What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Marc Eisen sits down for a free wheeling conservation with David Krakauer, the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery.
- Amy Barrilleaux reports on a FCC proposal that could make media consolidation even easier.
- Dylan Brogan reports on the Wisconsin Legislature's new rules for credentialing journalists.
- Dave Cieslewicz defends a controversial proposal by the Wisconsin Commission on Transportation Finance and Policy.
- Mark Riechers identifies hotbeds of nerd culture and geeky fun in the Madison area.
- Jessica Steinhoff ponders art's capacity to heal while viewing Trent Miller's Spindrift and Tether at Wisconsin Academy's Watrous Gallery.
- Jennifer A. Smith reviews Forward Theater Company's writerly production of Collected Stories.
- John W. Barker critiques pianist Gabriela Montoya's performance with the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
- Jen Herritz recommends 10 topnotch local radio shows.
- Ben Munson compares touring rapper Jake Miller to local rapper Nick Luebke, both of whom will be performing at the Loft.
- Dean Robbins thinks The CW's The Carrie Diaries is so bad it's good.
- Jessica Steinhoff admires Tabu's poetic storytelling, gorgeous cinematography and complex moral questions, while Scott Renshaw yearns for conflict in Quartet, Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut.
- Linda Falkenstein loves the salads at s2pizzabar.
- Linda Falkenstein talks to Nick Sierzant, who's revving up Madison's latest microbrewery, with a side of barbecue.
- John Motoviloff is optimistic about the prospects of doing something recreational on upcoming candlelight ski evenings at Wisconsin state parks.
- Tell All counsels an apartment-dweller who lives with 'a fat, lazy pig.'
- Jason Joyce looks at a tryout for Madison's new pro Ultimate team.
