We're OK with the Friday Night Musical Outro coming in a bit late today because this show's gonna be good: on Monday -- Christmas Eve -- Mao Livehouse is hosting a Christmas Party featuring Snapline, Residence A, LILISAY, and CNdY (100 rmb/door, 80 advance; 8:30 pm).
“The expat love story gets a film treatment in Lao Wai, a film about East-meets-West love,” writes Global Times. That’s not supposed to be an endorsement. Lao Wai tells the story of a French IT engineer in Shanghai who falls in love with a local girl, Mei, and together they test “the limits of love in... Read more »
Disclaimer off the bat: this was uploaded back in February by YouTube user H3153mb3rg, so it is, in blog parlance, “old.” But I hadn’t seen it yet until today, and it deserves to be shared. Let me know if you’ve already watched this elsewhere. (Danwei folk, where are ya?) The same content creator made a pretty... Read more »
Stuntman Steven Ho swung by Conan O'Brien's show recently, as he does every now and then, and beat up the lanky comedian. Video brought to you by Team Coco.
Somewhere, Jackie Chan sniffles, whimpers, "I never needed a stuntman."
Richard Burger of The Peking Duck has rightly directed our attention to A.E. Clark’s recent essay on Mo Yan, “Mo Yan’s Middle Finger,” in which Clark analyzes the three stories Mo told in his Nobel lecture on December 7. You’ll remember that the stories — obviously fables — came toward the end of Mo’s speech,... Read more »
Twenty-five years after his death, Andy Warhol remains controversial — more so in some parts of the world than others. His largest-ever traveling exhibition is coming to Asia, but during the China leg, his iconic Mao portraits will remain under wraps. As Bloomberg reports: A person familiar with the show, who asked not to be... Read more »
As the Beijinger notes, “They don’t come much more revered in the Middle Kingdom than Cui Jian,” the 51-year-old “father of Chinese rock.” He’s playing at the MasterCard Center (formerly Wukesong) tomorrow night as part of his “The Blue Bones” China tour, and tickets are still available. The above is from a 2006 unplugged performance in Beijing... Read more »
