What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Scott Gordon handpicks 25 fall concerts from the local music scene.
- Joe Tarr provides on-the-ground coverage from the Democratic National Convention.
- Steve Moore profiles Tami Miller, who created a charity to provide supplies to Madison's homeless.
- Robin Shepard reports on the big leap being taken by Madison brewery Ale Asylum.
- Bruce Murphy thinks Tammy Baldwin has a chance against the new Tommy Thompson.
- Jennifer A. Smith surveys the Madonnas and serpents of the Chazen Museum's Offering of the Angels.
- Austin Duerst checks in with jokester and bookworm Paula Poundstone.
- Jessica Steinhoff marvels at the Tiny Band's itty-bitty instruments.
- Scott Gordon discusses the spoken-word skills of Saul Williams and Dessa.
- Dean Robbins laments NBC's Go On, Matthew Perry's latest post-Friends comedy.
- Kenneth Burns reports some big changes to the Wisconsin Film Festival.
- Kimberley Jones analyzes the human-machine relationship in Robot & Frank and contemplates Mike Birbiglia's perpetual adolescence in Sleepwalk With Me, while Marc Savlov insists that writing isn't as sexy as The Words makes it out to be.
- Kyle Nabilcy takes his barbecue tour to Double S BBQ in Cambridge.
- Adam Powell takes a peek inside Madison's new Bos Meadery.
- IsthmusParents.com: Adam Powell previews the 2012 fall season in arts -- for the kids.
- Tell All: Was astronaut Sally Ride a coward?
- Jason Joyce looks at the ups and downs in fortunes of Marquis Mason and Jordan Frederick.
