Gwyneth Paltrow is speaking out about her recent civil trial involving a ski accident.
19.09.2023 - 18:29 / metroweekly.com
“This is a big day, and we’re here with gratitude and anticipation,” said Naseema Shafi, CEO of Whitman-Walker Health, addressing an audience of several hundred people at a ribbon-cutting for its brand new Southeast D.C. health center on Monday.Rows of chairs, with a rainbow-colored fan nestled on each seat, were spread across a lawn, dotted with wooden tables shaded by large umbrellas, facing the east side of the health care center.
Three food trucks stood perched on a gravel pathway behind the lawn, their operators eagerly awaiting the potential customers that would eventually come as employees slowly began to trickle out of the building for their lunch breaks. Named after the late journalist Max Robinson, Jr.
— the first Black co-anchor of a national nightly television news broadcast –- Whitman-Walker Health’s new Max Robinson Center, located on the St. Elizabeths East Campus in D.C.’s Congress Heights neighborhood, will serve as a health care and research hub for area residents living east of the Anacostia River.The new center allows Whitman-Walker Health to triple its patient capacity, allowing the federally qualified community health center to provide primary health, dental, and HIV-specific care to 15,000 patients.Its predecessor, located on Martin Luther King Jr.
Avenue SE, only had the capacity to serve up to 5,000 patients. The building will house over 40 new exam rooms, eight dental suites, six group therapy rooms, and a full psychotherapy suite.
It also features a 4,000 square-foot pharmacy on its first floor that is ten times the size of the pharmacy at the previous Max Robinson site. The center’s location also provides a geographic alternative for Washingtonians who would otherwise be forced to travel 40 to
.Gwyneth Paltrow is speaking out about her recent civil trial involving a ski accident.
Story Ave starring Luis Guzman grossed $9.85k in a limited opening at one theater, Quad Cinema, with multiple sold-out shows. The first feature from director Aristotle Torres, which won for Best Cinematography at SXSW (see Deadline review) expands to Chicago and the Bronx next week, followed by LA and additional markets October 13.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill giving unemployment benefits to striking workers, which was backed by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA. “Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” he wrote in his veto message Saturday.
Linda Evangelista has encouraged others to get checked for breast cancer after opening up about her own battle with the disease.The supermodel, 58, was first diagnosed with the illness in 2018, after which she underwent a double mastectomy. She was then diagnosed with cancer for a second time last year, after she discovered a lump on her chest, only to be later told she had cancer in her pectoral muscle.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter The show must go on! New York Film Festival opened its 61st edition with “May December” as planned, despite a massive rainstorm that’s left streets and subways flooded across the five boroughs. “Thank you all for braving the weather and making it here tonight,” director Todd Haynes told the mostly full theater. “We didn’t know what to expect.” On one of the wettest N.Y.
A really wet Friday in New York – National Weather Service flash flood warning wet – is likely to take a bite out of specialty film in one of its biggest markets this weekend. Alamo Drafthouse shut its NYC locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island until further notice due to “severe flooding in and around the area,” saying “Please everyone stay dry & stay safe, and we hope to have you back at the movies very soon.” Subways are jammed up and the water makes it hard to get around.
Angelique Jackson Despite heavy rains which have closed some New York City subway lines, schools and movie theaters — including Alamo Drafthouse locations — the New York Film Festival plans to move forward with its opening night screening of Netflix’s “May December” on Friday. The soapy drama is scheduled for a 6 p.m. showing at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall to kick off the 61st annual festival, followed by a second showing at 9 p.m.
Hackney Diamonds. “Sweet Sounds Of Heaven” showcases the iconic lineup of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Steve Jordan, with the added brilliance of Stevie Wonder’s piano accompaniment.
Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff has been through a “huge ordeal” following his Top Gear horror smash, a close pal has revealed. The 45 year old ex cricketer and TV star had to be airlifted to hospital after suffering severe facial injuries and breaking his ribs in the crash, which happened while he was filming for the BBC show at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey in December last year. Freddie was driving an open-topped three-wheel Morgan Super 3 vehicle around the track at 130mph when the smash took place.
Anne Hathaway goes classic in an all-black ensemble for the opening night gala of Metropolitan Opera’s “Dead Man Walking” held at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night (September 26) in New York City.
Former President Donald Trump again is bashing the prospect of another Republican presidential debate, falsely claiming that his absence has translated into low viewership.
Current Football Focus host Alex Scott and the show's former presenter, Dan Walker, have been involved in a public dispute regarding the future of the programme. It comes after recent figures revealed that Football Focus' ratings have significantly dropped as of late, which propelled Dan to speak out in support of the BBC show. Expressing his worry via social media, the 46 year old penned a heartfelt message to his grid with the caption: "Focus on football." "It's hard to see Football Focus struggling.
Scots chart-topper Tom Walker has made a poignant return to the music scene as he delighted shoppers in Glasgow with a free performance on Friday. The singer was promoting new single 'Burn' after taking a hiatus from singing due to ongoing pressures.
The news that Rupert Murdoch was stepping down as chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp. quickly triggered talk of his legacy, overshadowing one aspect of his announcement: Whether it comes to politics or to his companies’ media properties, he’s not going away.
After releasing her album “Solar Power” two years ago, Lorde is currently working on new songs while simultaneously coping with heartbreak and a mystery illness.
Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old Australian media magnate whose creation of Fox News made him a force in American politics, is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings.
Pete Davidson can’t get enough of the Garden State.After gigs in Atlantic City and Montclair earlier this year, the “King of Staten Island” just added two more NJ shows to his tour schedule later this year.First up, the “Saturday Night Live” alum is slated to headline at Red Bank’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 18.After that, Davidson will take the stage the following night at Englewood’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Nov.
A new Greggs store is set to open in Kilmarnock.
Justin Timberlake and Tiger Woods are opening an exciting new venture together.
Gavin Newsom said in an interview today that he has been “deeply involved with talking” to both sides of the long-running Writers Guild strike and “we’re going to be meeting again later this week.”