What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Jenny Seifert reports on the Madison coffee scene's embrace of the "third wave."
- Allison Geyer reports on how East High is sending students to Africa.
- Joe Tarr looks at why the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau is getting big boost in city funding.
- Bruce Murphy finds times have changed -- Milwaukee may be as LGBT-friendly as Madison.
- Jessica Steinhoff reports on ballerina turned singer Emily Massey's leap into surf-pop with Modern Mod.
- Jessica Steinhoff talks with Erin Fuller and Connie Ward of Building on Buildings as the band releases its debut LP.
- Hillary Sprecher talks to the musicians who are coming together for the thirrd annual Wintersong concert.
- Ben Munson stops by the Cardinal Bar as it celebrates 40 years of fun.
- Laura Jones finds Four Seasons Theatre's The Assassins to be richly macabre and timely.
- Katie Reiser finds strong, smart work by student choreographers at UW's annual Kloepper Concert.
- Scott Renshaw says Exodus: Gods and Kings fails to humanize the spectacle.
- William Goss says The Pyramid succeeds only when found-footage angle is abandoned.
- Peter Jurich staggers around a zombie role-playing event.
- Andre Darlington eats lovingly home-cooked Persian food at Layla's.
- Savage Love takes on questions about gender identity.
- Michael Popke defends the football Badgers (sort of).
