What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- André Darlington follows Chef Dan Fox on the road to starting a restaurant from scratch.
- Joe Tarr reports on continued delays in siting a homeless day shelter for Dane County.
- Joe Tarr reports that work on Central Park will begin in September.
- Noah Phillips explores how Wisconsin offenders on probation are sometimes placed in homeless shelters.
- Bruce Murphy argues that Democrats may be Wisconsin's real fiscal conservatives.
- Laura Jones highlights 50 intriguing fall events coming up at Overture Center and Wisconsin Union Theater.
- Laura Jones is wowed by the scope of Four Seasons Theatre's Les Misérables.
- Jennifer A. Smith enjoys both the humor and depth of American Players Theatre's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
- Brent Stewart catches up with the UW School of Music's new director, Susan C. Cook.
- Joshua M. Miller chats with Americana songbird Miss Meaghan Owens.
- Brian Palmer discusses James Taylor and Carly Simon's tuneful son, Ben, who is stopping by the Frequency.
- Dean Robbins admires Kirstie Alley's villainy in Lifetime's Baby Sellers.
- Scott Renshaw says Lee Daniels' The Butler is an idiosyncratic take on the history of the civil rights movement.
- Kenneth Burns lauds funny, sensitive storytelling in the Danish rom-com Love Is All You Need.
- André Darlington discusses the advantages of picking a wine from Portugal.
- Jay Rath squints and deciphers some very faded "ghost" advertising signs.
- Close to Home: Andy Moore confesses his secret infatuation with cute, adoptable pooches.
- Tell All hears from readers disturbed by a cross-dresser's secrecy.
- Dan Seiter is intrigued by the musical possibilities of a Packer named Banjo.
