Pick up an Isthmus this week and inside you'll find the following:
- The Rev. Scott Carlson lost his daughter but not his devotion to his adopted son.
- Vikki Kratz sets off in search of Falk's potential challengers.
- Rick Berg reflects on 9/11, and the role of the president to defend liberty.
- Tom Laskin lists his picks of the fall concert season.
- Rich Albertoni interviews Travis Nelson, the Okkervil River drummer who once called Madison home.
- Susan Kepecs previews the World Music Festival.
- Our theater critics review Doubt: A Parable and The Full Monty.
- Kent Williams likes Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers' latest.
- Isthmus Books Quarterly talks to novelists David Rhodes and Sara Rath and poet Ron Wallace and looks at a book that details the mysterious world of Dr. Evermor.
- Shopper Katrin Madayag plays dress-up at Ravenworks at Westgate.
- Marc Eisen talks to inventor Noel Valdes of Cambridge about his better brand of garden hoe.
- The Malt House is a beer-lover's heaven, Robin Shepard finds.
