What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Jill Carlson investigates the Mad Pride movement -- mental illness without the debilitating drugs.
- Joe Tarr reports on a business owner questioning the Madison Fire Department's demand for floor plans.
- Jessica Slicer reports that Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk is fired up about cow manure.
- Bill Lueders urges health-care consumers to speak out.
- Sandy Tabachnick looks at the upcoming season for Madison Opera, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra an the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
- Jessica Steinhoff talks to Butch Vig and Ben Sidran about their memories of the late, lamented Cafe Montmartre.
- Rich Albertoni checks in with the Peter Silberman of The Antlers about their acclaimed new album Hospice.
- Dean Robbins says TNT's Dark Blue is full of cop-show clichés, and ABC's Dating in the Dark is a new low in reality television.
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is not the series' best, and Moon is satisfying, thoughtful sci-fi.
- Linda Falkenstein heads to Middleton to sample small plates at the new Tapas Rias.
- Marcelle Richards shares a decadent recipe for buffalo mac 'n' cheese.
- Close to Home: Andy Moore reflects on celebrity in our midst, after Dylan's secret days at the Barrymore.
- Tell All shares testimony for and against vasectomies.
