Bolton Octagon
Bolton Octagon has unveiled its warm up season from May as well as its first main house production for the summer.
The recently refurbished space will welcome audiences back on 26 May with new play
See You At the Octagon, penned by Becky Prestwich. Playing until 15 June, the piece is based on the stories of people in and around the town.
On 11 June, a plethora of comedians will take over the space with
Justin Moorhouse and Friends, while across the months of May and June the venue s First Bite playwriting events will return, featuring texts by Hannah Wilkin, Robert Hudson, Adam Kotwal, Jaclyn Backhaus and Liz Duffy Adams.
William T. Wiley, âFunk Artistâ Who Spurned Convention, Dies at 83
Rooted in the Bay Area, he disdained commerce (and the New York scene, mostly), produced an eclectic kind of figurative art and imparted his âWiz-dumbâ to disciples.
William T. Wiley loaded up his art as if it were his scrapbook, depicting figures, landscapes, perhaps images of nuclear reactors and the despoliation of the natural environment.Credit.William T. Wiley/Hosfelt Gallery
By Deborah Solomon
Published May 5, 2021Updated May 18, 2021
William T. Wiley, the influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, died on April 25 in a hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 83.
Political uncertainty and sentiment: Evidence from the impact of Brexit on financial markets
This project aims to investigate whether the impact of Brexit on financial markets is consistent with rational asset pricing models using 34 financial indices. On
Project description
Financial markets have been influenced by recent political events e.g. the US-China trade war and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) (Brexit) . The likelihood of politically related events of such magnitude has been relatively small but, given the rise in populism around the world such events are perhaps becoming more likely. Therefore it is important to study the consequences of such shocks on financial markets. As well as being extremely important these events are potentially difficult to analyse because of their unique and unprecedented nature and the fact that are also extremely emotive issues which might well give rise to unduly positive or negative s
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The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed that the Cherokee Nation s reservation was never disestablished after Judge Gary L. Lumpkin dismissed charges against 47-year-old Travis Hogner, a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
Hogner was charged for possessing a firearm after a felony within the Cherokee Nation. He will not be retried because the statute of limitations expired in his case.
Over the last few months, the Seminole Nation, Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation have all had their reservation boundaries affirmed. Several post-conviction relief cases involving felony defendants challenged the state s right to try their cases after last summer s landmark
Centralia native Chris Cox was re-elected to a second term as mayor Tuesday night. In his first bid for mayor in 2019, Cox unseated former mayor Tim Grenke by only 10 votes. Grenke had helmed the city during the 10 years prior.
The election Tuesday was a rematch of the 2019 race, and Centralia residents were much more decisive when they elected Cox by a margin of 265 votes. In total, Cox received 465 votes to Grenke’s 209.
“I m very humbled and honored to be chosen and have that much trust be put into me and the council, in my hands and our hands,” he said.