Category Archives: Charlie’s

Nineties Flashback: Foreign Babes in Beijing

Don’t worry Jiexi.  I’ll get Nightman tickets somehow… – American Rachel DeWoskin played the vixen in a 1995 TV drama called Foreign Babes in Beijing that was seen by as…

One of those days… Charlie’s

Tuesday was one of those days when emails swamp your in-box faster than you can bail them out, when you show up for an appointment that doesn’t work out, when…

Readers’ Writes I: Don, Olli, Eddie and Jason

Welcome to Readers’ Writes week, starring the collective wisdom of 17 fellow bar-goers who answered my survey about their favorite Beijing drinking holes and the city’s general nightlife scene. They…

Mexican Wave: Since, uh, 1988

M-dawg and I decided to check out Charlie’s, the oldest bar in town, but since it was closed for renovations, we visited another “old timer” in Beijing – Mexican Wave….