season 2, which is now available on Hulu, moves beyond the ...Read more

CHICAGO -- When famed Nigerian drummer Tony Allen joined the Chicago Afrobeat Project last year, it was as if Hank Aaron showed up to spend a month with the White Sox. "He dragged everyone's performance game up in our band," David Glines, the project's founding guitarist, told the Tribune last year. But Allen, whom Brian Eno once called "the ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Sinclair Broadcast Group will divest 23 TV stations aimed at clearing the path for its merger with Tribune Media, the company announced Tuesday.

The sale of the stations would occur after the close of Sinclair's $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune's 42 TV stations. The deal would give Sinclair ownership or operational control of 215...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Rapper Meek Mill plans attend Tuesday night's Philadelphia 76ers playoff game, according to a spokesman for Michael Rubin, a minority owner of the team who has been among the imprisoned rapper's biggest supporters.

Ron Berkowitz, an aide to Rubin, said in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon that "the plan is to bring (Mill) ...Read more

Verne Troyer, the actor best known for his role as Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" franchise, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal driving limit hen he died on Saturday, according to a report.

TMZ says Troyer called 911 and let dispatchers know that he was suicidal. He was unresponsive upon arrival at the hospital and had to be ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. -- About the only secret that got out ahead of Beyonce's tightly guarded performances at the just-wrapped Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was the fact that the singer planned to reunite her era-defining girl group, Destiny's Child.

But the spread of those rumors hardly diminished the feeling of triumph when Beyonce ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. -- A quarter into Beyonce's triumphant, charged showing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came a particularly poignant moment.

With the pop star floating high above the crowd via a hydraulic crane, Nina Simone's mournful version of "Lilac Wine" poured from speakers as two muscular dancers were intertwined in movement...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

APRIL

24: Maze Runner: The Death Cure

24: Den of Thieves

24: Paddington 2

24: Hostiles

24: Forever My Girl

24: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

24: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

24: Backstabbing For Beginners

24: 7 Guardians of the Tomb

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The French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven stunned with her first film, "Mustang," the Academy Award nominated portrait of an unbridled Turkish girlhood straining at the strictures of patriarchy. Her follow-up film, "Kings," was originally intended to be her directorial debut, but the more ambitious project was sidelined for the intimate "...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- "Avengers: Infinity War" has the potential to be the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has so many heroes a scorecard may be necessary to keep track of all the players. Just for the press conference the weekend before the movie hits theaters, 24 cast and crew members talked about the film.

"Avengers: Infinity War" ...Read more