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Brooklyn Siren Capathia Jenkins and Chicago Tunesmith Louis Rosen bring “Brilliant” (NY Magazine) Melodies to Freight & Salvage Oct. 22, 2010. They have two days in Southern CA, Oct. 20-21.Visit capathiajenkins.com Martin Baer is a cameraman, author and director. As an author, director and cameraman he has realized films that focus in particular on historical topics and on Africa (“Free Africa!”, “White Ghosts – The Colonial War against the Herero”, “Kinshasa Symphony”). Kinshasa Symphony screens at the Mill Valley Film Festival Thursday, Oct. 14, 7 PM at Rafael & Sat., Oct. 16, 4:45 PM at Sequoia in Mill Valley. Visit www.kinshasa-symphony.com Donna Jean Murch is an associate professor at Rutgers where she teaches African American and urban history. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004. She is speaking about her new book: Living for the City: Migration, Education and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, at the Oakland Main Library, Oct. 14, 6:30-7:30 PM as a part of Black Panther Party History Month. She is also co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis from 2010-2012, lives in Harlem and has written more broadly on film and culture. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE THE STORY OF FISHBONE: LEV ANDERSON (co-director, co-producer) & CHRIS METZLER (co-director, co-producer). Visit http://www.fishbonedocumentary.com/ The film opens SF DocFest and features a concert with the artists profiled in the film. The film is also simultaneously screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival with a final screening there, Fri., Oct. 15. There is another screening at DocFest over the next two weeks: Oct. 14-28 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. Visit http://www.sfindie.com/ EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is a documentary about the band Fishbone, African American rock musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years focusing on lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher. www.fishbonedocumentary.com/