Beijing Boyce

City Weekend is looking for a Beijing Entertainment Editor to cover the city’s dining scene as well as the community and sports sections. The magazine seeks someone who is familiar with the dining scene and has editorial experience, strong writing skills, and conversation Chinese skills. For more details, see this ad on the City Weekend Web site.

Coming hard on the heels of The Haiku Challenge, my new contest - The Celebrity Pub Crawl - is off to a roaring start with… uh… one participant (thanks m-dawg).

I don’t know what is more depressing: 1) the lack of participation or 2) that five people told me via the Internet that they draw a blank when they see Miami Vice’s Crocket and Tubbs, the focus of this week’s contest.

Talk about making a guy feel dated.

Then again, I’m glad I didn’t use The Golden Girls, The A-Team, The Brady Bunch or Australia soap Neighbours (check out Kylie Minogue in this clip. Who’da thunk she’d go on to remake The Locomotion).

Really, it’s not that hard. The original contest post has a link to the show’s opening credits (probably the only one in history to include a clip of jai alai) and a pivotal scene (with Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight).

Simply post a comment about where you would take Crockett and Tubbs for drinks in our city. At this point, your odds of winning are extremely high. (My sponsors must be proud.)

If that sounds too difficult, I can make it even easier…

The show features two cops who wear pastel clothing and three-day shadows, drive around Miami in fancy cars, and bust drug dealers. Maybe they’d be good in a place that has Latin music… maybe like that place near The Bookworm. Its name consists of two words - the first is a condiment used with tortilla chips, the second sounds very close to the word “caribou“… hint, hint…

The deadline for entries is tomorrow at noon.

The prizes:

- A bottle of Grace Vineyard Tasya’s Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from Torres

- A package of four books - Insider’s Guide to Beijing 2008, Mandarin Phrasebook, Healthy Chinese Cuisine: A Restaurant Ordering Guide, and Spicy Chinese Cuisine: A Restaurant Ordering Guide - from Immersion Guides.