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 »

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 »

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.

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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)

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I wake up to a song sung by my daughter Qi Qige ... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »