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Eyesight and Eye Health

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    The Jewish Guild For the Blind and Homes For the Homeless: See The Tax Returns Of Your Tax Dollars At Work

    In this week's Voice cover story, we take a look at "The Nonprofit 1%," those people who head tax-exempt organizations which pay them so well, they're in the top one percent of earners. We take a particularly close look at the Jewish Guild for the Blind, where a $5,000 a year part-time music therapi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Groupon Would Like to Offer You a Deal on Life-Altering Surgery

    ​Hey kids! Got bad eyes? Wanna fix 'em, cheap? Check out the Groupon Deal of the Day, which offers surgery ON BOTH EYES for a mere $1,895, compared to the average cost of $4,200. Sound good? Wait, there's more. If you're not willing to do this for your poor children, they will endure years of ... More >>

  • News

    August 10, 2011

    Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don't

    Gays get the freedom to marry—and for some, the freedom not to

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Cookie Monster Wants to Host Saturday Night Live. Here Is His Audition Tape.

    So, Cookie Monster made this video to convince the powers that be that he would be quite excellent as a Saturday Night Live host. We think he's got a pretty good shot, if he can just get that little lazy eye problem treated. Also, we'd like the extended version of "Cookieface," please. If you agree, ... More >>

  • Film

    October 6, 2010

    Losing Sight but Full of Insight in Going Blind

    So, Cookie Monster made this video to convince the powers that be that he would be quite excellent as a Saturday Night Live host. We think he's got a pretty good shot, if he can just get that little lazy eye problem treated. Also, we'd like the extended version of "Cookieface," please. If you agree, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Braille Porn Is the Sensitive Ponytail Guy of Porn

    One of Murphy's blind-friendly porn creations.​Just to put Boob Day to bed with a bang: Lisa Murphy, a Canadian artist, is making porn for blind people (except not exclusively for blind people--the sighted are invited to perv out enjoy as well, which is quite generous given that sighted people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Governor David Paterson's Sex Rumors Prompt Many Questions

    ​New York Governor David Paterson is all riled up over media-fueled rumors that he's been cheating on the wife and has done lotsa drugs, and I agree it's probably a smear campaign started by his fellow Democrats who can't wait for him to step down. In any case, this story reminds me of an age ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    NY Mag on the Paterson 'Weirdness' Factor

    Here's the nut graf from a mostly generous New York Magazine profile today on our embattled governor: "The only guarantee is a large helping of weirdness." That's not reporter Chris Smith talking, but the sum-up conclusion of his conversations with those who know David Paterson fairly well. Here's ... More >>

  • Film

    November 17, 2009

    For Broken Embraces, Almodóvar Still Believes in Almodóvar™

    Here's the nut graf from a mostly generous New York Magazine profile today on our embattled governor: "The only guarantee is a large helping of weirdness." That's not reporter Chris Smith talking, but the sum-up conclusion of his conversations with those who know David Paterson fairly well. Here's ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY

    Curious Frog stages Plutus

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Dans Le Noir? to Broaden List of Acceptable Things to Do in the Dark in Public

    Darco TT/flickr​The Post reported yesterday that Dans Le Noir?, the Paris-based restaurant chain that hires blind waiters to serve "surprise" menus to diners under the veil of total darkness, is planning to open a New York outpost. The chain, which was founded in 2004 with funding from the Pau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    Happy Nude Year!

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Fucked Up at Generation Records

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Gov. Paterson Undergoes Glaucoma Operation

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    PLUG Awards: The Nominees You Didn't See

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Film

    September 11, 2007

    Adrift in Manhattan

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Film

    July 4, 2006

    'You, Me and Dupree'

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Film

    May 24, 2005

    'Apres Vous'

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • Film

    November 30, 2004

    Film

    At the University of Salford, hard by Manchester, England, the charitable organization Receive and Give has teamed with Salford Students Stripped to produce a nude calendar to aid, ironically, the Henshaws Society for Blind People (though a version for the visually impaired may be in the works). Va ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2004

    Medical Marijuana Keeps on Rolling

    Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining here at home

  • NYC Life

    January 27, 2004

    Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve zaps bad Asian American art

    Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining here at home

  • News

    June 24, 2003

    Forgotten Ones

    A Red-Baited Optometrist Records a Neighborhood

  • News

    December 5, 2000

    The Herbalist

    Arrested for Giving Marijuana to the Sick, Kenneth Toglia Still Sows Seeds of Hope

  • Books

    January 26, 1999

    Slackjaw

    Arrested for Giving Marijuana to the Sick, Kenneth Toglia Still Sows Seeds of Hope

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