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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author and diplomat, pseudonyms Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon; author of The Sketch Book, 'Rip Van Winkle,' 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' and the 175-edition Columbus biography; first American to live by authorship.
Washington Square
Washington Square is an 1880 short novel by Henry James about Catherine Sloper, a plain New York heiress whose domineering father and fortune-hunting suitor both fail her.
Washtub bass
Washtub bass, also called gutbucket or tub: a homemade one-string bass with a cord from an inverted washtub to a braced pole; pitch changes by stick pressure on string tension. Used in jug bands, skiffle, and quelbe; descended from the African earth-bow.
Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad
Wasifu wa Siti binti Saad, a 1958 Swahili biography by Tanzanian poet Shaaban Robert, portrays taarab singer Siti binti Saad, the Queen of Taarab, and appears on Tanzanian school curricula.
Wasilat al-Najat
Wasilat al-Najat (وسيلة النجاة) is a title shared by several unrelated Islamic works, best known being Süleyman Çelebi's Turkish mawlid and a Persian legal treatise by Mullā Aḥmad al-Narāqī.
Wasp (novel)
Wasp is a 1957 science fiction novel by Eric Frank Russell (The Wasp Factory is a different book by Iain Banks). It follows James Mowry, a human saboteur waging a one-man terror campaign on a Sirian planet during an interstellar war, first published by Avalon Books.
Wasp Network (film)
Wasp Network (La Red Avispa) is a 2019 spy drama directed by Olivier Assayas about the Cuban Five infiltrating anti-Castro groups in Miami, released by Netflix in June 2020.
Wassaf
Wassaf was a Persian historian of the Ilkhanid period, born in Shiraz around 1264, who wrote Tarikh-i Wassaf, a five-volume history of the Mongol Ilkhans.
Wassail
Wassail: English midwinter custom, drink, song, and ceremony from the toast 'waes hael' (be in good health). Two forms: orchard wassailing on Old Twelfth Night with cider libations and noise to bless apple trees, and house-to-house wassailing with a communal bowl.
Wassailing
Wassailing is an English midwinter custom of singing to apple trees, pouring cider on their roots, and hanging toast in their branches on Twelfth Night, or of door-to-door singing for food and drink; the word comes from Old English was hal, "be of good health", and the custom has revived strongly since the early 2000s.
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский)
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский), 1866–1944, Russian-born painter and theorist, a founder of abstract art; author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) and Point and Line to Plane (1926), co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus teacher.
Wassoulou
Wassoulou, also called Wassoulou music, is a semi-acoustic popular music style from southern Mali, rooted in hunters' music, led by women singers such as Oumou Sangaré, and popular since the 1970s.
Wassup Rockers
Wassup Rockers is Larry Clark's 2005 drama about Latino punk-rock skateboarders from South Central Los Angeles whose Beverly Hills trip turns into misadventure, starring non-actors Jonathan Velasquez and Francisco Pedrasa.
Waste Land
Waste Land (Lixo Extraordinário) is a 2010 UK-Brazil documentary by Lucy Walker, João Jardim, and Karen Harley following artist Vik Muniz creating portraits with catadores at Rio's Jardim Gramacho landfill; Sundance and Berlinale audience award winner, 2011 Oscar nominee.
Waste Not
Waste Not (物尽其用) is a 2005 installation by Chinese artist Song Dong and his mother Zhao Xiangyuan, arranging over 10,000 household objects she saved around the frame of the family's demolished house.
Waste Tide
Waste Tide (荒潮, Huangchao) is a 2013 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan, set on a fictional island that recycles the world's electronic waste.
Wasted Love
Wasted Love is JJ's (Johannes Pietsch) operatic pop song with a techno ending that won Eurovision 2025 in Basel for Austria with 436 points, the country's third win.
Wasted Penguinz
Wasted Penguinz is a Swedish hardstyle act from Helsingborg, formed in 2008 by Pontuz Bergman and Jon Brandt-Cederhäll, who became leaders of euphoric hardstyle before becoming Bergman's solo project in 2020.
Wasteman
Wasteman is a 2025 British prison drama, Cal McMau's debut feature, starring David Jonsson as parole-bound inmate Taylor and Tom Blyth as cellmate Dee; premiered at TIFF 2025, released UK February 2026, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wasting Light
Wasting Light, Foo Fighters' seventh studio album (April 12, 2011, Roswell/RCA), recorded entirely to analog tape in Dave Grohl's Encino garage with producer Butch Vig; first Billboard 200 No. 1 for the band, six Grammy nominations, guests Bob Mould and Krist Novoselic.
Wat Phra Kaew murals
The Wat Phra Kaew murals (วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม) are painted scenes, chiefly 178 Ramakien panels, in the cloister of the Emerald Buddha temple at Bangkok's Grand Palace, begun under King Rama I in 1783.
Watain
Watain: Swedish black metal band formed in Uppsala in 1998, named after a Von song. Seven studio albums, 2011 Swedish Grammis, gold-certified Reaping Death single, ritualized live shows with blood.
Wataru Katoh (加藤 渉)
Wataru Katoh (加藤 渉) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo known for playing Rentarou Aijou in The 100 Girlfriends and Reno Ichikawa in Kaiju No. 8.
Watch Dogs (film)
Watch Dogs is an upcoming live-action film adaptation of Ubisoft's hacking game series, produced by New Regency with Ubisoft Film & Television. Announced in 2013, directed by Mathieu Turi, starring Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde, it wrapped filming in September 2024 with no release date announced.
Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)
"Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" is Silentó's 2015 debut single and dance-instruction hit; it peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, went RIAA gold, and drove 2015's viral whip and nae nae dance craze.
Watch My Chops!
Watch My Chops! (Corneil et Bernie) is a French 2003 Millimages/France 3 animated comedy about a talking dog hiding his genius, aired on CBBC, France 3, and Nickelodeon; 52 episodes plus a 2014 Flash season, Pulcinella Award 2004.
Watch Out I'm the Lady Boss
Watch Out, I'm The Lady Boss (我才是女老板) is a 2025 DramaBox microdrama, 64 short episodes, about Eleanor, a secret CEO betrayed by the man she built up. Stars Candace Mizga and Brando White; IMDb 6.7/10.
Watch the Party Die
Watch the Party Die is the fan-given name of an untitled Kendrick Lamar song released on Instagram on September 11, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET as the VMAs began; his first release since "Not Like Us," critiquing the music industry.
Watch the Throne
Watch the Throne is a 2011 collaborative album by Jay-Z and Kanye West as the Throne, released August 8, 2011 on Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation, recorded in hotels worldwide to avoid leaks, with Metacritic score 76.
Watcher (comics)
Uatu the Watcher (ウアトゥ, ウォッチャー), Marvel Comics cosmic entity created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #13 (1963); Moon-based observer bound by non-interference, What If? narrator, killed in Original Sin (2014).