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Axios
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do in Metro Detroit: Feb. 21-23
From adults-only fare like club dancing and the Dirty Show to Mahjong and TMNT, there's lots to do on this cold, cold weekend. 🦸 Browse comics and see the co-creator of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" at Great Lakes Comic Con. Tomorrow, 5-9pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 10am-4pm. $55 for three days, $20 Friday or Sunday and $25 Saturday. 🎨 Go check out [censored] and [censored] at the adults-only Dirty Show, known for its burlesque, art and more. Friday and Saturday at the Russell Industrial Center, 7pm-2am. General admission is $50. 🎛️ Dance the night away to '90s and 2000s jams at Orchid in Ferndale. Saturday, 9pm-2am. Free entry before 11pm, $10 general admission after that. 🀄 Play Mahjong at the historic Fisher Building, with refreshments and prizes. Sunday, 10am-5pm. $15. 🕺 Miss Eva's is hosting an R&B birthday bash, with old and new hits. Friday, 8pm-midnight. $30. 🎸 Alternative rock is the name of the game at Big Pink this weekend, with a DJ spinning tracks from the Strokes, LCD Soundsystem and more. Saturday, 10pm-2am. $20. 🎭 Take in " Confederates," which digs into America's racism and gender biases, at the Detroit Public Theatre. Saturday, 2pm and 8pm; Sunday, 2pm; and more shows through March 16. General admission, $49. 🎤 Come to One Mike Detroit for a pop-up night of poetry, music and comedy. Saturday, 7-11pm. $15.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Let your freak flag fly: The wildest things to see at the Detroit Dirty Show
At the Dirty Show, normal is weird and weird is normal. The long-standing Detroit celebration of all things sex opened Friday for curious participants, offering a wild array of activities and exhibitions. Located in the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, the Dirty Show celebrated its 25th year in the erotic arts business with all-night burlesque performances, spanking exhibitions, screenings of erotic films and an array of sex-related artworks featuring every body part imaginable. The event ran on Friday and Saturday and is open again next weekend, on Feb. 21 and 22. From hilarious films of Kermit in bondage to scintillating performances by world-renowned burlesque dancers, these are the wildest things to see from the first weekend of the 25th annual Dirty Show. The Dirty Show is a people-watcher's paradise. The show says so on its website, which reads, "The Dirty Show unequivocally ranks as one of the finest people-watching events around." They're not lying. Walking around in the vast warehouse space of the Russell Industrial Center — a former automotive plant turned into a lively exhibition space — were people who weren't afraid to let their freak flag fly. It was gimp-suit galore. A fur-suit frenzy. Curious folks in skimpy sequin getups took turns at spanking booths and body-paint stalls. If you're itching to see furries, drag queens, dominatrices and go-go dancers in one place, the Dirty Show has got you covered. A popular feature of the 25th Dirty Show was the Cinerotic Film Festival, held in a corner of the event space. Short erotic art films were screened in a dark room next to the bar. It was a rotating array of quirky, sexy films. In one screening, created by Michigan erotic artist and filmmaker Rachel Britton, Miss Piggy and Kermit are depicted in a situation that certainly never aired on television during the Muppets' heyday. The short film is backed by a techno soundtrack and is one of the many freaky motion pictures playing at the 2025 Dirty Show. Just outside of the Cinerotic film booth, members of Detroit Kink (formerly the Detroit House of Pain) were offering spankings to anyone brave enough to approach. And there were plenty of brave souls at the Dirty Show. The crack of paddles and whips was audible across the warehouse floor. People gathered around to see strangers (and sometimes loved ones) grimace or smile as they were paddled. It was a popular attraction, overlooked by exotic dancers twirling on poles some 30 feet away. The most prominent attraction of the Dirty Show this year was on the big stage. World-renowned burlesque dancers — many of them Detroiters — put on an endless show of twirling and stripping over eclectic backtracks. One performer, who goes by Céleste Vé Dette, said it was her fourth year dancing at the Dirty Show and the second year in a row that she has been the first dancer to grace the stage. After her performance, she told the Free Press her dances are carefully choreographed and researched. "I like to do research about the music and the history," Vé Dette said. "I try to find the right song that moves me in an organic way." As she danced to "Sinners Strut" by Marquis and the Rhythm Howlers, she certainly appeared to be moved by the music as she whirled to the song. "I have a background as a trained ballet dancer," Vé Dette said. "And I've been involved in the ballroom and swing