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Buddy Valastro

Buddy Valastro (Bartolo Valastro Jr.), the Cake Boss, American baker and reality TV star who took over Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken at 17, hosted TLC's Cake Boss (2009-2020), and expanded it to about 20 locations.

Budgie (band)

Budgie: Welsh hard rock/heavy metal band from Cardiff, formed 1967 by Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, and Ray Phillips (earlier Six Ton Budgie). Debut 1971 produced by Rodger Bain; influenced Metallica, Iron Maiden, Soundgarden; "Breadfan" covered by Metallica; active 1967-2010.

Budgie (TV series)

Budgie (ITV, 1971-72) is a London Weekend Television comedy drama starring Adam Faith as Soho petty crook Ronald "Budgie" Bird, written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, produced by Verity Lambert, with Iain Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell and a 1979 spin-off.

Budi Doremi

Budi Doremi, born Budi Syahbudin Syukur in Banten in 1984, is an Indonesian pop singer-songwriter whose hits "Doremi" and "Melukis Senja" have earned over 1.3 billion Spotify streams.

Buduguna Alankaraya

Buduguna Alankaraya (බුදුගුණාලංකාරය) is a Sinhala classical poem on the Nine Great Qualities of the Buddha, composed in the ornate alankara tradition of the Kotte period.

Budweiser

Budweiser is an American pale lager launched in 1876 in St. Louis by Adolphus Busch and Carl Conrad, brewed with rice, first bottled and pasteurized at scale, US number-one beer from 1957, and distinct from Czech Budweiser Budvar.

Budweiser Budvar Brewery

Budweiser Budvar Brewery (Budějovický Budvar, n. p.) is the state-owned Czech brewery in České Budějovice founded 1895, brewing Budweiser Budvar lager from Saaz hops, Moravian barley, and 300 m artesian water; it disputes the Budweiser name with Anheuser-Busch and sells as Czechvar in North America.

Budweiser Clydesdales

Budweiser Clydesdales: Anheuser-Busch's Clydesdale horse teams, introduced April 1933 to celebrate Prohibition's repeal; geldings at least 18 hands with bay coats, white stockings, and blazes, famous for Super Bowl ads and the Dalmatian mascot.

Buen Camino

Buen Camino is a 2025 Italian comedy directed by Gennaro Nunziante, starring and written by Checco Zalone as a wealthy father walking the Camino de Santiago to find his missing daughter.

Buena Vista (brand)

Buena Vista is The Walt Disney Company's film distribution brand, founded in 1953 as Buena Vista Distribution after a dispute with RKO; its international arm Buena Vista International was incorporated in 1961 and largely renamed in 2007, though it persists as a legal entity and returned in Latin America in 2026.

Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club: 1997 album and ensemble of veteran Cuban son musicians recorded in Havana by Ry Cooder, Nick Gold, and Juan de Marcos González; Grammy winner, over 8 million sales, Wim Wenders film, later a Tony-winning Broadway musical.

Buena Vista Social Club (1999 film)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999) is Wim Wenders' Oscar-nominated documentary following Ry Cooder and veteran Cuban musicians from Havana recording sessions to Carnegie Hall, a $23 million-grossing music documentary.

Buena Vista Social Club (album)

Buena Vista Social Club (1997), Cuban son album recorded in seven days at Havana's EGREM studios, produced by Ry Cooder for World Circuit; best-selling world music album with over 8 million copies and a 1998 Grammy.

Buena Vista Social Club (musical)

Buena Vista Social Club is a 2025 Broadway musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, book by Marco Ramirez, directed by Saheem Ali, based on the 1997 Grammy-winning Cuban album and Wim Wenders documentary; five 2025 Tony Awards.

Bueninvento

Bueninvento is the second studio album by Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas, released in August 2000 and produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, marking a turn toward a darker, more alternative sound.

Buffalo '66

Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American independent comedy-drama and the directorial debut of Vincent Gallo, who stars as an ex-convict who abducts a young tap dancer, played by Christina Ricci, to pose as his wife.

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), American scout, buffalo hunter, and showman whose Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, opened 1883 in Omaha, toured the US and Europe and defined the frontier myth.

Buffalo Bill (1944 film)

Buffalo Bill (1944) is a Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor Western biography directed by William A. Wellman, starring Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill Cody with Maureen O'Hara and Linda Darnell; a 1944 box-office hit remembered for its War Bonnet Gorge battle scene.

Buffalo Kids

Buffalo Kids is a 2024 Spanish 3D-animated family western directed by Pedro Solís García and Juan Jesús García Galocha, about Irish orphans Mary and Tom riding an 1886 orphan train west with Nick, a boy with cerebral palsy inspired by Solís's late son.

Buffalo mozzarella

Buffalo mozzarella (mozzarella di bufala), notably Mozzarella di Bufala Campana PDO, is an Italian fresh pasta filata cheese from water buffalo milk, PDO-registered in 1996, made within 60 hours of milking, creamier and richer than cow's-milk mozzarella.

Buffalo nickel

Buffalo nickel (Indian Head nickel), US five-cent coin designed by James Earle Fraser, struck 1913–1938 in 75% copper/25% nickel; Type 1 and Type 2 reverses, key dates 1913-S Type 2, 1918/7-D, 1937-D three-legged.

Buffalo Soldier (song)

Buffalo Soldier, a 1983 posthumous Bob Marley & the Wailers reggae single co-written with King Sporty, from Confrontation; UK number 4 hit about the Black US Army Buffalo Soldier regiments of 1866.

Buffalo Souljah (Tanzania-linked)

Buffalo Souljah, born Thabani Ndlovu, is a Zimbabwean reggae and dancehall artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the only Zimbabwean to win six Channel O Music Video Awards.

Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield, American-Canadian folk-rock band (1966-1968) with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay; three albums, the hit "For What It's Worth," Rock Hall 1997.

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Buffalo Trace Distillery, in Frankfort, Kentucky, is America's oldest continually operating bourbon distillery, formerly O.F.C. and George T. Stagg Distillery, owned by Sazerac since 1992, maker of Buffalo Trace, Blanton's, Weller, Eagle Rare, and Pappy Van Winkle.

Buffalo Wild Wings

Buffalo Wild Wings (B-Dubs, bw-3) is an American sports bar chain founded in 1982 near Ohio State as Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck; taken public in 2003, acquired by Inspire Brands for $2.9 billion in 2018, with 1,178 US sports bars and 219 BWW Go takeout stores as of late 2025.

Buffalo wing

Buffalo wing: deep-fried unbreaded chicken wing pieces tossed in hot sauce and melted butter, served with celery and blue cheese. Credited to Buffalo, New York's Anchor Bar in 1964 (Teressa Bellissimo), with rival claims by John Young's Wings 'n Things; celebrated with Chicken Wing Day since 1977.

Buffalo-style pizza

Buffalo-style pizza is Western New York's regional pie: thick, airy crust with toppings to the edges, sweet sauce, roughly triple the New York cheese load, cup-and-char pepperoni, square-cut and not folded.

Buffaloed

Buffaloed: 2019 American comedy-drama directed by Tanya Wexler, written by Brian Sacca, starring Zoey Deutch as Peg Dahl, a Buffalo hustler who becomes a debt collector; Tribeca premiere, Magnolia release February 2020.

Buffet

Buffet (自助餐): self-service dining format where guests select from displayed dishes, usually at a fixed price. Covers etymology, Scandinavian and Las Vegas origins, service types, food-safety temperature limits, food waste, and nutrition research.