What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Denise Thornton explores the growing role of citizen scientists.
- Joe Tarr looks into Kathleen Falk's call to kill the county planning commission.
- Bill Lueders considers Madison's unhappy mayor, Paul Soglin.
- Dean Robbins has the complete lowdown on this year's Isthmus Jazz Festival at UW Memorial Union Terrace.
- David Medaris reports that Madison's two Statues of Liberty are in need of repairs.
- Jessica Steinhoff previews the Madison Area Music Awards, the scene's annual salute to itself.
- Rich Albertoni talks to David Bazan, the former Pedro the Lion front man who's got a new album.
- Dean Robbins advises you not to watch, at all costs, Paris Hilton's latest reality show, The World According to Paris on Oxygen.
- Kelly Vance says the superhero film X-Men: First Class entertains uproariously, and Kimberley Jones can't find much nice to say about I Am, a documentary about what's broken in our world, and how to fix it.
- Raphael Kadushin visits the Nile Restaurant, the successor to the late Lulu's.
- Anna Thomas Bates keeps snack attacks on track this summer, with a healthy recipe or two.
- Tell All: Suggestions for marking a gay anniversary.
