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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: September 11 – 17, 2006

    Monday, Sept. 11,  11:00 – 12:00Tribeca Radio.net will be broadcasting live today and we’ll be the guests on Gerald Busby’s show from 11:00 to 11:30.  We hope he doesn’t ask us any difficult questions like whether or not we think the Chelsea Hotel has a creative energy.  Tune in to hear us stutter.  From 11:30…

  • Chelsea Mystery Lunatic

    In his memoir, SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, David Goodwillie describes a Chelsea character, but we can’t for the life of us figure out who it could be.  Below is the excerpt. Any guesses as to who the cigar smoking man who walks into rooms with closed doors might be? Here he…

  • A Punk Lourdes: Bruno Wizard on Dee Dee Ramone, The Chelsea, and Early Punk Rock

    At last we get a real rock star in this hotel! Bruno Wizard, singer and songwriter for the seminal 70s punk band The Rejects, and later for The Homosexuals, checked into the room right next to us last weekend.  Abandoning our usual rule of making people write these answers out, we interviewed him in person…

  • Chelsea Hotel Is Like An Old Rolling Stones T-Shirt

    We’re tired of all of those people on tripadvisor.com bad-mouthing us so we decided to check Yelp.com.  That’s where the young people post their reviews of the Chelsea.      A tourist named Jay Chan H. stayed here recently at the rock bottom price of $195.00 a night.  "Everything is tired and worn," he says,…

  • Super Chelsea Bonus Supplement Polybagged For Your Annoyance

    When we got The New Yorker (Sept. 4, 06) in the mail this week it was stuffed in a plastic bag together with an idiotic-looking supplement called “Fashion Rocks” with a picture of pop-culture luminaries Beyoncé and Jamie Foxx on the cover.  Boy, this magazine sinks lower with every issue, I thought. I was about…

  • Ghosts Walk The Corridors

    For all you history buffs who read this blog, a 1984 interview with Stanley Bard, originally heard on CBS radio’s BookBeat, is available online as a podcast.  Click here to play!  When asked why he thinks so many writers come to stay at the Chelsea, Stanley credits the buildings high ceilings and the sound-proof rooms. …

  • Ryan Tomorrow: Chelsea Reeks and Seeths

    Although Ryan, who recently celebrated his birthday in Room 112 of the Chelsea, may not know it, this room has been immoraltized in verse. In Angels Knocking on The Back Door, by Carol Greenberg, we read:Jake the bellhop deliveredWe all got drunk hooraySomeone walked on the ceilingFell down in room 112We collected the plasterCalled it…

  • Hedda Lettuce Helps Out

    According to the Wall Street Journal, bloggers face a difficult decision: to go on vacation once in a while, or to just keep blogging everyday until the undertaker pries their cold, dead fingers from their keyboards.  Well, we faced that choice this month, and decided to keep on blogging!   For the first time in several…

  • Patti Smith Reviews Bob Dylan’s New Album

    Well I was sitting on my window sill, watching the sky shifting, when a messenger arrived witha copy of the new Bob Dylan album.  I gave old Glenn Gould a rest and put Modern Times in my player. To this day, it still feels funny sliding a CD in place instead of setting a record…

  • Unknown Flophouse Mistaken for The Chelsea

    A play called “The Love Doll” has just finished its run at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Cold Spring, NY, wherever that is.  The play is set in the “infamous” Chelsea Hotel — – though I can’t imagine what they mean by that – situated on 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues.  Apparently, in…