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  • Valerie Solanas Back at the Chelsea, Sort of

    Last year, on June 8, we interviewed Swedish author Sara Stridsberg.  Sara was passing through the Chelsea Hotel retracing the life of Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto and shooter of Andy Warhol, for a book that she was writing.  Each day, she would sit in the lobby for a couple of hours channeling…

  • Andrei Codrescu Visits the Chelsea

    Well known author and NPR fixture Andrei Codrescu has been kind enough to send us a piece he read on the air a couple of years back.  We were struck by the extent to which its sensibility—a respect for the continuance of the past and its influence on the present and future—accorded with that of…

  • Something Like An Eternal Debate

    I was talking to the painter Michael Bell and the poet Sheryl Rubenstein at the party for the one-year anniversary of our Chelsea blog.  The New York light, orange at sunset, was streaming in through the west-facing window, much the same as it would have seventy years before when Thomas Wolfe lived in this very…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: June 5 – June 11, 2006

    Monday, June 5, 10:00 p.m.Filmmaker Anders Bramsen’s short film "Slough Poem 1" will premiere at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Slough Poem 1 is an anti-drug picture. An electric look at  the silence before the storm. A Cocaine poem. The horrifying experience of mind-altering substances.  The video documents the last hours of the twentieth century,…

  • Bring Back The Old Rent Receipts

    Well if this doesn’t beat all!  First Stanley Bard raises our rent here at the Hotel Chelsea, and we could almost accept that, but now take a look at what he’s done to our rent receipt.  He’s replaced this beautiful old-fashioned one that made us proud of our place of residence, with a soul-less computer…

  • SLAMMIN! HOT BABES AT THE CHELSEA

    A reader of our blog wrote in with the query: “Have you ever written about the Prostitution Ring which is allowed to operate freely here at the Chelsea Hotel?”             Well, no, we haven’t, chiefly because we didn’t know of its existence.              But it sounds quite exciting, actually:…

  • Who is Seymour Stern?

    Earlier this week I noticed that a photograph taken at the Chelsea Hotel in 1971 had been posted to Flickr.  So I sent an e-mail to the photographer, Mark Goldstein, and inquired about the photo.  Below is his reply. These photos were taken in 1971 when I brought director Nicholas Ray to visit my friend…

  • Chelsea Hotel on Current TV

      Current TV, a national satellite and cable channel, will be airing a tour of the Chelsea Hotel later this evening.  The show is scheduled to air at 7:31 p.m EST/4:31 p.m. PST.  The show was shot in April.

  • Wannabe Rapper Chicks Visit The Chelsea

    Here’s a clip from the rap chick search that we wrote about back in February.  Watch it for yourself and see if you can spot the next Queen Latifah or Foxy Brown—or whoever the hell is hot in rap right now.  http://legends.typepad.com/rap.mov  (The movie takes a couple of minutes to download so be patient.) Here’s…

  • Job Opportunities for Bohemians Courtesy of Ian Schrager

    I just read an article in BusinessWeek about how Ian Schrager has declared that "designed hotels" are over.  Schrager has moved on to reinvent the so-called “art hotels.”  Schrager, who gutted the old Gramercy Park Hotel, tossing it’s long-term residents to the curb, is collaborating with Julian Schnabel—an artist associated with the Chelsea Hotel—to create…