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Beijing's Fashionable Furrier
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) Furrier David Ubl creates sleek fashions from quality skins. Here he takes CW along for a day in his shoes, creating clothes for Beijing's beautiful set. Check out his designs at davidubl.com 7:30 Like every other morning, my phone rings and wakes me up. The first—and ... Read more »
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FASHIONISTA: Silver Bullet
by Feer Han (Fashionista) It’s a Saturday night at Bling and you're scoping out the scene when, from the corner of your eye, you see Snoop Dogg grooving to DJ Keza. But wait, on further inspection you realize this Doggfather is far more dapper and stylish than Snoop ever was. You've ... Read more » |
FASHIONISTA: The Stylite
by Feer Han (Fashionista) Don’t be fooled by the jubilant façade. For Nels Frye, style is no laughing matter. Combining a love for China and a love for fashion, Nels has made a name for himself as a serious fashion commentator with his Beijing blog, Stylites. Painstakingly selective when it comes to the ... Read more » |
Wang Qingsong plays with time in "Three Video Projects"
by Laura Fitch (Art Review) Contemporary art often veers into frustratingly abstract territory, and no medium more so than video installations. Artists tend to focus on building a feeling through pictures, but lack even a rough frame on which to hang the images. Wang Qingsong is the rare artist who easily navigates such obstacles. In ... Read more » |
Beijing Bluegrass Gets a Taste of Sweet
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) From LGBT center lectures to crooning ballads in Beijing clubs, it’s all in a day’s work for bluegrass band The Redbucks singer Daisy Sweetgrass. [Eds. note] If you haven't been to a Redbucks gig yet - mark your calendar for the next time they play. This is one ... Read more » |
Beijing Gets a Taste Of Africa at the Turay Afrika House Project
by Laura Fitch (My Peeps) Note: Turay's Afrika House has closed due to fire. What’s this Turay Afrika House Project all about? Entertaining Afro-Caribbean social activities, African restaurants, bars, an art gallery, hair braiding salon and media outfit. It’s a branch of a multi-purpose cultural company we have put in place as ... Read more »
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The Judge: CW Sits Behind the Table with Marco Huang
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) Judgin’, like pimpin’, ain’t easy. From frostbitten fingers to choosing winners and losers, it was a long day for Marco. But we’re curious what his crew got up to after 2am at Tango. Check out the competition results at mellowparks.cn, or tell us what you think of ... Read more » |
Shape Shifters: New Age Gallery Shines a Spotlight on Sculpture
by Laura Fitch (Art Review) For many an art world layman, the word "art" often brings to mind images of paintings, drawings, photos or other two-dimensional works. But sculpture is very much an art form, if one that is often overlooked by the masses in favor of colored bits of canvas. New Age Gallery's ... Read more » |
Fashionista: Shred Head
by Feer Han (Fashionista) Wang Lei, one of China's top professional snowboarders, is not only a passionate rider, but he also digs everything that comes with the lifestyle. He shreds righteously and looks damn good while doing it. This slope-styler likes to whip across the powder at Jundushan and Duolemeidi (see p. 54 ... Read more » |
New Eats: Cafe D'Or Is Home to Beijing's Newest Champagne Brunch
by Sienna Parulis-Cook (The Dish) Home to the city’s newest Champagne brunch, TANGLA Hotel’s Café d’Or boasts a well-executed and decently-sized buffet, as well as top class service. The buffet (¥193 for lunch, ¥250 for dinner) spans two sunny dining rooms. One is stocked with a salad area, seafood and Japanese cuisine ... Read more » |
FASHIONISTA: Gossip Girls
by Feer Han (Fashionista) When Katy and Elouisa showed up to the Fashionista shoot fresh-faced and in matching Juicy Couture sweat-suit getups, they could have passed as a couple of freshman girls at a Sunday sorority meeting. Usually, Katy is dressed in something tight and black that shows off her hour-glass figure, while Elouisa ... Read more » |
Saddle Up with Beijing's Top Trainer
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) We were longing to hear “Giddiyap cowboy!” from Zhang Ke, but he’s too professional to live up to our Wild West expectations. You can check out Zhang’s stellar horsemanship at Equuleus (www.equriding.com) 6:20 I wake up to a song sung by my daughter Qi Qige ... Read more » |
Get Rid of Your Second Hand Clothes
