Ragtag grab-bag
I recently got back from Dubai, where I’d been invited to speak at the -ing Creative Festival. Super fun, but that’s another story altogether. The PR team of the festival lined me up with Shortlist’s local edition for a feature where they ask someone each week to reimagine their masthead, and then ask a few questions. Here’s my take on it, plus the interview that ran in the magazine the week that I was in town.
Artist Dom Orejudos (Etienne) was a huge movie buff, often spending his days going to all the big theaters in downtown Chicago to see film after film. Chuck Renslow, Orejudos’ partner, has been quoted that “Dom could name almost every movie ever made and who starred in it and all that sort of thing.” Orejudos decided that the Gold Coast leather bar (which used to be located at 501 N. Clark Street) should host films, so it became a long-standing tradition for the bar to host a Sunday Nite Movie. Orejudos was in charge of renting the films from the big movie rental vaults down on South Wabash Avenue. “That was the area where all the movie companies, MGM and Warner Brothers and so on, had their vaults,” said Renslow. It was a huge success. The Sunday 5 and 10 p.m. showings were wall-to-wall men.
