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  • Australian Novelist Bruce Russell Recalls The Chelsea

    Being There, Being Here “Foreign Correspondent” Segment, May 15, 2007 (The segment is now available for viewing online.  Click through and scroll to the bottom of the page for the link.) As I followed the camera into the lobby and fixed on the familiar features of Stanley Bard, I tried to resist the inevitable nostalgia…

  • Celebrate the 80’s, Again

    Since the 1980s are back in style we thought we’d rerun a few photos that originally appeared in the 1988 issue of the Italian Magazine, Le Figaro.  The photos were taken by Catherine Leroy who sadly died last year.  First up, here’s authors Nick & Rhea posing in their richly appointed apartment! (Thanks to Rachel…

  • Chelsea Hotel: Hot Bed of Radicalism

    Over the past couple of weeks, Chelsea Now has been running a series about the Chelsea Hotel.  Mary Reinholz  (Mary’s piece doesn’t seem to be online) and I wrote companion pieces and Linda Troeller contributed a photo spread.  More recently, David Gibbons interviewed Stanley Bard. Reinholz lived here in the 70s, smack dab in the …

  • Don’t Bother Me, I’m An Artist!

    We used to think our do-not-disturb sign was pretty cool.  (It says: “Please don’t bother me. I’m writing the next great American novel.”)  But recent developments have led us to suspect that these things are pretty widespread.  While in San Francisco we stayed at the Hotel Rex, a place whose only claim to the status…

  • Visit Cancun Instead, Katy & Becca!

    Katy and Becca are planning to visit the Chelsea, the "grime-caked mecca" that harbored such reprobates as Dylan Thomas and Sid Vicious, and "suck the  air from the vents."  These young college-bound students have been working for the man and holding gypsy yard sales in order to raise the scratch necessary to bankroll their $300-a-night(!)…

  • Sienna Miller Sets Her Sights on a Dead Dylan

    Lindsey Lohan drank 18 whiskeys, slurred “That must be the record,” showed her vagina, and passed out in a pool of her own vomit at the Chelsea Hotel.  Therefore, she had to opt out of the upcoming Dylan Thomas biopic.  Too realistic for Hollywood I suppose. Even less surprisingly, Sienna Miller has signed on to…

  • Chelsea Hotel Birthday Party

    Remember, anything can happen when you celebrate your birthday at the Chelsea Hotel.  You may end up kissing Hawk Alfredson’s painting.  Let’s hope she didn’t get lipstick stains on it!

  • Cut-Rate Bohemian Style Package Courtesy of Sony Pictures

    That’s right folks, if you book your tickets now for ‘Spider-Man 3’, released at ODEON MAY 4 and ODEON will enter you into a FREE prize drawing to win a weekend to New York!* ODEON are offering one lucky winner & guest, courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing, the chance to spend 2 nights/3 days in…

  • Robert Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea

    A blog reader from Chicago sent us a link to an article he wrote about artist Robert Mapplethorpe.  Included in his article is a photo of Robert in his room here at the Hotel Chelsea. Doesn’t look like they’ve upgraded the furnishings much since then.  One thing different is that they’ve cut down the size…

  • Eighteen Grapes, That Must Be Some Kind of a Record

    Former model Cleo Glyde claims to have subsisted on a diet of six grapes per day.  Staggering home after a debouch one night at the fruit cart outside of the White Horse Tavern she collapsed at the Hotel Chelsea and was taken to St. Vincents.  Luckily for her she lived to tell the tale.  Now…