What can you find in this week's Isthmus? Highlights from the latest issue follow:
- Vote! Learn more about the candidates the League of Women Voters questionnaire for the November 6 election.
- Ruth Conniff takes a close look at the U.S. Senate race between Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson.
- Judith Davidoff talks to underdog Chad Lee, who will face off against Rep. Mark Pocan for Congress.
- Judith Davidoff reports on five new polling locations in the city of Madison.
- Erik Gunn reports on how Rob Zerban is giving U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan more of a fight than usual.
- Dave Cieslewicz slams Mayor Paul Soglin's budget.
- Jen Herritz, Ben Munson and Jessica Steinhoff select Madison's most grownup-friendly Halloween events, including concerts, readings, movies and plays.
- Austin Duerst checks in with John Roberts and Eugene Mirman from Fox's animated hit Bob's Burgers, performing with the rest of the cast at the Barrymore.
- Amelia Cook applauds the kid-friendly lessons in Children's Theater of Madison's Charlotte's Web.
- Cameron Connors ponders Beckett's bizarreness in a review of University Theatre's I Can't Go On. I'll Go On.
- Scott Gordon decides which new metal, hardcore and noise albums are especially rocking.
- Ben Munson chats with John O'Regan, the sparkly mastermind behind electro-pop act Diamond Rings, playing at the Frequency.
- Scott Renshaw gets mired in the multiple plots of Cloud Atlas, and Jessica Steinhoff yearns to visit late-'60s Detroit while watching Searching for Sugar Man.
- André Darlington will have you hopping in your car to try out Kusaka in Mineral Point.
- Marcelle Richards pays a visit to Fromagination and lifts the fondue recipe.
- Liz Merfeld talks with Alnisa Allgood, the IT guru of Madison's nonprofit world at MadTech.
- Tell All tries intervenes in a psychodrama on the bike path.
- Jason Joyce thinks there's some part of Lance Armstrong that's not a bad dude.
