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  • Paris Photos

    Some of the most engaging photos I have seen from the demonstrations in Paris are being posted by former Chelsea Hotel resident Sparkle Hayter. Photo shown is by by a talented 20-year old named Charlotte Gonzale.

  • 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.…

  • Help Save One of Literatures Most Disreputable Homes: And It’s Not The Chelsea

    We hope that Bob and Patti don’t use up all of their energy defending literary love nests in London, because we here at the Chelsea may need to call on them some day.  With soulless yuppie condos springing up all around, where else but the Chelsea can future bohemians hope to compose their as yet…

  • 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…

  • DIESEL Channels the Chelsea

    The Diesel folks left out an important accessory in their homage to the Hotel Chelsea.   Around here the models accessorize with toliet paper rolls. Here’s what Suzy Menkes had to say about the show:  By the time Grace Jones {a former Chelsea resident} took to the runway, yelling and prancing in a studded leather hooded…

  • Listen to Patti Smith

    Listen to journalist Adam Phillip’s recent interview with Patti Smith. Smith also reads from her recently published collection of poems, Auguries of Innocence.  (Source: Voice of America)

  • Our Paris Correspondent Posts an Exclusive from London

    The Chelsea blog’s sparkling Paris correspondent takes us behind the scenes to the Resurrection Blues opening night after party.  She apologizes for the lack of photos, but she was too busy partying.  Seeing how that’s the case, all is forgiven. Transatlantic glitterati came out in strength to see and support former Hotel Chelsea resident Arthur…

  • Tourist Of The Week

    I thought perhaps one tourist in February was an anomaly, but now there is even more evidence that tourist season is starting early this year.  Lucky for us travel blogging is all the rage. Interestingly, Claudia was inspired to visit the Hotel Chelsea by reading Sarah Vowell’s book, Take the Cannolli.  Claudia, of course, receives…