This week’s Pitch and 13 things we learned this week

There’s a new push for glass-recycling in Kansas City thanks to Ripple Glass. Carolyn Szczepanski writes all about the new venture in this week’s feature story, “The Ripple Effect.” The goal is pretty lofty: Triple Kansas City’s glass-recycling efforts in the next two years. Let’s hope they do it.

Also in this week’s Pitch, Martin tries to make sense of Blue Summit’s dysfunctional Inter City Fire Protection District.

Ferruzza pulls double diner duty with reviews of Rob’s Cafe and Roxanne’s Cafe.

Pitch theater critic Alan Scherstuhl loves on Art Suskin’s Murder in the Cathedral, and managing editor Scott Wilson deciphers Wolfgang Laib‘s Without Place — Without Time — Without Body at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

On the Plog, we learned:

Florida looks like a penis.

There’s tragedy on the tracks at Union Station.

The Kansas City Star is Twitter stalking Larry Johnson.

Missouri is gonna so get stereotyped.

Ex-Chief Tony Gonzalez won’t rather not go completely nude than wear fur.

Antioch Center lacks confidence.

Bisphenol A may be bad for your junk.

Don’t trust Peter Kinder‘s Tweets.

White Owl is caged.

Never to pass off rock salt as drugs.

Scott Roeder confessed to killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, but he still thinks he’s innocent.

Synthetic marijuana will get you high.

Robert Rogers ministry is still going.