🔥 Trend Watch 🔥

Culture-spanning moments from the week ahead to have on your radar.

🎾 Wimbledon Begins — Tennis royalty returns to SW19 with Alcaraz, Djokovic, and Gauff headlining the sport’s most iconic Grand Slam.

🌍 Lorde Releases Virgin — The alt-pop icon drops a raw, genre-blurring album that kicks off a bold new era.

🏁 Brad Pitt’s F1 Hits Theaters — Real-world racing meets blockbuster drama in this high-octane motorsport epic.

🎭 Squid Game Season 3 Drops — Netflix’s global hit returns with new games, higher stakes, and a final showdown years in the making.

🎸 Glastonbury Weekend — The UK’s biggest festival lights up Worthy Farm with headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA.

🌍 Global Moments

Worldwide cultural flashpoints.

🗓️ ENDING SOON: Pride Month.

🌠 July 3–August 15 | Alpha Capricornid Meteor Shower (Global)

Visible from both hemispheres, especially mid-latitudes, the Alpha Capricornids bring slow, bold fireballs to the night sky. It will peak around July 30–31.

🎯 National Spotlights

Holidays, headlines, and more.

🎾 June 30 – July 13 | Wimbledon (UK)

The grass-court Grand Slam returns in SW19 with heavyweights like Alcaraz, Djokovic, Gauff, and Draper, offering a full schedule of classic tennis drama, strawberries-and-cream charm, and buzzy social media energy.

🇩🇪 June 30 – July 3 | Berlin Fashion Week (Germany)

Berlin Fashion Week returns with Spring/Summer 2026 collections and a pilot program for Copenhagen-style sustainability standards, set for full rollout in 2026.

🇨🇦 July 1 | Canada Day (Canada) – National Statutory Holiday

Canada Day marks the country’s 1867 Confederation with fireworks, concerts, and community events celebrating national pride.

🇨🇦 July 1 | Memorial Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) – Provincial Statutory Holiday

Observed in Newfoundland and Labrador with remembrance ceremonies for the 1st Newfoundland Regiment before Canada Day festivities begin.

🎌 July 3–6 | Anime Expo 2025 (Los Angeles, USA)

The largest anime convention in North America returns with 100,000+ attendees, major industry players like Crunchyroll and Bandai Namco, and exclusive premieres, panels, and cosplay showcases.

⚽ Live Sport

Big sports moments happening in real time.

🗓️ ONGOING: The England men vs India men Test series is ongoing until August 4.

🏎️ June 27–29 | Formula 1 Rolex Grosser Preis von Österreich (Austria)

Round 11 of the 2025 F1 season heads to the Red Bull Ring with McLaren leading the constructors’ race and Oscar Piastri narrowly ahead in the drivers’ standings. It follows George Russell’s win in Canada and a collision between McLaren teammates.

🥊 June 27–28 | UFC X (Las Vegas, USA)

Two back-to-back days of UFC X kick off International Fight Week at T-Mobile Arena and LVCC, featuring Ilia Topuria vs. Charles Oliveira for the vacant lightweight title plus breakout fights that fuel massive social buzz.

🚣 July 1–6 | Henley Royal Regatta (UK)

The world’s most prestigious rowing regatta combines Olympic-level competition in knockout head-to-head races along a 1 mile 550 yard course with timeless British tradition, riverbank parties, and a strong sustainability push.

⚽ July 2–27 | UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 (Switzerland)

Europe’s top 16 women’s soccer teams—including defending champs England—go head-to-head across eight Swiss venues, with group stages, high-stakes knockouts, and record-breaking fan support and media coverage.

⛳ July 3–6 | John Deere Classic (Illinois, USA)

A key PGA Tour stop at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, where rising stars and seasoned pros, like Max Homa and Jason Day, compete for FedEx Cup points, community buzz, and summer momentum.

🎮 Gaming Updates

Major launches, events, and viral moments.

🐣 June 27 | Tamagotchi Plaza (Nintendo Switch, Switch 2)

Bandai Namco’s new Tamagotchi game launches with exclusive shops and Switch 2‑optimized controls, blending nostalgia with modern gameplay.

🎧 Music Moments

Tours, releases and awards by kickoff date.

🗓️ ONGOING: Glastonbury kicked off on Wednesday.

🌍 June 27 | Lorde, Virgin 

Lorde’s fourth studio album arrives with bold production shifts (new collaborators like Jim‑E Stack and Blood Orange), self-described as a messy, breakup‑infused, gender‑expanding project—with singles like “Hammer” heralding a raw, innovative era.

🎙️ June 27 | Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 

Bruce Springsteen unleashes seven fully completed, previously unreleased albums recorded between 1983–2018 offering a rare, creative counter-narrative to his mainstream discography.

🔥 July 1–August 10 | Kesha, The Tits Out Tour 

Kesha’s tour hits just before her new album Period drops July 4 via Kesha Records.

🎵 July 3–5 | Summerfest 2025 (Milwaukee, USA) – Final Weekend

Summerfest wraps its final weekend with The Killers, Hippo Campus, and the first Fountains of Wayne performance in 12 years.

📚 Book Buzz

Book releases and literary moments to watch.

📘 July 1 | Maris Kreizman – I Want to Burn This Place Down (USA)

Maris Kreizman, author and cultural critic behind Slaughterhouse 90210 and a Lit Hub columnist with bylines in The New York Times and Vanity Fair, releases this sharp essay collection described by Publishers Weekly as “fierce and witty”.

👀 What To Watch

A curated sample of the biggest movies, TV and streaming releases.

🏁 June 27 | F1 – USA, Theaters

Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt, F1 premieres June 27 during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, offering real-life drivers and cinematic flair tapping into motorsport’s global fanbase.

🎭 June 27 | Squid Game (Season 3) – Netflix, Global

Netflix’s global juggernaut returns with brutal new games and a final face-off between Gi-hun and the Front Man, fueling fan theories and media buzz worldwide.

🍗 June 27 | Idris Elba – Chicken Shop Date, YouTube

Idris Elba joins Amelia Dimoldenberg for a cheeky chat ahead of his July 2 action-comedy Heads of State, where he stars alongside John Cena.

🤖 June 27 | M3GAN 2.0 – USA, Theaters

The sequel to the $182 M viral horror hit M3GAN arrives June 27 with a bigger action bent—trailer buzz suggest it'll own summer scares and social trends again.

🚬 June 27 | Smoke (Season 1) – USA, Apple TV+

This high-tension thriller from Apple TV+ follows Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as they hunt shadowy arsonists, blending intense crime drama with moral ambiguity and cinematic flair.

🦖 July 2 | Jurassic World Rebirth – USA, Theaters

Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali lead a fresh-gen dino mission filmed in primeval swamps and epic sets, channeling Spielberg’s original awe while pushing franchise scope.

🎯 July 2 | Heads of State – Prime Video, USA

John Cena and Idris Elba headline this high-octane action comedy full of global conflict, spycraft, and absurd diplomacy.

🛡️ July 2 | The Old Guard  2 – Netflix, Global

Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman clash in The Old Guard 2, released July 2 after major post-production delays, amplifying Netflix’s action slate with returning and new immortal characters.

🌙 July 3 | The Sandman (Season 2) – Netflix, Global

Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy saga continues with lush mythic arcs and dense world-building, reigniting fan art, lore debates, and critical acclaim.

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