What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Judith Davidoff reports on the misleading information dispensed at Wisconsin's crisis pregnancy centers.
- Joe Tarr talks to a Vietnam vet about the need for separate shelter space for homeless veterans.
- Joe Tarr looks at the new management scheme for the temporary day shelter on East Washington.
- Joe Tarr takes note of another city headcount of area homeless.
- Nora G. Hertel talks about life in the minority with three Dane County freshmen lawmakers.
- Ruth Conniff urges Wisconsin women to stand up for reproductive rights.
- Jessica Steinhoff picks 31 of the most promising live acts to hit Madison this winter and spring.
- Scott Gordon chats with Those Poor Bastards, a macabre local country band that's toured with Hank Williams III.
- Andrew Winistorfer interviews French trip-hop artist Wax Tailor, who'll set to perform at the High Noon Saloon.
- Jessica Steinhoff discusses author Lorrie Moore's 27 years in the UW's creative writing department -- and her decision to move to Vanderbilt University this fall.
- Cameron Connors reviews Encore Studio's Going to Temple, a new play about a woman's search for autistic savant Temple Grandin.
- Katie Reiser assesses Broom Street Theater's Class, an examination of a famous but controversial experiment about prejudice.
- Dean Robbins is ambivalent about the Cold War intrigue of FX's The Americans, which embeds Soviet spies in the suburbs.
- Kenneth Burns lauds Emmanuelle Riva's Oscar-nominated performance in Amour, and Kimberley Jones praises the character-driven humor of the zombie rom-com Warm Bodies.
- André Darlington takes hardship duty and reports on Madison latest crop of craft cocktails (two words: bacon tincture).
- Linda Falkenstein talks to Janet Parker of the Farley Center's family of CSAs, and visits the new pie shop known as humble.
- IsthmusParents.com: Sari Judge uncovers five great solutions for cabin fever.
- Tell All hears the confession of a fake online girlfriend.
- Jason Joyce updates fans on the progress of Marquette's Vander Blue.
