What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Noah Phillips reports on the UW's plan to revive controversial primate experiments on maternal deprivation.
- Joe Tarr speaks with skeptical alders about the high cost of Judge Doyle Square.
- Joe Tarr explores the city's plans for reimagining the Madison Municipal Building.
- Jay Rath checks in with Steve Brown Apartments, which is still considering a development project in Mansion Hill after running afoul of the Landmarks Commission.
- Ruth Conniff explains why Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign has gone negative.
- Steve Moore shows how the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium is changing the local music scene for the better and previews the upcoming Jazz at Five season.
- Ben Munson discusses some of the most buzzed-about acts performing at the 2014 edition of the Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival.
- Joshua M. Miller chats with the Emperors of Wyoming, Butch Vig's latest project, which blends roots-music traditions with elements of hard rock, and is set to play the High Noon.
- John W. Barker is entertained by Madison Savoyards' successful exertions in Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida.
- Gwen Rice looks behind the scenes of Convenience, an original production about the Schenk's Corners neighborhood performed by members of Fresco Opera Theatre and TAPIT/new works.
- Dean Robbins feels no guilt about loving E!'s #RichKids of Beverly Hills.
- Kimberley Jones praises Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of a German spy in A Most Wanted Man.
- Scott Renshaw says Guardians of the Galaxy is ha-ha comic and based on comic books.
- Andre Darlington chronicles the passing of what could be the halcyon days of Madison cocktail makers.
- IsthmusParents.com: Sari Judge finds a whirlwind of summer activity at the Lussier Community Education Center.
- Tell All readers defend male fantasies in the bedroom.
- Michael Popke ponders the upcoming season for the Pack.
