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The Yards is a 2000 American crime film directed by James Gray, written by Gray and Matt Reeves, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, Faye Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn and James Caan.
The Yard is a Canadian mockumentary comedy series that originally aired on HBO Canada in 2011. Set in a schoolyard, the series depicts the interactions of two rival gangs of elementary school students, [1] with the plot of each episode serving as a parody of an adult-oriented crime drama series such as The Sopranos or The Wire.
The term, yard derives from the Old English gerd, gyrd etc., which was used for branches, staves and measuring rods. [5] It is first attested in the late 7th century laws of Ine of Wessex, [6] where the "yard of land" mentioned [6] is the yardland, an old English unit of tax assessment equal to 1 ⁄ 4 hide.
The Woman in the Yard is an upcoming American psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Sam Stefanak. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler , Okwui Okpokwasili , Russell Hornsby , Peyton Jackson and Estella Kahiha as a family that sees a strange woman, dressed in all black, staying in their yard.
The Yard (2016 TV series) or The Quad; Yard, 2023 album by Slow Pulp; The Yard (podcast), a podcast hosted by popular streamer Ludwig Ahgren; Yards Brewing Company, a brewery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; Megalithic yard, a theoretical unit of prehistoric measurement; Yard glass, a beer glass about a yard deep; 1,000,000,000 or yard
The Yard is located in the northern half of Howard University's campus in Washington, D.C., bounded roughly on the west by 6th Street NW, the east by 5th Street NW, and the south by Howard Place. The southern edge of The Yard directly abuts Howard Place, while it is separated from the other roads by intervening buildings.
His work was dramatised in the BBC drama series, 1954–56, Fabian of the Yard, [1] based on his book of the same name (in reference to New Scotland Yard). Each episode ended with an epilogue in which Fabian described the real-life case on which the preceding story had been based. [ 1 ]
The Yard (also called 'Young Yardville' or 'Yardville') was the first adventure playground established in the United States. It was opened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1949, to give children "their own spot of earth and plenty of tools and materials for digging, building and creating as they see fit."