It used to be that the best way for a San Franciscan to satisfy a hankering for Creole food would be to hop on a plane and hightail it straight to the Big Easy. That is, until Brenda's French Soul Food opened this year on Polk Street.

George Tillman Jr., best known for directing Soul Food, has come aboard to helm the Notorious B.I.G. biopic being made by Fox Searchlight. According to Variety, Sean "Diddy Combs" will be an executive producer on the film...

Soul Food: The Series is a popular television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. The show is currently shown in syndication on the BET and BET J cable networks in edited form.Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr., Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of Tillman's successful 1997 film of the same name Having aired 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly African-American cast in the history of American prime-time television.