What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Rich Albertoni profiles country singer Whitney Mann, who's making a name for herself opening for greats like Willie Nelson.
- Madison.gov: Will council have to revote on the Edgewater redevelopment?
- Joe Tarr reports on the six Assembly Dist. 48 Democratic primary candidates who can't wait to take on Gov. Walker.
- Christian Schneider makes a case that the Wisconsin state lottery screws the poor.
- On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Stu Levitan takes a look at Madison's unlikely role in the conflict.
- Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva reviews Elizabeth I: A Novel, the latest history-based book by Madison author Margaret George.
- Jessica Steinhoff previews the music fests La Fête de Marquette and its DJ-oriented cousine, La Musique Electronique.
- Rich Albertoni checks in with Wauwatosa singer Grace Weber, whose surprise appearance on Oprah is opening doors.
- Dean Robbins is glad that Lifetime's The Protector skips the police-woman clichés.
- Scott Renshaw says Transformers: Dark of the Moon has too much of everything, and Kenneth Burns likes some of the Danish thriller In a Better World.
- Josh Perkins takes a taqueria tour of Madison.
- Kids & Parents: Lynn Welch share how you can tap into your kids' creativity with these hands-on summer art activities.
- Tell All: Why can New York have same-sex marriage and we can't?