What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Dining: A guide to restaurants in the Madison area, wherein you'll find mouth-watering articles on signature dishes, places to dine with friends, best veggie options, chef bios and more.
- The League of Women Voters of Dane County releases its Candidates' Answers voter guide for the spring general election on April 5.
- Cieslewicz or Soglin? Marc Eisen handicaps the race for Madison mayor.
- Joe Tarr investigates the numbers game behind the wildly different crowd estimates at the downtown protests, and explains the Citizens United referendum.
- Bill Lueders reports on the city's unconstitutional infringement on free speech.
- Christian Schneiders asks, How do you hate me? Let me count the ways (in 140 characters or less).
- Not sure what to watch at the Wisconsin Film Festival? Isthmus critics have some picks for you.
- David Medaris previews Sunlight Project & Symposium, the series of UW events that examine David Maraniss' They Marched Into Sunlight, including a dance concert inspired by the book.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Count This Penny, the Madison-based, Tennessee-bred husband-and-wife duo that plays Appalachia-inflected music.
- Rich Albertoni says that when Jeff Tweedy talks at his solo acoustic concerts, people listen.
- Dean Robbins reports that the tameness of HBO's Mildred Pierce doesn't serve its source material.
- Kenneth Burns says the micro-budget indie comedy Tiny Furniture is perceptive and funny, and may even sum up a generation's anxieties.
- Andre Darlington delves into the bar menus at Merchant and Nostrano.
- Linda Falkenstein finds there's a lot of sausage being made locally, if you happen to be boycotting a certain brand... just sayin'.
