For the first time, the World Cup final four teams includes only the top 4 teams in FIFA world rankings (1+2+3+4). The combined ranks of the last four teams couldn't be lower (10). In the past, the four last teams have always added up to over 25. HT @chartycharts

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— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM

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Pedestrianization is often framed as transforming streets. In many cases, we're actually restoring them. We're reclaiming what's been lost: social connection, local commerce, civic life, and human-scale movement. Perhaps it's time to shift from street transformation to street restoration.

— Jay Pitter (@jaypitter.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 7:30 AM

The European promenade, the bourgeois evening paseo stroll are lovely but @jeffspeck.bsky.social wld urge caution. If your downtown street has lost diverse social and economic dynamism, the problem may not be cars. There’s wisdom still in Jane Jacob’s four generators of diversity.

— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) July 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM

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The cover for this week’s issue is “The Beautiful Game,” by Lorenzo Mattotti. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/k_3m7n

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— The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) July 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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A new retrospective at Vancouver's Polygon Gallery attempts to capture the wide-ranging, time-spanning career of photographer Greg Girard www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/art-...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM

Once lined with fish docks, canneries and sawmills, Vancouver’s waterfront is now packed with glass towers and luxury developments. A new retrospective charts the city’s transformation through Greg Girard’s lens. https://macleans.ca/culture/greg-girard-vancouver-photography/

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— Maclean’s Magazine (@macleans.bsky.social) June 27, 2026 at 10:07 AM

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www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book... ✍️ Charles Foran @theglobeandmail.com

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) July 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM

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Watching the New York Knicks NBA Champions parade, June 18 2026. Photograph by Amir Hamja, New York Magazine.

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 11:08 AM

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Self Portrait https://www.wikiart.org/en/david-hockney/self-portrait-1954-3

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— David Hockney (@davidhockney.bsky.social) June 22, 2026 at 10:04 AM

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A happy #Bloomsday to all! Hear Joyce reading from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in two rare recordings from the 1920s: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/james-joyce-reading-his-work-1924-1929 #Bloomsday2023

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— The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev.bsky.social) June 16, 2026 at 4:47 AM

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Crashed by Adam Tooze. "A masterful account of the financial crisis." ✍️ @oliverbullough.bsky.social @theguardian.com ​ www.theguardian.com/books/2018/s...

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Michael Stripe, photographed by Frankie Aluindo for New York Magazine at the Frieze Art Fair.

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