The Blue Man Group has issued a statement on the arrest of one of its alleged members last night for performing a public sex act. According to the Blue Man Group, via a press release:
Published reports today inaccurately identified a man named Darren Stephens who was arrested in Chicago as a "Blue Man Group actor."more ›
Isn't it a little cold to be romping around on the beach at night? Apparently not for an area school's assistant principal and a member of the Blue Man Group. Michael Pressler, 48, the assistant principal at Maine East High School in Park Ridge and Darren Stephens, 45, a performer for the Blue Man Group, were arrested yesterday and charged with public indecency after they were discovered engaged in "in a sex act on Chicago Park District property." The pair were arrested last night at 5:45 p.m. in a lakefront park located on the 4500 block of North Simonds Drive. Both will appear in Misdemeanor Court in February. No word on if either will lose their jobs as a result of the incident, but Tobias Funke is putting on the body paint just in case. UPDATE: The Blue Man Group is now saying Stephens doesn't work for them and never has.
In 2006, James Srodon took his grandson to see Blue Man Group at Briar Street Theater. Now he's suing the group, theater owners and related entities for $50K because he says he was subject to the "esophagus cam." From TMZ's copy of the lawsuit, Srodon alleges:
All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...
We enjoy getting all fall down drunk just as much as the next guy, but we’re not so fond of doing it surrounded by a bunch of amateurs. This makes St. Patrick’s Day a bit of a conundrum since this evening seems to bring out an enormous number of idiots blaming their bad behavior on their “love o’ the Irish.” Luckily for us there is an annual option to embrace in lieu of sitting huddled in a corner, rocking back and forth, just waiting for the legions that can’t hold their liquor to finally pass out and sleep it off.
