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  • ETHAN HAWKE SUMMONS PROPHETS TO END WAR

    MUSIC AND STARS AT BRUCE LEVINGSTON’S FIFTH ANIVERSARY GALA FOR THE PREMIER COMMISSION On our way out the door to the pianist Bruce Levingston’s concert at the Lincoln Center, the desk clerk at the Chelsea, having little faith in my powers of concentration, warned me not to fall asleep. But there was no danger of…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – March 27 – April 2, 2006

    Monday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.John Weir, the author of one of the first novels to deal with the AIDS crisis will read from his most recent book, What I Did Wrong.Half King 505 West 23rd St., NY NY Tuesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m.The Algonquin Hotel (the other literary hotel) is the location for the book…

  • It’s All About The Snakes

    Just like we said last week, everybody remembers the snakes!  Peter Sanford interviews Rebecca Miller about her film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, which is opening in the UK this week.  The article briefly mentions the Chelsea. Rebecca’s childhood was, in her recollection, ‘very normal’ – loving parents, growing up on a farm, going…

  • Mary J. Bilge Stops by the Chelsea

    After 14-Year Career Mary J. Bilge Proud to Still Be A Work in Progress(AP Photo/Jim Cooper)

  • Don’t Visit the Basement Or You Might Wet Your Pants

    I love articles that start out by telling you that they’re not going to be any good (The Independent).  That gives me an excuse to not read them.  But I soldiered on through Tracey Emin’s hang-over noodlings because I wanted to see what she said about the Chelsea.  And boy am I glad I did.…

  • Slapped Down By Prize-Winning Novelist

    A while back I posted that I was planning to read a book called Stuart: A Life Backwards, which I remarked was a "non-Chelsea related" title.  But, Whitbread prize-winning novelist Joan Brady (Theory of War) has just written to tell me how wrong I was: In re Alexander Masters, he is in fact the great…

  • The Truth About Those Fancy Hotels Continued

    Part IV: Another Sort Of Hotel (Parts I, II, & III)             The old woman wore herself out early from singing all day, and went into her room and closed the door at about nine o’clock that evening.  I was still pissed off about having been deprived of sleep.  By this point…

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties – March 20 – 26, 2006

    Monday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and Rufus Wainwright will join peace activist Cindy Sheehan for the Bring ‘Em Home concert. The event will benefit the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. The evening’s guest hosts will include such celebrities as Jane Fonda,…

  • Sexy Romp at the Seedy Chelsea

    Elefant singer/indie rock sex symbol Diego Garcia falls into a videotaped romp with a lolita at the famously seedy Chelsea Hotel. The debauched experience seems to set the whole band in a mad panic, which is compounded by the realization that someone has tampered with their instruments. The obvious precursor to this gritty, yet artful…

  • Singer Holly Williams is Hospitalized

    Hank Williams Sr.’s granddaughter and frequent Hotel Chelsea guest, Holly Williams, is reported to be in serious condition following an automobile accident.  "Holly Williams, 25, and her sister, Hillary, were going the funeral of their maternal grandfather Wednesday afternoon when the crash occurred about 45 miles from Memphis, Williams` publicist told the Memphis Commercial Appeal."…