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Cioccolato di Modica
Cioccolato di Modica (Modica chocolate) is a Sicilian cold-processed chocolate of bitter cocoa paste and sugar, never conched, grainy and crumbly; first EU chocolate PGI, registered 2018.
Cioppino
Cioppino: Italian-American seafood stew from San Francisco, invented by Genoese immigrant fishermen in the late 1800s, with a tomato-and-wine broth, Dungeness crab, and shellfish; name from Ligurian ciuppin.
Circa Survive
Circa Survive is an American post-hardcore/progressive rock band formed in Philadelphia in 2004 by ex-Saosin singer Anthony Green and Colin Frangicetto. Seven albums including Juturna and Blue Sky Noise; hiatus 2022, reunion shows 2026.
Circe (novel)
Circe is Madeline Miller's 2018 second novel, a first-person feminist retelling of the Odyssey sorceress from Helios' halls to exile on Aiaia and marriage to Telemachus; a No. 1 New York Times bestseller named among TIME's best books of 2018.
Circle (2015 film)
Circle is a 2015 American psychological science-fiction thriller written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione, the directing debut for both, about fifty strangers forced to vote on who is killed.
Circle Chart Music Awards
Circle Chart Music Awards (써클차트 뮤직어워즈), formerly Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards and Gaon Chart Music Awards, is a KMCA data-based K-pop awards ceremony; 13 editions through January 2024, indefinitely postponed since March 2024.
Circle Jerks
Circle Jerks: hardcore punk band formed 1979 in Hermosa Beach, CA, by ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris and guitarist Greg Hetson; debut Group Sex (1980, Frontier, 14 songs in ~15 minutes) made them defining LA hardcore figures.
Circle K
Circle K is a global convenience store and fuel station chain founded in 1951 in El Paso, Texas, by Fred Hervey; owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard since 2003, it operates about 17,200 stores across 27 countries as Couche-Tard's worldwide banner.
Circle of Days
Circle of Days is Ken Follett's 2025 historical novel (Grand Central/Quercus, 704 pages) imagining the building of Stonehenge around 2500 BCE through flint miner Seft and priestess Joia; an instant New York Times bestseller with mixed critical reception.
Circle of Dead Children
Circle of Dead Children are an American brutal death metal and grindcore band formed on Halloween 1998 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by vocalist Joe Horvath and guitarist Jason Andrews, who released five albums between 1999 and 2010.
Circle of fifths
Circle of fifths (Quintenzirkel, cycle des quintes, kvintcirkeln): diagram of the twelve major or minor key tonics a perfect fifth apart, closing after twelve steps; maps key signatures, related keys, and transposition.
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted from Maeve Binchy's novel, starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell as Irish college students.
Circle of Life
"Circle of Life" is the 1994 opening song of Disney's The Lion King, music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, performed by Carmen Twillie with Lebo M.'s Zulu chant; Oscar-nominated and the opening number of the Broadway musical.
Circle-A
Circle-A (circled A, Ⓐ): the best-known anarchist symbol, a capital A inside a circle read as Proudhon's "Anarchy is Order." Designed in Paris in 1964 by Ibáñez and Darras, reinvented in Milan in 1966, popularized by 1970s anarcho-punk.
Circles (Mac Miller album)
Circles is Mac Miller's sixth and final studio album, released posthumously January 17, 2020 on Warner Records and completed by producer Jon Brion as a companion to 2018's Swimming; it peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and scored 83 on Metacritic.
Circles (Post Malone song)
Circles (Post Malone song), 2019 soft-rock-leaning single from Hollywood's Bleeding, produced with Louis Bell and Frank Dukes; three weeks at Hot 100 number one, 39 top-10 weeks, 2021 Grammy Record and Song of the Year nominations, Tyler Armes credit lawsuit.
Circling from Above
Circling from Above is Styx's 18th studio album, released July 18, 2025 on Alpha Dog 2T/UMe. 13 tracks, 41 minutes, written by Tommy Shaw, Will Evankovich, and Lawrence Gowan, produced by Evankovich, exploring technology versus nature.
Circuit party
Circuit party: large professionally produced all-night dance event attended primarily by gay men, linked into a year-round global series (the Circuit). Roots in late-1970s New York, Fire Island, and San Francisco; AIDS fundraisers; 1990s peak, drug-use and HIV criticism, international spread.
Circular breathing
Circular breathing is a wind-player technique for sustaining an unbroken tone, inhaling through the nose while the cheeks push stored air into the instrument, used in didgeridoo playing.
Circulating library
Circulating library: a commercial library lending books for a fee, established by British booksellers in the early 18th century (Allan Ramsay, Edinburgh, 1725). Dominated by Mudie's and W. H. Smith, it shaped the Victorian three-volume novel until 1894.
Circus
Circus: live entertainment combining acrobatics, aerial acts, clowning, and equestrian skills in a ring, created by Philip Astley in London in 1768; spread globally in the 19th century and now split between traditional and contemporary animal-free forms.
Circus (Britney Spears album)
Circus is Britney Spears' sixth studio album, released by Jive/Zomba on December 2, 2008. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 505,000 copies, led by "Womanizer", and scored 64 on Metacritic.
Circus clown
Circus clown: a comic ring performer dating to Astley's 1768 circus; Grimaldi created the whiteface, the Auguste arose at Circus Renz in Berlin, and classic types include whiteface, Auguste, and character or tramp clowns.
Ciri
Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon) is the princess of Cintra in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher saga, Geralt's adopted daughter, playable in The Witcher 3, and protagonist of The Witcher 4 (2028) and Netflix's series.
Cirie Fields
Cirie Fields (born 1970), American operating room nurse and four-time Survivor contestant (Panama, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, Game Changers), famed strategist never to win Survivor; won The Traitors US season 1 ($250,000) and played Big Brother 25 with son Jared.
Cirilo Villaverde
Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894) was a Cuban novelist, journalist, and independence activist, best known for the antislavery novel Cecilia Valdés, completed in New York in 1882.
Ciris
The Ciris is a Latin short mythological epic of 541 lines in the Appendix Vergiliana, telling of Scylla's betrayal of Megara and her transformation into a bird.
Cirkus (सर्कस) (film)
Cirkus (सर्कस) is a 2022 Hindi comedy directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Ranveer Singh in a double role; a remake of Gulzar's Angoor from The Comedy of Errors, it flopped with ₹35.65 crore India net and 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ciro Alegría
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967) was a Peruvian novelist of the indigenist school, best known for El mundo es ancho y ajeno (Broad and Alien Is the World, 1941).
Ciro's
Ciro's was a Hollywood celebrity nightclub at 8433 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, opened by Billy Wilkerson in January 1940 and run by Herman Hover 1942-1957. Not the 1934 Hollywood Boulevard Ciro's; later It's Boss and, since 1972, The Comedy Store.