What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Read messages to and from sweethearts in the 2010 edition of the Book of Love.
- Joe Tarr reports on conditions at Grace Episcopal's homeless shelter for men.
- Watchdog: A report on a club for West High school studets who don't believe in God.
- Yes, Virginia, there is an election next Tuesday.
- Joe Tarr asks: Now that we have $800 million for a rail line, where should we put the train station?
- State Sen. Mark Miller laments the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on corporate spending.
- Jay Rath takes a close look at Overture Center's financials.
- Josh Wimmer profiles Luciana Souza, the Brazilian jazz singer headlining an Isthmus Jazz Series concert.
- Jennifer A. Smith reviews My Garden, the latest picture book by the successful Madison children's book author Kevin Henkes.
- Jessica Steinhoff previews the Midwinter Midwest Gypsy Swing Festival, which brings the Django Reinhardt sound to the Brink Lounge.
- Rich Albertoni has the lowdown on Dawes, the West Coast band that's reviving California's old Laurel Canyon sound.
- Dean Robbins is puzzled by the locals as PBS's Antiques Roadshow stops in Madison.
- Kenneth Burns praises the graceful, anguished film The Messenger about the toll war is taking on the homefront, and Kimberley Jones has no love for Valentine's Day.
- These are not your ordinary Valentine's Day dinners, but romantic all the same.
- Raphael Kadushin picks out some of his perennial favorite Madison dishes.
- Marcelle Richards sees red for Valentine's, with a saucy vegan slaw.
- Tell All deals with a winking coworker.
