[Note: Last week, the comma that normally follows the word “Reader” in the title was inadvertently left off. Anyone who really feels strongly about that is invited to attend June Casagrande’s signing at the Wilson Boulevard Olsson’s in Court House this Wednesday at 7 p.m. She wrote a book about you, so eat your shoots and leaves and attend. 2111 Wilson.] MONDAY The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts Pulitzer prize-winning poet Charles Simic as he reads…

In gentrifying neighborhoods from U Street to Upshur, top-notch D.C. chefs and restaurateurs are jockeying for prime positions. Along the U Street corridor, Al Tiramisu owner Luigi Diotaiuti has opened Al Crostino and Saied Azali followed suit with Viridian, Perrys’ sibling venture. Nora Pouillon of the eponymous Nora and Asia Nora allegedly has her eye on 14th Street for a new place (U Nora, perhaps?) and James Beard nominee Ann Cashion of Cashion’s Eat Place…