dancing communities for a while." Vé Dette, who also had pin-up photography of herself hanging in the art exhibition, said she's been coming to the Dirty Show for years, even before she was performing for the crowd. "(The Dirty Show) is important to me," she said. "I've been involved in the BDSM and kink community even before I was a dancer, and I came to the Dirty Show before I was a performer." The event, she said, has been an exercise in embracing her true identity: "It has encouraged me to be my authentic self." Anyone 21 and older who is interested in seeking their authentic self at The Dirty Show, which runs again from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Feb. 21 and 22, can get tickets at Contact Liam Rappleye: LRappleye@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: 2025 Detroit Dirty Show: Craziest, freakiest, sexiest things to see
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wild party, erotic art exhibition The Dirty Show returns to Detroit for 2 weekends
One of Detroit's most unique annual events returns for the next two weekends when The Dirty Show celebrates its 25th anniversary. For a quarter of a century, North America's largest erotic art exhibition has enticed visitors from around the world for a party of epic proportions. While it began as a 'happening' in an office above a Royal Oak bump shop, the multimedia event now consistently attracts capacity crowds to its home of recent years, Detroit's 50,000-square-foot Russell Industrial Center. With over 300 juried paintings, sculptures, photos, films, and other media, immersive installations, raucous stage performances, and live demonstrations, Dirty remains a provocative, exciting, and inclusive place for attendees to explore and interact. In honor of its 'smut-tacular' Silver Jubilee, the event will celebrate by presenting work from all of its past headliner artists in an ensemble event, which includes contributions from artists such as John Waters, H.R. Giger, Niagara, Clive Barker, Glenn Barr, Bunny Yeager, and more. Other attractions include the Chappell Roan-inspired Pink Pony Club, which will transform into disco-era leather bar The Daddyhole during the second weekend; the Cinerotic Film Festival, which channels the vintage 'art house' erotic film experience; Japanese shibari binding/rope play; and numerous burlesque, striptease and sex-centric performers. 'You see a lot of happy faces here,' said Dirty Show founder and organizer Jerry Vile. 'It's awesome, a room full of happy people. Part of that is that your brain releases dopamine when your eyes connect with anything erotic; when you have over 300 pieces of erotic art, a lot of those are going to release dopamine. And then, we have skimpy-dressed stage performers, go-go dancers in cages, and above all, the patrons themselves – lucky for us. 'Patrons of The Dirty Show like to let their freak flags fly, and walk around in leather, rubber, drag, whatever they're into. It's one safe space for them to publicly reveal their inner kink. It's fun.' More: The Dirty Show, America's largest erotic art exhibition, returns to Detroit for wild fun More: Detroit's Dirty Show ranges from 'grandma safe' to criminally obscene As an example, Vile referenced perhaps the Show's most famous (or infamous?) annual attendee, fetish model Foxy Menagerie Verre – who sports the largest breast implants in North America and one of the biggest implanted pairs in the world. 'Foxy doesn't do anything onstage, but just to have her show up as a person walking through our door, instead of seeing a picture of her on the internet and trying to get her to appear, is priceless. Anybody who sees that is going to have some kind of opinion. You know, I don't think she can even drive? There's a lot of exhibitionism in our crowd, but I think she might be the most extreme example of a Dirty Show patron.' Verre said she spends all year waiting for the event to come back around. 'I always plan out what I'm going to wear for each one, because it's one of the events that I really look forward to,' she told the Free Press. 'I have something custom-made for it by a guy in Turkey, and it's a big deal for me to be able to see everyone there. I love seeing the different people when I go, and I always love catching up with Jerry Vile. He's a sweetheart. And I also love seeing the artists' work and touching base with them. 'Each year, they do different events, different games, have different booths set up. So you never really know what changes are going to be made, or what to expect. It's one show that always keeps you on your toes.' The Dirty Show runs from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, and Feb. 21 and 22. Tickets are $50 in advance and can be purchased at Ages 21 and up only. The event takes place at the Russell Exhibition Center, 1600 Clay St., Detroit. Contact Free Press arts and culture reporter Duante Beddingfield at dbeddingfield@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Wild party, erotic art exhibition The Dirty Show returns to Detroit
