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Cup of Joe (band)

Cup of Joe is a Filipino pop rock band formed in Baguio in November 2018, signed to Viva Records, known for "Multo" and the debut album Silakbo, with five sold-out Araneta Coliseum nights and OPM chart records.

Cupcake

Cupcake: a small individual cake baked in a muffin tin, named for the early 19th-century "cup cake" measured by the cup; first printed by Eliza Leslie in 1828; gourmet boom from Magnolia Bakery, 1996.

Cupcakke

CupcakKe (Elizabeth Eden Harris, born 1997) is a Chicago rapper known for explicit viral hits "Vagina" and "Deepthroat," independent TuneCore releases, albums Audacious through The BakKery, and the iTunes No. 1 single "Discounts."

Cupid's Chokehold

Cupid's Chokehold is a 2005 Gym Class Heroes song featuring Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, built on Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'; it peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in the UK.

Cups (song)

"Cups", also called "The Cup Song", is a folk-pop song Anna Kendrick performs in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect, reworking a 1931 Carter Family song.

Curaçao (liqueur)

Curaçao is an orange liqueur first made with dried laraha orange peel from the Caribbean island of Curaçao, used in drinks like the Margarita and Long Island Iced Tea.

Curb Records

Curb Records is an independent country music record label owned by Mike Curb and based in Nashville since 1992, known for Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, and Sawyer Brown.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 2000–2024) is Larry David's improvised comedy series in which he plays a fictionalized himself; 12 seasons, outlines instead of scripts, Metacritic 84, cringe-comedy landmark.

Curb Your Enthusiasm season 3

Curb Your Enthusiasm season 3: third season of Larry David's HBO improvised comedy, premiered September 15, 2002, 10 episodes, restaurant-investment arc, Metascore 93, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Curd

Curd is the solid casein gel formed when milk coagulates by acid, rennet, or acid plus heat, separating from whey; it is the basis of cheese, paneer, cottage cheese, and, in Indian usage, yogurt.

Curd Jürgens

Curd Jürgens (Curt Jurgens), German-Austrian stage and film actor (1915–1982); breakthrough 1955 with Des Teufels General and the Venice Coppa Volpi; Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Cure (キュア) (film)

Cure (キュア, Kyua) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 Japanese psychological thriller, starring Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara, about identical motiveless murders linked to a hypnotic amnesiac; his international breakthrough and a J-horror landmark.

Curfew (2024 TV series)

Curfew (2024 TV series) is a British crime thriller based on Jayne Cowie's 2022 novel After Dark. It follows DI Pamela Green investigating a murder under a nightly male curfew.

Curing (food preservation)

Curing (food preservation): adding salt, nitrate or nitrite, and sometimes sugar to meat or fish to preserve it, inhibit Clostridium botulinum, and give cured meat its pink color and flavor; distinct from pickling and smoking alone.

Curing salt

Curing salt (Prague Powder, Insta Cure, pink curing salt) is table salt blended with sodium nitrite, 6.25% in Cure #1, plus nitrate in Cure #2, used at 0.25% of meat weight to prevent botulism and fix cured color.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Curiosity Killed the Cat is a British pop group formed in London in 1984. They released the number one UK album Keep Your Distance in 1987.

Curious George

Curious George is a little monkey created by H.A. and Margret Rey, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941 after the Reys' 1940 bicycle escape from Paris; seven original books, 75 million copies sold, 25 languages, plus a 2006 film and PBS series.

Curious George (film)

Curious George is a 2006 animated comedy film directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, based on the children's books by Margret and H.A. Rey, starring the voices of Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore.

Curious George (franchise)

Curious George is an American children's franchise begun with the 1941 Houghton Mifflin picture book by Margret and H.A. Rey, who fled Paris in 1940 with the manuscript; it spans seven original books, a 2006 Universal film, and the PBS Kids series.

Curious George (TV series)

Curious George (2006) is a PBS KIDS animated preschool series by Universal, Imagine Entertainment, and WGBH, running 15 seasons and 389 episodes from September 4, 2006 to March 17, 2022, teaching science, engineering, and math.

Curious Ruminant

Curious Ruminant is Jethro Tull's 24th studio album, released March 7, 2025 on InsideOut Music; nine folk-progressive tracks, third album in four years, with the 16:42 epic Drink From The Same Well.

Curiouser and Curiouser!

"Curiouser and Curiouser!" is Ted Lasso Season 4, Episode 2 (Apple TV, August 12, 2026), written by Leann Bowen, directed by MJ Delaney, in which Ted returns to Richmond to coach the Lady Greyhounds.

Curly Howard

Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz, 1903–1952), American comedian, the bald, high-voiced third Stooge of the Three Stooges 1932–1946, famous for "nyuk nyuk nyuk" and the Curly Shuffle; career ended by a 1946 stroke.

Curly Sue

Curly Sue is a 1991 American comedy-drama written, directed, and produced by John Hughes, starring James Belushi and Alisan Porter as a drifter and orphan girl.

Curon

Curon is a 2020 Italian Netflix supernatural thriller series, also known as a Lake Resia doppelganger drama, created by Ezio Abbate and others; seven episodes in which teen twins investigate their mother's disappearance in the South Tyrol village flooded in 1950.

Curran Walters

Curran Walters (born 1998, Oak Park, California) is an American actor known for playing Jason Todd/Robin/Red Hood on Titans (2018–2023), with credits including 20th Century Women and Girl Meets World.

Currensy

Curren$y (Shante Anthony Franklin, born 1981), New Orleans rapper and Jet Life Recordings founder; former 504 Boyz/No Limit and Young Money artist known for prolific independent mixtapes and albums.

Current 93

Current 93 is an English experimental music project founded in London in 1982 by David Tibet (David Michael Bunting, born 1960), named after Aleister Crowley's 93 Current; it moved from industrial noise to apocalyptic folk, with Black Ships Ate the Sky (2006) its best-known album.

Current Theega (కరెంట్ తీగ)

Current Theega (కరెంట్ తీగ) is a 2014 Telugu action comedy romance directed by G. Nageswara Reddy, produced by Manchu Vishnu under 24 Frames Factory, remaking Tamil film Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam, starring Manchu Manoj, Rakul Preet Singh, Jagapathi Babu, and Sunny Leone.

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is a biannual peer-reviewed literary journal published by Routledge, founded in 1989 at the University of Natal.