What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Josh Wimmer profiles Mike Koval, the Madison Police Department's head of recruitment and training.
- Madison.gov: A report on a city proposal to ban tavern employees from drinking on the job.
- Joe Tarr reports on a roof job that caved in on the nonprofit group Quaking Housing, in more ways than one.
- Bill Lueders looks into what went wrong -- and right -- for Forest Shomberg, freed after six years in prison.
- Rich Albertoni chooses the best 2009 albums by Madison musicians.
- Rich Albertoni checks in with former Madisonian Carl Johns, who's in town to show off his latest music.
- Jessica Steinhoff previews the Rathskeller performance by the gloomy-yet-happy Headlights.
- Jay Rath says Madison Ballet is picking up the pieces from a recession-shattered year.
- David Medaris reports on an art show for bike lovers.
- Dean Robbins says Steven Seagal's reality show Lawman is shameless.
- Marc Savlov is dazzled by the lush animation of Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
- Erin Hanusa finds that Kickshaw brings prix fixe (by any other name) to Fitchburg.
- Marcell Richards asks: Mole in your chili? Si! A prize-winning vegan version featuring seitan as well as chocolate stout and cocoa.
- Linda Falkenstein reports that yes, Madison has a Russian Market hidden away on the Old Middleton Road.
