What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz on health care partners who care, at the UW Center for Patient Partnerships.
- Madison.gov: Taking stock of Dane County's defiant deputy sheriffs.
- Is Madison's chronic nuisance ordinance a success? Bill Lueders and Joe Tarr look at different aspects.
- Ruth Conniff comments on how her family has succumbed to vaccination fever.
- Jay Rath and Emily Mills report on what's right and what's frightful about the Freakfest Halloween bash.
- Susan Kepecs talks to a Cuban painter and sculptor whose work is being displayed at Edgewood's DiRicci Gallery.
- Rich Albertoni checks in with Alison Margaret, the local jazz pianist who's a tune-carrying member of the ACLU.
- Jessica Steinhoff previews the upcoming performance by electronic cocktail mixer Bassnectar at the Majestic.
- Marjorie Baumgarten finds the Michael Jackson performance film This Is It a strange but fitting farewell to the Gloved One, while Kenneth Burns is impatient with the talky parts of the music documentary Soul Power but in love with its exciting performances.
- Dean Robbins says ABC's remake of the 1980s sci-fi series V doesn't fit the post-9/11 era.
- Kyle Nabilcy chows down at JA's Soul Food.
- Terese Allen says 'tis the season... for clay pot cooking.
- Michana Buchman shares the inside scoop about the company store at Oscar Mayer.
- Tell All advises a lovelorn UW nerd.
