Sid. Nancy. Janis. Ethan. We all know the vaunted history of the Hotel Chelsea by now, right? Well, in case you somehow managed to get through the past few decades without hearing all about the boozy, bloody past of this landmark on 23rd Street, along comes yet another movie set at the hotel to enlighten you. Unlike Ethan Hawke’s Chelsea Walls, Abel Ferrara’s Chelsea on the Rocks is a documentary—kind of.
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We know, we know, you’ve probably all had enough of Kayne West by now, what with the news that “I’ma Let You Finish T-shirts” are now on sale. But the star of this little tale is actually his lady friend, Amber Rose.
The set? The Hotel on Rivington. The Ford Model and the Lower East Side hotel both appear in a fashion spread in the latest issue of ELLE, although the chicks over at Jezebel were dismayed that the shoot was “asinine” and “ass-centric.”
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Just as all normal folk would and should be, we were highly excited at the prospect of sleeping with Richard Gere when we first got wind of his plans to open up an eight-bedroom bed and breakfast above his restaurant at the Bedford Post Inn in New York State.
So when we spied on the website that the B&B (the Inn part of the title) was already in its soft opening period, we thought we’d try and go along. The only problem – there were no prices advertised, and the website didn’t take reservations. No matter, we thought; we’ll just call.]]>