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City Slang

City Slang Records is an independent record label in Berlin, founded by Christof Ellinghaus in 1990, home to Yo La Tengo, Calexico, and Arcade Fire.

City Slickers

City Slickers (1991) is an American comedy-western directed by Ron Underwood, starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, and Oscar-winning Jack Palance as Curly, about three New Yorkers on a New Mexico-to-Colorado cattle drive.

City Walls (song)

City Walls (song): 2025 opener of twenty one pilots' album Breach, closing the Dema/Clancy lore, plus a 2026 trip-hop single by Archive from Glass Minds; chart peaks and credits differ.

CityLights (सिटीलाइट्स) (2014 film)

CityLights (सिटीलाइट्स), 2014 Hindi drama by Hansal Mehta, official remake of Metro Manila; Rajkummar Rao, Patralekhaa, Manav Kaul; released 30 May 2014, 126 min, Vishesh Films/Fox Star.

CityNews Channel

CityNews Channel: defunct 24-hour HD all-news TV channel in Toronto, owned by Rogers Media, distinct from the CityNews radio brand. Launched October 3, 2011 on Rogers digital channel 1 using the 680News wheel format; moved to channel 15; shut down May 30, 2013.

Ciudad Jara

Ciudad Jara is a Spanish rock band formed in 2019 by Pablo Sánchez, former leader of La Raíz, based around Gandía, Spain; its debut album Donde nace el infarto reached number 2 in Spanish sales.

Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi (சீவக சிந்தாமணி)

Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi (சீவக சிந்தாமணி), also known as Jivaka Chintamani, is a 9th-century Jain epic poem in Tamil by the monk Tiruttakkatēvar, counted among the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature.

Civic Holiday

Civic Holiday: the first-Monday-of-August holiday across most Canadian provinces and territories, also called Simcoe Day, BC Day, Saskatchewan Day, Natal Day and Terry Fox Day. Not a federal statutory holiday; legal status and holiday pay vary by province.

Civil War (2024 film)

Civil War (2024) is Alex Garland's A24 dystopian thriller in which journalists travel to Washington, D.C. during a fictional second American civil war; it earned $127.3 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.

Civil War (band)

Civil War: Swedish power metal band from Falun formed in 2012 by four ex-Sabaton members, also known as the Sabaton offshoot. Four albums on Napalm Records, The Killer Angels through Invaders (2022), with war and history lyrics.

Civil War (comics)

Civil War (comics): 2006–2007 Marvel seven-issue limited series by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven in which the Superhuman Registration Act splits heroes between Iron Man and Captain America; adapted as the 2016 Captain America: Civil War film and followed by Civil War II (2016).

Civil War II

Civil War II is Marvel's 2016 comic event by Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez, a thematic sequel to Civil War, in which heroes split over Inhuman Ulysses's precognition, leading to Bruce Banner's death and Riri Williams replacing Tony Stark as Iron Man.

Civilisation Tour - Orelsan

The Civilisation Tour was Orelsan's 2022–2023 arena and festival tour supporting his album Civilisation, winning concert of the year at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique.

Civilization Phaze III

Civilization Phaze III, Frank Zappa's 1994 posthumous double album on Barking Pumpkin, is a 113-minute Synclavier-based opera continuing Lumpy Gravy, with Ensemble Modern performances and a 1995 Grammy for Best Recording Package.

Civilizations in Babylon 5

Civilizations in Babylon 5: the spacefaring powers of the Babylon 5 universe, chiefly the five dominant races on the station (humans, Minbari, Centauri, Narn, Vorlons), plus the Shadows, lesser powers, and their jumpgate-based expansion.

CIX (씨아이엑스) (band)

CIX (씨아이엑스), Complete in X, is a C9 Entertainment K-pop boy band that debuted July 2019 with Movie Star; five members, four after Bae Jinyoung's 2024 exit; team activities ended April 2026.

Cixuan

Cixuan (词选, "Selection of Ci Poems") is a 1797 two-volume ci poetry anthology compiled by Zhang Huiyan and his brother Zhang Qi, the founding document of the influential Changzhou school.

Cixue

Cixue (词学), the study of ci, is the scholarly discipline covering the Chinese ci lyric's prosody, criticism, textual scholarship, and literary history, formally distinguished from composing ci in the twentieth century.

Ciza, Jazzworx & Thukuthela

Ciza, Jazzworx & Thukuthela are a South African amapiano collaboration formed for the 2025 single "Isaka (6am)", which topped South Africa's songs chart for nine weeks.

Cizhou ware

Cizhou ware (磁州窯) is a non-imperial Chinese stoneware from kilns in Hebei, named for the Song prefecture of Cizhou and known for black-painted decoration on white slip.

Cizzy

Cizzy is the moniker of Rounok Chakraborty, a Bengali-language rapper and music producer from Kolkata, India, rapping since 2010 and known for viral tracks like Kolkatar Rasta.

CJ Bloomfield

CJ Bloomfield (Christopher Harvard Jr Bloomfield, born 1991, Auckland) is a Polynesian actor based in Bondi Beach, Australia, known for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Ice Road: Vengeance (2025), and Baraka in Mortal Kombat II (2026).

CJ Opiaza

Christine Juliane "CJ" Hinkle Opiaza, Filipina beauty queen and model, first Filipina Miss Grand International titleholder (2024 crown assumed June 2025 after Rachel Gupta's dethronement); former Miss Grand Philippines 2024 and Miss Universe Philippines 2023 first runner-up.

CJ Skuse

CJ Skuse (Claire Joanna Skuse, born 1980, Weston-super-Mare) is an English novelist, author of five YA novels including Pretty Bad Things and Monster, and the Sweetpea adult crime series adapted for Sky Atlantic TV in 2024.

CJ7 (长江七号)

CJ7, also known as 长江七号, is a 2008 Hong Kong–Chinese science-fiction comedy directed by and starring Stephen Chow, in which a boy befriends a small alien.

CKE Restaurants

CKE Restaurants Holdings owns and franchises Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito. Founded 1941 by Carl and Margaret Karcher with a $326 hot dog cart; taken private by Apollo in 2010, now owned by Roark Capital in Franklin, Tennessee.

CKY (band)

CKY, originally Camp Kill Yourself, is an American rock band formed in 1998 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, whose music appeared on MTV's Jackass and in skate videos by Bam Margera.

CL (이채린) (rapper)

CL (씨엘, Lee Chae-rin, born 1991) is a South Korean rapper and singer, leader of 2NE1 (2009–2016), solo debut "The Baddest Female" (2013), U.S. crossover with Scooter Braun, and 2021 debut album Alpha on Very Cherry.

Clackers

Clackers, also called lato-lato, click-clacks, knockers, or Ker-Bangers, are two hard balls on a cord swung to clack together. A US early-1970s craze, banned by the FDA in 1971, revived in Southeast Asia in the 2020s.

Claddagh ring

Claddagh ring (fáinne Cladach): Irish ring of two hands clasping a crowned heart, made in Galway since c. 1700, credited to goldsmith Richard Joyce, descended from fede rings, a symbol of love, loyalty and friendship and of Irish diaspora identity.