Trippy! Two of the original Blue Men of the Blue Man Group are opening a nursery school in New York, called Blue Man Creativity Center (at least until accreditation). From the New Yorker profile:

Every day at the center will end with a ritual called Glow Time, during which the shades are lowered, the regular lights are turned off, and black lights are turned on, illuminating the parts of the room (including work created by the students) that have been painted with special UV paint. The collection of Blue Man-inspired educational gewgaws on hand is a far cry from flash cards and Play-Doh. There’s a hypnotic Bubble Machine, with kid-controlled colored lights; a futuristic Water Machine, with a mini-whirlpool; and a trippy installation, left over from the B.M.G.’s 2003 tour, of giant computer-animated dragonflies that can be made to light up, flap their wings, and fly.

Blue Man Matt Goldman explains: “We wanted to create the school that we wish we’d had.” The plan is to keep adding classes to the school until it covers at least to grade five.

(Via ODIM.)

It’s fun to nurse at the Yyyyyy-M-C-A… A Pickering, Ontario woman has filed a human rights complaint after she was told by a YMCA employee not to nurse her baby on the premises. (We love the mother’s recounting of how the incident was initiated: “She wondered if I might be more comfortable in an alternate location…I explained to her that I was really comfortable where I was, and that I wasn’t interested in moving.”) The VP of Communications for the YMCA later told the media that the employee made an error in judgment.