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Controversy (Prince album)
Controversy (1981) is Prince's fourth studio album on Warner Bros., bridging Dirty Mind and 1999; recorded at his Kiowa Trail home studio and Sunset Sound, with the title track and Let's Work topping the Billboard Dance Charts.
Convenience food
Convenience food is food made quicker or easier to prepare through processing or packaging, spanning frozen TV dinners, canned goods, and instant meals; defined by reduced household labor, tied to Birdseye quick-freezing and Swanson's 1954 TV dinner.
Convenience store
Convenience store: small-format retail shop selling snacks, beverages, groceries, and often fuel, with extended hours; originated 1927 in Texas (7-Eleven), 151,975 US stores selling 80% of US fuel, and a distinct dense Japanese konbini variant.
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman (Konbini ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese writer Sayaka Murata about Furukura Keiko, who has worked part-time in one Tokyo convenience store for 18 years.
Converge (band)
Converge is an American metalcore/mathcore band formed in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990, led by Jacob Bannon and Kurt Ballou; landmark album Jane Doe (2001), with Love Is Not Enough and Hum of Hurt released in 2026.
Convergence (comics)
Convergence is a 2015 DC Comics crossover event built around a nine-part weekly series and forty tie-in miniseries that replaced DC's regular superhero line for two months.
Convergence (The Last of Us)
Convergence (The Last of Us) is the season 2 finale of HBO's The Last of Us, aired May 25, 2025; written by Druckmann, Gross, and Mazin, it ends on a cliffhanger shifting to Abby's perspective.
Conversation About Dante
Conversation About Dante (Разговор о Данте) is an essay by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam on Dante's Divine Comedy, written in 1933 in Koktebel, Crimea.
Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral) is a 1969 political novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, portraying Peruvian society under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría.
Conversation with a Stone
"Conversation with a Stone" (Polish: Rozmowa z kamieniem) is a 1962 dialogue poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska from her collection Salt, her most widely anthologized poem.
Conversations on Russian Culture
Conversations on Russian Culture (Беседы о русской культуре) is a book by Yuri Lotman on the daily life and traditions of the Russian nobility, 18th to early 19th century.
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is a 2019 four-part Netflix true crime docuseries by Joe Berlinger, built from over 100 hours of death-row interview tapes with Ted Bundy recorded by journalists Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends is the 2017 debut novel of Irish writer Sally Rooney, about Dublin student Frances, her ex-girlfriend Bobbi, and the married couple they befriend.
Conversations with Friends (TV series)
Conversations with Friends is a 2022 BBC Three/Hulu limited series adapting Sally Rooney's debut novel, with Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn, and Jemima Kirke as four Dubliners entangled in friendship and a secret affair.
Conversion of Kartli
The Conversion of Kartli (Georgian: Moktsevai Kartlisai) is an early medieval Georgian work combining a chronicle with the Life of Saint Nino, who converted King Mirian around 337.
Conveyor belt sushi
Conveyor belt sushi (kaiten-zushi, 回転寿司): Japanese restaurant format where plates travel on a belt past diners. Invented by Yoshiaki Shiraishi, first shop Mawaru Genroku Sushi, Osaka, 1958; belt speed 8 cm/s; major chains Sushiro, Kura, Hama, Kappa.
Convict narrative
A convict narrative is a first-person account of the life of a convict transported under the British penal transportation system, above all to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
Conviction (2010 film)
Conviction (2010 film), Tony Goldwyn drama with Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, dramatizes Betty Anne Waters's 18-year fight that freed her wrongfully convicted brother Kenny via DNA evidence.
Conviction (2016 TV series)
Conviction is a 2016–2017 ABC legal drama, one 13-episode season, created by Liz Friedlander and Liz Friedman. Hayley Atwell plays Hayes Morrison, a former First Daughter who leads a Conviction Integrity Unit re-examining wrongful convictions under DA Conner Wallace (Eddie Cahill).
Convoy (song)
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty country song by C.W. McCall, the character of ad executive Bill Fries with composer Chip Davis. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1976, fueled the CB radio craze, and inspired the 1978 film Convoy.
Convulse
Convulse is a Finnish death metal band from Nokia, formed in 1988, known for its 1991 debut album World Without God and an 18-year hiatus before a 2012 reunion.
Conway the Machine
Conway the Machine (Demond Price, born 1982), also known simply as Conway, is a Buffalo, New York rapper who co-founded Griselda Records with Westside Gunn, survived a near-fatal 2012 shooting that left him with Bell's palsy, signed with Shady Records in 2017, and later went independent on his Drumwork label with albums including God Don't Make Mistakes and Won't He Do It.
Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1933-1993), American singer who went from 1950s rockabilly star of "It's Only Make Believe" to country superstar with 40 No. 1 Billboard country singles, Loretta Lynn duets, and 1999 Country Music Hall of Fame induction.
Coo-Coo 043
Coo-Coo 043 (一家子兒咕咕叫) is a 2022 Taiwanese family drama by Chan Ching-lin about a racing pigeon's return after seven years; it won Best Narrative Feature and Best New Performer at the 59th Golden Horse Awards.
Coogie
Coogie (쿠기), born Kim Jeong-hoon in 1994, is a South Korean rapper known for his melodic flow, who debuted in 2018 and gained fame on Show Me the Money 777.
Cook Out (restaurant)
Cook Out is a privately held American fast-food chain founded by Morris Reaves in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1989, known for char-grilled burgers, barbecue, and over 40 milkshake flavors.
Cook Up a Storm (决战食神)
Cook Up a Storm (決戰食神) is a 2017 Hong Kong–Chinese culinary comedy-drama directed by Raymond Yip, starring Nicholas Tse, Jung Yong-hwa, and Ge You, released in China in February 2017.
Cook's Country
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen is a PBS cooking series, first aired September 6, 2008, reimagining American regional and family recipes with test-kitchen testing, equipment reviews, taste tests, and Toni Tipton-Martin food-history segments.
Cookbook
Cookbook (cookery book): a book of recipes and food-preparation information, a handbook-genre nonfiction form dating to Mesopotamian clay tablets ca. 1700 BCE, flourishing in late-medieval manuscripts and fifteenth-century printing.
Cookie
Cookie (Dutch koekje; UK biscuit): small sweet low-moisture, high-fat, high-sugar baked good; texture set by spread, gluten setting, and Maillard browning; $140bn global market.