FRIDAY: >> It may be that we’ve simply gotten so, so, so many press releases about The Horrors show tonight at the Rock and Roll Hotel, and we’ve been beaten into submission to mention it. Give the punky-garage rock revivalists a chance for $12 at 8:30 p.m., and let us know if they’re worth all the fuss. Seattle’s Schoolyard Heroes open, plus locals Scanner Freaks. >> One of the most anticipated new hip hop albums…

Four properties on 9th St. NW that are owned by Shiloh Baptist Church have been officially condemned by the city. Notices on the buildings indicate the city’s Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings considers the properties “in such insanitary condition as to endanger the health or the lives of the occupants thereof and/or persons in the vicinity.” Shiloh’s vacant properties have been a subject of heated debate within one of the most acrimonious ANCs…

This afternoon, while wondering city streets looking for a Scarlet Oak to hug in honor of Arbor Day, we snapped this shot of no less than three National Park Service vehicles driven onto the grass of the park on 22nd and P Streets. Aside from the towering statue of Ukrainian poet, painter, political philosopher and all around bad-ass Taras Shevchenko, there is a scruffy bit of grass in the square. Now we know one…

Written by DCist contributor Rob Birgfeld While stories are often traded about “that guy” who made millions because he was ahead of the real estate curve, few match that of a Brazilian family interested in little more that auto repair. Just one year after riots decimated much of downtown Washington in 1968, Pedro Petrovich opened an auto repair shop on 13th Street, one block north of Logan Circle. Soon after, he moved Petrovich Auto Body…