What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Marc Eisen examines the backlash against Wisconsin state employees and their unions.
- Joe Tarr covers the city's latest efforts to rescue the Overture Center.
- Bill Lueders tells the inside story of a UW-Madison veterinarian who just coudn't take it anymore.
- Bill Lueders digs through his holiday gift bag and offers suggestions to incoming and outgoing politicians.
- Linda Falkenstein lists the best Wisconsin books of 2010.
- Jennifer Smith reviews Rapture, Shirin Neshat's video installation at MMoCA.
- Jessica Steinhoff asks local record retailers what to give the music lover in your life.
- Rich Albertoni profiles Todd Clouser, who is bringing his jazz-inflected rock -- or is it rock-inflected jazz? -- to the Frequency.
- Dean Robbins says Leverage on TNT is a funnier Mission: Impossible.
- Kimberley Jones finds the ballet-themed film Black Swan deliciously wackadoodle, and Marc Savlov says Tron: Legacy creates a dazzling cyberworld.
- Raphael Kadushin finds a lot to love at Underground Kitchen.
- Tell All: What's the deal with people who walk their cats on a leash?
