Park (Wolverhampton ward)

Park ward is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands. It is located to the west of the city centre, and covers parts of the suburbs Bradmore, Compton, Finchfield, Merridale, Newbridge and Whitmore Reans. It borders the St Peter's, Graiseley, Merry Hill, Tettenhall Wightwick and Tettenhall Regis wards. It forms part of the Wolverhampton South West constituency.

Its name comes from the fact that two of the city's main parks, West Park and Bantock Park, lie within its boundaries. The ward also contains the Chapel Ash conservation area and also the Parkdale conservation area. Some other interesting architecture can be seen within the ward, particularly on the Tettenhall Road, such as first Mayor of Wolverhampton, George Thorneycroft's House. Two of the city's main thoroughfares are contained largely within the ward, namely the A41 Tettenhall Road and the Compton Road (A454. The Halfway House on Tettenhall Road was formerly a coaching house on the London to Holyhead route and as the name suggests, was the half way point. It was a pub for many years but is currently (2009) closed and for sale.

Park (film)

Park is the name of an independent comedy-drama film released in 2007. It was produced by Dana Jackson and directed by Kurt Voelker.

The story revolves around a Los Angeles park, where ten colorful characters encounter love - and loss - in the course of one day.

It received the Audience Award at the 8th Annual CineVegas Festival where it was premiered in June 2006. After a limited theatrical run in 2007, it was released on DVD on May 20, 2008.

Cast

  • William Baldwin - Dennis
  • Ricki Lake - Peggy
  • Cheri Oteri - Claire
  • Melanie Lynskey - Sheryl
  • Izabella Miko - Krysta
  • Anne Dudek - Meredith
  • Trent Ford - Nathan
  • Maulik Pancholy - Babar
  • David Fenner - Ian
  • Dagney Kerr - April
  • Anthony 'Treach' Criss - Darnell
  • Francesco Quinn - Javier
  • Awards

  • Audience Award, CineVegas 2006
  • Best Screenplay Award, Fylmz Festival 2007
  • Bud Abbot Award - Best Feature Comedy, Garden State Film Festival 2007
  • Audience Award, Sonoma Valley Film Festival 2007
  • References

    External links

  • Official website
  • Myspace website
  • Park at the Internet Movie Database
  • Park (Reading ward)

    Park is an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It is the far eastern ward and is bordered to its west by Abbey and Redlands wards. On the north, east and south it is bordered by the civil parish of Earley in the Borough of Wokingham.

    As with all wards, apart from smaller Mapledurham, it elects three councillors to Reading Borough Council. Elections since 2004 are held by thirds, with elections in three years out of four.

    In the 2011, 2012 and 2014 a Green Party candidate won each election.

    Notes and references

    Barbarella

    Barbarella may refer to:

  • Barbarella (comics) a comic book by Jean-Claude Forest
  • Barbarella (film) a 1968 film based on the comic book; starring Jane Fonda
  • Barbarella (musical) a 2004 musical based on the film
  • Barbarella's, a nightclub in Birmingham
  • Barbarella (rocket), a German hybrid rocket launched from the Barbara drilling platform in the Baltic Sea
  • Barbarella (band), a Dutch female pop trio
  • Barbarella (festival), a Dominican electronic music festival
  • "Barbarella" (song), a song by Scott Weiland from 12 Bar Blues
  • "Barbarella", a song by Alisha's Attic from Illumina
  • Barbarella: the 80's Musical, a 2015 musical
  • People with the surname

  • Tommy Barbarella, musician with New Power Generation
  • See also

    Barbara (given name)

    Barbarella (comics)

    Barbarella is a fictional heroine in a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest.

    History

    Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French magazine V-Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Eric Losfeld later published these strips as a stand-alone book, titled simply, Barbarella. The stand-alone version caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (pornographic) comic-book (despite its eroticism being slight, and the Tijuana bibles predating Barbarella by several years). Although published by a traditional company, the book anticipated the sexual revolution of mid-Twentieth Century, Western Civilization. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation. As a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the sexual revolution. The struggle for sexual freedom in comic books was most prominently conducted in France through emancipated female characters like Barbarella (1962), Jodelle (1966), Pravda (1967), Scarlet Dream (1981), Saga de Xam (1967), Wolinski's Paulette (1971). Works in this trend outside France include Phoebe Zeit-Geist (1965) and Vampirella (1969) in the USA; Modesty Blaise (1963) in the UK; and, Valentina (1965) and Angiolini's Isabella (1966) in Italy.

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