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What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Chew on this: Ellen J. Meany investigates the dwindling tradition of tobacco farming in Dane County.
- Madison.gov asks why Greyhound is still without a Madison station, after more than a year.
- Joe Tarr looks into how the Overture Center has its sights set on Broadway.
- David Medaris lists highlights at the 2010 Wisconsin Book Festival.
- Josh Wimmer interviews legendary author Harlan Ellison about his planned appearance -- his last anywhere -- at the MadCon science fiction convention.
- Jessica Steinhoff talks to the booking guy at Scatz about why the club brings in all those funny retro acts, like Vanilla Ice.
- Rich Albertoni previews the Willy Street Fair performance by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
- Dean Robbins enthuses about the Fox sitcom Running Wilde, about a rich guy and his virtuous beloved.
- Kenneth Burns is moved by Cairo Time, a sad romance set in the Egyptian capital, and finds that Mao's Last Dancer is a likable film about a ballet star who escapes China for Houston.
- Erin Hanusa ranges all across the menu at Graze.
- Terese Allen probes the Wisco phenomenon that is booyah.
- Tell All advises a male reader wondering how to deal with women's breast implants.