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  • Time in Place by Gerald Busby

    Traveling SalesmanIn the mid 60’s I was a traveling textbook salesman for Random House and Alfred A. Knopf.  My territory was the rocky mountain states.  Every day after visiting college teachers I would go to the practice rooms in the music school and play any piano that was free.  One day at Colorado State University…

  • Toast That Damn Puppy!

    May Wilson at Pavel Zoubok GalleryBabydolls and stuffed animals wrapped in stiff canvas, spray-painted in garish colors and trussed up in baling wire: silenced, shrouded, sealed over for eternity, mummified.  This lady sure had some dark, sadistic revenge fantasies.  B&D anyone?  A golden child is crucified, broken on a wheel, or else ensnared in some…

  • Where is Bonnie Kendall?

    What has happened to Bonnie Kendall?  A number of our neighbors have expressed concern as to the whereabouts of the Chelsea Hotel’s long-time telephone operator.  We haven’t seen her for a couple of months, and we have heard various rumors as to the circumstances under which she left the building.  (It’s been about a year…

  • Hotel Chelsea Blog News

    Earlier this week, BlogBurst, a syndication service of blogs run by Pluck Corp., unveiled blogs for a number of newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.  Why do we care?  Living with Legends: Hotel Chelsea blog was one of a 1,000 blogs selected by Pluck to launch this…

  • The Blisstones at the Chelsea

    If you can’t make it to the Blisstones performance tonight at The Saint in Asbury Park, New Jersey  check out their Chelsea Hotel video on Youtube.com.  Here’s what Laura Fay, the lead vocalist, has to say about being part of the Chelsea’s creative energy. My favorite Chelsea Hotel story is actually shooting our music video…

  • Come On Over Jen — We Could Use Some More Bloggers Around Here

    Jen Chung, the editor of Gothamist, has always dreamed of living at the Chelsea.  Well we wish she would move in too and then we would do a big blog merger — underwritten by Stanley Bard of course!    (Ooops, wrong Jen. Again, that’s what happens when you blog under the influence.  Here’s Jen Carlson…

  • Chelsea Hotel Newsmakers

    A brief round-up of recent media stories featuring former and current residents of the Chelsea Hotel. Zaldy goes shopping at Century 21. Ethan Hawke’s office goes up in flames. Musician Alejandaro  Escovedo, who stayed at the Chelsea during the days of Sid & Nancy, put on a great show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey…

  • 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…