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

Pretty much, yeah

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The voices of hundreds of teenagers chanting "Melt the ICE!" rang out from the snowy summit of Fort Greene Park Friday, as more than 500 Brooklyn Technical High School students went on strike from school in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence.

Brooklyn Tech Students Walk Out of School to 'Melt ICE'

"We were like, we have such a big school, we have so many resources here, we should do something about it."

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January 30, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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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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The Big End of Big Head

Reporting from the better end of the bands employed by local coffee shops

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January 31, 2026 at 12:33 AM

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A Bushwick community board voted to call out the NYPD's ongoing criminal summons policy for cyclists — but now the board's longtime chair wants to toss the resolution for procedural reasons, but also slammed its supporters as newcomers who don't represent "the community."

Bushwick Panel Opposes NYPD Cycling Crackdown — But Board Chair Slams Newbies - Streetsblog New York City

A community board chair is calling into question the very role of community boards by saying his board doesn't speak for the community. Yes, he said the thinking part out loud.

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January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM

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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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Cassandra Jenkins Goes To Church

It’s always a ‘Hard Drive’ in Ridgewood

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January 28, 2026 at 11:29 PM

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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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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?

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January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM

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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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Close, But No—I Didn’t: On ‘I Could be Dead by Christmas’ at the Vino Theater

Family Ruin & Holiday Woes

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January 21, 2026 at 9:43 PM

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

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East Williamsburg’s Hottest, New Rave Spot … Just Is

Refuge? “It’s definitely not going to be the next Basement”

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January 20, 2026 at 8:42 PM

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

Pretty much, yeah

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January 19, 2026 at 9:31 PM

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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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