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  • Australian Novelist Bruce Russell Recalls The Chelsea

    Being There, Being Here “Foreign Correspondent” Segment, May 15, 2007 (The segment is now available for viewing online.  Click through and scroll to the bottom of the page for the link.) As I followed the camera into the lobby and fixed on the familiar features of Stanley Bard, I tried to resist the inevitable nostalgia…

  • More Reviews from Australia

    At some point in the near future the documentary will be online.  In addition, you can hear Ed in a follow-up interview on Friday at 10:30 a.m.  He will be a guest on "The Naked City," a program on Australian public radio FBi 94.5. The station also streams online. Hi Ed, Just a note from…

  • Reviews from Australia Begin to Trickle In

    Hi Ed,Just saw the report on Foreign Correspondent (thank god for public television!). Great story by Michael Maher. Good luck with keeping the development bastards at bay. Hope you’re having great weather there. It’s approaching winter here and we REALLY need rain. Terrible drought. Hope you all have a great day at the Chelsea. Would…

  • Chelsea Hotel: Hot Bed of Radicalism

    Over the past couple of weeks, Chelsea Now has been running a series about the Chelsea Hotel.  Mary Reinholz  (Mary’s piece doesn’t seem to be online) and I wrote companion pieces and Linda Troeller contributed a photo spread.  More recently, David Gibbons interviewed Stanley Bard. Reinholz lived here in the 70s, smack dab in the …

  • You Can’t See the Stars for the Basement

    We thought we were special because we couldn’t get into Star Lounge, but it turns out no one else can either! Since we can’t get in we’ll have to get our review material second hand: 1. Décor: The NYT reports that it looks like a “fancy submarine” which is appropriate, situated as it is beneath…

  • Money for Cockroaches

    If you’ve seen anything like this around put it in a jar and drive it to Houston, Texas where it’s worth $0.25.  We know that they would like to have a cockroach from the Chelsea Hotel for their exhibit. 

  • Visit Cancun Instead, Katy & Becca!

    Katy and Becca are planning to visit the Chelsea, the "grime-caked mecca" that harbored such reprobates as Dylan Thomas and Sid Vicious, and "suck the  air from the vents."  These young college-bound students have been working for the man and holding gypsy yard sales in order to raise the scratch necessary to bankroll their $300-a-night(!)…

  • Once Again, No Stars at Star Lounge

    The New York Press’s blog reports on the premier party for "The Cake Eaters," which was held last night in the Star Lounge in the basement of the Chelsea Hotel.  By all accounts, it was just about as star filled as the premier party for "Factory Girl."   Perhaps this also explains all of the uneaten…

  • READING IN DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD—YIKES!

    Sometimes life intervenes and we have to get to leave the Chelsea for a while.  Last week, we were in San Francisco.  Since we’re bookworms at heart we were able to hook up with some like minded folks Thursday night.  Coincidentally, Kemble Scott, editor of SoMA Literary Review, which published a story by Ed a…

  • McBURNEY YMCA CONTINUES MISSION OF COMMUNITY DESTRUCTION

    What’s the matter jokers, didn’t you (the board) make enough money from the sale of the beautiful old McBurney building on 23rd Street?  The McBurney Y has a deficit for 2006 and they’re scapegoating the Health & Wellness program and are planning to “restructure.”  The fitness program is one of the strongest community-oriented programs remaining…