Keren Ann is at the Bowery Ballroom this evening.  Her recent release, "Nolita" contains “Chelsea Burns” and “Song of Alice,” which tell the story of a homeless woman rumored to have started a fire in the Chelsea Hotel.  Those of us who live in the Chelsea are all too frequently confronted with the presence of…

Monday, July 18, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Opening reception and book signing for, CBGB and OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock. Photographs of former Chelsea Hotel regulars such as the RAMONES and PATTI SMITH are featured in "CBGB: A Place That Matters," an exhibit based on photographs and text from the book.…

July 1 – August 24Former Chelsea Hotel resident Robert Mapplethorpe is featured in "Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints."  Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith moved into the Chelsea in July 1969 and immediately felt at home in the creative chaos that is the Chelsea.Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. July 9, Saturday…

June 27,  3:00 – 11:00 p.m. Suite 303, the hair salon of the Chelsea Hotel, in conjunction with Chelsea Piers presents WORK IT OUT.   April (in the photo) and the babes of  Suite 303 will be giving free haircuts on the West Sundeck at Chelsea Piers from 3:00 to 11:00.  You can’t get addicted from…

Monday, June 206:00 – 9:30Opening reception for painter Robert Lambert will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Chelsea.  The Grand Ballroom was the home of artist Richard Bernstein until he died in 2002. The Last Time I Saw Jean Michel Basquait by Robert Lambert. Sunday, June 2636th Annual LGBT Pride March 12:00…

June 9 – 18Hal Holbrook channels Mark Twain in his one man show.  Twain stayed at the Chelsea when he was on a lecture tour in 1888. (Turn West on 23rd Street)Brooks Atkinson Theatre256 West 47th St June 9 – June 26Arnold Weinstein, librettist for the opera A View From the Bridge and lyricist for…

Monday, June 6 at 9:00George Chemeche reads at the Bowery Poetry Club.  George Chemeche is an artist, author and curator. He checked into the Chelsea Hotel in 1972 for one night and he is still there. Thus he refers to his work as the " Chelsea years." His book of poems, Rebecca from Tribeca is…

Saturday, June 4,  3:00 p.m.Chelsea writer Ed Hamilton reads his short story "The End of Sonny’s Bar," at the Ear Inn Reading Series. Hamilton’s fiction can be found online at SoMa Literary Review, River Walk Journal, and Modern Drunkard magazine .Ear Inn326 Spring St., NY NY June 9 – June 26, 8:00 Medicine Show TheatreArnold…

Tuesday, May 24 at 7:00 p.m.Pultizer Prize winner and New York Times icon Joseph Lelyveld will be in discussion with Chelsea author Michael Rips.  Rips recently published his second novel,  The Face of a Naked Lady, An Omaha Family Mystery. Housing Works Cafe 126 Crosby Street, NY NY Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m.Michael Mejias…

Monday, April 25 at 7:00 writer Charlie Huston will be reading at the BoxCar Lounge reading series.  In his earlier novel, Caught Stealing, he wrote, “We walk a couple of blocks to Twenty-third Street and check into the Chelsea Hotel.  It may be hip now, but it’s still a flop.  The desk clerk is so…