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What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- In this year's edition of Dining, we praise Madison as a city that knows how to make a great sandwich. We look at the growing trend of prix fixe menus across town. And we hunt out the area's healthiest desserts -- well, healthier, anyway. Plus: a look back at where we dined over the last 12 months, and a crash course in wine appreciation.
- Rob Zaleski delivers the new environmental maxim: Don't mourn, de-carbonize.
- Bill Lueders looks into a voting snafu and the Joel Marino reward fund.
- Joe Tarr looks into how Madison is sucking up (in a good way) to developers.
- Rick Berg acknowledges achievements high and low in the spring elections.
- Sandy Tabachnick profiles John Harbison and Ben Johnston, the Dane County-based composers who've left their mark on music history.
- Jay Rath reports on Forward Theater, the star-studded new professional group in Madison.
- Jennifer Smith previews University Theatre's production of Hair, still groovy after all these years.
- Rich Albertoni talks to Eric Caldera, the singer and songwriter who performs as Oedipus Tex.
- Dean Robbins skewers Fox's new animated comedy series Sit Down, Shut Up.
- Kenneth Burns is moved and horrified by Gomorrah, opening this weekend at the Orpheum. Also reviewed: Examined Life, opening at Sundance.
- Health, Beauty, Fitness: Thermography offers another way to approach breast-cancer screening, as well as other medical imaging needs.
- Tell All: What's wrong with dating a deer hunter?
Jessica Steinhoff previews the performance by The Handsome Family, America's fave goth-country act.
