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In 2022, Julia Yost, an editor at ''[[First Things]]'', a [[conservative]] religious journal, argued in an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' that the neighborhood and associated podcasters such as [[Dasha Nekrasova]] of ''Red Scare'' are the center of a [[post-ironic]] revival of [[traditionalist Catholicism]].<ref name="Yost">{{Cite news|last=Yost |first=Julia |title=New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Emily |date=July 26, 2024 |title=NYC's 'One Man Army' Film Series Makes Waves |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/short-films-new-york-city-one-man-army/ |website=[[amNewYork]]}}</ref>

== Art scene ==

=== Origins ===

In 2020, two blocks of Canal Street were closed off for an [[Open Streets]] permit, resulting in what Hannah Goldfield of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' described as a "circus", "every night a music festival in the piazza."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Goldfield |first1=Hannah |date=September 9, 2022 |title=Dimes Square, Post-Shark-Jump |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/dimes-square-post-shark-jump |access-date=September 26, 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> In 2023, the ''[[NME]]'' cited several musicians associated with Dimes Square as "reinvigorating NYC's music scene".<ref name=":1" /> Artists included [[The Dare (musician)|the Dare]], [[the Hellp]], [[the Life]], [[Been Stellar]], [[Blaketheman1000]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Buford |first=Jayson |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Is 'Dimes Square Rapper' Blaketheman1000 Actually Sort of Good? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dimes-square-rapper-blaketheman1000-profile-1234623584/ |access-date=March 22, 2026 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> Catcher, Club Eat, [[Frost Children]], [[Hello Mary]], [[Model/Actriz]], Sid Simons, Shallowhalo and [[Strange Ranger]].<ref name=":1" /> The American [[pop rock]] band [[Bleachers (band)|Bleachers]] reference Dimes Square in their 2024 song "[[Jesus Is Dead]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Shaad |last=D'Souza |date=September 29, 2023 |title=Jack Antonoff: 'I've never made anything hoping everyone would like...' |url=https://theface.com/music/jack-antonoff-interview-taylor-swift-bleachers-lana-del-rey-dirty-hit |magazine=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]}}</ref>