This week’s Pitch and 12 things we learned this week

Is Darla Jaye serious about running for Congress? Only she knows, and she’s taking her time mulling the possibility while talking about it on her radio show on 980 KMBZ. And it’s making for good radio as The Pitch‘s Alan Scherstuhl writes in this week’s feature, “The Big Tease.”

If that wasn’t enough Scherstuhl, he pulls double-duty with reviews of the Unicorn’s Miss Witherspoon and Off-Center’s A Spectacular Christmas.

Art critic Chris Packham calls Grand Arts’ latest show, Ecstatic Resistance, “a lively and often heartfelt exhibit.”

And Charles Ferruzza tries the steak sandwich at Village West’s Wild Bill’s Legendary Steakhouse & Saloon.

The Buckle Bunny previews the “formal-if-you-want, six-hour” Stay Down Pretty Polly: the Murder Ballad Ball at Crosstown Station tonight (Friday). Some of the proceeds go to the Midwest Music Foundation.

On the Plog …

The Rod Jetton story was (allegedly) sicker than we imagined.

Rock Band is good for something scientific at Kansas State.

Missouri’s DUI laws could get a lot tougher. Also, the cops will be out in full force this weekend. Expect checkpoints and saturation patrols.

KMBC’s Joel Nichols showed off his accuracy in our first weather war.

The bell tolls for McClatchy. MSN doesn’t think The Kansas City Star‘s parent company will make it to 2020. The good news, the wage freeze is about to end.

Wyandotte County isn’t getting a grand jury.

The Shawnee Mission Park deer cull controversy is far from over. This week, there was a funeral motorcade through the park.

The only way to see Sunday’s Chiefs-Bills game was to buy a ticket. Luckily, enough people did so the blackout was averted.

Bruce Springsteen‘s cousin died of an accidental overdose.

14-year-old Sahamara Gonzalez is missing.

A woman claimed she was raped after a cocaine party at Club NRG.

Hyde Park has one of the coolest Christmas displays around.