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Category: Hotel Chelsea
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Our guy in Australia has come through with this fabulous footage of Jobriath tickling the ivories and talking about the Chelsea’s creative spirit. Jobriath is credited as being the first mass-marketed glam rock star, and the first to be openly gay. This clip is from Nigel Finch’s 1981 BBC documentary. Jobriath spent his last days…
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Yikes! You’d think that bed bug worries would be horror enough! The Conrad Hotel in Chicago is showing classic horror movies such as “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” on Sundays and Mondays in October. A program like this would not go over so well at the Chelsea, as it would hit too close to home. We have…
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It’s getting ridiculous to see the extent these fuddy-duddy hotels will go to show they’re rock-and-roll, now that old rockers have money to spend. Here’s an article about a really rockin’ hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. They have a list of all these over-the-hill rockers like Ozzy and Jon Bon Jovi and…
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Andy Warhol’s epic, "The Chelsea Girls," has been named one of the top 100 films of all times by the Radio Times Guide to Films 2007. "Andy Warhol’s underground film is to blame for reality television," according to the Guide. (Evening Standard) Earlier this week, to celebrate what would have been Thomas Wolfe’s 106th birthday,…
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We’ve written before of what a shame it is that the old McBurney Y has been turned into a condo building for soulless yuppies, but a recent photo spread in New York Magazine brought the point home in a much more visceral manner. It’s the specifics that do the job. The floor that held the…
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Sherill Tippins (February House), who’s writing a history of the Chelsea Hotel, recently unearthed an original floor plan for the hotel. She writes:Your particular apartment was for rent in 1884, as the parlor room of a 2-BR-plus-servants’ room with one bath–1200 square feet in all–renting for $1,200 per year. The closet you had hoped Stanley…
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Or Australia, or somewhere else.
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Amy Arbus (daughter of the legendary photographer Diane Arbus) opened her gallery show at the Cohen Amador Gallery in the Fuller Building on September 6. Her new book "On The Street 1980 – 1990" features photographs of New Yorkers who were in the Village Voice’s fashion section during that time period. Chelsea Hotel’s Susanne Bartsch…
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An alternate video for Moby’s new single with Debbie Harry, “New York, New York” starring celebutante extraordinaire Rev Jen Junior, directed by Saint Reverend Jen, who also shot and edited the film. According to Reverend Jen, to make the video extra special, they pretended that Jen Junior lives here at the Chelsea. We wish that…
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