By Kim Velsey 7/17/12 11:59am

Manhattan Transfers

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Smith and Mapplethorpe's first home hits the market

Clinton Hill Townhouse Where Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe First Lived Hits Market For $1 M.

The building where Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith shared their first apartment has hit the market! But in order to live in the Clinton Hill townhouse prospective owners will need to pony up more than the $80 a month that the couple paid to rent the second floor in 1967—the owner is asking $1 million.

In her book Just Kids, Ms. Smith writes about their first apartment at 160 Hall Street, where the two stayed up late painting and listening to records, making their early forays into the creative endeavors that would shape their lives. Read More

By Foster Kamer 5/31/12 1:29pm

THE HIPPING POINT

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Rockaway Beach: The Page Six Bureau (and What It Means For You)

Rockaway Beach: A well-established Hipster Hamptons of sorts for the last few years, a place many thought would hit fever-pitch sometime this summer, the moment when—like Williamsburg and Bushwick and Red Hook and hell, the rest of the entire borough of Brooklyn before it—well-heeled Manhattanites discover it, and then, ruin the fun for those who were ostensibly there “first.”*

First came The Taco Stand.

Then, the Trend Pieces.

Then, The Hoteliers.

And now: The Page Six Item.  Read More

By Drew Grant 4/23/12 1:47pm

books

One night only!

World Book Night: Be Prepared to Be Accosted With Free Bestsellers

Do you love giving away free books? Do you like receiving free books? Then come to Barnes & Noble in Union Square tonight for World Book Night: an evening when, across the country over 500,000 volunteers giving away some of their favorite (preselected) titles.  No, you won’t be able to get them as an ebook. You’ll actually have to schlep around a physical copies. But still…free books! Read More

By Stephen Duffy 1/13/12 11:32am

CHECKING OUT

I'll crash whenever I want.

Patti Smith Bows to Chelsea Tenants Pressure—But Not Before Playing a Private Gig

After releasing a statement on Wednesday outlining why she was still going to perform for the tenants at the Chelsea Hotel—despite their wishes—Patti Smith changed her mind and pulled out of the performance shortly before she was due onstage last night.

However, even though she bowed to the pressure and cancelled her Thursday performance for the tenants railing against her, The Architect’s Newspaper reports how she still did performed at the hotel this week to a crowd of media and art folks, a private performance for the hotelier on Wednesday. It seems the revered Ms. Smith has suffered from a serious bout of flip-flopping on the issue, which now appears to have been grossly ill judged, leaving her contradicting herself. Read More

By Stephen Duffy 1/12/12 3:28pm

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It won't be the same, will it? (PBS)

Because the Night Belongs to Chetrit: Patti Smith Still Playing Chelsea Hotel, Boos Be Damned

Patti Smith has come out in defense of her imminent gig at the Chelsea Hotel, releasing a statement that includes bullet points underlining her reasons for organizing this Thursday’s soirée. “My small performance for the tenants was my own idea.” She said, distancing herself from any collusion with the owners, “My hope is that we might have a nice evening and the opportunity to communicate directly.” Read More

By Emily Witt 8/15/11 12:12pm

Now A Major Motion Picture

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Patti Smith and John Logan to Adapt Just Kids For the Screen

Patti Smith will collaborate with John Logan (who wrote Any Given Sunday and Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming biopic Lincoln) on a screen adaptation of Just Kids. We vote for Charlotte Gainsbourg as Patti. (Or is that a terrible idea? She’s a little old for the part, no? Who smokes enough cigarettes these days?) And maybe Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Dunst as runner ups? Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/03/11 10:22am

The Eight-Day Week

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The Eight-Day Week: August 3-August 10

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 3

The Ultimate Art Machine

Is the Guggenheim the Shake Shack of museums? Locations, locations, locations! Not content with outposts in the Basque Country and the United Arab Emirates (as well as the now-shuttered Las Vegas outpost, which seems in retrospect a bit of an overreach…to Read More