Flippant festival footnotes
I went to the Beijing Pop Festival in Chaoyang Park two weeks ago and happily found proletarian beer prices: 4 yuan for a can of Blue Diamond. As…
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A Cup-le of observations
On my planet, the World Cup is a colossal chalice from which the peoples of the globe take a healthy draught in the name of peace. On this one, it…
Beijing Boyce XVIII: Closing Shots
This issue marks more than 50,000 words of Beijing Boyce and the completion of a goal that dates decades. I was but a seven-year-old prodigy when I endured my classmates‘…
Beijing Boyce XI: Closing Shots
I ran into Steve Kuhn, the brains behind beijinglives.com, in The Bookworm. The website is going strong with info on events, bars and restaurants, and real estate and business, and…
I got your Olympics opening act!
The most impressive sight in Beijing is not The Great Wall, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven or even watching Agent Red Wolf consume half a week’s salary in Mojitos in…
What the “fiscally elite” in China drink
Hurun Reports has released its second annual survey of China‘s fiscally elite (sample size: 589 people with at least 10 million kuai in wealth). Here are the top three in…
Beijing Boyce X: Closing Shots
A Horizon survey recently ranked Beijing as the fifteenth best city, and that is only in China. Ouch! If my daily observations are any indication, Beijing’s drop from third last…
42 new bars
As we approach the Year of the Dog, here are the bars and clubs I predict will emerge from Beijing’s mist (okay, it’s probably smog, but let’s be optimistic). Lady…
House party with YC and the Sunshine Band!
Yvonne C (all-around embassy partier) and Dan S (one of the city’s food whizzes) threw a house party a couple of weeks back. I can’t remember the last time I…
Be a funky Santa
Here’s a story in the spirit of A Christmas Carol: that’s Beijing held its annual charity funk party last Saturday to fund heart surgery for an orphan named Dang Tianyue…
Maligayang Pasko!
Beijing’s Filipino community – and it really does define “community” – was out in full force last Sunday for the annual Christmas party in the Philippines Embassy. The only people…
Shall and shall nots for bar patrons
Last issue, I listed some resolutions for bar managers and employees and, based on my experience of the past two weeks, they don’t read or don’t care about my humble…
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