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  • Tony Lioce Gets Trippy at The Chelsea

    Tony Lioce is the arts and entertainment editor of the San Jose Mercury News. Before this he was an arts editor at the LA Times and a rock critic for the Providence (RI) Journal.  In an exclusive interview, Tony reveals that the best thing to ever happen to him at the Chelsea was that his…

  • Say No More, Say No More

    Jen is Famous, in wonderbra and matching wonderunderpants, honeymoons at the famous Chelsea Hotel, known worldwide for its goats-and-yogurt honeymoon special.  How’d you get to be so famous?Well, I don’t want to give too much away to the competition, but it involves a blog, a pair of Wonder Woman underpants, and a bite from a…

  • Linda Troeller Found A Snake and Her Husband At The Chelsea

    Art photographer Linda Troeller has lived at the Chelsea Hotel for 12 years.  The Chelsea and its quirky, creative residents have provided excellent subjects for Linda’s Hotel Chelsea: Inside Out project, which is garnering attention across the country and in Europe.  A film about Linda’s career as a photographer, much of it shot here at…

  • A Punk Lourdes: Bruno Wizard on Dee Dee Ramone, The Chelsea, and Early Punk Rock

    At last we get a real rock star in this hotel! Bruno Wizard, singer and songwriter for the seminal 70s punk band The Rejects, and later for The Homosexuals, checked into the room right next to us last weekend.  Abandoning our usual rule of making people write these answers out, we interviewed him in person…

  • Ryan Tomorrow: Chelsea Reeks and Seeths

    Although Ryan, who recently celebrated his birthday in Room 112 of the Chelsea, may not know it, this room has been immoraltized in verse. In Angels Knocking on The Back Door, by Carol Greenberg, we read:Jake the bellhop deliveredWe all got drunk hooraySomeone walked on the ceilingFell down in room 112We collected the plasterCalled it…

  • Betty Bishop Remembers The Nineties

    Betty Bishop spent a memorable six months here at the Chelsea back in the early nineties, attending one of good ol’ Gingie’s birthday parties.  She even got to have one of her paintings on display in the lobby for a while.  But she sure was glad that the guy who jumped down the stairwell was…

  • D-XRISTO: ABSOUTELY FRENCH!

    Renaissance man D-Xristo! stopped by the Chelsea to visit his friend, and fortunately for posterity his friend had a video camera.  He is French, goddammit!What do you do?I am an art model, pet sitter, actor and singer songwriter under the name of D-XRISTO! What brought you to the Chelsea? My best friend and talented photographer…

  • Mary Ann Rose: The Chelsea Is A Living Museum

    The artist Mary Anne Rose views the Chelsea as a Living Museum.  Now there’s a suggestion: Stanley could establish a recommended donation for viewing the paintings in the lobby and make some extra cash.  Mary Anne and her husband, the late painter Herbert Gentry, embody the timeless bohemian spirit of Chelsea.What do you do? I…

  • David Goodwillie Discovers His Muse at the Chelsea

    We seem to have stumbled upon a trend here. David Goodwillie is the third author we’ve interviewed who got into the Chelsea via a sublet arrangement.  It sounds like David’s arrangement turned out OK. He met Anna Wintour down in Serena’s and he scored a room with a view: "When I woke up and looked outside,…

  • Scott Smith: Chelsea Hotel in the 80s, A Step Up From the East Village

    Scott Smith takes us back to the early 1980s, a time when fabulous tranny hookers, crack dealers, and punk-wannabes ruled the Chelsea Hotel. According to Scott, it was also a time of extreme sadness at the Chelsea, as many of the residents began to succumb to AIDS. What do you do?I’m a writer presently completing…