Arts and culture

Bao Tranchi

Bao Tranchi, Vietnamese-born American costume and fashion designer, Next in Fashion season 2 finalist; refugee background, Otis College graduate, cutout label, The Greatest Beer Run Ever costume designer.

Báo Văn Nghệ

Báo Văn Nghệ, also written Văn Nghệ, is a Vietnamese weekly literary newspaper owned by the Vietnam Writers' Association, publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism since 1948.

Baobab Books

Baobab Books is the name of two unrelated publishers: a Swiss non-profit children's publisher in Basel, and a Zimbabwean literary publisher founded in Harare in 1988.

Baojian Ji

Baojian Ji (宝剑记, The Sword Record) is a 52-scene Ming dynasty chuanqi drama by Li Kaixian (1502–1568), adapted from the Lin Chong story in the novel Water Margin.

Baotown

Baotown (小鲍庄) is a 1985 novella by the Chinese writer Wang Anyi, set in a Huaibei plain village and regarded as a representative work of the root-seeking movement.

Baozi (包子)

Baozi (包子), Chinese steamed stuffed bun: yeast-leavened dough wrapped around meat, vegetable, or sweet fillings and steamed; distinct from plain mantou, with northern, southern, and Guangdong styles, famous brands like Goubuli, and a large frozen-food industry.

BAP

BAP, officially Niedeckens BAP since 2014, is a Cologne rock band founded in 1976 by Wolfgang Niedecken that sings in Kölsch and holds 13 German number-one albums.

Baphuon style

The Baphuon style is a style of Khmer art and architecture of the Angkor era, named after the Baphuon temple and placed in the 11th century.

Bappa Majumder

Bappa Majumder, also known as Bappa Mazumder (Bengali: বাপ্পা মজুমদার), is a Bangladeshi singer, lyricist, and composer born in 1972 who fronts the band Dalchhut.

Bappi Lahiri

Bappi Lahiri (Alokesh Lahiri, 1952–2022), Indian music director and singer called the Disco King, pioneered disco in Bollywood with Disco Dancer (1982), Namak Halaal, and Sharaabi, winning the Filmfare Award and 2018 Lifetime Achievement honor.

Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024), Pakistani Parsi novelist, author of Cracking India (Ice-Candy-Man) and The Crow Eaters; wrote five novels on Partition, Parsi identity, and women, adapted by Deepa Mehta.

Baptism (Lenny Kravitz album)

Baptism (2004) is Lenny Kravitz's seventh studio album, on Virgin Records, following Lenny (2001). Originally planned as a funk record, it became a back-to-basics rock album; Kravitz wrote, produced, arranged and performed all 13 tracks, with guests David Sanborn and Jay-Z.

Baptism at the Savica

Baptism at the Savica (Krst pri Savica) is an 1836 narrative poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, generally treated as the national epic of Slovene literature.

Baptiste (TV series)

Baptiste is a BBC One British crime drama (2019-2021), a spin-off of The Missing starring Tcheky Karyo as retired French detective Julien Baptiste, two six-part series set in Amsterdam and Budapest, made by Two Brothers Pictures.

Baptistery of Saint Louis

The Baptistère de Saint Louis is a brass basin inlaid with silver and gold, made in Mamluk Egypt or Syria around 1325 to 1340 and now in the Louvre.

Bar (establishment)

Bar (establishment): a licensed premises serving alcoholic drinks on-site; also called pub, tavern, saloon, or taproom. Covers historical types, alcohol licensing, social "third place" role, and industry scale.

Bar (music)

Bar (music): the vertical barline dividing a staff into measures, each holding the beats set by the time signature; also called measure (US). Covers terminology, notation conventions, and history from mensural notation to modern use.

Bar Bar Bar

"Bar Bar Bar" (빠빠빠) is a 2013 single by South Korean girl group Crayon Pop, whose viral "helmet dance" made it the group's first chart-topper.

Bar Boys: After School

Bar Boys: After School is a 2025 Philippine comedy-drama sequel to Bar Boys (2017), directed by Kip Oebanda, reuniting Aquino, Nacino, Pineda, and Cipriano as law-school friends around a dying mentor, released December 25, 2025 via MMFF.

Bar form

Bar form (German: Barform) is a musical form with the AAB pattern, two repeated Stollen followed by a contrasting Abgesang, used by the Minnesinger and Meistersinger.

bar italia

bar italia are a London indie rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton, formed in late 2019 and signed to Matador Records.

Bar mleczny

Bar mleczny (milk bar) is a Polish cheap, self-service, alcohol-free cafeteria serving traditional dairy- and flour-based meals all day. First opened 1896 in Warsaw; subsidized under communism and still state-subsidized today.

Bar Paly

Bar Paly (בר פאלי), born Varvara Alexandrovna Paley, is an Israeli-American actress and model from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, raised in Tel Aviv, known for Sorina Luminita in Pain & Gain and Anna Kolcheck on NCIS: Los Angeles.

Bar Refaeli (בר רפאלי)

Bar Refaeli (בר רפאלי), Israeli supermodel born 1985 in Hod HaSharon; 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, first Israeli in SI, Forbes-listed top Israeli earner, TV host, wife of Adi Ezra.

Bar Rescue

Bar Rescue is an American reality series premiering July 17, 2011 on Spike TV, now on Paramount Network, in which consultant Jon Taffer rescues failing bars via hidden-camera recon, stress tests, retraining, and renovations; about 25% of rescued bars closed within two years per a 2021 IUPUC study.