What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Bill Lueders looks into what the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance does, and doesn't do, about health coverage complaints.
- Watchdog: A report on Madison's crackdown on an artist who may have been using a backyard building to -- gasp -- make art.
- Lynn Welch reports about a new bill to codify the teaching of sex ed in Wisconsin public schools is running into a buzzsaw of opposition.
- David Medaris profiles Glenn Silber, the former Madisonian whose Vietnam-era documentary The War At Home was nominated for an Oscar, and whose new film titled Labor Day is set to premiere in Madison.
- Susan Kepecs talks to Jane Monheit, the New York singer performing an Isthmus Jazz Series concert at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
- Jessica Steinhoff checks in with Andy Brawner, who's working on a new release with his project Time Since Western.
- Rich Albertoni previews the upcoming show by Pedro the Lion founder David Bazan at the High Noon Saloon.
- Dean Robbins says White Collar isn't up to USA's crime-solving-fantasy best.
- Marjorie Baumgarten reports that the Coen brothers finally grow up with A Serious Man, and Kimberley Jones says Paul Giamatti is masterful in the slightly compromised Cold Soul.
- Health* Beauty* Fitness: David Medaris reports that clinics at Shopko and Walgreens help patients -- and the health care system.
- Linda Falkenstein reports on the return of Pie Palooza, the status of Coopers Tavern, and the opening of The Haze barbecue.
