What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Marcelle Richards chronicles her eventful internship in the kitchen at L'Etoile.
- Judith Davidoff reports on efforts by the GOP, Dems and tea partiers to validate Walker recall signatures.
- Erik Gunn lays out efforts by the state's GOP leadership to block health care reform.
- Ruth Conniff extolls the return of kinder, gentler conservative Tommy Thompson.
- Andy Moore assesses Bon Iver as the indie icons come home to Wisconsin after a world tour.
- Rich Albertoni profiles Madison Americana singer Katie Powderly, and says goodbye after a long stint as an Isthmus music writer.
- Jessica Steinhoff interviews rootsy troubadour Pokey LaFarge ahead of his Stoughton Opera House show.
- Kenneth Burns chats with cinematic provocateur John Waters about his one-man Christmas show.
- Dean Robbins says Stephen King's Bag of Bones on A&E wastes no time scaring you to death.
- Kenneth Burns likes Lars von Trier's Melancholia, a thoughtful disaster movie in a year of thoughtful disaster movies, and finds Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In an enjoyably loopy sex thriller.
- Cheryl Breuer is on the hunt for the tastiest vegan sweets in Madison.
- Close to Home: In which Andy and Peggy have their bell rung.
- Why football fans can be thankful for Tim Tebow.
- Tell All: Readers pile on Steve Jobs.
