Who Knew? Pinganli is Home to One of Beijing's Best "New" Music Venues: 80 Music
You know you’ve landed somewhere special when the bartender hands you an RMB 15 draft beer in a red cup. Literal tears in my eyes. And that was just the beginning. There is a new venue to be reckoned...
View ArticleRoyal Manchu Ice Skating Performances This Week Only at Beihai Park
Outfitted with armor, helmets and skates, you'd easily mistake them for participants in a local hockey scrimmage if it wasn't for their authentic-looking Qing dynasty-era costumes. But instead, these...
View ArticleWe Matter: HPV Awareness Workshop at The Bookworm, Jan 31
HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus, is a commonly found sexually transmitted virus with a prevalence rate of as high as 60 percent among sexually active individuals. While the infection is usually fought...
View ArticleHead to Colormore for Healthy Salads in Sanlitun
It's not easy to find a restaurant in Sanlitun at the lunch peak without huge queues, meaning there's always a gap in the market for more healthy, affordable choices. As such, when we saw that...
View ArticleBreaking: Game Over for 8-Bit, Closing Party Jan 27
It's game over for yet another popular hutong venue. 8-Bit owner Dale Irons tells the Beijinger that the video game themed bar will soon close. He has planned a final farewell party for Saturday, Jan...
View ArticleBeijing Beats: Farewell to 8-Bit, Seoul-ful LGBTQ DJ's at Dada, Ministry of...
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long and stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...
View ArticleCommuted Sentence: Beijing's Traffic is the Second-Worst in China
The good news: Your crowded Beijing morning commute just got better. The bad news: Beijing's commute is so bad that it can only get better.Year-end reports are saying that Beijing has been ranked as...
View ArticleWeChat Pay Now Allows Users to Bind Overseas Credit Cards
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Tencent’s WeChat Pay, one of China’s major mobile payment services, announced today that international credit cards are now allowed on the...
View ArticleWill Bruno Mars Funk Beijing Up on Apr 25? Buzz About Wukesong Show Begins
Today you might not want to do anything. You might just want to lay in your bed. But here’s some news that’ll make your laziness disappear and have you get up and humming “The Lazy Song”, instead....
View ArticleThe Job Hunt: Copy Editor at the Beijinger, Events Planner at the British...
Who wants to spend their Beijing days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see again? As our beloved reader, you should know that you don't have to submit...
View ArticleNoise Pollution: School Bar Awards, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Ghetto...
Although it’s starting to feel like the holidays already, we still have a few more weekends to kick up as much dust as possible and wail our hearts out before the sound of fireworks invades our...
View Article4corners to Host Club Paradise-Soundtracked 6th Anniversary Party, Jan 27
Fresh off being inducted into the Beijinger’sDining Hall of Fame,4corners owner and chef Jun Trinh still has plenty to celebrate. Specifically, his Drum Tower adjacent Vietnamese-fusion restaurant is...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: A Month of Record-Breaking Challenges at the Beijinger
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful of yesteryear.We love challenges. Be it a silly...
View ArticleCookie Monster Charity Bake-Off Returns Mar 25; Enter Before Mar 2 for Your...
The Cookie Monster Charity Bake-Off returns for its fifth year at The Hutong this Mar 25 for a day of fun, cookies, and a guaranteed sugar rush, all in the name of charity. Well, charity and massive...
View ArticleLace Up: Beijing's Best Indoor and Outdoor Rinks for Ice Skating
Whether you're a wobbly beginner, or able to zip around in artful figure eights, there are few things more exciting than lacing up your skates and gliding across the ice. Thankfully, there's no...
View ArticleExodus: 22,000 Beijing Residents Leave City After Overcrowding Measures Take...
When Beijing drops a hint that they want you to go, people listen.22,000 permanent residents decided to leave the capital last year, local statisticians told a press conference last week. The 0.1...
View ArticleShare Industry Goes Too Far With Bed-Sharing App Shut Down for "Promoting...
China's booming share economy looks to have overstepped itself with a new service that aimed to put men and women into the same bed for the purpose of saving money.The bed-sharing app "Shared...
View ArticleHigh Energy Fun at Dada on Jan 27 With Seoul's LGBTQ Friendly Shade Crew
Beijing party people: prepare to get down for a progressive cause. Some of South Korea's most forward-thinking DJs, drag queen dancers, safe space advocates and more are making their way to Dada for an...
View ArticleNow Online!: The Beijinger January/February 2018 Issue
To the uninitiated, life in Beijing can often feel unforgiving; support networks can be hard to access, the familiarity of home is far away, and vices are all too easy to come by. That’s why we’ve...
View Article5 Things to Taste, Smell, Touch, Hear, and See This Weekend
Beijing can be overstimulating, to say the least. Let’s be real: Sometimes even our sixth sense gets a decent workout, the one where you know that stick of chuan'r will get you sick for the next two...
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