Living with Legends
Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Through our diligent work, we have uncovered this confidential, highly encrypted communiqué between BD and its ad agency.
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On his Dorothy Parker website, our friend Kevin Fitzpatrick compares his favorite haunt, the Algonquin Hotel, with “the other great literary hotel in town,” the newly renovated Plaza. Though he is quick to apologize for this slight to the Chelsea, I feel that, upon due consideration, I have no choice but to reply: apology not…
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Milwaukee alterna band Fever Marlene wrote and recorded their second album, "White China" (Is that like the heroin man? Shades of Lou Reed!), over a four night stay in room 219 at the Chelsea . The 10 song album features a DVD documentary of the writing process and a photo journal. "White China" is set…
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Chelsea Hotel residents were saddened to learn of the departure of fellow resident musician Adam Rushfield (aka Jaz Jericho), after a year at the Hotel. Though he’ll be missed, we’re sure he’ll do well wherever he winds up. Jaz gave a farewell concert last night in his room at the Chelsea and it was attended…
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Long time telephone operator Amy Miller is retiring today after 30 years on the job. We were always glad to hear her friendly voice on the other end of the line. She will be sorely missed. Stop by the desk today and wish her well. Amy is shown here in a painting by Hotel Chelsea…
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Though we usually don’t report on the movements of celebrities on this blog, it’s hard to let this one pass. On this past Saturday we saw former Chelsea Hotel resident Ethan Hawke walking down 8th Avenue with a very suspicious looking jacket. It was a old brown Carhartt, or something similar and on the back,…
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A white robed young woman glides stealthily, ghost-like, down the stairs of the Chelsea Hotel, the walls a muted white behind her, as the eerie music begins. As the pace of the dance accelerates, the woman begins moving up and down the stairs dangerously, recklessly. Suddenly, she flings herself backward wildly, self-destructively, upon the filigreed…
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Most Chelsea Hotel residents know not to spend extended time in the basement. The rest of the Hotel is filled with enough ghosts so we don’t need to tempt fate by venturing into the bottom of the vortex. Heather Graham appears to not to have got the word. This is the result! I guess she’ll…
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Once again, the LA Superior Court is set to rule on whether or not Hotel Chelsea layabout David Elder is fit to serve as the administrator of a trust established for aging author Piri Thomas. When David’s mother died in 1986, she left her 16% interest in the Chelsea Hotel to David and his two…
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