New Cabaret Bar The Bricks Jazzes Up Sanlitun's Live Music Scene
The trumpet blared, the piano dazzled, and the bass throbbed as the crowd looked on. The Alley Cats were clearly pleased to be performing outside of the fancier hotel bars that are their norm, in a...
View ArticleMelting Polar Ice Caps Mean That Beijing is in for Many More Airpocalypses,...
If you think Beijing's horrendous pollution levels couldn't get any worse, then brace yourself for more bad news. Yep, the capital's dismal air quality is linked to the fate of the melting ice caps.A...
View Article[UPDATED] Seeing Green: Beijing 2017 St. Patrick's Day Roundup
[UPDATED March 16, midday] Get ready Beijing, because next Friday, March 17, it is St. Patrick's Day again! Put on your greenest clothes, and find those beer goggles in the back of your closet, because...
View ArticleNoise Pollution, Mar 17-19: Miaou, Mike Watt & The Missingmen, Alpine...
We’re pretty much reaching full capacity right now with shows folks – I count over forty gigs going down this weekend and I still had to leave a few out for the sake of my fingers. Whether you want to...
View ArticleDavid Connolly of Bottega Takes Our St. Patrick's Day Quiz
Even though David Connolly works at one of Beijing’s most popular Italian restaurants, he’ll surely be hearing all about his native Ireland throughout the month of March. Indeed, the Kildare Town-born...
View ArticleBeijing Beats: François K, Ping Pong Discoteque, Soul Party Vol. 2, The Spice...
Beijing Beats brings you the best in Beijing nightlife each weekend so that you can soothe the woes of a long a stressful week with some out-of-body gyrating and some experiences you'd rather forget...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Congratulations to Our Sister Mag beijingkids,...
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’d like to take this Throwback...
View ArticleThe Job Hunt: Male Extras, Social Media Executive, PR and Social Media Lead,...
Spring is here! Who wants to spend Beijing's breezy and sunny days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see? As our beloved reader, you should know that you...
View ArticleChatter About More Business Teardowns Intensifies; Xingfucun and Fangjia...
Speculation is running rampant after it became known earlier this week that a wall will be erected on the Sanlitun North strip where Cheers, Turkish Doner, Sunnie American Diner, and other popular...
View Article[UPDATED] Foreigner Details Attack Outside of Beijing Bar, Outlines Police...
[UPDATED Mar 17, 1.45pm] The victim involved in the attack has contacted the Beijinger directly and would like it to be known that her assailants were both foreign and the attack was not racially...
View ArticleCCTV Accusations of Japanese Radioactive Food Cause a Media Meltdown, Muji...
It was supposed to be a night where the spotlight was shone upon unscrupulous retailers. Instead, a media blunder has reflected the attention of China's annual consumer rights special back onto itself,...
View ArticleChina Shows it Knows About Disney’s 'Beauty and the Beast’s''Gay Moment'
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast hits Chinese theaters today in a day-and-date global release, and the country’s censors...
View ArticleWhat’s Up in Beer: Time to Go Green With St. Patrick’s Day Deals, New Brews,...
In China people say spring is like a baby’s face; from a smile to crying it takes no time, and the changes in weather during this time of year can be just as rapid. Well, it looks like we're on track...
View ArticleRon Mexico Rides Again: Gulou’s 16-Square-Meter Bar Secures New...
The BeijingerBar and Club Award-winning Gulou microbar Ron Mexico will be moving to a new, larger location over the coming month. Owners Adam Gottschalk and Amir Avram secured the lease on a...
View ArticleQ&A With Jazz Icon Chick Corea Ahead of His March 24-25 Blue Note Gigs
After more than five decades of performing and recording, 63 Grammy nominations and 22 wins, and being mentored by and playing with Miles Davis and other legends, Chick Corea is still vital and...
View ArticleBeijing-Based Evoke E-Motorbikes Making China's Transportation Green and Fast
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode.Beijing-based smart motorcycle startup Evoke has grand ambitions to change the future of transportation, starting with China. Founded in...
View ArticleNew Spring Menu at Azur, the Shining Foodie Star of Western Beijing
We have to confess that, being quite spoiled, we seldom head to the west of the city, but we feel that Azur by Mauro Colagreco on the first floor of the Shangri-la Hotel (by the West Third Ring Road)...
View Article‘Dunkirk’ Probably Won’t be Cut By Chinese Censors Thanks to Harry Styles
Director Christopher Nolan’s new film Dunkirk has a good chance of making it to Chinese cinema screens this year and if it does make it, it probably won’t be cut by censors thanks to former boy band...
View ArticleBeicology: Want to Know Which Factories Are to Blame for Bad Air? Check This...
In Beijing, few questions are more contentious than: "What is the main culprit behind our smog?" Some of us insist that vehicles are to blame, while others swear that the source of our grey skies is...
View ArticleTwoface: Slick and Vintage Cuts for Men and Women at Sanlitun's 3.3
I had a hard time of getting a haircut when I was young. Lack of style treated me well (at least until I was old enough to recognize a decade’s worth of criminal bowl cuts) and having my own personal...
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