For citizens with a literary bent, this week’s major highlight is the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival, running all week long, mainly at the Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th Street, NW. Highlights include Peter Beinart and Rebecca Goldstein, plenty of panel discussions, a poetry reading, and an appearance by Madeleine Albright, who makes some time while planning her forthcoming libel suit against ABC. A full schedule of this week’s Festival highlights…

As we in the DCist newsroom say, you can never have too many society magazines. Via U.S. News & World Report’s Washington Whispers, we hear that Capitol File, a new Washington society magazine, hits the streets tomorrow. According to editor-in-chief Anne Schroeder, the new magazine reveals that “Washington is fun and sexy.” Not to self-promote, but we at DCist have been publishing that fact for the better part of the last year. Or making fun…

When D.C. woke up this morning, the sun was preparing to set on Baghdad. On such an historic day — Iraq’s first post-Hussein national elections — millions turned out to vote, despite attacks that left more than 30 people dead. In Washington, a city that has been awaiting this day for quite some time, we woke up to fresh snow and John Kerry on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The roads were fairly empty and everyone…