There’s a saying that the best way to experience local culture is to visit the local market and try local food. Well, unlike our happiness upon hearing that Wangfujing's Donghuamen Night Market is to close at the end of this month – a market that neither promoted local culture or local food – we and Dongcheng residents are sad to hear that yesterday (Jun 12), Longfusi Morning Market, located near Dongsi Station, opened for the very last time.

While the glitziest of China’s film industry walk the red carpet and swan about at various soirees in Shanghai this week, some of the industry’s more cerebral types are putting on a series of screenings and talks over five days right here in Beijing.

Beijing-based film aficionados will be able to run shoulders with prominent Beijing-based scholars, filmmakers and critics as they join academics from Columbia University and Beijing Normal University to discuss documentary cinema at Columbia Global Centers from Wednesday through to Sunday.

Over RMB 200 in freebies await those that pre-register for our Mandarin Month Mixer at Home Plate June 25 ... but act fast as more than half of our pre-registered spaces are already filled!

A bunch of tech events this week, good news for anyone looking to get some insider tips and guidance from Beijing's best and brightest. And as always, they're all in English.

We here at the Beijinger hate it when visitors from out of town arrive only to immediately demand a trip to Wangfujing to eat scorpions on sticks.

So, it is with great pleasure we report that Wangfujing's Donghuamen Night Market will be closing imminently, ridding the city (for now) of one of the biggest tourist ripoffs this side of the teahouse scam. 

The UCCA presents their biggest show for the summer, Rauschenberg in China, which is open now until August 21. Organized by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and curated by Susan Davidson and David White, the event marks the first major exhibition in over three decades to showcase Rauschenberg's work to Chinese audiences.

As part of the Beijinger's month-long Burger Cup (which kicked off May 16 with burger specials around town), we take a closer look at some of this year's participants. Today we're grilling Brian Murray, the operations manager of Home Plate BBQ.

Topman, the British fashion authority known for their suits, skinny jeans, and colorful print shirts for men has finally arrived at Beijing’s Galleries Lafayette in Xidan, the same mall that houses Topshop (the ladies branch), which first opened their fully-branded retail outlet last July.

As part of the Beijinger’s Mandarin Month series ahead of our June 25 Mandarin Mixer, we present Hao Laoshi, a series of Q&As with teachers and students at Mandarin learning centers across town. Today we're talking with Mudhun Ananthaiyer Ganesh, a student at Ideal Mandarin.

This year’s Battle of the Buns may have just witnessed the most consequential of cuts yet, with two of Sanlitun's Courtyard 4 Burger Barons getting axed: Last year's runner-up The Local was ousted by 6-seed Feast and perennial 1-seed Home Plate was shoved out by 5-seed Fatboy's The Burger Bar.

UPDATE: Slow Boat Brewery Wins 2016 Burger Cup for Back-To-Back Titles