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West Coast (Lana Del Rey song)
"West Coast" (Lana Del Rey song): 2014 single, first from Ultraviolence, written with Rick Nowels, produced by Dan Auerbach; premiered at Coachella, debuted at number 17 on the Hot 100, certified Silver in the UK.
West Coast Avengers
The West Coast Avengers, or The Avengers West Coast, is a Marvel superhero team based in Los Angeles. It debuted in 1984 and featured original members like Hawkeye and Wonder Man.
West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional hip hop scene centered on Los Angeles, dating to the early 1980s and known for gangsta rap and G-funk.
West End Girl
West End Girl is Lily Allen's fifth studio album, released 24 October 2025 on BMG. A 14-track concept album about her marriage breakdown with David Harbour, written in 10 days, it peaked at number 2 in the UK and earned a Metacritic score of 83.
West End Girls
West End Girls: Pet Shop Boys synth-pop song by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe; Bobby Orlando 1984 version flopped, Stephen Hague 1985 re-recording hit number 1 in the UK and US, sold 1.5 million, won the 1987 BRIT for Best Single.
West End theatre
West End theatre: London's commercial theatre district around Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue, with Broadway the peak of English-language commercial theatre; around 40 major venues, SOLT-run Olivier Awards, substantial overseas ticket sales.
West Indies, Ltd.
West Indies, Ltd. is a 1934 poetry collection by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, his second book and first with political overtones, published in Havana and denouncing foreign exploitation of the Antilles.
West Meets East
West Meets East is a 1967 Angel Records album pairing sitarist Ravi Shankar and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, recorded at Abbey Road Studio Three in July 1966 after their Bath Festival debut. It won the 1968 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance and topped classical charts for six months.
West Mulholland
West Mulholland is an American actor from San Clemente, California, known for Ryan in Soderbergh's Presence (2024), Mitch Crenshaw in Dark Harvest (2023), Axel on Animal Kingdom, and Stanford class of 2027.
West of the Tracks
West of the Tracks (铁西区, Tiexi qu) is Wang Bing's nine-hour, three-part DV documentary (1999–2001 filming, released 2002–2003) on the collapse of Shenyang's Tiexi state-owned industrial district and its laid-off workers.
West Side Story
West Side Story: 1957 Broadway musical adapting Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan gang rivalry between the Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks; music by Bernstein, lyrics by Sondheim, book by Laurents, choreographed by Robbins; landmark 1961 Oscar-winning film and 2021 Spielberg remake.
West Side Story (1961 film)
West Side Story (1961 film), directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from the 1957 Broadway musical, adapts Romeo and Juliet to warring New York gangs; it won 10 Oscars including Best Picture and made Rita Moreno the first Latina Oscar winner.
West Side Story (2021 film)
West Side Story is a 2021 American musical film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapted from the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort.
West-Eastern Divan
West-Eastern Divan (West-östlicher Divan) is Goethe's collection of lyric poetry, written 1814 to 1819, that answers the Persian poet Hafez in German and is considered his great late work.
Westbam
Westbam, born Maximilian Lenz in 1965, is a German techno DJ who founded Low Spirit Recordings and played every Love Parade from 1989 to 2008.
WestCOL
WestCOL (Luis Fernando Villa Álvarez, born 2001) is a Colombian streamer from Medellín, Kick's most-followed streamer (2024), creator of Stream Fighters boxing events and the W Sound music project under his Imperio W brand.
Western (genre)
The western (Western genre) is a film and television genre built on the American frontier, covering its classic era, spaghetti and revisionist westerns, global variants, and neo-westerns such as Yellowstone-era streaming hits.
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), performing arts academy of Edith Cowan University in Perth; 300+ public performances yearly; alumni include Hugh Jackman and Tim Minchin; moved to ECU City campus in 2026.
Western canon
The Western canon is the body of influential literary, philosophical, and artistic works used as a standard in Western culture. Debates over its contents began in the 1980s.
Western concert flute
Western concert flute, also C flute, silver flute, or Boehm flute: the standard transverse, side-blown C woodwind of orchestras and bands. Cylindrical metal Boehm-system design by Theobald Boehm, 1847; about 67 cm; non-transposing, range C4 to C7 or F7.
Western Desert art
Western Desert art is a movement of contemporary Aboriginal painting that began in 1971 at Papunya in central Australia, when senior men painted traditional ceremonial designs in acrylic.
Western dress codes
Western dress codes are the graded formality system from white tie and black tie through informal business attire, semi-formal, business casual, and casual, defining garments for each level and governing invitations, workplaces, and diplomacy worldwide.
Western fiction
Western fiction is a genre of literature set on the American frontier, typically west of the Mississippi, between the Civil War and the early 20th century.
Western Indian painting
Western Indian painting is the pre-Mughal manuscript painting style of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Malwa from the 11th to 16th centuries, known for angular figures and protruding farther eyes.
Western Motel
Western Motel is a 1957 oil painting by Edward Hopper depicting a woman on the bed of a sunlit motel room, held by the Yale University Art Gallery.
Western music (North America)
Western music (North America) is the cowboy- and frontier-themed popular music tradition of the American West, distinct from but fused with country as "country and western"; its core forms include cowboy ballads, singing-cowboy songs, and western swing.
Western saloon
A western saloon, also called an Old West saloon, was a nineteenth-century frontier drinking establishment, central to boomtowns, mining camps, and cattle towns from the 1860s to the 1890s.
Western Stars
Western Stars, Bruce Springsteen's 19th studio album (Columbia, June 14, 2019), a character-driven, orchestral country-tinged folk-pop record co-produced with Ron Aniello; US No. 2, UK and Germany No. 1, with a 2019 Thom Zimny co-directed concert film.
Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century
The swastika (Sanskrit svastika, good fortune) was widely used in the early 20th century West as a good-luck symbol in design, scouting, and aviation before völkisch groups and Hitler's Nazi Party adopted it in 1920.
Western wear
Western wear: American dress style from ranch and vaquero work clothing, defined by yoked shirts, pearl snaps, cowboy boots, and hats; golden era 1930s-1970s, revived in 2026 fashion.