With nearly two decades of publishing under its belt in our fair city, City Weekend issued a simple “Farewell Beijing, we will miss you all!” today. Linked to a clip from the Sound of Music. (Yes, […]
By Jim Boyce | Last night’s mission: visit the new First Floor. Revised mission after visiting 1F: check out other veteran Beijing bars and bar people in the Sanlitun-Gongti bar scene. A quick recap. The mommy […]
The new First Floor is a sprawling something-for-everyone venue in Sanlitun Soho that now needs to attract that everyone. Last night, as on my first visit a few weeks ago, I found a sparse crowd […]
By Jim Boyce | I can’t manage to follow the bar scene within a mile radius of BB HQ in the Gongti-Sanlitun zone let alone what’s happening in the entire city. But there are people […]
By Jim Boyce | It’s Wednesday, you’ve made it halfway through another working week, and it’s time to celebrate with food and drink. Good-value food and drink. Check out these deals. (If you know of […]
By Jim Boyce | Fiery foods and heavy workouts both release pain-numbing endorphins, so it seems fitting that bodybuilder Ankit Nayal won the Beijinger Chili Pepper Eating Contest on Saturday. Even more harmonious: Nayal hails […]
By Joyce Bim | Our event research team has dedicated hundreds if not thousands of hours analyzing promotion ideas for Beijing’s best sports bar, Paddy O’Shea’s. Because that venerable venue will mark its 10th anniversary on […]
By Jim Boyce | Mike Wester will finish a month-long 900-km walk for charity today that gave him a renewed sense of Beijing. Here are eight thoughts inspired by his million-plus step mission for Maovember. […]
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