What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Kenneth Burns ponders his experience as a successful contestant on Jeopardy!
- Bill Lueders looks into a health-care consumer's source of irritation.
- Cops ignore parking rules at downtown site and get away with it! Harrumph!
- Jill Carlson reports a shift in focus at the Madison Community Foundation.
- David Medaris reports on ways the University of Wisconsin Press is facing a changing book world.
- Susan Kepecs previews a Wisconsin Union Theater performance by singer Mariza, who's helping preserve Portuguese fado music.
- Rich Albertoni talks to members of the Madison band Sun Dried Truth -- whose drummer also plays with American Hi-Fi.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Canadian band the Trews, who are passing through town on tour.
- Dean Robbins praises ABC's new sitcom In the Motherhood.
- Kenneth Burns declares Fast & Furious big dumb fun.
- Erin Hanusa makes an educational trip to the Schoolhouse Cafe in Paoli.
- Kids and Parents: Madison schools' service learning projects are ahead of the curve.
- Abode: Mad props to mid-century modern design. Also, Ranch houses are back, as are their liveable post-war neighborhoods. Finally, the easy way to keep a yard, and try a new vegetable in the garden -- the ground cherry.
