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Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction, administered by the Commonwealth Foundation and open free of charge to Commonwealth citizens since 2012.
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was an annual literary award for prose fiction by citizens of Commonwealth countries, administered by the Commonwealth Foundation from 1987 to 2011.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith is JD Vance's 2026 HarperCollins memoir, sequel to Hillbilly Elegy, recounting his 2019 Catholic conversion after an evangelical childhood and atheist years, and arguing for Christianity in public life; reviews were largely negative.
Communiqué (Dire Straits album)
Communiqué, Dire Straits' second studio album (June 1979), produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, recorded at Compass Point, Nassau; nine Mark Knopfler songs, UK #5, #1 in several European countries, last quartet album.
Community (TV series)
Community is an American sitcom that aired for 110 episodes across six seasons from 2009 to 2014, following a misfit study group at Greendale Community College.
Community band
Community band: an amateur wind band (also concert band, town band, windband) of volunteer woodwind, brass, and percussion players. Roots in 19th-century civic and military band traditions; Sousa shaped the format; New Horizons serves 10,000 adult musicians.
Community theatre
Community theatre: locally based, volunteer-run noncommercial theatre serving a defined community. Arose from the US Little Theatre Movement (1912–1925); term coined by Louise Burleigh in 1917; in the UK, distinct applied-theatre meaning.
Cómo Te Atreves
"Cómo Te Atreves" (Como Te Atreves) is a song by the Colombian pop band Morat, released in 2015 and their breakout hit in Spain, reaching number one on Los 40 Principales in 2016.
Compañía Argentina de Mimos
Compañía Argentina de Mimos: mime company founded in 1959 by Roberto Escobar and Igón Lerchundi (with Eduardo Hermida), toured the Americas and Europe, appeared at the 1962 Berlin Pantomime Festival with Marcel Marceau, and founded the MimoTeatro Escobar-Lerchundi in 1973; distinct from Ángel Elizondo's Compañía Argentina de Mimo.
Companion (Doctor Who)
Companion (Doctor Who): the Doctor's traveling partner in the BBC series Doctor Who, from Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright to Rose Tyler, Clara Oswald, and the Whittaker-era 'fam', serving as audience surrogate and moral counterweight.
Companion (film)
Companion (2025 film), Drew Hancock's debut sci-fi horror comedy starring Sophie Thatcher as android Iris and Jack Quaid as Josh; $10M budget, $20.8M US gross, 93% Tomatometer, Max streaming from April 18, 2025.
Companions of the Hall
The Companions of the Hall are the adventuring party at the heart of R. A. Salvatore's Legend of Drizzt novels, led by Bruenor Battlehammer and including Drizzt Do'Urden.
Company (2002 film)
Company (2002) is a Hindi crime film by Ram Gopal Varma, written by Jaideep Sahni, starring Ajay Devgn as Mallik and debutant Vivek Oberoi as Chandu, loosely based on the Dawood Ibrahim–Chhota Rajan rift and a spiritual sequel to Satya.
Company (2026 film)
Company (2026 film), Casey Affleck's third feature, a 92-minute English-language mystery drama with Nick Nolte and Ben Mendelsohn; nested stories premiered in competition at Venice 83, nominated for the Golden Lion, 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Company (musical)
Company is a 1970 Stephen Sondheim–George Furth concept musical about bachelor Bobby and his married friends in New York, directed by Harold Prince. Opened at the Alvin Theatre, ran 705 performances, won six Tonys; revived 1995, 2006, and as the gender-swapped Bobbie revival of 2018/2021.
Company Flow (group)
Company Flow is an American hip hop trio formed in 1992 in Queens, New York, whose debut album Funcrusher Plus made them underground rap leaders.
Company of the Ring
Company of the Ring, also the Fellowship of the Ring or Nine Walkers: nine companions formed at Elrond's council in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to take the One Ring to Mordor, led by Gandalf, then Aragorn, broken at Parth Galen.
Company painting
Company painting, also called Company style or Company School painting, is a style of Indian painting made for European patrons, especially East India Company employees, from about 1770 to the 1840s.
Comparative literature
Comparative literature (comp lit): cross-linguistic, cross-cultural study of literature across languages, periods, and media. Term coined in French (1816 or 1827-28), English via Matthew Arnold 1848; schools, methods, and debates distinguish it from world literature.
Comparative literature in Bengal
Comparative literature in Bengal is the study of literature across languages and cultures, anchored by the Jadavpur University department founded by Buddhadeva Bose in 1956, the oldest in India.
Compas
Compás is the repeating rhythmic cycle on which flamenco's metered styles are built, combining binary and ternary meters into 12-beat patterns with fixed accents that singer, guitarist, and dancer share.
Compass Group
Compass Group PLC is a British contract food service and support services company on the London Stock Exchange, founded in 1941 as Jack Bateman's Factory Canteens, renamed Compass in 1984, with $46.1 billion FY2025 revenue across five sectors.
Compère Général Soleil
Compère Général Soleil is a 1955 novel by the Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis, following poor laborer Hilarion Hilarius to the 1937 massacre of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic.
Competency porn
Competency porn (competence porn) is slang for non-sexual entertainment whose pleasure comes from watching highly skilled characters solve problems calmly. Coined by John Rogers in a 2009 blog post about Leverage; boosted by The Pitt's 2026 second season.
Competitive eating
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport of consuming the most food in a fixed time, governed by Major League Eating and best known through Nathan's July 4 hot dog contest, the Kobayashi-Chestnut rivalry, and Chestnut's 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Compilation album
Compilation album: a music release assembling tracks from multiple sources or artists, curated rather than a unified studio work; includes greatest hits, various-artists theme albums like Now That's What I Call Music!, DJ mixes, and box sets, with distinct copyright and streaming classification rules.
Complete Poems of Mu Dan
Complete Poems of Mu Dan (穆旦诗全集) is a 1996 Chinese collection of 156 poems written by the modernist poet Mu Dan between 1934 and 1976.
Compliance (film)
Compliance is Craig Zobel's 2012 American psychological thriller, premiered at Sundance, in which fast-food staff obey a hoax caller posing as a police officer and abuse employee Becky (Dreama Walker); based on 70 real US hoax-call cases, starring Ann Dowd.
Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)
Complicated is the 2002 debut single by Avril Lavigne, also called her breakthrough pop-punk hit from Let Go. Written with The Matrix, it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped charts in Australia and Canada, and earned two 2003 Grammy nominations.
Cómplices
Cómplices is a 2025 Mexican dark comedy and crime drama streaming series, with 13 episodes on Vix, about four talk-show hosts who become suspects in their producer's murder.