What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Isthmus delivers its annual Cheap Shots to the most deserving scoundrels of 2013.
- Joe Tarr reports on the city's work to make its TIF rules more fair and user-friendly.
- Larry Kaufmann predicts Obamacare's problems will pave the way to a Scott Walker victory in 2014.
- Isthmus critics look back on a year of local theater, music, dance, books, visual art and spoken-word performances.
- Ben Munson talks to hip-hop artist F.Stokes about his annual after-Christmas celebration in Madison.
- Dean Robbins can't believe the Kennedy Center Honors picked Billy Joel over Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Scott Renshaw calls Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street "GoodFellas with a different brand of crooks."
- Marjorie Baumgarten wishes Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom were a more substantial portrait of the anti-Apartheid hero.
- Kimberley Jones knocks The Secret Life of Walter Mitty for overdoing the razzle-dazzle.
- Linda Falkenstein looks back on the year for Madison restaurants.
- Andre Darlington clarifies the licensing and scrap-feeding story surrounding Heritage Tavern.
- Tell All researches cronuts for a curious reader.
- Dan Seiter previews the Badgers' prospects in the Capital One Bowl.
