What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Annual Manual: The results of this year's Madison's Favorites poll, with everything from Isthmus readers' favorite new restaurant to the #1 phrase to be banned in 2012; advice for newcomers; a quiz to test your street smarts; and, a complete Madison restaurants listing and resource directory.
- Maggie Ginsberg Schutz reports on a revolutionary vibrator, designed in Madison, that restores sexual health to menopausal women and women with cancer.
- Joe Tarr reports on progress on a new day shelter for Madison's homeless.
- Mary Ellen Bell catches up with climate change activist Madeleine Para.
- Dave Cieslewicz believes Paul Ryan's extremist ideas will be easy to run against.
- Jennifer A. Smith highlights the 2012-13 season of musicals, concerts and dance performances at the Overture Center and Wisconsin Union Theater.
- Jessica Steinhoff peeks inside Edgewood College's new Visual and Theatre Arts Center.
- Andy Moore listens to The Emperors of Wyoming, who recorded an old-school album a new way.
- Scott Gordon chats with Kelly Hogan about her new solo album, I Like to Keep Myself in Pain.
- Kenneth Burns reports on a Hollywood adaptation of Olive's Ocean by local author Kevin Henkes.
- Scott Renshaw declares Premium Rush a prime example of a B-movie.
- Liz Merfeld visits the Information Technology Academy, which teaches computer skills to high-school students.
- André Darlington discovers the hyperlocal menu of the Paoli Café.
- Heidi Whittlef interviews farmer Juan Gonzalez about the Mexican herb papalo.
- Tell All examines Paul Ryan's hunk factor.
- Jason Joyce watches while Brewers fan suffer as Brewers pitchers blow saves.
