NEW YORK—Dirty Magazine is relaunching with a new tabloid format, which will be celebrated at a release party for its latest issue at 10 p.m. on Friday, March 22 at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
The event will feature performances by Valley Latini and hosted by MSCHF and Chris Smalls. Other guest appearances will be announced later.
The new 11" x 14" tabloid, established in the tradition of legendary New York publications like Screw and Rat magazines, will now be released every other month and “…packed to the brim with smut and style for and by New York's freaks, perverts and lovers,” the company said in a statement.
"Dirty's shift to a newsprint tabloid format was inspired by a couple of things. One was [Dirty's publisher] Ripley [Soprano] and my shared love for Screw magazine and other sex newspapers from pre-gentrification New York City that mixed eccentric porn with cultural criticism and maps of the best spots in the city to pick up hookers," said the magazine's creative director Miles Raymer. "Another is the radical underground press scene during the hippie days (which had a big presence downtown) that were often as visually and formally revolutionary as their politics.
“My first ‘real’ media job was at an alt-weekly newspaper descended from that movement, and my love for the look and feel of newsprint probably had a lot to do with the change as well,” Raymer added.
The new format officially launches on March 22, 2024, with a party at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right with performances by Valley Latini, hosted by MSCHF and Chris Smalls and many other guest appearances to be announced.
The magazine piloted the newsprint tabloid for its January Pin-up special zine issue to much glee from its community of porn stars, sex toymakers, and others, the company said. Having recently received acclaim from outlets like Interview and big collaborations with tech and art titan MSCHF, Dirty continues to keep audiences captivated.
"Moving to the newsprint tabloid format is going to help us accomplish a lot of goals we've been discussing for a while," Raymer said. "The bigger page area means bigger photos and a pull-out poster in each issue.
“Fewer pages per issue will let us get more issues out, and creating more internal structure (instead of basically reinventing the entire magazine with each issue) will help us turn them around easier. We'll also be able to print a lot more, charge a lot less, and hopefully get them in places like coffee shops where they're more accessible. Plus they look great. Our overall goal is to weave Dirty into the lives of New Yorkers and establish a louder voice in the city for all of the beautiful people who make this city great and are being actively pushed to the margins."
The new issue is 60 pages long and includes an interview between Sam's World director, poet, and sex worker Lily Lady and filmmaker Caveh Zahedi; a cover shoot with Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls where he discusses stripper strikes and the future of the labor movement. The magazine also features a porn editorial with musical artist Valley Latini and a discussion between theorist and astrologer Johanna Hedva and porn star Brynn Michaels who discusses kink and planetary placements.
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