What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Bill Lueders reports about the ongoing bloodletting at Capital Newspapers.
- Erik Gunn surveys the choices for Wisconsin superintendent of schools.
- Bill Lueders reflects on our tremendous tolerance for cruelty to animals in a profile of Karen Dawn.
- Rick Berg gloats about the Dems' early missteps in the Obama era.
- The League of Women Voters of Dane County provide Candidates' Answers for the Spring 2009 primary elections.
- Jessica Steinhoff profiles Darwin Sampson, the nightclub entrepreneur who's made The Frequency one of Madison's most interesting spots for live music.
- Rich Albertoni runs down his favorite new albums of the year so far.
- Kent Williams reviews JCVD, in which Belgian kickboxing sensation Jean-Claude Van Damme (remember him?) pokes fun at himself.
- Jerry Minnich heads to Sun Prairie for perch and more at The Cannery Grill.
- Kids & Parents: How to make President's Day a fun and teachable moment, and other indoor ways to make February bearable, not brrr-able.