I love to cook, but working as an office hack means that by the time I fight my way through the subway in the evening, just about the last thing I want to do is fight more crowds to shop for fresh produce, bring it all home, and fire up dinner from scratch.

As a consequence, I’ve been known to order Annie’s on consecutive nights for weeks on end ... not good for the wallet nor the waistline.

Angelina Lee
Editor-in-Chief, Lifestyle Magazine

We caught Angelina Lee in between her frequent international trips on behalf of Lifestyle to ask her about her sartorial choices, both then and now.

Have you ever been required to wear a uniform, at school, at work, or somewhere else?
Yes, in high school. Also during a yachting cup, they requested uniforms for members of the team.

Shannon Bufton wants Beijing’s cyclists to feel like world champions. The director of Serk Cycling—a bike shop and boutique cycling tour company— is coordinating a road race in Huairou on Saturday and a time trial in Shunyi on Sunday for anyone who enjoys pedal pumping, regardless of their proficiency.

Dubbed the Beijing Laowai Road Cycling World Championship, Serk’s event is timed to coincide with this month’s ongoing UCI Road World Championship race.

One of the undeniably great things about the hutongs is their ability to incubate unique and interesting businesses within their winding depths. So it is with White Tiger Village, a beautiful, design-led space – all angular colored stools, scrubbed wood surfaces, and Plastered 8 murals – serving gussied up chuan’r alongside Jing-A beers (RMB 40) and a very accessibly priced wine list.   

“For three years in China we had the same ayi, a woman who came twice a week to clean our apartment, with a vengeance, for four hours a pop. You might think eight hours of cleaning a three-bedroom apartment each week is excessive, but it was very reasonable. Her monthly fee was RMB 900, or USD 145.

As always, our beautiful city is full of events and goings-on, especially with Beijing Design Week 2015 at its peak (these are our BJDW recommendations), but art exhibitions are easily overlooked as there are so many opening and closing, it can be easy to miss them.

While we’re certain that we weren’t the only people who had this idea about opening a cinematheque in the hutongs for regularly screening art films to the masses, the guys at Camera Stylo are certainly the first to follow through and be absolutely incredible doing it.

A couple of years ago, we and quite a few others poked fun at a Dutch artist's pie-in-the-sky project to build a smog-eating tower that would then compress the collected particulate matter into jewelry.

Well, he's gone and done it, and if all goes well, one of these seven-meter-tall babies will be appearing in Beijing soon.

Qyer.com, a leading Chinese overseas travel website will hold its Qyer Carnival at 751 D-Park in Beijing this Saturday and Sunday (Sep 26-27).

As Qyer is a travel company, the carnival will have a travel focus, allowing visitors to experience exotic travel desinations, trendy concerts, and sports activities, all while meeting new friends and travelers with different backgrounds.