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According to the Wall Street Journal, bloggers face a difficult decision: to go on vacation once in a while, or to just keep blogging everyday until the undertaker pries their cold, dead fingers from their keyboards. Well, we faced that choice this month, and decided to keep on blogging! For the first time in several…
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Well I was sitting on my window sill, watching the sky shifting, when a messenger arrived witha copy of the new Bob Dylan album. I gave old Glenn Gould a rest and put Modern Times in my player. To this day, it still feels funny sliding a CD in place instead of setting a record…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The great singer/songwriter and poet Patti Smith sent along her reflections on the month of August. Patti lived in the Chelsea with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the early 70s. She returned to the Chelsea and lived her for a time in the late 90s as well. August 9 full moon. This is the day…
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Recent posts about our illustrious proprietor Stanley Bard have generated a lot of controversy. Three daily readers weigh in with differing views on the matter: Something has recently struck me as somewhat unseemly, if not rather meanspirited. I’ve enjoyed this blog from the time you all kicked it off, but in catching up…
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We seem to have stumbled upon a trend here. David Goodwillie is the third author we’ve interviewed who got into the Chelsea via a sublet arrangement. It sounds like David’s arrangement turned out OK. He met Anna Wintour down in Serena’s and he scored a room with a view: "When I woke up and looked outside,…
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Sherill Tippins, the author of a forthcoming book on the history of the Hotel Chelsea, has been spending her time visiting the archives of famous former residents. Among other interesting artifacts, she has been known to find old Hotel Chelsea rent receipts. Recently she sent us a list of what apartments rented for at the…
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Each day, Six Apart selects one blog to promote as featured blog of the day. Last Sunday, Legends received this honor. Here’s what Six Apart had to say about our blog: “An amazing Slice-of-Life blog that chronicles the tapestry of personalities at the Chelsea .” They also reprinted a comment from one of our readers:…
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