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The Gorge Amphitheatre

The Gorge Amphitheatre, formerly Champs de Brionne Music Theatre, is an outdoor concert venue above the Columbia River in George, Washington, opened in 1986 by the Bryan winery family, capacity about 27,500, operated by Live Nation and a nine-time Pollstar Best Outdoor Music Venue winner.

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl (ゴリラの神から加護された令嬢は王立騎士団で可愛がられる), a Narō web novel by Shirohi, printed as a Mika Kamisu manga (8 vols) and adapted into a 12-episode 2025 Kachigarasu anime.

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, also called Pastafarian scripture, is Bobby Henderson's 2006 satirical book parodying intelligent design; it grew from his 2005 open letter to the Kansas school board and is treated as sacred by Pastafarians.

The Governess

The Governess (1998) is Sandra Goldbacher's debut British period drama, also known simply as a Victorian romance, starring Minnie Driver as Rosina da Silva, a Sephardic Jew passing as 'Mary Blackchurch' who becomes a governess in Scotland and enters an affair with Tom Wilkinson's photography experimenter Charles Cavendish.

The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector (Ревизор) is Gogol's 1835 five-act satirical comedy, premiered 19 April 1836 in St. Petersburg, in which officials mistake Khlestakov for an inspector; plot suggested by Pushkin, revised through 1842.

The Governor (The Walking Dead)

The Governor is the fictional villain and Woodbury community leader in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, played by David Morrissey; first appearing in issue 27, known in the novels as Brian Blake, and remembered for beheading Hershel and keeping walker heads in fish tanks.

The Governor of the Southern Branch

The Governor of the Southern Branch (南柯太守傳) is a Tang dynasty tale by Li Gongzu in which Chunyu Fen dreams he serves twenty years as governor of an ant kingdom.

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018 was the eighth annual edition of New York City's three-day music festival, held June 1–3, 2018 on Randall's Island Park and headlined by Eminem, Jack White, and Travis Scott.

The Graduate

The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols's comedy-drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross, adapted from Charles Webb's 1963 novel; Embassy Pictures release that won Nichols the Best Director Oscar and entered the National Film Registry in 1996.

The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show is a British comic chat show hosted by Graham Norton, first broadcast 22 February 2007 on BBC Two, on BBC One since Series 6, with 555 episodes across 34 series, made by So Television, and renewed until at least 2028.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's 2014 comedy caper (with Hugo Guinness, inspired by Stefan Zweig) about concierge Gustave and lobby boy Zero in fictional Zubrowka, told in nested 1985/1968/1932 layers with three aspect ratios.

The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion is Styx's seventh album, released by A&M on July 7, 1977. Recorded at Paragon Studios, Chicago, it hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200, went triple platinum, and spawned "Come Sail Away" and "Fooling Yourself."

The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor (Великий инквизитор) is a prose poem told by Ivan Karamazov in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, in which Christ returns to Inquisition-era Seville.

The Grand Old Duke of York

The Grand Old Duke of York is an English nursery rhyme and action song about a duke marching ten thousand men up a hill and down again. Its oldest ancestor is the 1642 'Old Tarlton's song' about the King of France; the modern wording first appeared in Arthur Rackham's 1913 Mother Goose.

The Grand Seduction

The Grand Seduction is a 2013 Canadian comedy directed by Don McKellar, an English remake of La grande seduction, starring Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch as a Newfoundland village schemes to keep a doctor.

The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a Prime Video motoring series created in 2016 by ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond, and May, ending with One for the Road in 2024, and relaunched in 2026 with Bourgeois, Engelsman, and Holland.

The Grand Tour (2026)

The Grand Tour (2026) is the rebooted Prime Video motoring series hosted by Francis Bourgeois, James Engelsman, and Thomas Holland of Throttle House, replacing Clarkson, Hammond, and May; six episodes launched 4 September 2026, produced by Studio Lambert with Andy Wilman.

The Grandfather

The Grandfather (El abuelo) is José Luis Garci's 1998 Spanish drama adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós's 1897 novel, starring Fernando Fernán Gómez as an aristocrat seeking his true granddaughter; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Grandmaster (一代宗师) (film)

The Grandmaster (一代宗師, Yi dai zong shi) is Wong Kar-wai's 2013 martial arts film about Wing Chun master Ip Man, starring Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi, choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, released in multiple cuts and winning 12 Hong Kong Film Awards.

The Grandmother

The Grandmother (Babička) is an 1855 prose work by Czech writer Božena Němcová, depicting an elderly woman's life in the Ratibořice valley and regarded as her masterpiece.

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel of the Joad family's Dust Bowl migration from Oklahoma to California; also called Steinbeck's masterpiece and a cornerstone of his 1962 Nobel Prize.

The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford's Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of Steinbeck's Dust Bowl novel, starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad; won Oscars for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Jane Darwell).

The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's first novel, published in 1950, about a white farmer's wife in Southern Rhodesia murdered by her Black servant.

The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots: American pop-rock band formed 1965 in Los Angeles by songwriters P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri for Dunhill Records; hitmakers of "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions" with 14 Top 40 singles, not the same act as Arthur Lee's brief use of the name.

The Grateful Dead (album)

The Grateful Dead (album) is the band's 1967 self-titled debut LP, released March 17, 1967 on Warner Bros. (WS 1689). Recorded in four days at RCA Studio A, Los Angeles, produced by Dave Hassinger; nine songs, 35 minutes, US chart peak number 73.

The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book (2008) is Neil Gaiman's gothic fantasy novel in which Nobody Owens, called Bod, orphaned by the assassin Jack, is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Winner of the Newbery Medal, Carnegie Medal, and Hugo Award; inspired by The Jungle Book.

The Gray House (TV series)

The Gray House is an eight-episode American Civil War espionage limited series on Prime Video (premiered February 26, 2026), created by Leslie Greif, Darrell Fetty, and John Sayles, directed by Roland Joffé, executive produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman, about Union women spies in Richmond.

The Gray Man (2007 film)

The Gray Man is a 2007 American biographical thriller film about serial killer Albert Fish, directed by Scott L. Flynn and starring Patrick Bauchau as Fish.

The Gray Man (2022 film)

The Gray Man (2022) is a Netflix/AGBO action thriller directed by the Russo brothers, starring Ryan Gosling as hunted CIA operative Sierra Six opposite Chris Evans, based on Mark Greaney's 2009 novel; $200 million budget, released July 2022.

The Great (TV series)

The Great is a Hulu satirical comedy-drama (2020–2023) created by Tony McNamara, starring Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great and Nicholas Hoult as Peter III. Three ten-episode seasons, 'an occasionally true story', canceled August 2023, two Emmy wins for period costumes.