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Wales Week in New York provides the perfect excuse to go get drunk at the White Horse Tavern. Make your experience even more authentic, afterwards, come back to the Hotel Chelsea and drop dead. Thursday, March 2, at 3:00 p.m. The Dylan Thomas Prize in partnership with Penderyn Welsh Whisky will be hosting an evening…
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Wondering how to properly celebrate the birth of William Burroughs? Shoot some heroin in the eighth floor bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel. Or if that’s too authentic for you, take a trip to the sanitized Beat Hotel in Desert Hot Springs California. An upscale, commercialized version of the original Beat Hotel in Paris, the Beat…
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A few weeks back on this blog we mentioned a guy who jumped from the 10th floor stairwell and richocheted off of the rails and lived. Well we were wrong about who it was. While having drinks with a former resident Friday night, she recalled that the guy who jumped but lived had written…
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The Hotel Chelsea Edgar Lee Masters Anita! Soon this Chelsea HotelWill vanish before the city’s merchant greed, Wreckers will wreck it, and in its stead More lofty walls will swell This old street’s populace. Then who will know About its ancient grandeur, marble stairs, Its paintings, onyx-mantels, courts, the heirs Of a time now long…
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Archivists at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently discovered an unpublished short story in Gore Vidal’s archives. When they called Vidal to ask about the story he replied, "‘That doesn’t sound like my kind of material, that sounds like Tennessee Williams’s territory."’ As it turns out, Vidal was half-right. The story, which he eventually recalled having written,…
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Because everybody will want to read it someday. That is, if you’re a famous poet. A new anthology of former Hotel Chelsea resident/poet James Schuyler’s letters is now available, Just The Thing: The Selected Letters of James Schuyler — 1951-1991. Below is an excerpt from the book. (Photo: Schuyler at his Chelsea apt.) ‘I am…
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This post is for the person(s) who continues to vist this blog because they are googling the phrase "Edgar Lee Masters Poem About the Demise of the Hotel Chelsea." Here is a copy of the poem as printed in Florence Turner’s book, At The Chelsea. I’m not certain of the date the poem was written,…
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The memorial service for long time Chelsea Hotel resident Arnold Weinstein (6/10/27 – 9/4/05) has concluded. This is a quick snapshot of the program. Bob Dishy and Peter Stadlen — "The Wind in the Willows" Paul Sills Alice Playten and Scott Griffin"The Wake Up Song" from Schlemiel The First Robert Brustein — Spoke of his…
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Composer Virgil Thomson was a long time resident of the Hotel Chelsea. He resided here from 1934 until he died in 1989. Out in Berkeley, CA, The Mark Morris Dancers are performing "Four Saints in Three Acts," which is set to a score composed by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Interviews from the Chelsea:"The…
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While other hotels are mere Chelsea wannabes, the Algonquin can give the Chelsea a run for her money in the literary department. The Algonquin was home to literary great, Dorothy Parker. The seventh annual Dorothy Parker festival happens next week, and festival organizer Kevin Fitzpatrick has written an overview of Parker’s encounters with the men…
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