Last Thursday, Italian designer Giorgio Armani held a show at 798 Art District in Beijing that was attended by 1,000 guests and stars such as Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Yeoh, and Fan Bingbing. Judging by those guests, the show must have been special — something about a decade-plus of Armani products in China.... Read more »Read more »
Lang Lang, who turns 30 next week, performed outside Buckingham Palace on Monday for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert, featuring Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and others. The main song in Lang Lang's medley was Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody in Blue #6, which seamlessly transitioned into George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Kid's got some skills. Read more »
See update, 6/12. A small child in Guangdong province slipped out into his family’s fourth-story balcony on Sunday morning, then slipped through a crack. Luckily, the crack was just narrow enough to catch his her head — that is, in the above video, she’s not really holding on with hisher hands… she’s dangling from his... Read more »Read more »
For those in China, were you outside around 6 am last night? If so, we’d like your photos of the transit of Venus, in which the second rock from the sun passed between ourselves and our solar system’s nexus. For more information on this astronomical event that won’t happen again until December 11, 2117, during... Read more »Read more »
UPDATE, 11:45 am: I’m told that tickets are no longer available. UPDATE, 11:58 am: Please stop calling Chopschticks. UPDATE, 2:43 pm: At the request of organizers and in light of recent events, we’re removing some content in this post, partly because we’re huge fans of Louis CK, but also because we just don’t want to... Read more »Read more »
I make it a point to not talk about pollution because it’s somewhat of a cliche, especially among expats. Those who live here yet complain about the air — like, blog about it — belong in a set that we can fairly label “whiny.” And vapid. And irksome, too, if we’re being completely honest. But... Read more »Read more »
By RFH When the Chinese don’t have the time or money to visit a foreign country, they bring the foreign country to China. And they do it their way: at the Beijing World Park, for example, you can see Niagara Falls as it should have been (roaring into the Grand Canyon), learn that Southwark is... Read more »Read more »
Original Youku video for those in China after the jump. There aren’t many Ferrari owners in China who will win sympathy votes from non-Ferrari drivers for this incident in Shanghai, video of which was posted two days ago. The negative publicity for the Italian luxury car began with Bo Guagua; unfair as it may be, “Ferrari”... Read more »Read more »
