What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Adam Powell champions the new breed of board game and shares his top picks.
- Joe Tarr looks at the public cost of financing Judge Doyle Square.
- Joe Tarr reports on the parking consequences of Judge Doyle Square.
- Ben Siegel reports on a new study that looks at the potential positive impacts of videogames.
- Ruth Conniff calls out the state for messing up union recertification elections.
- Julia Burke, Joe Engle, Lanni Solochek and Jessica Steinhoff preview 40 promising New Year's Eve parties.
- Katie Reiser especially loves the Dewdrop Fairy's dancing in Madison Ballet's latest edition of The Nutcracker.
- Amelia Cook Fontella says Four Seasons Theatre's production of The Fantasticks is charming, dreamlike and a little strange, just as it should be.
- Laura Jones chats with one of the stars of Guys on Ice, a Wisconsin-set comedy about buddies on an ice-fishing trip that's returning to the Barrymore.
- Jessica Steinhoff charts the evolution of The Flavor That Kills, a local act that went from '70s-inspired rock band to Motown-inspired soul group.
- Joshua M. Miller asks .357 String Band's Joseph Huber about his solo career in advance of his show at the High Noon Saloon.
- Dean Robbins discovers a long-forgotten Christmas episode of I Love Lucy.
- MaryAnn Johanson says Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is zanier than the original tale of '70s TV reporter Ron Burgundy.
- Scott Renshaw wonders why Saving Mr. Banks, the story behind the making of Mary Poppins, isn't as whimsical as the magical nanny herself.
- Andre Darlington likes the classic Korean menu at Sol's on the Square.
- Linda Falkenstein finds there's much ado about 'cue these days.
- Close to Home: Andy Moore is on painkillers. Need we say more?
- Tell All advises a woman oppressed by social media at Christmastime.
- Dan Seiter celebrates Bo Ryan's Badgers.
