Suzhou Creek

Critically acclaimed [i]Suzhou Creek[/i], as the name suggests, showcases the creek itself as well as many other famous Shanghai sights. In this film, Shanghai is presented as a brooding city where people are constantly searching for fulfilment.

Mission: Impossible 3

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In a thousand-and-one ways, Beijing is not only the dreary and sand-infested urbanity a superficial glance may suggest. Whether it be in the sphere of contemporary art, nightlife, or cuisine, the capital offers a laudable variety of things to be experienced. Until recently, though, boutique shopping wasn't included on ... Read more »

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City Weekend's Michael Engstrom: As many of your international fans may not understand English, where do you think your appeal lies for them?

Leona Lewis: It's kinda surreal to me that ... Read more »

At 2:28 today, the nation stood for three minutes of silence. Sirens blared, cars pulled to the side of the road and sounded their horns and nearly every person in Beijing stood silently, head lowered in thought or prayer.

From Monday through Wednesday, the national vigil for those lost ... Read more »

I love The Boat. Floating on the Liangma River, a five-minute walk from my house, The Boat is one of my favorite hangs in Beijing. They have a stage for live music on the glass-enclosed second floor and DJs in the below-river-level basement, not to mention good pizzas and Stella ... Read more »

Beijing of course is still up in arms over the cancellation of Midi next weekend, but that just means we can plan on getting out of town next weekend, right? Either way, it's best to make this weekend count. And, don't forget that this is the last weekend ... Read more »

I was in Sanlitun last night and witnessed a crackdown on two of the expat community's favorite DVD stores. Police watched over as employees cleaned all the DVDs from the shelves and placed them in garbage bags. When I left Mingle later in the evening, the lights were off ... Read more »

VOTING HAS ENDED!

Thank you to everyone who has voted and made this year's Readers' Choice Awards a success! Look for the June 5th issue for the result of the winners!

Who's the best restaurant in town? What's the bar everyone is talking about? Where do you ... Read more »

FRIDAY

If you've got tickets to James Blunt's sold-out show in hand, you're night is already planned, but the rest of us still have some great options: DJ Magazine's #10, David Guetta will be spinning his world renowned vocal house at Lan at 10, while earlier ... Read more »

The Kro's Nest at Gongti (along with other Gongti venues Mix, Vics, and Outback Steakhouse) is closed from April 14th to 21st due to security for the Brazil-Ghana Women's football match, according to TBJ.

Alas，this means the cancellation of planned events including Kro's Comedy Jam, formerly ... Read more »

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FRIDAY

There are occasionally those nights where there is so much going on in Beijing, that it's nearly impossible to decide what to do. Friday night is such a night.

DJ Paolo Mojo, one of the hottest electro maestro's on the planet, will be throwing down at China ... Read more »

After two years of operation, 798's only dedicated theater and performance venue, South Gate Space, was demolished last week in order to make way for further development. The South Gate Space was run by Thinking Hands, which puts on the Dangdai International Art Festival Each year. It hosted everything ... Read more »

The weekend is almost here, so it's time to get our extracurriculars in order. Here's your entertainment forecast for the weekend.

Friday

The weathermen are promising a chilly rain tomorrow night, so we suggest warming up after work with spicy hot pot at Sanlitun's Hai Di Lao ... Read more »

Every march around this time, my productivity levels drop and blood pressure rises as I take in what is to me (and all other natives of tobacco road) the most important religious celebration of the year: The NCAA tournament.

Today saw the start of the action with the righteous force ... Read more »

CW just received this call out from the MOB (Beijing's most organized and professional English speaking mountain bike club). They're looking for people to join the upcoming Huangshan bike race in April. The race is in its third year and is popular ride for mt. bikers across Beijing ... Read more »

It was a brisk mid-March day, and the hardy band of CW editors and CW editorial groupies (what, you didn't think we have groupies?) disembarked at the Wukesong subway stop on Line 1, right on time for a prime slice of America's pastime. Some might see the game ... Read more »

In Yan Zhang's "day" there are references to 13 classic works of literature, 10 Western and three Chinese. If you're as smart as your college degree says you are, name all 13 below and win—you guessed it—a stress relief massage from the Wuya Massage Spa valued ... Read more »

We have three great Cover Story ideas for our March 27-April 9 issue that we’re bandying back and forth in the office and we need YOUR HELP to decide.

Chinese Food

CW answers that burning question: What’s the BEST Chinese food in Beijing? Where do Beijingers like to ... Read more »

At City Weekend's office Chinese New Year's Party, there was this creepy foreigner singing the female lead of Xin Yuetuan's "One Night In Beijing." He had a vague resemblance to our dining editor Matt Schrader, who disappeared shortly before the performance began. Luckily, my cell phone can ... Read more »

Mia Farrow called me on the phone. My secretary took the call because I was on the other line with Steve, that's Steve Spielberg. He was asking me to join him in his withdrawal of support for the Olympics.

"No way, Steve. Those will be the only two weeks ... Read more »

It's hard not to love Ai Weiwei. Which says a lot for a face and a name that is as ubiquitous as his is in the Chinese art world. The man created Caochangdi and designed every building in it; he is hands down the most famous living Chinese artists ... Read more »

My first Chinese New Year experience in Beijing was a whirlwind week of sonic booms. The fireworks just didn't stop, and I didn't want them to ... at least not during day one. In every direction I looked there were kids setting their hands on fire, old men pounding ... Read more »