Category: Hotel Chelsea
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What do you do?My name is Holly Williams, I am currently living between Nashville and LA.I am a singer/songwriter originally from Nashville. Sometimes I try toescape the pressure of writing country songs because of my family(mygrandfather is Hank Williams and my dad is Hank Williams Jr.) The Chelseainspires me, I have been touring all year…
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Sculptor Allen Jones mentions the Chelsea in a recent issue of the London Times.The painter and sculptor Allen Jones, 58, came to fame as a pop artist in the 1960s and is best known for his "furniture sculptures" of women in fetish gear. We were living in New York when we found out we were…
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Part II: Sandwiches (If you missed Part I, click here) Over the days that followed, more came to light. Jerry learned that his wife had opened several secret charge accounts over the years, which she had used to order things over the phone, running up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt. Naturally,…
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Marianne Faithfull and Patti Smith both turn 59 today. In a recent interview in the New York Post, Patti Smith talks about the 30th anniversary of "Horses.""I look at ‘Horses’ as being able to express things important to me when I lived at the Chelsea Hotel with my friend Robert Mapplethorpe," says Smith, referring the…
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Back in the day, DeeDee Halleck worked with former Chelsea Hotel resident/filmmaker Shirley Clarke. DeeDee Halleck is a media activist who founded the Paper Tiger Television Collective and co-founded the Deep Dish Satellite Network. Her films include Haiti: Bitter Cane, The Gringo in Mañanaland and Lock Down USA. DeeDee is very busy and didn’t have…
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The New York Times reviews some of the work presented at Daniel Reich’s temporary gallery space here at the Hotel. MSNBC reports that Ethan Hawke is seeking clemency for a murderer. He’s also getting set to direct a screen version of his first novel, The Hottest State. According to the London Telegraph, Pierce Brosnan, the…
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Part I: Donuts Before it closed, Donuts Sandwiches, along with the Chelsea and the McBurney Y, was one of the pillars of the Bohemian community of West 23rd Street. You could get a Cheeseburger deluxe — that’s a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, a pickle, and French fries—for $2.95 in the mid 90s. For a dollar,…
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Tuesday, Dec. 27, 10:30 p.m. You Talk the Talk, Now Walk The Walk! Susanne Bartsch, Kenny Kenny & Richie Rich invite you to a Catwalk Competition. Grand Prize — Two VIP All Access Tickets to the Spring Heatherette Fashions Show and Heatherette Head to Toe Outfits. HOSTS, AMANDA LEPORE, ANDREA & SOPHIA LAMAR.Happy Valley Tuesdays,…
