What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Stuart Levitan looks back at the local reaction to JFK's assassination 50 years ago.
- Judith Davidoff reviews Gov. Scott Walker's new book, Unintimidated.
- Mary Ellen Bell reports on BadgerCare recipients whose coverage is still uncertain.
- Speaking as a hunter, Dave Cieslewicz bemoans the assault on Wisconsin's conservation tradition.
- Katie Reiser shows how Kanopy Dance Company's Lisa Thurrell and Robert Cleary make Martha Graham's technique as fresh as it was in the 1920s.
- Amelia Cook Fontella seeks Tennessee Williams' emotional insights in University Theatre's production of his play Summer and Smoke.
- Jennifer A. Smith says Forward Theater's Sons of the Prophet shows how pain and humor intersect.
- Mike Noto dives into the dark, political world of post-metal band Tyranny Is Tyranny.
- Julia Burke profiles Jesus "Chuy" Negrete, a scholar and folksinger who specializes in Mexican labor songs.
- Joshua M. Miller interviews JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound about their recent Grammy nominations.
- Dean Robbins falls in love with an android in Fox's Almost Human.
- Kimberley Jones says the graphic sex in Blue Is the Warmest Color isn't inspiring but the expressive face of lead Adèle Exarchopoulos is.
- Scott Renshaw appreciates how Robert Redford communicates his character's intelligence wordlessly in All Is Lost.
- Andre Darlington finds the Spot uplifting for the East Johnson corridor.
- Andre Darlington suggests new California wines for Turkey Day.
- Close to Home: Andy Moore ponders the man-barber relationship.
- Tell All readers weigh in on Madison's controversial "touch therapy" business, the Snuggle House.
- Dan Seiter checks on the current fortunes of good ol' Bret Bielema.
