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  • Dee Dee Ramone’s Manuscript Still Available

    Here’s a gift suggestion for the Ramone fan on your gift list. Today is the final day that you can bid on Dee Dee Ramone’s unpublished autobiography manuscript.  The last time I checked the high bid was $659.57.    I guess the bids are not going to reach the same level  ($155,401) as that 1966…

  • Help “Factory Girl” See The Light of Day Or Not

    Who killed Edie Sedgwick?  Enough of this already, help solve the mystery so that "Factory Girl" can either be released or be canned forever.  Vote now and vote often!

  • Who Killed Edie Sedgwick?

    Just as we suspected, it’s Bob Dylan holding up the release of the overhyped "Factory Girl."  His lawyers claim that this movie protrays him as the cause of Edie Sedgwick’s death.   We thought the character in the trailer looked a lot like Bob Dylan. According to Page Six, Dylan’s lawyers are demanding that the…

  • Consorting With Whores at The Chelsea

    A recent story in the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail begins: "I’m sitting in the Chelsea hotel reading a book called Whore. I’ll admit this sounds cooler than “I’m sitting in a rather expensive Manhattan hotel reading one of the latest poetry collections from the University of Tampa Press.” But after a day of…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: December 11- 17, 2006

    Monday, Dec. 11, 7:00 p.m. Girl With Glasses is author Marissa Walsh’s memoir told from the eyes of… ones constantly behind a pair of glasses. Walsh’s tour through her bespectacled past is hilarious and informative, from Walsh’s search for the perfect frames to the cultural, political, and sartorial implications of glasses-wearing. The Half King Bar…

  • Diesel’s Trashy-Glam Chelsea Hotel Line

    Oh look, somebody’s trying to capitalize on the Chelsea!  How original. Since its a big corporation, they’ll probably make some actual money.  You don’t see too many people who look like the girl in the illustration around here — except for the one’s here for fashion shoots — but I’m sure the Diesel people will…

  • Sawed-Off Christmas

    Here’s a holidy pop quiz for you: which tree is in the lobby of the run-down, recently defunct, down-and-out flophouse the Allerton, and which is in the run-down, world-famous, celebrity-studded Chelsea Hotel.  THe answer may surprise you.  But probably not.  Happy half-assed holidays.  

  • Tourist’s Review Filled With Holes

    Lonely Planet recently published a list of hotels in which famous people have died and surprise, surprise, the Chelsea Hotel is at the top of the list.  Now, Here’s a tourist who claims that “Stan” showed him the room where Sid “shot” Nancy.  Almost everybody knows that nobody “shot” Nancy at the Chelsea.   This is…

  • Former Hawke’s Nest Rocks

    These tourists put Ethan Hawke’s old room to good use.  They used it as a recording studio back in November.  (Tough Cookie)

  • Chelsea Hotel Lobby Photo of the Week

    (Via – Stribs flickr set)