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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – May 1 – 8

    Monday, May 1The Empire State Building turns 75 today.  If you’re fortunate enough to have a room with a view you can enjoy the monthly light shows they have planned for through-out the year.  Or, celebrate by viewing Andy Warhol’s "Empire," an 8-hour, 6-minute silent film of the building from a single perspective, punctuated only…

  • Cynthia Hopkin’s Tsimtsum or Dylan Thomas’ Last Whiskey Drunk

    On Friday, April 21, we saw Tsimtsum, by Cynthia Hopkins, as part of the Sourcing Stravinsky program at the Dance Theatre Workshop. We didn’t know in advance, but Tsimtsum turned out to have a connection to the Hotel Chelsea. Hopkins came out on a dimly lighted stage, walking backwards dressed in a space suit, and…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – April 24 – 30, 2006

    Tuesday, April 25, 10:30 p.m.Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny invite you to celebrate Kembra at Happy Valley Tuesdays. DJ Alexander Technique & Princess Superstar. donwstairs: DJ Ryan; Show: Kembra from the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. Hosts: Sophia Lamar, Kim Aviance, Miranda Moondust, Andrea, Theodora, and Amanda LePore.14 East 27 St., NY NY Wednesday, April…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – April 17 – 23

    Monday, April 17, 8:00 pm Celebrate National Poetry Month and the 50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem "Howl" with Mark Doty, Ann Douglas, Margo Jefferson, Philip Lopate, Rick Moody, and Jason Shinder.Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway NY NY Tuesday, April 18, 10:30 p.m.Susanne Bartsch & Kenny Kenny invite you to celebrate at Happy…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties- April 10 – April 16, 2006

    Tuesday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.A screening of a selection of Warhol’s Screen Tests will be followed by a discussion of the film with Callie Angell, author of Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume One. Screen Tests is a series of 472 silent, black and white films chronicling Andy Warhol’s…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – April 3 – April 9, 2006

    Monday, April 3, 8:00 p.m.Mike Sharpe, Professor Arturo, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Andrew Kaufman will be reading at The Library Lounge biweekly poetry and prose series.  (Thad at the Chelsea.)The Telephone Bar,149 2nd Ave., at 9th St.  Monday, April 3, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. Sex Workers/Bloggers, including famed Chelsea Girl, will read from their work at…

  • ETHAN HAWKE SUMMONS PROPHETS TO END WAR

    MUSIC AND STARS AT BRUCE LEVINGSTON’S FIFTH ANIVERSARY GALA FOR THE PREMIER COMMISSION On our way out the door to the pianist Bruce Levingston’s concert at the Lincoln Center, the desk clerk at the Chelsea, having little faith in my powers of concentration, warned me not to fall asleep. But there was no danger of…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – March 27 – April 2, 2006

    Monday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.John Weir, the author of one of the first novels to deal with the AIDS crisis will read from his most recent book, What I Did Wrong.Half King 505 West 23rd St., NY NY Tuesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m.The Algonquin Hotel (the other literary hotel) is the location for the book…

  • Tonight’s Event

    My Mother Told Me I was Different: Stories from Stonewall On June 27, 1969 a routine raid on a little known Greenwich Village gay bar sparked a spontaneous series of events that forever changed the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. Who were the people in the Stonewall Bar that evening? What happened…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – March 20 – 26, 2006

    Monday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and Rufus Wainwright will join peace activist Cindy Sheehan for the Bring ‘Em Home concert. The event will benefit the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. The evening’s guest hosts will include such celebrities as Jane Fonda,…