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California (Joni Mitchell song)
"California" is a 1971 Joni Mitchell song from the album Blue, written in Europe during her 1970 travels and longing for her Laurel Canyon home; released as a Reprise single with "A Case of You" and later echoed by Lana Del Rey's 2019 song of the same name.
California Avenue (TV series)
California Avenue: BBC One and iPlayer six-part 1975-set drama created, written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Erin Doherty and Tom Burke in a canal-side caravan park; closed Canneseries Season 9 out of competition.
California Dreamin'
California Dreamin' is a 1965 folk-rock single by The Mamas & the Papas, written by John and Michelle Phillips. Originally cut for Barry McGuire with Denny Doherty's lead overdubbed, it reached US No 4, became a counterculture anthem, and earned a Grammy Hall of Fame induction.
California Dreams
California Dreams (1992–1996) is an NBC Saturday morning teen sitcom created by Brett Dewey and Ronald B. Solomon and produced by Peter Engel, about high schoolers forming a rock band; 5 seasons, 78 episodes.
California Film Commission
California Film Commission (CFC): California state agency within GO-Biz, created 1984, headquartered at 7080 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles. It provides filming permits, location assistance, and administers the state Film and TV Tax Credit Program since 2009.
California Girls
California Girls is a 1965 Beach Boys song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, from Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 26 in the UK.
California Gurls
California Gurls: 2010 Katy Perry song featuring Snoop Dogg, lead single of Teenage Dream. Written with Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco and Bonnie McKee as a West Coast answer to Empire State of Mind; six weeks at Hot 100 number one.
California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a private arts university in Valencia, California, founded 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney via merger of Chouinard Art Institute and LA Conservatory of Music; opened 1970; six schools, WSCUC-accredited, tuition $62,954/year (2026-27).
California Jam
California Jam (Cal Jam) was a one-day rock festival on April 6, 1974 at Ontario Motor Speedway, California, with about 250,000 attendees, an eight-band bill headlined by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and an ABC TV and radio simulcast; a sequel followed in 1978.
California Love
California Love: 1995 hip hop single by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman, first 2Pac release on Death Row Records; sampled Joe Cocker's Woman to Woman, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks.
California roll
California roll (カリフォルニアロール): an American inside-out uramaki sushi with crab or surimi, avocado, and cucumber, invented in 1960s–70s Los Angeles (contested credit: Mashita, Seusa, Tojo) and the most-eaten US sushi.
California Scenario
California Scenario is a 2026 American indie drama directed by James Takata, co-written with Dara Resnik, set in Isamu Noguchi's Costa Mesa sculpture garden; it premiered at SBIFF 2026 and follows two single parents confronting internment and Holocaust family trauma.
California Schemin'
California Schemin' is James McAvoy's 2025 directorial debut, a comedy-drama about Dundee rap duo Silibil N' Brains, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who posed as Californian rappers to win a Sony record deal, MTV fame, and a D12 support slot.
California Suite
California Suite is Neil Simon's 1976 four-playlet comedy set in rooms 203-204 of the Beverly Hills Hotel, following Plaza Suite; it ran 445 performances on Broadway and became Herbert Ross's 1978 all-star film, which won Maggie Smith a supporting-actress Oscar.
California wine
California wine is wine made from grapes grown in California, which produces about 80 percent of United States wine, led by regions such as Napa Valley and Sonoma County.
Californication (album)
Californication, released June 8, 1999, is the seventh studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, produced by Rick Rubin at Cello Studios. It marked John Frusciante's return, sold over 15 million copies, won a Best Rock Song Grammy for "Scar Tissue," and is infamous for its loudness-war mastering.
Californication (song)
Californication is a 1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers single and title track from their album Californication, written by Kiedis, Flea, Smith, and Frusciante; Modern Rock No. 1, UK No. 16, Billboard Hot 100 No. 69, 6x Platinum.
Californication (TV series)
Californication, Showtime comedy-drama created by Tom Kapinos, 2007-2014, 7 seasons, 84 episodes. David Duchovny plays novelist Hank Moody opposite Natascha McElhone's Karen; distinct from the Red Hot Chili Peppers song.
Caligula (film)
Caligula (Caligola, 1979) is a Tinto Brass film written by Gore Vidal and produced by Penthouse's Bob Guccione, starring Malcolm McDowell; Guccione added unsimulated sex scenes in post-production, both writer and director disowned it, and a 2023 Ultimate Cut removed them.
Caligula's Horse
Caligula's Horse: Brisbane, Australia progressive metal band formed by Sam Vallen and Jim Grey; six albums including In Contact (2017) and Charcoal Grace (2024) on InsideOut Music.
Caliphate (TV series)
Caliphate (Kalifat) is an eight-episode 2020 Swedish SVT thriller by Wilhelm Behrman and Goran Kapetanovic, distributed on Netflix, about an Säpo agent and an ISIS plot against Sweden; distinct from the NYT podcast.
Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart (born 1964, Freeport, Illinois) is an American actress, Golden Globe winner as TV lawyer Ally McBeal (1997-2002), later Kitty Walker in Brothers & Sisters, Cat Grant in Supergirl, and Lee Radziwill in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans; married to Harrison Ford.
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-born novelist writing in French who has published close to twenty works since 1987 and won the Académie française grand prix in 1996.
Çalıkuşu (TV series)
Çalıkuşu (The Wren) is a 1986 TRT 1 Turkish miniseries, Osman F. Seden's seven-episode adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's 1922 novel, starring Aydan Şener as teacher Feride, with Kenan Kalav and Sadri Alışık.
Call and response (music)
Call and response (music), or antiphony: a structure where a leader's phrase is answered by a group, instrument, or singer. Central to African and African-American work songs, spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz; Floyd's Call-Response theory frames it as Black music's master trope.
Call Her Daddy
Call Her Daddy: Alex Cooper's comedy and advice podcast launched in 2018 with Sofia Franklyn at Barstool Sports; after Franklyn's 2020 exit it moved to Spotify ($60M, 2021) and SiriusXM ($125M reported, 2024), ranking second on Spotify worldwide behind Joe Rogan.
Call It Love (사랑이라 말해요)
Call It Love (사랑이라 말해요) is a 2023 South Korean Disney+ romantic melodrama, 16 episodes, starring Lee Sung-kyung as Sim Woo-joo and Kim Young-kwang as Han Dong-jin, in which a revenge plot against her father's mistress's son becomes love; directed by Lee Kwang-young, written by Kim Ga-eun.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is Henry Roth's 1934 debut novel, following young Jewish immigrant David Schearl in the slums of New York's Lower East Side; rediscovered in the 1960s, it became a bestseller.
Call Me (Blondie song)
Call Me (Blondie song), 1980 new wave single by Blondie, theme to American Gigolo; written by Giorgio Moroder and Debbie Harry, produced by Moroder; six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard's top single of 1980.
Call Me (music)
"Call Me" is a 1987 Italo disco song by the Italian singer Spagna, one of the era's biggest European crossover hits, reaching number 2 in the UK and Italy.