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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19.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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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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31.01.2026 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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