Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: 5 Questions
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Hey BD, want to know how to sucessfully manage the Chelsea Hotel? Listen to the man who was able to manage the hotel for 50 years. (Video interview with Stanley Bard originally shown at the Museum of the City of New York 4/4/08)
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Pianist and singer/songwriter Adam Rushfield, who goes by the professional name of Jaz Jericho, comes from a long line of musical talent: his great grandfather banged singer Sophie Tucker! When we met with Adam in his tiny room/music studio recently, he played us a tape of longtime resident 87-year- old Stormé DeLarverié belting out an…
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As a Drummer and Drum Builder to the stars, Johnny Craviotto has been involved in the music business for nearly half a century. He began his professional playing career in the early 1960s and quickly progressed to touring and performing with such rock-and-roll legends as Ry Cooter, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Moby Grape, and Neil Young. Legends:…
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Joe, Casebeer & Tosh booked their room back in April before the despicable hostile takeover of the hotel. In other words, the reason they wanted to come to the hotel was for the Bard family and the Chelsea Hotel family, not for the 99 cent Internet room specials that BD is promoting to drive up…
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The British painter David Remfry is justly famous for his delicate watercolor renderings of dancers in the act of dancing. His paintings are for the most part an upbeat, optimistic celebration of the vitality of life, and we were able to view several of his large, life-size canvases in what seems like their natural setting…
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For our interview, Mikkel Astrup wears a futuristic black vinyl track suit. He has two favorite art works in the lobby: the Chelsea Dogs, and Robert Lambert’s painting of the man feeding the chickens. A Samuel Beckett scholar, when Mikkel discusses his discipline, most of what he says is rather hard to follow (which…
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Diede In’t Veld is the second student we’ve stumbled across in recent months who approached the Chelsea about shooting a project here, but couldn’t afford the rates. Diede’s film, "Sleeping in Chelsea" is about a businessman who discovers an ad in the paper that reads "Hotel Chelsea More than just a hotel, a place where…
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We’ve always wanted to learn German, but it just seemed like too much time and effort. Now we find that it wasn’t that hard at all. Here we are, speaking fluent German on German Public Radio (download mp3), with nary a trace of an accent at all! Here’s a picture of our instructor, Martina…
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