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Frictional unemployment
Frictional unemployment, also called search unemployment, is the temporary joblessness that remains in a healthy economy while workers search for and match with suitable vacancies.
Frida Argento
Frida Argento, Swedish actress born 2000, plays Sara in Netflix's Young Royals (2021-2024); autistic actress portraying autistic character; later credits include The Åre Murders, Fejk, and Vaka (2026).
Frida Gustavsson
Frida Gustavsson, Swedish actress and former model born 1993 in Stockholm, played Freydis Eriksdotter in Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla; a former Victoria's Secret and Valentino couture model, she won a 2025 Kristallen award for Faithless.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, 1907–1954), Mexican painter of Coyoacán's Casa Azul; 143 paintings, 55 self-portraits; wife of Diego Rivera; rejected the Surrealist label; work declared Mexican national artistic monument in 1984.
Frida Kahlo Museum
Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo), also Casa Azul, is Frida Kahlo's blue childhood house at Londres 247, Coyoacán, Mexico City, opened as a museum in 1958 under Diego Rivera's trust with Banco de México, directed first by Carlos Pellicer.
Friday
Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday, the fifth day under ISO 8601, named for the goddess Frigga and holy in Islam and Christianity.
Friday (1995 film)
Friday (1995) is an American stoner comedy directed by F. Gary Gray, written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, starring Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, and Nia Long. Released April 26, 1995 by New Line, it grossed $27.9M worldwide and spawned Next Friday and Friday After Next.
Friday (franchise)
Friday franchise: New Line comedy series Friday (1995), Next Friday (2000), Friday After Next (2002), created by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, set in South Central Los Angeles; Last Friday in development since 2025.
Friday (Rebecca Black song)
"Friday" is Rebecca Black's 2011 debut single, written by Patrice Wilson and Clarence Jey of Ark Music Factory for $4,000; posted on YouTube February 10, it went viral in March 2011 as a widely mocked "worst song ever," charted in the Hot 100, and drew a rights dispute.
Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
Friday is the Indigenous servant Crusoe rescues and names in Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe; later reimagined as Black onstage, reworked by Tournier and Coetzee, and used in economics as Crusoe's contract partner.
Friday After Next
Friday After Next (2002) is the third Friday comedy, written by and starring Ice Cube with Mike Epps, directed by Marcus Raboy; a Christmas Eve Santa burglar steals the cousins' rent money, leading to strip-mall security jobs. Grossed $33.3 million domestic; Metascore 35.
Friday I'm in Love
Friday I'm in Love: 1992 Cure single from Wish, written by Robert Smith and bandmates, UK No. 6 and US No. 18 pop hit, quarter-tone Varispeed key, written in five minutes on a Friday.
Friday Night Baseball
Friday Night Baseball is MLB's exclusive weekly Friday doubleheader on Apple TV, launched in 2022 under a seven-year deal worth about $50 million per year, available in 60 countries, and known for iPhone-camera and Apple Immersive production firsts.
Friday night death slot
The Friday night death slot is a perceived graveyard slot in American TV where Friday prime-time shows, especially young-adult fare like Star Trek and Firefly, were expected to fail; streaming has since inverted the stigma.
Friday Night Dinner
Friday Night Dinner is a Channel 4 British sitcom (2011–2020) by Robert Popper about the secular Jewish Goodman family's weekly Shabbat meal, starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, based on Popper's own family.
Friday Night Funkin'
Friday Night Funkin' (FNF) is a free, open-source browser rhythm game from Ludum Dare 47 (2020) by ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade, evilsk8r, and KawaiSprite; its Newgrounds demo is the site's most viewed submission and its Kickstarter raised $2.2M.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights (2004) is Peter Berg's sports drama based on Buzz Bissinger's 1990 book about the 1988 Odessa Permian Panthers, starring Billy Bob Thornton as coach Gary Gaines; it grossed $61.2M and spawned the NBC TV series.
Friday Night Lights (mixtape)
Friday Night Lights is J. Cole's third mixtape, released free on November 12, 2010 via Roc Nation; largely self-produced, it won 2011 BET Mixtape of the Year and reached streaming in 2024.
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
Friday Night Lights (2006–2011) is an American drama series about a Texas high school football team in fictional Dillon, developed by Peter Berg and showrun by Jason Katims from Bissinger's 1990 book; it ran five seasons, 76 episodes, and won a Peabody and three Emmys.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is H.G. Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book on the 1988 Permian Panthers of Odessa, Texas, later a 2004 film and NBC series.
Friday prayer (صلاة الجمعة)
Friday prayer (صلاة الجمعة, Jumu'ah) is the congregational Muslim prayer performed on Friday after midday, replacing the ordinary noon prayer with two rakʿahs and a sermon.
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th, also called friggatriskaidekaphobia's namesake date, is a Western superstition about bad luck when the 13th falls on a Friday. First documented in France in 1834, spread to America by the 1890s, popularized by Lawson's 1907 novel and the 1980 slasher film.
Friday the 13th (1980 film)
Friday the 13th (1980), also known by working title A Long Night at Camp Blood, is Sean S. Cunningham's slasher film written by Victor Miller, in which Mrs. Pamela Voorhees kills camp counselors; it grossed about $40 million and launched the Jason Voorhees franchise.
Friday the 13th (2009 film)
Friday the 13th, also known as Friday the 13th remake, is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel, rebooting the franchise around killer Jason Voorhees.
Friday the 13th (franchise)
Friday the 13th is the American horror franchise begun by Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's 1980 slasher, spanning twelve films, Pamela and Jason Voorhees, a 2018 rights ruling, and the 2026 Crystal Lake prequel series.
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) is Steve Miner's slasher sequel in which Jason Voorhees becomes the killer at Camp Crystal Lake. Released May 1, 1981, 87 minutes, R-rated, $1.4 million budget, $6.4 million opening weekend, 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part III (1982), also called Friday the 13th Part 3 or Part 3 3D, is Steve Miner's Paramount slasher sequel in which Jason Voorhees first wears the hockey mask; it was the first 3-D film given a wide domestic release, on 1,079 screens.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), also known as Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI, is Tom McLoughlin's sixth franchise entry in which lightning resurrects Jason Voorhees as a zombie; it introduced self-aware humor that influenced Scream.
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood is a 1988 American slasher film in which telekinetic teen Tina Shepard accidentally frees Jason Voorhees and fights him.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is a 1989 American slasher film in which Jason Voorhees stalks teens on a cruise to New York City.