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Dispatch (band)
Dispatch: American indie folk-rock trio (Chad Stokes, Brad Corrigan, Pete Francis) formed 1996 at Middlebury College as One Fell Swoop; unsigned band famous for 'The General,' the 110,000-fan 2004 Hatch Shell farewell, and 2011 reunion.
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Dispatches from Elsewhere is a 2020 AMC ten-episode limited series created by and starring Jason Segel, with Sally Field, Eve Lindley, André Benjamin, and Richard E. Grant, based on the Jejune Institute alternate reality game in San Francisco.
Display aspect ratio
Display aspect ratio (DAR) is the width-to-height ratio of a video frame at playback, related to storage and pixel aspect ratios by DAR = SAR × PAR; common values include 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, and 1.90:1.
Display typeface
A display typeface, also called a display font, is a typeface designed to be used at large sizes for titles, headlines, posters, and signage rather than body text.
Disraeli Gears
Disraeli Gears is Cream's second studio album, released November 1967 on Atco; recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, produced by Felix Pappalardi, engineered by Tom Dowd, featuring Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, and Tales of Brave Ulysses.
Dissection (band)
Dissection, Swedish black/death metal band founded 1989 by Jon Nödtveidt and Peter Palmdahl, known for The Somberlain and Storm of the Light's Bane; ended 2006 after Reinkaos and Nödtveidt's death.
Distaff
Distaff: a stick or board holding raw flax, hemp, or wool for spinning with a spindle or wheel; also called rock or Fingerkunkel. Symbol of women's work, source of "distaff side" and St Distaff's Day.
Distance (DISTANCE) (2001 film)
Distance (ディスタンス) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2001 Japanese drama about relatives of cult mass-murderers, In Competition at Cannes 2001, 132 minutes, starring ARATA, Iseya, Terajima, Natsukawa, and Asano.
Distance (Hikaru Utada album)
Distance is Hikaru Utada's second studio album, released March 28, 2001 on Toshiba EMI's Eastworld label (TOCT-24601); it set Japan's all-time first-week sales record of 3.00 million copies and ranks fourth in Oricon history.
Distance (musician)
Distance is the stage name of Greg Sanders, a British dubstep producer and DJ from London, active since 2003 and known as an originator of the original dubstep sound.
Distancing effect
Distancing effect (Verfremdungseffekt, alienation effect) is Bertolt Brecht's epic-theatre technique of anti-illusive devices, songs, placards, and detached acting, coined after Mei Lanfang's 1935 Moscow performance, that keeps spectators critical rather than empathetic.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British film in which director Terence Davies reconstructs working-class family life in wartime and postwar Liverpool through fragmented memories, winning the Fipresci Prize at Cannes.
Distemper
Distemper (Дистемпер) is a Russian ska-punk band founded in Moscow in 1989 and described as the first known ska band from Russia, with 16 studio albums.
Distinct Motive
Distinct Motive, the stage name of Phil Shore, is a Canadian dubstep producer and DJ from Ontario making dark, minimal, dub-influenced music at 140 BPM.
Distortion (music)
Distortion (music): deliberate waveform clipping that adds harmonics to audio, central to rock, metal, and punk. Covers overdrive, distortion, and fuzz, its accidental history from Rocket 88 to Dave Davies, and neural modeling.
Distracted (album)
Distracted is Thundercat's fifth studio album, released April 3, 2026 on Brainfeeder, his first in six years after It Is What It Is. Produced mainly by Greg Kurstin, it features A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala, WILLOW, Lil Yachty, Channel Tres, and a posthumous Mac Miller verse.
District 13
District 13 (Banlieue 13, District B13) is a 2004 French action film by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson, starring Cyril Raffaelli and parkour pioneer David Belle in a walled-off Paris ghetto defusing a neutron bomb.
District 8
District 8 is a Dublin electronic-music club and promoter founded in 2014, which ran the Tivoli Theatre until 2019 and now operates Index and the District X festival.
District 9
District 9, also known as District Nine, is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, about alien refugees confined to a Johannesburg slum.
District Routine
District Routine (Rayonnye budni) is a cycle of five linked essays by the Soviet writer Valentin Ovechkin, published in Novy Mir from 1952 to 1956.
Disturbed (band)
Disturbed is an American heavy metal band from Chicago formed in 1996, fronted by David Draiman, with five consecutive Billboard 200 number-one albums and over 17 million units sold.
Disturbed discography
The discography of Disturbed, an American heavy metal band from Chicago, consists of eight studio albums released between 2000 and 2022, led by the five-times Platinum debut The Sickness.
Disturbia (film)
Disturbia is a 2007 American teen suspense thriller directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf, about a seventeen-year-old under house arrest who spies on his suburban neighbors.
Disturbia (song)
Disturbia is a 2008 Rihanna single from Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded, written by Chris Brown's Graffiti Artizts team and produced by Brian Kennedy and Makeba Riddick; it topped the Billboard Hot 100, peaked at UK number 3, and is RIAA six-times Platinum.
Disturbing Behavior
Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 teen horror film directed by David Nutter, written by Scott Rosenberg, starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl as students uncovering mind control of the Blue Ribbons clique in Cradle Bay, Washington.
Dit
The dit, French for "said," is a medieval French genre of first-person narrative verse, not sung, written by poets such as Machaut, Froissart, and Christine de Pisan.
Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese, born Heather Renée Sweet in 1972, is an American burlesque dancer, model, and entrepreneur credited with re-popularizing burlesque, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque."
Dithyramb
A dithyramb (διθύραμβος) was a choral hymn to Dionysus in ancient Greece, first attested in the 7th century BC and performed by a singing, dancing chorus.
Ditmar Awards
The Ditmar Awards, formally the Australian SF Awards, are fan-voted awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, presented annually since 1969 and named for Melbourne fan Ditmar Jenssen.
Ditto (동감) (2000 film)
Ditto (동감, Donggam) is a 2000 South Korean romance-fantasy film directed by Kim Jung-kwon, starring Kim Ha-neul and Yoo Ji-tae, about students in 1979 and 2000 connected by ham radio; remade in Japan (2001) and Korea (2022).