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Hotel Chelsea Blog
Category: Hotel Chelsea
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How original, another elitist club called Star Lounge is set to open in the Chelsea neighborhood and this time it’s in the basement of the hotel. Coudn’t they come up with a better name. Don’t they know the real stars live in the hotel. We don’t expect to be invited to the opening. Perhaps we…
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Poor Morrissey! It’s so mind-numbingly boring in Texas. He can’t wait to get back to the Chelsea. Yeah, we feel for you Morrissey. But wait, do my eyes deceive me!? He seems to be saying that the Chelsea is insignificant! What, Morrissey, you’re such a big, fat, scary celebrity that even huge, ten story…
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The Winston Giles Orchestra is here to help you ring in the New Year Chelsea Hotel style.
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Delaware/Cree/French artist and elder Alec Montroy, passed away on Dec. 4, 2006. He was 88 years old. Alec was a figurative painter who worked in the European style of Pointillism painters. He loved art and life and especially New York City. Montroy lived for many years at the Chelsea Hotel. In an interview published in…
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Strung out like some Christmas lights out there in the Chelsea night….
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Want to make somebody who lives in the hotel (or aspires to that honor) happy this year? Below is a wish list: 1. What would you like for the Holidays?Robert Shaw: a Passage to New York. Mia Hanson: a Kirlian Camera and an orgone aura. Hawk Alfredson: 23 daze in space. Rita Barros: a plane…
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Over the weekend we went around photographing all the festive holiday decorations spread throughout the Hotel Chelsea. In keeping with this year’s theme of the Sawed-Off Holidays, many people went for the minimalist look, taking care not to overshadow the small Christmas tree in the lobby. And in fact the vast majority of our residents…
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On Christmas Eve in the Chelsea Hotel, social and political activist Abbie Hoffman prepares homemade gefilte fish. He recounts the story of an awkward dinner hosted by Dr. Benjamin Spock to which Hoffman brought gefilte fish. The filmmaker initiated the idea to tape Hoffman for posterity in anticipation that he might disappear for evading drug…
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Here’s something for your Christmas list: a book of sketches made on hotel stationery. It’s going to be tough to find since it’s available only in limited editions. Bill Wilson, whose mother May was an artist and lived at the Chelsea back in the seventies, was kind enough to send this along. The book is…
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