Death threats, attacks on funders and media smearing can’t stop one Pittsburgh take-out counter from encouraging its diners to reflect on geopolitics through food. … More Conflict Kitchen: Pittsburgh Restaurant Serves Up Food For Thought, With A Side Of Pickles
While many of us struggle to put what we learn in Chinese class into practice, fumbling over tones and slogging to string together a coherent sentence, comedian Jesse Appell is crosstalking his way to Beijing fame. … More Laugh Together: Common-Ground Comedy
“Learning Chinese through music would be easier for me. There’s some idea about speaking straight about what you think.” … More French Connection: Music Lovers Unite in Gulou
Since the late 1970s, people have been dumping and chasing, passing pucks and stacking the pads right here in China’s capital through Beijing International Ice Hockey… [which] grew out of Cold War-era winter games between the Canadians and the Soviets on the former Soviet Union’s outdoor rink. … More Game On: Hockey Night in Beijing
We’re not trying to start a battle of east vs. west—we all saw how well that worked out with American rappers in the ’90s—but the western half of Beijing deserves more attention than we give it, and these are just some of the reasons why. … More Journey to the West
It’s hard to imagine a more effortlessly ebullient and jovial group than one in which everyone’s hitting a lick on their ukuleles. … More Ukelele Strum Circle: A Round Beat
“Dimensions, measurements, surveying, doesn’t work in Beijing. Maps are kind of out of date.” … More Explore Beijing: Hutong Mappers
Tao’s Gawker-inspired brainchild is the result of collaboration among smart, savvy minds that moonlight as heavy boozers. … More Cream of the Crop
He looks like Robert Redford, if Robert Redford were a dog, which is probably also why he can saunter into a Peking duck restaurant and walk out with an entire duck carcass, on the house. … More It’s A Dog’s Life
“The whole idea of science is about exploring new things. So, isn’t it a good mindset for a scientist to go out and explore something new to him or her?” … More Foreign Scientists Are Flooding into Beijing: Why?
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