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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – August 29 – September 4

    Wednesday, August 31, 7:00 p.m. The Kettle of Fish Reading Series features Robin Caine, Jonathan Segura, and Charlie Huston. In June, I interviewed Charlie, and here’s what he had to say about the Chelsea, First off, the Chelsea has all this great punk cache.  It’s hard to create a fictional place that’s going to evoke…

  • Virgil Thomson’s Secret Coq au vin Recipe

    Last Friday (August 19), Hotel Chelsea resident and composer Gerald Busby, premiered a large scale piece interspersing monologues (“Who to Thank” and “Tomorrow’s Butter”) and music (Rhapsody for Cello, Nocturne for Piano, Hop In, and Bullet Proof Bikini) as part of the ComposersCollaborative’s Serial Underground. In an intimate and informal setting at the Cornelia Street…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – August 22-28

    Monday, August 22, 7:00 p.m.Celebrate the release of "Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side." The book features oral histories from more than 100 bohemians which document the East Village/L.E.S. independent film scene of the past and present. Former Chelsea Hotel residents Harry Smith and Jonas Mekas are featured. Clayton Gallery, 161 Essex…

  • Tonight’s Party — Friday, August 19

    Composer and actor Gerald Busby traces his musical life from Tyler, Texas to the Chelsea Hotel, where he has lived since 1975. In his years in Chelsea Busby has collaborated with choreographer Paul Taylor, playwright Craig Lucas and filmmaker Robert Altman. Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia St. btwn. West Fourth and Bleecker Sts., 8: 30…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – August 15 – 21

    Tuesday, August 16th at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar is about director Philippe Garrell’s love affair with former resident Nico. Between 1972 and 1979 she starred in seven of Garrell’s films, but she is probably best known for trimming her bangs for 45 minutes in Andy Warhol’s classic, Chelsea Girls.Brooklyn…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – August 8 – 14

    Monday, August 8th   Stay home and read a book or two as a tribute to former resident Herbert Huncke. Huncke, the Hipster who defined ‘Beat," died at the age of 81, August 8, 1996.  I suggest, The Herbert Huncke Reader, Guilty Of Everything:The Autobiography of Huncke or The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction. Tuesday,…

  • Today’s Party

    According to Gawker,  Bloomberg spawn Emma and Vogue editor Sally Singer throw an iceskating party out in Brooklyn to benefit the Prospect Park Junior Commitee, whatever the fuck that is. Make sure to keep the skate blades away from any Vogue underlings required to be in attendance. [WUNY] My invitation was probably sent to the…

  • Tonight’s Party – Thursday, August 4th

    Norman Gosney (who lives in the 10th floor penthouse and is the envy of the building) has relaunched "Norman’s Big Night Out."  A shimmering cocktail of Vaudeville, Vegas, Classic Burlesque, English Music Hall and all the pleasures of the Past & Present, Alive and Kicking in Downtown Manhattan. Scenic, 25 Avenue B (Between 2nd &…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – August 1 -7

    Monday, August 1 – Thursday, August 4The Brooklyn Academy of Music highlights the work of independent filmmaker and former Hotel Chelsea Resident, Shirley Clarke. BAM is screening her most well known works: a cinema verite-style adaptation of Jack Gelber’s off-Broadway play, The Connection (1960), about drug addiction; The Cool World (1963) + Bridges-Go-Round, focusing on…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – July 25 – August 1

    Monday, July 25, 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.The opening reception for "Hung," will feature, for one night only, the work of Cynthia Plaster Caster.  Cynthia is famous worldwide for her plaster casts of rock’s most well known penises.Cynthia Plaster Caster’s most famous subject was guitarist and former Chelsea Guest, Jimi Hendrix, immortalized in plaster Feb. 25,…