What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Explore the complete guide to the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival, which includes movie descriptions along with screening locations and times.
- Catherine Capellaro provides a moving account of her family's efforts to find care for their dad, who was ailing from dementia.
- Joe Tarr reports on new planning efforts to improve the Triangle neighborhood.
- Joe Tarr reports on plans to provide public bathrooms in Madison.
- Joe Tarr gets the inside scoop on why Madison Metro buses are breaking down.
- Marc Eisen asks whether an upcoming forum can bring the local biotech and IT communities together.
- Dave Cieslewicz argues that historic preservation has gone off the rails in Madison.
- Jessica Steinhoff and Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva profile two local authors, Susan Gloss and Gayle Rosengren, whose first novels are set in Wisconsin.
- Gwen Rice considers the uneven tone of University Theatre's An Evening of One Acts, whose two short plays explore themes of identity
- Amelia Cook Fontella says the title character in Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new Madison Theatre Guild production, reminds her of an evil Frasier Crane.
- Laura Jones discusses how Children's Theater of Madison and the Autism Society collaborated to create a "sensory friendly" performance of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
- Joe Engle highlights Madison bands headed to South by Southwest, as well as some perks for local music fans making the trip to Austin.
- Brent Stewart tries to figure out how New Orleans-based Rebirth Brass Band create such a fun and funky live show, set to hit the UW Union South Sett.
- Dean Robbins has faith in the 10-year-old messiah figure in NBC's Believe.
- Jessica Steinhoff chats with Smart Studio co-founders Butch Vig and Steve Marker, and filmmaker Wendy Schneider, about a new documentary that's in the works.
- Kenneth Burns shares his take on Omar, a film about a man in occupied Palestine living several secret lives.
- Cheryl Breuer picks her top five vegan breakfasts in Madison.
- Linda Falkenstein updates would-be home baking entrepreneurs on the progress of the "Cookie Bill."
- IsthmusParents.com: Carrie Anton sits in on a Hancock Center program that aims to reduce violence and bullying in schools.
- Tell All hears from a reader convinced Woody Allen is guilty of abuse.
- Dan Seiter recommends a sport almost no one is watching: Wisconsin Badgers wrestling.
