Europe’s classiest sports league brings “the pitch” to Beijing, with eight matches being broadcast over the next two days.

This weekend is the European man’s game, football. With 16 teams to fill your evening time slots, the next two days feature match play from The Gunners, The Villans ... Read more »

No one said life as a Chinese high school student was easy, but those looking to apply for colleges in the United States are finding it harder than it should be to get a seat for standardized tests without paying extra for a guaranteed seat from a scalper.

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Every Thursday, the Beijing Weekender distills our database of weekend nightlife events down to the parties and live shows you simply can't miss.

FRIDAY

With his innovative new album "Involver 02" winning accolades from the likes of Thom Yorke, the #8 DJ on the planet, Sasha, pumps his laptop ... Read more »

A few weeks ago I got an extremely depressing letter. "Dear Emma," it read, "Your Mom sent you delicious, home baked cookies, but we have decided to hold them ransom until you come and pick them up. Our hours are extremely inconvenient, and no, we won't just deliver them ... Read more »

Qbert’s gig at Mix tonight has been postponed until 2009.

No official explanation out yet, but promoter Dan Stephenson says Qbert is disappointed about not playing, but definitely looking forward to making the gig happen next year. In the mean, Mix is still going to rock tonight. The club ... Read more »

We should call this a National Incident, or -- rather -- a Tiantongyuan Incident.

Turns out that when the Jing goes totally all-heck bolonzos (that's a David Feng aka Beijingologist term meaning "total nuts") on cockroaches in less than 48 hours' time...

...Tiantongyuan, home to the most way-out-north-there bits of the ... Read more »

Or, rather, near-international incident.

(Your Beijingologist is Swiss by passport, by the way. Hence the international thingy.)

19:00, December 3, 2008. Five years ago, your Beijingologist's iPod was at home. Five years later...

...it fell onto a platform at Jianguomen station and nearly slipped into the gap between ... Read more »

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Every school thinks they’re the best

I’ve been looking for schools for my kids in Australia.

Buying, selling and negotiating mortgages and contracts by email? Packing up almost four years of life into one teensy 40 foot container? Publishing and launching two books? Bah! Easy peasy. Try finding ... Read more »

Anyone out there in the Yizhuang BDA (Beijing Development Area)? Good news: if you want to head into town -- your Subway link is now two years shorter, as in the wait time.

That's right: the Yizhuang Line, once slated for an April 21, 2012 opening, is now opening in ... Read more »

China Central Place Big Brands Sales

26 brands are participating in these weekly sales, including Cerruti 1881, S.N.bouquet, Aigner, Windsor, Zegna, Think Pink, Bugatti, Ramosport, Missoni, Elegance, Escada and Cotton Public, cost 90 percent off at most. The sale closes on Dec 4.

Lane CrawfordSeason Sale Autumn ... Read more »

With more than a dozen match-ups taking place this week in NCAA men’s basketball, CW knows the best places to watch the early season action.

Conference play of American college basketball might not begin until after the New Year, but the next few weeks will feature several marquee match-ups ... Read more »

You just wrapped up a studio session with producer Martin Atkins. How is the next Snapline album going to be different from the first?

One big differnce in our new album is we are trying to create some ‘70s sounds like the first computer put on a desk or the ... Read more »

The View from the Top: Mickey Zhang looks back at a decade of techno

Perhaps Beijing techno’s most fateful meeting occurred a in a Guangzhou bathroom over a decade ago. A 19-year-old DJ by the name of Mickey Zhang and promoter by the name of Nee Bing, who at ... Read more »

Last night the Martha Graham Dance Company's series of Beijing performances at The National Theater for Performing Arts concluded with American Chronicle. This survey of Graham's choreography featured six pieces relating to American themes.

Graham choreographed the first, a solo entitled "Serenata Morisc," at the age of 20 ... Read more »

Train to Shenyang

6.45 a.m. The train pulls into Shenyang train station. I left Beijing ten hours ago and am on this trip with two colleagues from the microfinance department of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), China’s leading poverty alleviation NGO. A team from SKS ... Read more »

You’re one of the top club fencers in the city. In 2006, you placed second in a city-wide championship. Tell us how you got started and what the fencing community in Beijing is like. I began fencing when I was in England and later was on the Boston University ... Read more »

At a recent fundraiser sponsored by the microfinance group, Planet Finance Asia, regional technical advisor Connie Hina addressed the assembled crowd. “I just want to know, what microfinance firms are you all from?” A few of Hina’s colleagues raised their hands. Hina rephrased her question to include all organizations ... Read more »

What does the Jane Goodall Institute do in Beijing? Our program runs more than 100 student-led activity clubs in middle schools and universities. The students pick an environmental issue—it could be recycling (our big topic this year), animal welfare, cleaning up a local neighborhood or any other green issue ... Read more »

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