What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Nathan Comp reports on Dane County Executive Joe Parisi's plans to address the county's racial disparities.
- Judith Davidoff reports on a new farmers' market slated for Brittingham Park.
- Steven Potter writes that South Madison will host the county's new community court.
- Marc Eisen reports on MdotLabs, a local tech company that is going after web fraud.
- Bruce Murphy sees no need for photo ID at the polls in Wisconsin, unless the goal is suppressing the vote.
- Bobbi Dumas profiles several local romance authors who've found success in the e-publishing world.
- Lanni Solochek praises Sam D. White's bold performance in Strollers Theatre's Jerusalem.
- Gwen Rice is transported to Sun Studio in 1956 while watching Million Dollar Quartet at Overture Hall.
- Sandy Tabachnick asks Wisconsin Public Radio why its popular Sunday Afternoon from the Chazen chamber-music broadcasts were canceled so suddenly.
- Ben Munson previews Acts of Love, a variety show at the High Noon Saloon in which local performers explore the concept of affection through live music, dance and comedy.
- Julia Burke interviews Jessica Hernandez, the charismatic vocalist of the dark soul act Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, playing the Frequency in an upcoming Communion Madison Club Night.
- Dean Robbins tips his cap to Barbara Walters on her retirement from TV news.
- Kenneth Burns appreciates Philip Seymour Hoffman's understated performance in the funny, gritty drama God's Pocket.
- MaryAnn Johanson says Godzilla is a cautionary tale about global warming as well as an entertaining homage to Steven Spielberg's sci-fi films.
- Kyle Nabilcy likes the haute takes on working-class classics at the Tip Top Tavern.
- André Darlington solves the wine-asparagus problem.
- Liz Merfeld talks with two UW-Madison scholars about the net neutrality issue.
- Tell All counsels a bachelorette disappointed with Madison's choice of men.
- Dan Seiter wonders what the Packers were thinking during the NFL draft.