What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Julia Cechvala explores the controversy around Rhythm & Booms and its future.
- Joe Tarr reports on Mayor Soglin's response to Stephen Heimsness' hostile emails.
- Joe Tarr talks to UW economics professor Andrew Reschovsky about Wisconsin's structural deficit.
- Brendan McCarty looks at what's in the future for Union Corners.
- Dave Cieslewicz laments Gov. Walker's rejection of high-speed rail, which would have started this month.
- Laura Jones profiles three of the community's up-and-coming visual artists.
- Jennifer A. Smith praises the delicate beauty of the Chazen Museum's Gifts of the Ebb Tide: The Sea in Japanese Prints.
- Brent Stewart discusses Madison's new performing arts survey.
- Jessica Steinhoff reports on leadership changes at Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
- John W. Barker reviews Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society's Schumann-themed program.
- Scott Gordon checks in with ranting troubadour Hamell on Trial before his show at the High Noon Saloon.
- Joshua M. Miller asks Caveman about their sophomore album of indie rock.
- Dean Robbins is won over by a sympathetic portrait of Anna Nicole Smith in Lifetime's Anna Nicole.
- Kimberley Jones praises Melissa McCarthy's hilarity in The Heat, and Marjorie Baumgarten says Channing Tatum comes into his own as an action hero in White House Down.
- Linda Falkenstein finds a Wisconsin-centric hot dog cart, and reports on other food cart changes around town.
- Dave Cieslewicz talks to some Little Free Librarians, and moves books from one side of town to the other.
- Adam Powell plays billiards in an undisclosed east-side location.
- Tell All comforts a cross-dresser thrown out by his girlfriend.
- Jason Joyce discusses finally not disliking LeBron James.