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  • A Nagging New Year’s Greeting from Patti Smith

    Patti Smith’s New Year’s greetings arrived in our e-mail box a little late this year.  Frankly, I wish I hadn’t received it at all.  Who wants to be reminded by Patti Smith to go to the dentist and to change their socks. Give us a break! Sex, Drugs, and Rotten Teeth forever! Her advice for…

  • Patti Smith: New Year’s Eve at the Bowery Ballroom

    For the first time ever Patti Smith performed "Dream of Life," the only record she ever made with her late husband Fred Smith.

  • Morrissey Misses The Chelsea, Kinda Sorta

    Poor Morrissey! It’s so mind-numbingly boring in Texas. He can’t wait to get back to the Chelsea. Yeah, we feel for you Morrissey. But wait, do my eyes deceive me!? He seems to be saying that the Chelsea is insignificant!     What, Morrissey, you’re such a big, fat, scary celebrity that even huge, ten story…

  • Winston Giles Orchestra: Welcome To The Hotel

    The Winston Giles Orchestra is here to help you ring in the New Year Chelsea Hotel style.

  • Hotel Chelsea Nights

    Strung out like some Christmas lights out there in the Chelsea night….

  • The Most Covered Song Ever: Chelsea Hotel #2

    Well, according to our unscientific study conducted by searching youtube.com it’s Chelsea Hotel #2..  Almost every day a new version of this song pops up on youtube.com  For those of you who don’t know the history Leonard Cohen wrote this song to commemorate a one night stand with Janis Joplin, which occurred here a the…

  • Dee Dee Ramone’s Manuscript Still Available

    Here’s a gift suggestion for the Ramone fan on your gift list. Today is the final day that you can bid on Dee Dee Ramone’s unpublished autobiography manuscript.  The last time I checked the high bid was $659.57.    I guess the bids are not going to reach the same level  ($155,401) as that 1966…

  • LIBBY JOHNSON: ANOTHER LIFE AT THE CHELSEA

    Musician Libby Johnson is small and pixyish, fair-skinned and red haired like an Irish girl, with a cute, youthful face.  We interviewed her in her apartment at the Chelsea, as her husband Dan worked at his computer in the living room and her two kids romped about until Dan asked them go into the bedroom…

  • Win A Guitar Signed by Bob Dylan

    Slate magazine is offering a guitar signed by Bob Dylan to the person who can identify the year in which each piece of Bob Dylan footage shown below was filmed.  Twenty images of Dylan, 20 years—simple as that. For more information visit the Slate website.  We’re not going to give you anything, but we’d like…

  • Former Hawke’s Nest Rocks

    These tourists put Ethan Hawke’s old room to good use.  They used it as a recording studio back in November.  (Tough Cookie)