The 2012 City Weekend Readers' Choice Awards, held on May 23 at Migas, celebrated the best Beijing has to offer in dining and nightlife. Check out the full list of winners and see if your favorite spot made the cut.
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A sampling of amazing shots taken by students at a recent night/low-light workshop with Mitchell Masilun. For more photos, and tips on how to take your own night shots, see his blog post on the subject. Read More
Xyric is to date our youngest yet most confident Fashionista. At 18 years old, this style maven already has an entourage, and he showed up to the shoot with a crew and two suitcases in tow. “Darling,” he tells us in an exaggerated-British accent even Madonna would approve of, “what ... Read More
The World Health Store 12 Week Challenge is a competition that encourages participants to live a healthier lifestyle and transform their bodies in the process. Events scheduled throughout the Challenge include fitness training, yoga and special Heyrobics sessions.
The Kick Off Party was held on Saturday, May 5 at the ... Read More
It's spring, in fact almost summer, so i thought i would look around Beijing Technology and Business University and see what people are wearing. The girls were well dressed, as expected by the men. Sure the winter wear was far more interesting, but trust a student to find great ... Read More
We have a collection of stellar photos from Beijing’s premier hard rock festival, MIDI, which took place this past weekend at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. Read More
Beijing is important. So important that Lamborghini announced its new SUV sports car (weird idea, I know). This is my first Beijing Auto Show, being a veteran of many Australian international motor shows. This was bigger, better and way more brash. My favorite designer had his own stand.
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Beijing is the latest home for Patty, whose previous residences include Hong Kong, San Francisco and London. This means that her fashion style has a “mixed flair,” just like her hybridized accent. Graceful, petite and slender, this sylph admits that although she learned a lot about high-fashion labels in Hong ... Read More
XIU's Traffic Light Party on April 14 was an awesome night filled with naughty cops and sexy traffic wardens. Check out who wore green (totally available), who wore red (no way in hell) and who got booked by the sexy traffic cops. Read More
It looked like a beautiful day for cycling on April 14 at Bohai or Bust 2012. Hosted by Schoolhouse Mutianyu, Bohai or Bust asks Beijing to bike for a good cause. Participants choose a 11km, 32km or 72km course to cycle at their own pace--and this year, two of our ... Read More
The Ritz-Carlton, Beijing held their Spring Wedding Fair last weekend. They recreated the sparkly beauty of the Royal Wedding inside their opulent wedding chapel and ballroom with leading wedding gown designers and jewelers in attendance. At the fair, Ritz-Carlton, Beijing announced their 2012 wedding package of "double happiness, royal romance ... Read More
Mitchell Masilun shared with us a selection of best shots from The Hutong's HDR Photography Workshop. Want to learn more about HDR photography? Mitchell explains the basics of HDR photography in a CW blog post, but you can also take his photography workshop at The Hutong, check here for ... Read More
Street Kids partied for the greater goods last March, raising RMB11,521 for the Beijing-based Guang Ai school for homeless children. We've got photographs of the Street Kids crew taking a day out at Guang Ai, playing with some of the children and handing money over to founder Shi ... Read More
The motto for employees at the Ritz-Carlton is: “We are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen,” which means that Alberto, manager at Cepe, one of the finest Italian restaurants in Beijing, always looks his absolute best in every way. “I always need to look smart and well groomed, because ... Read More
Spring. It just feels so good after the long winter, the days are warm and the night getting warmer. Over the last week I've had my pocket camera trying to find the things that say "Beijing spring" to me as I move into my second year here. Some are ... Read More
The newly renovated Pentahotel Beijing launched an opening party with great music and over-the-top dance numbers that kept the party going until late into the night. They brought over DJ Andy Norman (from Hed Kandi music) and strange Zentai dancers clad in red bodysuits. We're thinking this hotel is ... Read More
“Limit yourself to only 50 shots? That’s for the advanced class, not the intermediate one…” was what came out of one of my students during my Intermediate Digital Photography workshop at The Hutong a few weekends ago.
I asked if some of them wanted a challenge while we were ... Read More
It was lights out for an hour at some of Beijing's best hotels. The Westin Beijing Financial Street, Raffles Beijing Hotel, Holiday Inn Central Plaza and the Ascott Beijing all committed an hour of darkness to support sustainable living and raise awareness. Earth Hour is a grassroots, worldwide movement ... Read More
Since Larissa was a child, her mom instilled in her that the most important thing is “to stand out from the crowd,” and she has been doing her damned hardest to do just that using obscure style to gain attention. “Whether it be wearing an overly textured sweater or donning ... Read More
The penthouse in The Opposite House is a very desirable room, that is designed wonderfully to play with the setting sun. I was privileged to come in when the room was used to display part of Red Gate Gallery's Brian Wallace's collection on the occasion of Liyu's ... Read More
Dancing (or posing) by dangerous looking people at the Bar at Migas? It's just another series of the Dance Dangereux party, Italian style. Mike Simonetti of the influential label Italians Do It Better rocked the newly opened Bar at Migas on Saturday, Feb. 25. It looked like some seriously ... Read More
There is something about French fashion designers that makes us weak. Maybe it’s the accent, or the appreciation of fine textiles. Whatever it is, Yves-Alexandre has it. With his deep-set eyes and perfect four-day-old scruff, he embodies a certain je ne sais quoi. Having lived in Beijing for the ... Read More
We checked out BEI's new collection at a spring launch party in Beijing on March 3 at the Bei Studio. Not only were designer Bei Chen's latest works on the runway, but her classic designs were on display as well. Bei is a graduate of Tsinghua University's ... Read More
Beijing is now one of the art capitals of the world, and even the workmen are getting involved. This is a series of wrapped trees along the city wall park. The wrapping is part practical, part Christo, part dancer, part lollipop. As I drove past the first time at dusk ... Read More
With matching Ariel-The-Little-Mermaid hair, identical bright green-grey eyes and alabaster complexions, it would be easy to mistake Megan and KC for twins. But they are not, and their divergent wardrobes reflect their distinct personalities. Megan, who prefers a sharp Armani suit jacket to KC’s vintage fashion finds, explains the ... Read More
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