2010 Mar 03 Out Now - the Beijinger Mar 2010: Books. Verses. Shelves.
As A.A. Milne said "You cannot tell a man by the lobster he eats, but you can tell something about him by the literature he reads, " so there you go. With that in mind we took a good snoop at some Beijinger's bookshelves and the results were, well, you can find out for yourself in the March issue of the Beijinger's Cover Feature.
There's much more inside the magazine than that. For a start there's a cut-out-and-keep Guy Delisle comic (more accurately it's a cut-out-and-fold-into-a-mini-zine-and-keep comic). You don't see those everyday.
We've got interviews with Junot Diaz, Benjamin Zephaniah and Steve Connell plus handy advice on getting published for budding writers. There's also a Lu Guang photo essay on pollution in China, drum & bass bad boys The Syndicate and a chat with China's Tom Waits, Zuxiao Zuzhou.
There's an Art Feature on the Secret Language of Women, Stage looks at the "Scottish Play," and we catch up with Chef Max Levy, China ClubFootball and The Secret Machines. We've also got some unusual pizzas, useful sports websites and handy shoemakers for you. Cobblers, you might say - and you'd be right. We've even got a travel feature on the exotic resort town of Ohrid, Macedonia.
All of that and all the regular columns too - Fashion 5-0 tackles geek chic and Inspect-a-gadget casts an eye on e-book readers - plus reviews of all of the hottest new restaurants and bars.
Next month we turn Milne's quote on it's head with our annual Reader Restaurant Awards issue. Let's see if we can tell something about Beijingers from the lobster that they eat. Until then here's the March issue in full.
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Which of the following jobs is most like being a restaurant manager: orchestra conductor, firefighter or babysitter?
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China ClubFootball and the Beijinger both celebrate ten-year anniversaries next month, but only one can claim that they've been making people healthier all this time. Since 2001, ClubFootball has been at the forefront of grassroots football – getting the city's men, women and children, both local and foreign, to play the world's game.
Now ClubFootball has graciously offered us the chance to enter a team of our readers into their upcoming Autumn Men's 5-a-side season.
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the Beijinger - March 2011: Figure It Out ... OUT NOW
There are lies, damned lies and statistics but in this month's issue of the Beijinger we promise only to bring you the statistics. For our Cover Feature we've taken a look at the city from a new angle (or two), we've delved into dusty archives, we've crunched numbers, we've sketched out complicated diagrams and we've run multiple computer simulations ... all to deliver a vision of Beijing as you've never seen it before. Your eyes are in for a treat and your mind is in for a good work-out.Elsewhere in the March issue you will find out that Tom O'Malley ate all the pies (for the Dining Feature), we're told how to make a lavish duck pie, we go Back For More to Bleu Marine for one of the city's best steaks and we bravely find out the hummus which we heart is in our Taste Test.
Vote now! Polling Begins in the Beijinger 2011 Reader Restaurant Awards
Are Maison Boulud and Da Dong still the best restaurants in Beijing?
Would you vote Fatburger “Beijing’s best burger”?
Who really makes the best pizza in the city?
It’s your turn to dish it out – voting is now open in the Beijinger’s 8th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards!Cast your votes here!
