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Uptown Girl
Uptown Girl: Billy Joel's 1983 single from An Innocent Man, a Four Seasons-homage pop rock song produced by Phil Ramone; US No. 3, UK No. 1, famous Christie Brinkley video, Westlife 2001 cover.
Uptown Girls
Uptown Girls is a 2003 American comedy-drama film directed by Boaz Yakin, in which Brittany Murphy plays a spoiled rock star's daughter who becomes nanny to Dakota Fanning's precocious eight-year-old.
Upward Bound (novel)
Upward Bound is Woody Brown's 2026 Hogarth debut novel (208 pages, ISBN 9780593979976), a New York Times bestseller set in a Los Angeles adult day-care center for disabled, mostly autistic adults, told across 12 chapters from eight viewpoints, whose authorship was debated because Brown is nonspeaking.
UQ Holder! (UQホルダー!)
UQ Holder! (UQホルダー!) is Ken Akamatsu's 2013-2022 manga sequel to Mahou Sensei Negima!, following immortal boy Touta Konoe and the vampire Yukihime in the UQ Holder organization; 28 volumes, 192 chapters, 2017 TV anime, alternate timeline.
Ur-Leica
The Ur-Leica is the prototype camera Oskar Barnack built at Leitz in Wetzlar in 1913 and 1914, the first camera to use 35 mm film in landscape format.
Ural stone-cutting
Ural stone-cutting (уральская камнерезь) is the hardstone carving tradition of the Urals, centered on the Ekaterinburg Lapidary Works, which supplied ornamental stones to the Russian court from 1751.
Urania's Mirror
Urania's Mirror; or, a View of the Heavens: boxed set of 32 pierced, hand-colored constellation cards published by Samuel Leigh, London, November 1824, engraved by Sidney Hall, designed by Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, based on Jamieson's Celestial Atlas.
Uranians
The Uranians were a loosely knit group of British and American homosexual poets active about 1880-1930, named by Timothy d'Arch Smith in Love in Earnest (1970), drawing on Pater, Whitman, and ancient Greek homoerotic motifs.
Uranus 2324
Uranus 2324 (ยูเรนัส 2324) is a 2024 Thai sci-fi romance GL film, Thailand's first space movie, directed by Thanadol Nualsuth, starring Freen Sarocha Chankimha and Becky Armstrong as an astronaut and free diver reunited across parallel worlds; released 4 July 2024.
Urara Takano (高乃 麗)
Urara Takano (高乃麗), real name Hisako Takayama, born 1961 in Togane, Chiba, is a Remax voice actress known for Maria Tachibana in Sakura Wars, Kai in Beyblade, and dubbing Helena Bonham Carter, Queen Latifah, and Carla Gugino.
Urassaya Sperbund (อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์)
Urassaya Sperbund (อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์), nicknamed Yaya, is a Thai-Norwegian actress born 1993 in Pattaya, known for Duang Jai Akkanee, two Suphannahong Best Actress wins, and as the first Thai Louis Vuitton House Ambassador.
Urata Naoya
Urata Naoya (浦田直也, born 1982 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer and former leader of the dance-vocal group AAA, which he led from 2005 to 2019.
Urban agriculture
Urban agriculture: growing, processing, and distributing food in cities and suburbs, also called urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA). Includes community gardens, rooftop farms, hydroponics, and vertical production; yields comparable to conventional agriculture.
Urban Cowboy
Urban Cowboy is Aaron Latham's 1980 novelization of the film he co-wrote with James Bridges, drawn from his 1978 Esquire article about Houston's Gilley's honky-tonk and mechanical-bull riders; distinct from later romance novels of the same title.
Urban fantasy
Urban fantasy: fantasy fiction subgenre placing supernatural beings and magic in real-world modern cities; emerged in the 1980s with Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, and Borderland, consolidated in the 1990s by Gaiman and Miéville; distinct from paranormal romance.
URBAN GROOVE FITTERS (Miton Usui, Yoshito Tanaka, Taku Nakajo, Takashi Numazawa)
URBAN GROOVE FITTERS is a Japanese funk and soul quartet of established session musicians, fronted by singer-songwriter Miton Usui with guitarist Yoshito Tanaka, bassist Taku Nakajo, and drummer Takashi Numazawa.
Urban Hymns
Urban Hymns is the third studio album by the English rock band the Verve, released in 1997. It topped the UK chart and features "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and "The Drugs Don't Work".
Urban Legend (film)
Urban Legend (1998) is a slasher horror film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, and Rebecca Gayheart; campus murders staged as urban legends, $38.1M US gross.
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) is a horror slasher sequel to Urban Legend (1998), John Ottman's directorial debut, starring Jennifer Morrison as film student Amy Mayfield at Alpine University, where thesis-film crew members die in staged accidents; scored 16 on Metacritic.
Urban novel
The urban novel (German Großstadtroman, big-city novel) is a novel in which the modern metropolis is the central subject; the genre peaked in Berlin between 1910 and 1933.
Urban Prose
Urban Prose (городская проза) is a direction in Soviet Russian literature of the 1960s to 1980s focusing on the everyday life of the urban intelligentsia.
Urban romance
City romance (городской романс), also called everyday romance, is a Russian urban folk song genre of the lower city classes, flourishing from the late 1800s into the 20th century.
Urbano music
Urbano music (música urbana) is a Latin American umbrella label covering reggaeton, Latin trap, dembow, champeta urbana and Brazilian funk; born in marginalized urban communities, it now leads Spotify charts and Latin Grammy categories.
Urbanscapes
Urbanscapes is a creative-arts and music festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first held in 2002 and described as the country's longest-running creative arts festival, drawing 85,000 people by 2019.
URBOYTJ
URBOYTJ (ยัวร์บอยทีเจ) is the stage name of Jirayut Pholpraphai, a Thai rapper, singer, and producer who began in the trio 3.2.1, went solo in 2016, and coached on The Rapper.
Urchin (2025 film)
Urchin is a 2025 British drama and directorial debut of Harris Dickinson, following Frank Dillane as a young homeless man in London, which premiered at Cannes, winning the FIPRESCI Prize.
Urdu Dictionary Board
The Urdu Dictionary Board (اردو لغت بورڈ), originally the Urdu Development Board, is a Pakistani government institution in Karachi established in 1958 to compile a comprehensive Urdu dictionary.
Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab
Urdu Ki Aakhri Kitab (اردو کی آخری کتاب, "The Last Book of Urdu") is a 1971 work of Urdu satire by Ibn-e-Insha, written as a parody school textbook.
Urdu literary criticism
Urdu literary criticism (اردو تنقید, Urdu tanqeed) evaluates and theorizes Urdu poetry and prose; it took modern organized form with Altaf Hussain Hali's Muqaddama of 1893.
Urdu poetry (اردو شاعری)
Urdu poetry (اردو شاعری) is South Asian verse in Urdu, born in the Deccan and Delhi from the 13th century. Key forms are the ghazal, nazm, masnavi, qasida, and marsiya; masters include Khusrau, Mir, Ghalib, Iqbal, and Faiz.