The Beijinger recently released a video of its big Bar and Club Awards bash from last Saturday. Perhaps you'll find yourself in it. ...

One thing I learned about getting invited to a the Beijinger awards ceremony is you first have to leave Beijing. During my four-year tenure here, I never received an invite. Just three months after I made the move to Hangzhou, I was chosen to be an official nominator. Sure, why not. Months later, as an Official Nominator for the Beijinger's 10th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards, I got an invitation to the ce ...

Years of occasionally reading the Beijinger has finally paid off: the magazine has published its funniest piece ever, and they didn’t even have to write it. Take it away, boys: We are back with a new short story contest... Lord have mercy. You have 140 characters to play with... They had mercy! ...

George Ding, the Beijinger's backpage columnist, has provided us the latest example of why humor articles should never be translated. His recent column, "Why I'm Coming Back To China," is an attempt at satire, and it wasn't exactly well received by the Beijinger's readers, some who didn't get it ("Is George Ding thebeijinger's racist-in-residence?") and some who simply didn't like it ("brilliant satire... f ...

Thanks to everyone who came out tonight for the Beijinger's Super Quiz to benefit Ping An Medical Foster Home. The event raised 28,000 yuan last year, and I'm sure the Beijinger will be around soon to tell you how we did this time around. Congratulations to the winners, Girls with Low Self-Esteem, pictured above (host Jonathan White is on the far right). Raiders of the Lost Chuanr finished second, and Bus W ...

If you're in Beijing and like pub quizzes, the place to be this Sunday is the Hilton for the Beijinger's 4th annual Super Quiz. (Disclosure: I run a quiz in Beijing, and will be presenting questions on Sunday for the third straight year.) Event organizers are asking interested parties to email or call ahead of time to reserve a spot, events@thebeijinger.com / 5820 7700 ext 866. It costs 1,000 for a team, li ...

The Beijinger's New Festival Showcase at 2 Kolegas on Saturday mostly proved to be your standard gathering of drunken expats, except it produced one hell of a musical highlight: Residence A, a Beijing staple we featured in an Outro earlier this month, giving what I thought was the performance of the night around 8:30 pm. Reasonable music fans will disagree, and I admit I didn't catch every act, but the ener ...

Holding the party in the open air of Sanlitun Soho and suggesting “beachwear” as a dress code was clearly pivotal: the signal for Beijing’s really quite impressively large douchebag population to give full vent to their oeuvre of tics and mores. “Dress code? Dude… I was wearing this Hawaiian shirt with oversized aviators, four days’ beard growth and a jaunty pork-pie hat when I woke up!” We arrive just afte ...

From Saturday's party at Sanlitun SOHO that preceded Beijing Cream's Bar and Club Awards party. Video taken by Lola B. ...

We've complained about the snobbishness of Time Out's food awards, and noted that City Weekend's attempts to promote its awards can probably do without an Ashley Tisdale soundtrack. Where does that leave us? Ah, yes, the Beijinger. Top dog for nine years, king of Beijing's nightlife scene, like Hong Xiuquan reigning over Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Voting is open until Wednesday in tbj's thing, in 32 differen ...

Sometimes, the food at a restaurant simply sucks. Other times... it kills a patron's dog? The above review, submitted by the Beijinger user gava, was of Falahfel Arabic Restaurant (阿拉伯餐厅), which, as of this writing, has an average score of 3.9 out of 5 (25 votes), though it's saddled with accusations of fake reviews. The full text of gava's review: We were dragged in there and didn't want to eat so rather t ...

As voted by readers: 1. 500pm: blue sky with Chinese characteristics.* 2. First at bus stop, last on. 3. Stuck in traffic. Might be late. ...

The Beiinger had a neat idea for a six-word contest last month, and in this month's issue the editors have chosen their "50 best" entries. Leave it to the judges to spoil a good idea... OR MAKE IT AWESOME! We weren't going to do this, but, well, here it is: below, unedited, the 20 worst of the Beijinger's "50 best." (And lest you think I'm just bitter that my entries weren't chosen… you're right. I've inclu ...

[caption id="attachment_401" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The one in the red dress is Susi. Bless her"][/caption] Do you like Westlife? Do you really? Would you travel from Hawaii to Beijing to see Westlife? Is that how much you like Westlife? Are you so much into the whole liking of Westlife that you have a friend who would send an email to an expat magazine's editor asking for help in arranging ...