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STag
STag is a square fiducial marker system for camera pose estimation, proposed in 2017, that minimizes pose jitter by refining the homography with a circular border.
Stag at Sharkey's
Stag at Sharkey's is a 1909 oil painting by George Bellows showing two boxers fighting at a private New York boxing club, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Stag beetle
Stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), Europe's largest beetle, family Lucanidae; males up to 75 mm with antler-like mandibles. Larvae feed on decaying wood for 3-7 years; IUCN Near Threatened; UK stronghold in south-east England.
Stag Dance (novel)
Stag Dance (Random House, March 11, 2025) is the title novella of Torrey Peters's collection Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories, set at an illegal Montana logging camp where lumberjacks hold a dance at which some attend as women; it was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Stag film
Stag film, also called blue movie or smoker: a short, silent, clandestinely produced pornographic film made for all-male audiences from about 1907 to the late 1960s, typically 16mm, about 13 minutes, shown at smokers and stag parties.
Stag hunt
The stag hunt, also called the assurance game, is a game theory model of cooperation that pays off only with trust, from Rousseau's 1755 parable of two hunters.
Stag's Leap
Stag's Leap is a 2012 poetry collection by the American poet Sharon Olds recounting the end of her roughly thirty-year marriage; it won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
STAG2
STAG2 (Stromal Antigen 2, SA2) is an Xq25 gene encoding a cohesin complex subunit; a tumor suppressor frequently mutated in myeloid malignancies, bladder cancer, and Ewing sarcoma, synthetically lethal with STAG1.
Stage (David Bowie album)
Stage (1978) is David Bowie's second live album, recorded on the Isolar II World Tour in April–May 1978, produced with Tony Visconti, peaking at UK #5 and US #44, and reissued in 2005 and 2017 with restored running order.
Stage (theatre)
Stage (theatre): the defined performance area of a theatre, arranged for sightlines, acoustics, scenery, and performer movement. Main configurations are proscenium, thrust, and theatre in the round, differing in where the audience sits.
Stage 20 of the 1989 Tour de France
The final time trial of the 1989 Tour de France, in which Greg LeMond overtook Laurent Fignon to win by 8 seconds, the closest margin in Tour history.
Stage 5 (The Sopranos)
Stage 5 (S06E14, aired April 15, 2007) is a Sopranos episode written by Terence Winter, directed by Alan Taylor: Johnny Sack's terminal cancer, the Cleaver premiere, and Gerry Torciano's murder.
Stage adaptations of video games
Stage adaptations of video games are plays, musicals, and live concerts adapting games for the stage, pioneered by Japan's 2.5D musical industry beginning in 1997.
Stage costume designer
A stage costume designer creates the clothing, accessories, wigs, and make-up worn in live theater, opera, and dance, designing garments that endure repeated performances and quick changes.
Stage Entertainment
Stage Entertainment is an Amsterdam-based musical theater producer founded in 1998 by Joop van den Ende, operating 16 European theaters, with about 2,000 staff and 7 million annual visitors, owned wholly by Advance since 2018.
Stage Fighter
Stage Fighter (스테이지 파이터, STF) is a 2024 Mnet South Korean dance survival show, fourth in the Street Woman Fighter franchise, where 64 male ballet, contemporary, and Korean dance dancers battle in class wars; hosted by Kang Daniel, aired September 24 to November 26, 2024.
Stage fright
Stage fright: performance-context anxiety driven by sympathetic-adrenal activation (adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol). Affects 16.5-60% of professional musicians; treated with CBT, exposure, and beta-blockers; distinct from glossophobia and generalized social anxiety.
Stage Fright (1950 film)
Stage Fright (1950) is an Alfred Hitchcock Warner Bros. thriller based on Selwyn Jepson's Man Running, starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, and Richard Todd, famous for its lying flashback and Cole Porter's "The Laziest Gal in Town."
Stage Girl (album)
Stage Girl is the 2025 debut album by American trans pop singer Eli, released via Zelig Music/RCA on October 31, 2025. A ten-track, roughly 30-minute pop/R&B concept record built around a fictional American Idol-style talent show, it was expanded in May 2026 as Stage Girl (Not a Dream Anymore).
Stage lighting
Stage lighting: the craft of controlling intensity, distribution, angle, and color of light on a performance stage for visibility, emphasis, mood, and composition. Spans theatre, concerts, and film/TV; history runs from gas (1816) and limelight (1837) through DMX512 and LED fixtures.
Stage management
Stage management: the theatrical discipline of coordinating rehearsals, documentation, and live performance. Key elements: the prompt book, cue calling ("LX 12, go"), paper tech, the SM/DSM/ASM team, UK SM NOS 2026 standards, and Stern & Gold's standard 13th-edition text.
Stage name
Stage name: a professional pseudonym under which a performer works and is credited, distinct from their legal name. Regulated by unions (SAG-AFTRA, Equity, Spotlight) for uniqueness; registrable as a trademark but not copyrightable.
Stage separation
Stage separation is the flight event in which a spent rocket stage is detached from the launch vehicle so the continuing stage can carry on to orbit.
Stage Sisters
Stage Sisters (舞台姐妹, Wutai jiemei), also Two Stage Sisters, is Xie Jin's 1964 color drama from Shanghai Tianma Film Studio about two Yue opera performers, suppressed in the Cultural Revolution and restored in 4K in 2013.
Stage Tour
Stage Tour (stylized STAGE TOUR) is a rhythm-action game by RedOctane Games, a Guitar Hero spiritual successor launching December 10, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2, with 90+ licensed songs and roguelite Tour Mode.
Stage-gate process
The stage-gate process is a new product development framework developed by Robert G. Cooper and described in his 1986 book Winning at New Products, dividing projects into stages separated by decision gates.
Stagecoach
Stagecoach is one of the United Kingdom's largest bus and coach operators, founded in Perth, Scotland, in 1980 by Brian Souter and Ann Gloag and owned since 2022 by a DWS-managed infrastructure fund.
Stagecoach (1939 film)
Stagecoach (1939) is John Ford's landmark Western, his first sound-era Western, starring John Wayne as the Ringo Kid and Claire Trevor, shot in Monument Valley, based on Haycox's "Stage to Lordsburg," and credited with elevating the Western to A-picture status.
Stagecoach (1966 film)
Stagecoach (1966) is a Gordon Douglas Western, a Technicolor CinemaScope remake of John Ford's 1939 classic, starring Bing Crosby, Ann-Margret, and Alex Cord for 20th Century-Fox, poorly received.
Stagecoach Festival
Stagecoach Festival: annual country music festival at Empire Polo Club, Indio, California, founded 2007 by Paul Tollett's Goldenvoice as Coachella's country counterpart; 85,000 daily cap, Mane/Palomino/Honkytonk stages.