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Buttechno

Buttechno is the alias of Pavel Milyakov, a Russian experimental techno producer from Moscow, based in Berlin since 2022 and known for labels like RASSVET.

Butter

Butter is a solid dairy fat with over 80% lipid, made by churning cream; also called beurre. Distinguished from ghee (99.6% milk fat) and margarine (vegetable oils); main fatty acids palmitic, myristic, oleic.

Butter (2011 film)

Butter (2011 film), also released as Butter (2012) in the US, is a Jim Field Smith comedy written by Jason Micallef, starring Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, and Yara Shahidi in an Iowa butter-carving contest satire of the 2008 election; 91 min, R, $70.9K US gross.

Butter (song)

Butter is a 2021 dance pop single by South Korean group BTS, their second English-language release after Dynamite; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent 10 non-consecutive weeks there, set YouTube and Spotify day-one records, and earned a Grammy nomination.

Butter (バター) (novel)

Butter (バター) is a 2017 novel by Asako Yuzuki, inspired by the Konkatsu Killer case, following journalist Rika Machida's interviews with killer-cook Manako Kajii; its 2024 Polly Barton translation won Waterstones Book of the Year 2024 and the British Book Awards Debut Fiction 2025.

Butter chicken

Butter chicken (murgh makhani, मक्खन मुर्ग़ा) is a Delhi restaurant dish of tandoor-roasted chicken in a tomato-butter-cream gravy, linked to Moti Mahal and contested between the Gujral and Jaggi families in a 2024 lawsuit.

Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!

Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! is the eighth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released May 9, 2025 through BMG and completing the 2021 EP Butter Miracle: Suite One.

Butter tart

Butter tart, a classic Canadian pastry with a filling of butter, eggs, and sugar, often with raisins or nuts; first printed recipe 1900 in Barrie, Ontario; related to tarte au sucre and pecan pie.

Butter tea

Butter tea (po cha, bod ja) is the churned Tibetan and Himalayan drink of strong brick tea, yak or cattle butter, and salt, a daily high-altitude staple with regional forms such as Bhutanese suja and Ladakhi gur-gur chai.

Buttercream

Buttercream, also called buttercream frosting, is a butter-and-sugar cake frosting in styles such as American, Swiss meringue, Italian meringue, French, German, and ermine, differing in egg base, sweetness, and heat stability.

BUtterfield 8

BUtterfield 8 (1960) is an MGM drama directed by Daniel Mann, adapted from John O'Hara's 1935 novel about call girl Gloria Wandrous; Elizabeth Taylor won her first Best Actress Oscar for it, and the film cost $2.5 million and grossed $9 million domestically.

Butterfinger

Butterfinger is an American candy bar with a crisp peanut-butter brittle core and chocolate-flavored coating, created in 1923 by Otto Scherning of Curtiss Candy, owned by Nestlé from 1989 and by Ferrero since its 2018 $2.8 billion acquisition.

Butterflies (TV series)

Butterflies (1978–1983) is a BBC2 sitcom by Carla Lane starring Wendy Craig as restless housewife Ria Parkinson, with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Bruce Montague; 28 episodes, four series, Dolly Parton theme.

Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free: 1972 Columbia comedy-drama film by Milton Katselas from Leonard Gershe's Broadway play; blind Don Baker (Edward Albert) and Goldie Hawn; Eileen Heckart won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

Butterfly (1982 film)

Butterfly (1982 film), also known by its source novel The Butterfly by James M. Cain: a Matt Cimber drama starring Pia Zadora, Stacy Keach, and Orson Welles about an incest trial in 1937 Nevada, infamous for Zadora's contested 1982 Golden Globe win and 1983 Razzie Awards.

Butterfly (2025 TV series)

Butterfly is a 2025 Prime Video spy thriller adapted from the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Arash Amel, starring Daniel Dae Kim as David Jung, a former operative in South Korea hunted by his assassin daughter Rebecca (Reina Hardesty); six episodes, canceled October 2025.

Butterfly (Crazy Town song)

"Butterfly" is a 2000 single by American rap rock band Crazy Town, from The Gift of Game. Built on a Red Hot Chili Peppers "Pretty Little Ditty" sample, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 2001, the band's only Hot 100 hit and the only rap-rock or nu-metal song ever to reach number one.

Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)

Butterfly is Mariah Carey's sixth studio album, released September 16, 1997 by Columbia after her split from Tommy Mottola; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with about 236,000 first-week sales and shifted her sound to hip-hop-inflected R&B.

Butterfly Jam

Butterfly Jam is Kantemir Balagov's 2026 English-language debut drama, starring Barry Keoghan, Talha Akdogan, Riley Keough, and Harry Melling, set in Newark's Circassian community; it opened Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026 and was released in France October 7, 2026. Not the 2021 Shih-Yen Huang animated short.

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss is Michael Winterbottom's 1995 British debut feature, a lesbian road movie starring Amanda Plummer as murderous drifter Eunice and Saskia Reeves as Miriam, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce; distinct from the 2017 drama and 2018 found-footage film Butterfly Kisses.

Butterfly McQueen

Butterfly McQueen (Thelma McQueen, 1911-1995), American actress and dancer famous as Prissy in Gone with the Wind (1939); quit Hollywood in 1947 over servant typecasting, later won an Emmy and a college degree at 64.

Butterfly on a Wheel

Butterfly on a Wheel, released as Shattered in the US, is a 2007 psychological thriller directed by Mike Barker, starring Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, and Maria Bello.

Butterfly pea flower tea

Butterfly pea flower tea, also called blue tea, anchan, or bunga telang, is a caffeine-free tisane from Clitoria ternatea flowers; its ternatin anthocyanins brew blue and turn purple-pink with lemon, and the extract is an FDA-listed natural food colorant.

Butterfly's Tongue

Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) is a 1999 Spanish drama by José Luis Cuerda, adapted by Rafael Azcona from three Manuel Rivas stories, about a Galician boy and his republican teacher Don Gregorio, whose friendship is destroyed by the 1936 Civil War; it won the Goya for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Buttermilk

Buttermilk: a low-fat dairy liquid, either the byproduct of churning cream into butter or, as commonly sold, cultured buttermilk made by fermenting skim milk with Lactococcus lactis starter cultures.

Butters Stotch

Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a South Park character voiced by Matt Stone, based on co-producer Eric Stough, debuting in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" (1999); briefly the fourth boy in season 6, later Professor Chaos, known for naivety and harsh grounding by his parents.

Butters' Very Own Episode

Butters' Very Own Episode is South Park season 5, episode 14 (December 12, 2001), written by Trey Parker. The season finale introduces Butters as Kenny's replacement, with a sitcom theme song, his mother's murder attempt, and parodies of O.J. Simpson, Gary Condit, and the Ramseys.

Butterscotch

Butterscotch is a candy, sauce, and flavor made by cooking butter with brown sugar, distinct from white-sugar caramel and from toffee, which is butterscotch cooked to hard crack. Dating to 1802, famously from Doncaster.

Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers: American experimental rock band formed 1981 in San Antonio by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary; acid punk, notorious name and live shows, 1996 hit "Pepper," lost album After the Astronaut released 2026.

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt is a 2025 Tom Stern documentary about the Texas art-punk band Butthole Surfers, premiered at SXSW 2025, released theatrically August 2026 via Alamo Exclusives and Sumerian Pictures, with interviews of Linklater, Grohl, Flea, and others.