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Grime Time: February Report ICE arrest, renegade landlord, crushed by garbage on a night out, what else do I have to say?

🗽🗽GRIME TIME NEWS🗽🗽

🦾Brooklyn vs. ICE

☄️Freak accidents and dognapping in Bushwick

💣Renegade Landlord Threatens: ‘NYC Will F-ing Crumble’

👓Glasshole teen-fluencer punched

🧊ICE vs. Everyone

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At Rash, They’re Showing Hole Of course the winner of the first-ever ‘Hole Contest’ was a twink getting priced out of Bushwick…

“This brought out people from LA, Detroit, Brazil and now we have multiple people asking us to come out globally to show hole.”

At Rash, They’re Showing Hole: Scenes from the Bushwick club’s Valentine’s Day ‘Hole Contest’:
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At Rash, They’re Showing Hole Of course the winner of the first-ever ‘Hole Contest’ was a twink getting priced out of Bushwick…

“I trained for this for two hours… poppers, big toys, and patience.”

At Rash, They’re Showing Hole: Scenes from the Bushwick club’s Valentine’s Day ‘Hole Contest’:
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Deep in ‘Purgatory’ (at Unit J) The ‘Telos Ensemble’ stages a reading of three one-act plays.

Hotel hook-ups, Queen lyrics and buying drugs on Reddit are the subjects of the trio of one act plays that make up PURGATORY, performed by the Telos Ensemble at Unit J in Bushwick:
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Finding Why Bonnie at the 101 Dispatches from the East Village

“Dressed in a bright candy red prom dress, Howerton & her group played graceful songs about being hurt and wasted away, anchored by crisp guitar solos and ambient yearning.”
Austin transplants Why Bonnie continue their residency at Nightclub 101 in the East Village: grime-square.com/2026/02/14/w...

Slime Time in North Brooklyn At the Bushwick Starr, La Daniella turns gentrification, puppetry, and pollution into a New York fable, set in Gowanus

“A misfit mermaid, talking animal friends and a sentient pile of sludge against cartoon junk food and an evil property developer.”

‘Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure’ at the Bushwick Starr is a children’s show for adults, packed with puppets and violence:
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The Transplant Draft “The Basement I went to in 2022 is not the Basement I know now.”

Grime Square’s
🏈TRANSPLANT DRAFT🪩

Fresh Draft Pick Dijai (IG: c2c1998) details his journey from seminary school to the international club scene and talks ghettotech music and Louisiana Tech football:

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Grime Time News: Slashings in the Snow On the other hand, the ‘We Rate Dogs’ guy spoke out against ICE…

🗽🗽GRIME TIME NEWS:🗽🗽
🔫 Teenage stick up crew menaces Bed-Stuy
🎾 Music Hall of Williamsburg sold to Trump tennis partner
🐀 Greg ‘The Littlest Fascist’ Bovino sent packing
🏝️Brooklyn Mirage sold to Dubai
🧊 ICE is in Bensonhurst- and they are watching you watch them
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The Big End of Big Head Reporting from the better end of the bands employed by local coffee shops

Shoegaze popsters Big Head bid farewell at the Windjammer- with a song of deep yearning for the Burger King on Knickerbocker:

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Cassandra Jenkins Goes To Church It’s always a ‘Hard Drive’ in Ridgewood

Folk artist, Mitski opener, and former associate of the Silver Jews’s David Berman, Cassandra Jenkins performs at the Stone Circle Theater in Ridgewood with choral group Belly Chorus.
Words and Photos by Andrew Karpan:
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How ‘Mussolini: Son of the Century’ showed a real life supervillain Wait, was the best show out last year an Italian TV biopic about Benito Mussolini?

Forget The Penguin- scored with a soundtrack of heaters by Chemical Brother Tom Rowland and filled with blackshirt goons who club people with dried fish, Mussolini: Son of the Century was the year’s best depiction of comic book super-villainy:
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Close, But No—I Didn’t: On ‘I Could be Dead by Christmas’ at the Vino Theater Family Ruin & Holiday Woes

Family Ruin & Holiday Woes: Aaron Tomey reviews Austin Sky Butler’s I Could Be Dead by Christmas at the Vino Theater:

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East Williamsburg’s Hottest, New Rave Spot … Just Is Refuge? “It’s definitely not going to be the next Basement”

Grime Square pays a visit to new club Refuge in Bushwick- words by Moses Jeanfrancois, photos by Dove Williams

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Oh, It’s A Low Key Fascist PR Putsch in Bushwick Pretty much, yeah

Grime Square covers the controversy over the new Bushwick mural of North Carolina murder victim Iryna Zarutska- sponsored by Elon Musk and Eoghan McCabe (aka Irish Elon Musk), a supporter of “public executions as a spiritual goal”:

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Giuliani’s Cop Riot and New York’s Other Socialist Mayor BJK looks back at the last time New York elected a democratic socialist mayor.

Grime Square takes a look back at a wacky character named Rudolph Giuliani and the riot he helped ignite a few years back. No, not that riot, the other one!

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Lydia Lunch Brings Murderous Again Poetry to TV Eye No wave band Genre Is Death breathes new fire into the scene

Lydia Lunch at TV Eye:
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The Pierogi Boys Are Reinventing Polish Comfort Food in Ridgewood Classic dishes get a glow-up at the new spot

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By: Andrew Karpan on Friday, December 5, 2025