Unlike most tea drinkers, Jerry Zheng rarely starts his day with a cup of Earl Grey. Instead, he uses those beloved British leaves to get the party started – mixing them with gin, Disaronno Amaretto liqueur, Laphroaig whiskey, and a squirt of lemon juice for a cocktail that he dubs The Explorer (RMB 70). And that's by no means the only offbeat concoction that the owner and chief bartender has come up with at his newly-opened Shuangjing adjacent venue, The Mixing House.

One for the wine fiends, Rob Cunningham of Feast (food by EAST) is cooking up yet another one-nighter: a collaboration dinner with Cheers.

The Crossroads Centre Beijing, in cooperation with the Netherlands and French embassies, is organizing screenings of Katia’s Sister, each followed by a Q&A with the film’s director and scriptwriter. The screenings will take place this evening (Mar 21) and tomorrow (Mar 22), and are part of the Third China Women's Film Festival, which started last September.

Easter is coming up, and although the traditional holiday may feel far away in Beijing, there are still plenty of shops that can supply you the goods, or activities to keep you busy. We've collected some of the best events and information around.

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According to Chinese traditional solar terms, spring is the best time to eat spicy food. So I take JW Marriott's Indian Food Festival, running through April 10, as a cosmic answer to nature’s counsel.

“You can tell a fish head anything you want to,” sang Barnes and Barnes on their immortal 1979 hit Fish Heads. “They won't answer. They can't talk.”

For the third year running, hundreds of people with sugar cravings flocked to The Hutong Sunday to soak up Beijing's first few spring rays, support charity, and to select which of 20 bakers deserved to be crowned the ultimate cookie champ of our fair city.

For the Beijinger’s bars and clubs issue, we humbly submit for your edification, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven ... Supermarket.”

Or any bar in Beijing, really. All of them. We’re dealing in universal Beijing drunken archetypes today, my friends. This is a field guide. You can find these weathered and watered sorts hugging onto a bit of plywood for dear life all over the city; in fact, if you look hard enough and know the markings.

(We just wanted a title that was lifestyle journalism-y. Alternative: “Tuesdays with Migas.”)

Twenty-six revelers at Beijing's Happy Valley Amusement Park were trapped upside down for nearly 20 minutes after the park's centerpiece roller coaster malfunctioned yesterday afternoon, according to Chinese news reports and a statement from the park.