What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Bill Lueders bids adieu to 2010 with a rousing round of Cheap Shots.
- Joe Tarr looks at challenges for the city and county in the year to come.
- Kevin Bargnes reports on a Dane County Humane Society program that puts prison inmates to work helping dogs.
- Christian Schneider gives a conservative perspective on 2010.
- Our critics look back on the year in theater, music, art, dance and more.
- Jason Joyce assesses programming on the new digital subchannels.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Sleeping in the Stereo, the high school band that triumphed at Isthmus Band to Band Combat.
- Rich Albertoni profiles Andreas Kapsalis and Goran Ivanovic, a Chicago-based guitar duo with a cinematic sensibility.
- Dean Robbins is still watching Sarah Palin's Alaska on TLC, unlike other, weaker critics.
- Scott Renshaw lists his favorite films of 2010.
- Linda Falkenstein looks back at restaurant openings, closings, and transformations in a tumultuous year in food.
- Jason Joyce considers the possibility that this year's Badgers football team might be the best ever.
- Tell All: How many dogs is too many for houseguests to bring?