FRIDAY: >> New York’s Latin-funk collective Yerba Buena, the energetic offspring of Venezuelan-born producer Andrés Levin and his Cuban-born wife Ileana Padrón (aka Cucu Diamantes), is the only band touring the country today that could bring together a guest artist line-up for their latest album, Island Life, that includes M1 from Dead Prez, comedian and actor John Leguizamo, and gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. The combo may occasionally feel like its trying to be an Afro-Cuban…

(Review by DCist contributor J.T. Kirkland of Thinking About Art) “I shoot things that interest me. Over the past several years, that has been, mostly, my family.” Now that the cherry blossoms have bloomed and signified the start of the spring season, D.C. residents cannot help but take notice of all of the camera-toting tourists that abound in our city. Photography is a significant part of all of our lives. Who reading this has NOT…

>> Photographer Prescott Moore Lassman’s first solo exhibit in the D.C. area opened recently at the Fisher Art Gallery in the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Arts Center, at the Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria. “Domesticated Animals” includes approximately 20 black and white photographs that explore life in the modern American family — including the benefits and significant drawbacks (one work is shown at right). Lassman recently was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship…

It seems that digital photography is the wave of the future. Countless photobloggers depend on digital cameras to rapidly export their work to their Web-based viewership. And DCist couldn’t bring you on-the-scene photos without a digital camera or handy camera phone. But is the art form associated with traditional photography — dark rooms, rolls of film, noxious chemicals and all — being lost? James W. Bailey says yes. Bailey’s new exhibition, “The Death of Film,”…