What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Bill Lueders reports on the controversy over "improvements" to Picnic Point.
- How will the state budget affect Madison schools? Lynn Welch finds that it's all still up in the air.
- Ruth Conniff ponders how the economic crash is ending a way of life that maybe should have never begun.
- Jennifer Smith profiles six Madison entrepreneurs on their way to success.
- Amelia Cook talks to folks who worked as extras in the hotly anticipated Johnny Depp flick Public Enemies.
- David Medaris previews the Tenney-Lapham Arts Walk.
- Rich Albertoni profiles Optometri, the local rockers purporting to be glasnost-era Russian emigrés.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Rachel Goodrich, the Miami musician who is bringing her fanciful tunes to the Majestic.
- Dean Robbins says there's a lot to like about Hung on HBO.
- Marjorie Baumgarten finds Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen noisy and confusing.
- Erin Hanusa samples the yummy and pretty treats at Daisy Cafe and Cupcakery.
- Terese Allen learns that what you need to know about Hmong cookery is in a ultra-readable new cookbook.
- Tell All: Yes, Madison drivers suck.
