Community News

Get British

There are two kinds of people in this world: British people, and those who want to be British. Both groups would be well advised to snap up tickets while they have the chance for British Ball 2007, an evening of fun and dancing with the British Ambassador as the guest of honor. See Community Events for more information.

Bar News

5:19 closing

Farewell 5:19. You will be missed. This outpost of chill on Super Bar Street’s expanse of concrete wasteland will be ceding its place now that the building’s owner has sold off the property.

Shisha stop

Sanlitun shisha is delicious, but it is too far for the masses of hearty lungs living south of Guomao. Sit Down Please, a café offering more than just the usual one or two flavors of tobacco, is now open in Fulicheng. Puff away, ye’ hearty souls, puff away.

City News

Line 5 opens. No really.

After a series of false starts, the Beijing Line 5 subway tease has ended, and the line is now open for your commuting enjoyment. This hi-tech underbelly puts even Hong Kong’s subway to shame.

Web News

Rightly Sterile Speech

In its ongoing quest to purify the internet of all non-harmonious influences, the Public Security Bureau has ensured that stubbornly non-harmonious RSS feeds are, for your safety, now inaccessible.

Tag Team Urologists

Local heroes of everything indie, Tag Team Records, has launched a monthly podcast to keep you clued into China’s burgeoning indie scene. The podcast, affectionately titled “Pissing on the Bamboo Curtain,” is hosted by Indie Night DJs Kyle Schaefer and Ian Sherman. www.tagteamrecords.com

Sexy BJ relaunch

Ms. Su Fei has enjoyed a stellar year in online media. Her online show, Sexy Beijing, which she produces with partner Luke Mines, has been featured on the BBC, CNN and NBC. After more than a year at Danwei TV, Su Fei is branching out on her own with the launch of sexybeijing.tv. The spellbinding first episode is about Lowenberg’s 70-year family history in China and her obsession with Chinese men. It includes an analysis of Lowenberg from her psychoanalyst father whose family fled to China from Germany during the 1930s.