What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Joe Tarr sorts through the contenders for Dane County Board.
- Joe Tarr reports on the city's already-controversial new bike-share business.
- Lynn Welch examines the dust-up over honor courses at West High.
- Two teachers discuss why 4-K is good for Wisconsin.
- Jennifer Smith profiles Shinique Smith, the intriguing New York-based artist whose new show at MMoCA is her first museum collection.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with the staff at Madison Hostel, which is becoming a go-to place for musicians and music fans to spend the night.
- Rich Albertoni talks to David Hollands, the New York DJ who melds techno and house sounds.
- Dean Robbins says CBS's Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine is pleasantly old-fashioned.
- Marc Savlov looks for Jason Statham's famous charisma in the assassin movie The Mechanic and doesn't find it, while Marjorie Baumgarten finds nuance and polish but not much pizazz in the nun biopic Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen.
- Raphael Kadushin visits Merchant, the latest buzzworthy eatery downtown, while Ruth Young stops by Aldo's Cafe in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
- Linda Falkenstein talks to the owners of NesAlla Kombucha.
- Health Beauty and Fitness: David Medaris shares 11 local fitness goals to take you to the end of 2011, and Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva offers exercise vacations with a Madison connection.
- Tell All: What's so weird about a cat on a leash?
