> > If we know you, the DCist reader, you are no doubt feverishly caught up in DC's celebration of the life and works of William Shakespeare. Feel like delving deeper? Get on board with Wordfest's Shakespeare Reading Group at Chapters one week from today at 6pm, and get a guided tour of Richard III from University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus Arnold Orza. If you ask us, Richard got mad swift-boated by the Bard, but, that's what happens when Elizabeth I is paying the bills.

> > Tonight's talking point: Italy PM Romano Prodi resigns for reasons too complicated for already drunk DCist bloggers to fully understand.

> > If you haven't done so already, browse out to NPR's All Songs Considered site, where they have got the Arcade Fire's February 17th show at Judson Memorial Church in NYC available for download. And remember, you have only sixty-four hours to brush up on your Ticketmaster site refresh skills.

> > From the tip jar, and following up on a story from last week: The Senator Theater auction--averted.

> > Tonight, at Rock and Roll Hotel, Montreal sophisticates Malajube are joined by Catch-22 namecheckers Snowden and Unbuckled vets The Vita Ruins. $12 at the door, show starts at 9:00pm. [1353 H Street, NE. Take Eastbound X2 from Gallery Place Station, or hoof it from Union Station]

> > As DC Blogs notes, this tale of WMATA woe commences with a sentence reminiscent of Anna Karenina.

Photo, another kick-ass shot from Flickr user DottieboBottie.