Our interview with Ozomatli saxophonist Ulises Bella in advance of the band’s upcoming Kennedy Center performance, where it will team up with the NSO Pops Orchestra under the direction of Steven Reineke.

FRIDAY: >> The EU Film Showcase kicked off at the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center last weekend, and we’ll have a little more about it for you this weekend. In the meantime film buffs should consider checking out Bergman Island, a documentary by another Swedish filmmaker, Marie Nyeröd, that visits legendary director Ingmar Bergman at his home on the island of Fårö. Now 88 years old, this is no doubt the final document of…

(Interview by DCist contributor Justin Kielsgard) In the late 70s, through forces still unknown, six different mothers on the East coast gave birth to six different babies, all somehow imbued in the womb with the influences of Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, the Beatles, and Dave Brubeck. The children, all boys, were raised on Voodoo Economics, Marvel Comics, RUN DMC records, and the public school system of the 1980s. Later on in their lives, they somehow…

LA musical sensation Ozomatli will play the Nation Club in DC this Sunday on their Rock Prendido Tour. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $20 and available from Ticketmaster. Ozomatli’s music needed no less than eight genre categories on rollingstone.com , who raves “Every single funky note floating around L.A. has somehow found its way into Ozomatli’s heady brew of rap, Latin, funk and soul,” and “The army of east L.A. musicians known as…