This week’s Pitch and 14 things we learned this week

Former Honeywell workers are experiencing major health problems. This week’s Pitch feature, “Kansas City’s Nuclear Fallout,” talks to the people suffering from the after effects of exposure to beryllium at the soon-to-be-shuttered plant.

Also this week, Martin looks at Go Invest Wisely‘s “piss-poor attempts at property management” in Kansas City.

Ferruzza reviews the new hot restaurant Julian. Harper has a conversation with DJ Bill Pile.

Scherstuhl reviews the Unicorn’s pleasantly suspenseful Farragut North and Off Broadway’s “rousing, goofy, poetic, generous, encyclopedic, musical grab bag” 1937: One Helluva Year.

And The Pitch‘s new art critic Chris Packham (Plog readers might remember him as the Oz behind Daily Briefs‘ curtain) takes a look at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center’s Witness: Perspectives on War.

On the Plog, we learned that …

Acme Bicycle Company is shutting its doors.

McFadden’s is giving out novelty Mayor Funkhousers. Daily Briefs should get royalties.

Some guy named Wiggans is the Democrat running for Kansas governor.

Zack Greinke has some hardware.

Dwayne Bowe doesn’t have to work for four weeks.

Lots of places are stealing the Plaza’s Christmas thunder.

Kansas state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook is fighting for health-care freedom.

Authorities found apparent incest porn in Burrel Mohler Sr.’s home.

A Missouri appeals court wondered if the Whizzinator constituted forgery.

Mayor Funkhouser suspended city manager Wayne Cauthen.

Larry Johnson is a Bengal.

Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins is a puppet.

The Power & Light District is courting oversight. Finally.

And finally, and Olathe daycare provider charged with a child’s death wrote a book about providing quality daycare.