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  • Kaare Ehrenskjold Visits the Chelsea

    We recently received a nice e-mail from Kaare Ehrenskjöld, a blog reader from Denmark.  He writes, "Just a quick word of thanks for your effort with this excellent blog… I find myself missing the place,so to be able to have some contact through your blog, is great when you are stuck in Denmark."  That’s why…

  • WELCOME TO THE FIRST EPISODE OF ANTIQUE ROADKILL

    Luke Joerger who runs the Chelse Hotel Vlogs and Pods site sends us news of an exciting new documentary series, "Antique Roadkill."  If you watch the videos closely you will see a couple of Chelsea denizens , Suzanne Lipschutz, and Leonard Thomkinson make appearances in the documentary. ANTIQUE ROADKILL follows three New York City dealers…

  • WHO PUT THE F.U. IN FUN?

    Our old Chelsea Hotel-mate Blair Wear (alter ego, Blair Bauer) is showing her hand painted, one-of-a-kind clothes and accessories as part of a show in the East Village.  Titled “In a Girl’s World,” it’s billed as an All Female Urban Art Exhibition.  We went to the press party for the show on Thursday at the…

  • Herbert Gentry at the Parish Gallery

    For those of us who weren’t able to make the opening of  "Six of Six," a group show which features five paintings by Herbert Gentry, Washington D.C. photographer and blog reader, Elvert Barnes, has come to our rescue.  Upon learning about the exhibit, he stopped by the Parish Gallery and took a few photos of…

  • Storme Delarverié Takes To The Stage Again

               June is Gay Pride month.  In New York, as in cities across the country, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, and their friends will be marching in support of tolerance and diversity.  It was in this spirit that my girlfriend and I attended Kings and Queens of New York City: A Drag…

  • Foosing at the Chelsea

    When we’re not busy blogging Bohemia, our room becomes a frat boy bar.  The skull on the foosball table belongs to Thomas Wolfe. We found it in the basement along with his size 13 shoes. Julia Calfee has been photographing the Chelsea residents over the past three years.  We’re hoping we look weird and edgy…

  • FATHER’S DAY by George Chemeche

    FATHER’S DAY My father is a hard-boiled soldier. He adores battles, strives for medals, fights in the Gulf and in Babylonia. He prizes bombshells, gathers explosive memorabilia. My father loves my mother. My mother is a blond bombshell: memorable and dynamite. in pictures and flesh. She is the talk of Astoria. Copyright, George Chemeche 2006…

  • Now That We’re Paying For It, Can We Touch The Art

                When we ran a piece about art hotels recently, a publicist (I assume) from a hotel in Louisville, my former hometown, wrote to make sure we knew about the art hotel there.  He or she wanted us to know that theirs was not one of those phony, faux-bohemian art hotels I…

  • Andrei Codrescu Visits the Chelsea

    Well known author and NPR fixture Andrei Codrescu has been kind enough to send us a piece he read on the air a couple of years back.  We were struck by the extent to which its sensibility—a respect for the continuance of the past and its influence on the present and future—accorded with that of…

  • Who is Seymour Stern?

    Earlier this week I noticed that a photograph taken at the Chelsea Hotel in 1971 had been posted to Flickr.  So I sent an e-mail to the photographer, Mark Goldstein, and inquired about the photo.  Below is his reply. These photos were taken in 1971 when I brought director Nicholas Ray to visit my friend…