Peter Bratt, his actor brother Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order, Traffic), and a whole film promotion crew have their days cut out for them at least for the next month as their new film, La Mission opens for a small run across the country. The moment of truth is here.

Local director Peter Bratt’s second film La Mission is an allegorical cruise through San Francisco’s Mission District that features complex issues and characters. An ode to the healing power of history and community, the film wears its humanistic heart on its sleeve without being cloying or disengaging. It’s likely to please Bay Area film fans on several different levels.

Darice Jones, Executive Director of Oakland film production company Griot Soul Films is producing a lesbian video advice show. In keeping with her history of focusing on East Bay people and places, she is looking for local women to participate.

Local queer community invites all for alternatives to fear and violence

Festival Kickoff April 8 at the Bench and Bar

East Bay resident Lisa Marie Rolllin's new one-woman show comes at a very timely moment, given the discussions raised when Baptist missionaries were found attempting to bring Hatian "orphans" to the US after the recent earthquake.

Newsflash: Fictional City of Oakland Tourism Board releases promotional video.

I was sleeping on April 1, so consider this an extension of the fun.

Did you know there (was) an alcoholic theatre in Oakland?

Theater students at Oakland Technical High School are raising money to bring their production of "Hamlet: Blood in the Brain" to Edinburgh Scotland's renowned Fringe Festival in 2010.

If you follow NASDAQ or NPR, you may have recently run across the figures of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol Devgan.

Residents of Temescal's Police Beat 10Y attended their regular Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council meeting, Wednesday night at Santa Fe Elementary School, to hear Oakland Police Chief Tony Batts describe the strategic plan he is working to make a reality.

Community United Against Violence, a SF-based social justice nonprofit that works towards ending violence against the LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) communities has enlisted the help of local queer and transgender people-of-color performance group