The venerable dining guide today announced that 12 restaurants earned stars.

The full guide, with its star designations, comes out on October 13.

The prestigious restaurant guide has already dispatched inspectors to the District.

Stars return to D.C. tonight for a show at the 9:30 Club. Check out a new track from the band “Wishful.”

Comet Pan-STARRS appeared in the D.C. sky yesterday evening.

Stars play a sold-out show with Diamond Rings on Sunday night. Listen to Diamond Rings’ remix of Stars’ “The Theory Of Relativity.”

There’s really not a lot you can say after a concert during which the lingering metallic taste of a few beers is more compelling than the music you’ve just heard. Certainly, the Canadian band Stars has a few hits, but the majority of their set on Tuesday night was sustained by a homogeny of tempos and generic emotive duets. The rockers displayed a kind of rehearsed spontaneity and aged energy that left their show feeling far too even and peakless.

We don’t understand why Benjy Ferree is not a big star. The Three Stars alum plays roosty indie gems and has great stage presence — he’s a funny and engaging and a strong performer. He’s toured with Spoon and The New Pornographers and is signed to Domino Records (Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, etc). And his band is basically a D.C. supergroup, with Laura Harris of The Aquarium, Amy Domingues and Jonah Takagi from Garland…

>> Yesterday we profiled Five Four, the hardest working all girl band in the city, with the cutest shoes, in a Three Stars piece. Tonight you can see those shoes up close and personal at DC9, $8. If that’s not the dose of local music you were hoping for tonight, how about Meredith Bragg at the Black Cat, or Gist at Iota? >> Ever thought, I’d like to get a new perspective on Scientology. A…

The first, instantly noticeable aspect of Fredericksburg, VA’s Pash is the luminous voice of singer/guitarist Merideth Munoz. With a voice that partially recalls Rainer Maria’s Caithlin de Marrais and has a rock edge reminiscent of Pretty Girls Make Graves’ Andrea Zollo, Munoz has the vocal tenacity to halt anyone who may have stumbled across a track on their MySpace page. Munoz met guitarist Erik Bruner-Yang and his roommate, drummer John Bibb, when they all went…