by Laura Fitch (My Peeps) Ever felt guilty about tossing out old-but-still-good threads? April Nigh, Chair of the Rotaract Clothing Drive, tells us how much they want our pants. Is this Beijing’s first used clothing drive? As far as I know, other than ad hoc drives in response to the 2008 earthquake, there has ... Read more » |
Works in the Future Tense
by Laura Fitch (Art Review) In a country where pollution is as much byproduct of factory output as it is dust kicked up from the innumerable construction sites that are rapidly expanding China's urban centers, "3D City: Future China" at the Beijing Center for the Arts is a refreshing look at a possible future ... Read more » |
Don't Eat Friends
by Laura Fitch (My Peeps) For some Beijing pets, it's a cold and lonely winter. Animal abandoments spike during the holidays in the capital. Xie Zheng, of Don't Eat Friends gives us the lowdown on how to help furry friends in need. Why do animal abandonments spike during the holidays? During summer or ... Read more » |
Wen Fang Wields the Power of the Pen in "Birthday Present"
by Anthony Tao (Art Review) Many an amateur art critic has shaken his head in frustration or bemusement at intentionally vague works and their accompanying descriptions. But Wen Fang's "Birthday Present" - currently on display at Galerie Paris-Beijing in 798 - is an exercise in directness that neatly excises any distraction from her intended meaning. Six ... Read more » |
FASHIONISTA: Free Willow
by Feer Han (Fashionista) This winter in Beijing, when you see young women sporting peculiar, intriguing cube designs on their coats and skirts, you can be certain that fashion designer Alicia Lee had everything to do with it. As she says, “‘The Cube’ represents a surrealistic world—one with no color and only the ... Read more » |
Manga Gone Mad
by Laura Fitch (Art Review) Beijing Tokyo Art Projects | Super Acrylic Skin Photon — Imaginary Temperature ★★★✩✩ The first solo show on the Chinese mainland for Japanese animation artist Hiroyuki Matsuura is now on at Beijing Tokyo Art Projects. It’s an all-too-brief foray into the fascinatingly kitsch world of manga. From a sensory perspective, the show ... Read more » |
Indie Director Makes Movie Magic
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) Making movies, like pimpin', ain't easy. Indie director Sean Wang's day of filming was hectic, swinging from a steamy love scene to a car crash on the frozen streets of Beijing at 2 in the morning. Between sneakily using university recording equipment for private filming to rigging up ... Read more » |
Beijing Expats Find Faith
by Laura Fitch (Great Expatations) CW's intrepid columnist visits The Embassy, a weekly meeting for young Christians run by the Beijing International Christian Fellowship Some religious services advertise spirituality over religion, but The Embassy, Beijing International Christian Fellowship’s Thursday night youth service, makes no such claim. It is a Christian service, not watered ... Read more »
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Beijing Hearts MJ
by Laura Fitch (My Peeps) We sat down with Michael Jackson China fan club president Zhang Rui to discuss the star's legacy in the Middle Kingdom. How many people are in the Michael Jackson fan club in China? Over 81,000. The number has doubled since his passing. What kinds of things does the ... Read more » |
FASHIONISTA: Xiao Bizzle
by Feer Han (Fashionista) Part of the allure and magnetism of Beijing is the promise of opportunity and reinvention. Take Will Bernholz, a.k.a. Xiao Bizzle. Hailing from the southern states of the U.S. of A., Bernholz moved to Beijing and in just a few months was getting down with the top ... Read more »
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Yumen 2006-2009
by Laura Fitch (Art Review) Once the cradle of China’s petroleum industry, the town of Yumen in Gansu Province is a now a rundown backwater town, perpetually shrouded in pollution and overrun with shuttered storefronts and disgruntled workers. When Zhuang Hui and his girlfriend Dan’er decided to open a photography studio here in ... Read more » |
The Irish Cultural Warrior
by Laura Fitch (Day in the Life) GPS company employee by day, tireless Irish culture promoter by night, Colin Saunders takes CW along for a day in his shoes. Organizing the capital's Irish community on top of a 9 to 5 makes for a long day, but Saunders gets through it with a little help from ... Read more » |
Better Than Sex
by Laura Fitch (Great Expatations) Of all the complaints launched against Beijing by my female friends, the only thing that comes up as often as the lack of acceptable men is the lack of good chocolate. So noble a confection, more than mere nectar or ambrosia, the true food of the gods has somehow been ... Read more »
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