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  • Sathima Bea Benjamin’s SongSpirit

                Our Chelsea Hotel neighbor, Sathima Bea Benjamin, has just released a new CD, SongSpirit, on Ekapa Records.  Interspersing old jazz standards with her own original songs, the CD covers almost her entire career, from an early recording with Duke Ellington in Paris in 1963, to her latest session in Capetown in…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: August 28 – Sept. 3, 2006

    Monday, August 28, 12:00 midnightBob Dylan will premier his first album in five years, "Modern Times," on XM Satellite Radio.  Beginning on Tuesday, August 29, fans can purchase a copy of Modern Times at select retailers. The artist’s 44th album features 10 new songs recorded this winter with Dylan on keyboards, guitars, harmonica and vocals,…

  • Featured E-mail of the Week

    From a rocker in Maryland:Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy the blog…it’s alot of fun to read, I find myself laughing outloud at work…and sometimes I really need that! Thanks once again for linking the blog I wrote about the Chelsea…even if you did take it a little out of context!! ….…

  • Betty Bishop Remembers The Nineties

    Betty Bishop spent a memorable six months here at the Chelsea back in the early nineties, attending one of good ol’ Gingie’s birthday parties.  She even got to have one of her paintings on display in the lobby for a while.  But she sure was glad that the guy who jumped down the stairwell was…

  • A Tale of Two Dylans

    A Welsh writer named Phil Bowen has written a play about a meeting between Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan in the Chelsea Hotel. Though initially produced in 2001 and 2002, it was of course a flop.  Now its been brought back for a run at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Wales. Through superior blogging skills…

  • Stefan Brecht’s Poetry of the Street

    Stefan Brecht, the son of the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and a poet and scholar in his own right, maintained a writing studio in the Chelsea Hotel throughout the eighties and nineties.  Every morning, Stefan walked up 8th Avenue to the Chelsea from his home in Greenwich Village, recording his journey in photographs.  The…

  • Faux-Murder Chic at Miss Sixty Hotel

    This Miss Sixty hotel in Riccione, Italy looks like a Holiday Inn with a child’s plastic stencil worked into its façade.  Even worse, here they are trying to steal the Chelsea’s business with a fake murder room!  (I can’t tell who was fake-murdered there.)But hey, accept no substitutes.  We have plenty of real murder rooms,…

  • Book Publishers Finally Discover Internet Writers

    Collegestories.com, a humor website (not to be confused with collegehumor.com, the site which was recently purchased by Barry Diller for several million dollars), just released an anthology entitled Class Dismissed (Villard, 2006).  Without a doubt this book will make several times as much money as all the movies set to be derived from the collegehumor…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: August 21 – 27

    Tuesday, Aug. 22, 6:00 p.m.Join Kevin Fitzpatrick, founder of the Dorothy Parker Society, for a toast to Parker on her birthday. The Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, NY NY Tuesday, Aug. 22, 10:30 p.m.Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny bring you Happy Valley Tuesday. Show: Amanda Lepore, I know what boys like. Hosts: Miranda Moondust,…

  • Fatasses Need Not Apply

    We’re always seeking to be of service to our Chelsea cohorts.  Hope we could help.  (via craigslist)  "In town for the weekend, staying at the Chelsea.  Please be eager, thin, sexy.  I promise to be the  same.  Everything will be safe, comfortable and badass."