What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Amelia Fontella, Laura Jones and Katie Reiser preview some of the fall's most anticipated theater and dance productions, and Jessica Steinhoff shares 20 noteworthy screenings of classic and indie films.
- Judith Davidoff explores how an influential conservative judge may get the Supreme Court to take up Wisconsin's same-sex marriage case.
- Joe Tarr analyses Mayor Paul Soglin's 2015 capital budget.
- Dave Cieslewicz calls Paul Soglin's capital budget a mess.
- Liz Merfeld outlines the best places for geeks to get together and nerds to network.
- Dean Robbins recoils in horror from the Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts.
- Kenneth Burns enjoys the witty banter in The Trip to Italy.
- Marc Savlov reviews The Drop, in which The Sopranos' James Gandolfini portrays a Mafia target rather than a Mafioso.
- André Darlington finds some steaks to like at Rare, but sides slide.
- André Darlington tells you all about value per your steak ounce with the Madison Meat Matrix.
- Jay Rath talks to a vet specialist in pet grief counseling and euthanasia in advance of National Pet Memorial Day.
- Abode: Sari Judge shows us the coolest indoor kid play spaces; Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva suggests six local design shops to help with a fall deco spruce-up; Erin Clune explains what to do if a tree falls on your house; Julia Burke helps you set up a home mixology studio (a.k.a. a bar); and Linda Falkenstein pays a visit to the eco-conscious Baraboo Woodworks; plus, a fall and winter Home and Garden Calendar.
- Tell All advises a man looking for romance at a dry cleaners.
- David Petroff gets all rah-rah about Wisconsin women's volleyball (hint: they're going places).
