2012 Jan 01 Out Now: the Beijinger – January 2012 – Enter The Dragon
Happy New Year, Beijing!
This month greets not one but two turns of the year. To mark that unusual fact, we've dived into our dressing-up box and come up with ... our third annual live-action animal-costume comic-strip Cover Feature. This one is all about a dragon and the trials and tribulations he faces in the Beijing property market. We've all been there – trouble with the landlord, noisy neighbors, overzealous baoan – so here's a tale for the ages. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be in a state of frenzied anticipation for next year's Snake comic strip.
Back in the real world, we're happy to start another year as we ended the last – by giving you the best that Beijing has to offer. This month, in our Ecology section, we clear up the murky world of the various Air Pollution Indices and unearth the organic fruit and vegetables available to us Beijingers. We took the cholesterol hit for you in scoping out the finest of fried dumplings in our Dining Feature, and we've also Taste Tested enough green tea-flavored foodstuffs to have left us a matching color around the edges. We'll tell you all about charity's new secret weapon, the Little Gold Book. And we've asked the Mellowparks.cn crew to share a decade's worth of memories of the Red Bull Nanshan Open.
Elsewhere in the issue, it's what you've come to expect from us – all the content that matters. The best interviews, the events that count, all of the new bars, restaurants and shops ... and more prizes than you can comfortably cram into a train home for Chunjie.
Get a copy at all of the usual distribution points. Or make a resolution to read it right here, right now on Issuu.com.
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Out Now - the Beijinger - February 2012: We Heart Beijing
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the Beijinger - July 2010: The Music Issue - OUT NOW
Beijing's a noisy old place but over the din of the comings-and-goings of millions of people you can hear the sound of music. This is music being made right here and now in Beijing. Some's good, some's bad but it's happening and it's something for the city to take pride in. Beijing's becoming known for its music scene so we talked to people at the forefront of it. The only requirement that we had was that they weren't originally from Beijing. Our Cover Feature highlights the Chinese and Foreign acts who have left a musical stamp on the city that they now call home.The Lure of The Jungle: Junglemico First Birthday Party
Founder and drummer Liu Wei and his bandmates in the Junglemico Project use traditional rock instruments to jam on the kind of dubstep, deep techno, and brake rhythms usually spun on sterile turn tables. It may not seem natural to give those glitchy, modern genres an analogue twist. But Liu Wei (aka Mico) says there was no easier way for him to evolve as a musician.
Carlos Ottery: A Stand-up Kind of Guy
Carlos Ottery is the main man behind Comedy Club China, who are on a mission to bring English-language laughs to Beijing crowds starved of regular stand-up comedy. We asked Carlos about using the capital as inspiration and the “difficult” Beijing crowd.
Andreas Ceelen: Teutonic Trivia
Andreas Ceelen hosts The Green Cap’s monthly German-language quiz, the capital’s only English-free trivia night.
