What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Bill Lueders reports on GOP efforts to weaken wetlands regulations in the name of job creation.
- Joe Tarr explores the private plaza Jerry Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland want on the 100 block of State Street.
- Denise Thornton reports on how public health nurses are helping turn neighborhoods around.
- Larry Kaufmann questions Occupy Madison's ideals.
- Linda Falkenstein has her picks for Wisconsin-related 2011 books.
- Jay Rath reports that after renovations, the focus at the Orpheum Theatre is live events.
- Andy Moore lists his favorite Christmas music, from Los Straitjackets to Don Ho.
- Bob Koch checks in with Rev. James Leg, the Black Diamond Heavies singer/keyboardist who's touring as a solo act.
- Dean Robbins grooves to the graphic stupidity of truTV's Impractical Jokers.
- Scott Renshaw says Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows improves on the franchise's first outing, and Charlize Theron is brilliantly prickly in Young Adult.
- Raphael Kadushin revisits 43 North.
- Marcelle Richards reveals the recipe behind her potato soup featured at the recent Soup & Bread benefit.
- Emily Mills previews the upcoming Cyclo-cross National Championships at Badger Prairie Park.
- Jason Joyce visits the reigning football dynasty of UW-Whitewater.
- Tell All calls for an end to bumper-sticker boasting.
