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  • All Tomorrow’s Parties- April 10 – April 16, 2006

    Tuesday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.A screening of a selection of Warhol’s Screen Tests will be followed by a discussion of the film with Callie Angell, author of Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume One. Screen Tests is a series of 472 silent, black and white films chronicling Andy Warhol’s…

  • 1900s Hotel Chelsea Brochure

    Once again, over on E-bay you can purchase a bit of the Hotel Chelsea’s history.  Currently, the bids are at $9.00 for a Hotel Chelsea brochure that folds open to reveal a six panel map of New York City.  A room with an adjoining bath (meaning two other rooms shared the bath) would set you…

  • THE GEM OF THE GYMS

    To help celebrate National Poetry Month, Painter/Poet and Hotel Chelsea resident George Chemeche sent us a poem.  THE GEM OF THE GYMSObituary to the Old Chelsea Y Welcome, members, the banners cry.Welcome to the old Chelsea Y.Show your cards. Towels on the house.They come one by one with their sneakers on.They come, but they won’t…

  • Poetry Powers Her Posturing

    Lipstick academic Camille Paglia has come out with a new “book” in which she critiques the forty-three greatest poems in English literature.  Excuse me, but didn’t her fellow blowhard Harold Bloom come out with something similar a few years back?  Something about the hundred works of literature that all literate humans must read?  Then, as…

  • NEW YORK BREAKDOWN

    I was coming out of Whole Foods on 7th Ave. around the corner from the Chelsea when I heard a loud crash.  A guy in a blue SUV had rear-ended a cab at the corner of 24th street.  Despite the loud noise, it was clear that neither of the cars had been damaged.     …

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – April 3 – April 9, 2006

    Monday, April 3, 8:00 p.m.Mike Sharpe, Professor Arturo, Thaddeus Rutkowski, and Andrew Kaufman will be reading at The Library Lounge biweekly poetry and prose series.  (Thad at the Chelsea.)The Telephone Bar,149 2nd Ave., at 9th St.  Monday, April 3, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. Sex Workers/Bloggers, including famed Chelsea Girl, will read from their work at…

  • Tourist Of The Week

    Blogger Stephen Art-East enjoyed his first stay at the Chelsea so much that he came back for a more. It was great to see the Chelsea again. Different room… same ramshackle deal, things not working, shabby, but bags of atmosphere and we’re rather in love with the place. It’s perfectly clean but most definitely NOT…

  • What’s Wrong With This Picture?

    Washington D.C. based photographer Elvert Barnes was in New York last week and since we’re so photogenic he stopped by and took a few photographs.  But the big mystery is why are those chairs empty.  Where are Dave and Robert?  Check out Elvert’s Chelsea Hotel flickr set. He’s even got a few shots of Vladimir,…

  • All Power To The Corporate Blog

    Earlier this week, Grumpy Old Bookman, a London-based book blog, linked to one of our posts.  One of Grumpy’s readers had the following comment: I followed the Chelsea blog for a time and find it a bit transparently promotional and probably put out by someone on the hotel payroll–which then leaves me a bit skeptical…

  • The Mysterious Life and Death of David Linter

    Seeing as how the tourists often end up with "Dave the Poet," in their lobby photos, we were hoping that Dave would reveal the dark inner secrets of the lobby, but I guess we’re going to have to get him drunk first.  Which poet do you most admire and how have they inspired your poetry?…