What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Linda Falkenstein looks at the community dinners that are springing up in Madison and towns around Dane County. Can they bring neighbors together, and, maybe as importantly -- what's on the menu?
- Judith Davidoff reports on Tammy Baldwin's transition to the U.S. Senate.
- Marc Eisen reports on UW's new push to turn students into software developers.
- Bruce Murphy deplores Wisconsin tax cuts that reward the rich.
- John W. Barker discusses the beaty and history of six classical masterworks being performed at Overture Center this winter and spring.
- Sandy Tabachnick previews Madison Opera's production of Acis and Galatea, a Handel opera inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Scott Gordon chats with Brown Derby bassist Nick Brown, set to release a country-inspired solo album at the High Noon Saloon.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Milwaukee's Direct Hit! and Sheboygan's Jetty Boys, who'll both play Wisconsin Punk Fest at the Majestic.
- Scott Gordon shares the latest developments in Madison Public Library's proposal to take over Wisconsin Book Festival.
- Dean Robbins touts the second season premiere of HBO's Girls.
- Scott Renshaw praises Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of the CIA's hunt for bin Laden and pans Gangster Squad's tale about mobster-chasing cops.
- Marcelle Richards sees promise at Roast Public House.
- Linda Falkenstein checks out the recipe file at Mildred's Sandwich Shop.
- Nathaniel Liedl meditates, runs, and gets quizzed, thanks to Meetup.com.
- Tell All readers stick up for a Christmas-hating husband.
- Jason Joyce is not hopeful about the UW men's hoops season.
