November 2008

agenda November 20th to December 3rd

In this issue, we’ve got new openings like Olas Tapas Cafe and new bars like Stage One and Plan B. Our Spotlights lift the lid on Kylie Minogue’s visit to Beijing, YellowStone restaurant and top tailor Dave K.C. Shuing. We’ve got roundups of restaurants fit for a Thanksgiving feast, bars to impress a date and language schools which can help you brush up on your Mandarin. As ever, we’ve got detailed event listings for the next 14 days, and with our coupon page you can save money at restaurants like La Paleta, Alba, Grandma’s Kitchen, Veg-On, Lantung and Shash!

beijingkids November 2008

New beijingkids Hits the Stands

This month Tania McCartney dreams up a Sleeping Beauties slumber fest that should please little girls everywhere. We've also got a roster of high-energy games that will rev up your kids for hours. Be sure to consult Chona Rodriguez's five rules for playdate etiquette.

In a feature by Donna Scaramastra Gorman, expat wives open up about the relationship challenges of living abroad, from money woes and control issues to isolation and identities in flux. And editor Amani Zhang explores the experience of expat kids who attend Chinese schools.

Plus: Finger puppet critters, no-oven Thanksgiving meals, Q&A with a fashion designer, a teen debate about money, family-friendly places in the Village at Sanlitun, and local muralist Jiang Zhuqiang’s take on creating art and family.

agenda November 6th to November 19th

In this issue, you can win tickets to see Kylie Minogue on Dec 1 – all you have to do is answer one very simple question. Check out our new coupon page for some great deals on eating out and more, and discover new openings including the Park Hyatt’s China Grill and China Bar, Tribute North, Yellowstone and MGM. We find out what’s going down as Lan Club gears up for its third year, Cicilia Young tells us how her Pussycat Dance studio helps Beijing girls find their inner Madonnas, and we look at some off the beaten Great Wall tracks. There are also Lists featuring Beijing’s best Indian restaurants, a dining tour of the Gulou area, the bars that define Beijing, and a poke around the former residences of historical figures. And, of course, that’s all topped off by detailed listings for the best of the events going on over the next 14 days!

urbane November 2008

As all Urbane readers know, a helmet and road goggles can only protect so much. As Beijing’s Olympic dreamy traffic restrictions fade into ever-dimmer memory, this month’s “Car Crunch” feature takes a look at some potential solutions for Beijing’s gnashing gridlock.

That’s just the beginning, of course, of another rich cache of Urbane inquest. This issue also features the SZ Art Center in 798, the spectacular new Aman Beijing by the Summer Palace, as well as the story of large-scale forced migration on the Qinghai plateau, the designer behind SQY-T’s innovative “Skin of the City” series of apparel, architect Zhang Lei’s stylish-but-simple brick house designs in Jiangxi province, the boldness of Chinese *Internet vigilantes*, Xu Bing’s Forest Project in Kenya and much more. How did Guiyang, go from being the worst polluted city in the world to a model of the environmentally friendly “circular economy” concept? Read on.

Can't find the print edition? Send an email to distribution@urbanechina.com or download the PDF version here.

the Beijinger November 2008

Ahoy there! The new November issue is now out and available around town for your perusal and consultation. Seafaring is not on the agenda but we have free tickets for the finest performer from the land of sun and surf … Kylie Minogue. The Aussie darling comes to town on Dec1 and you can be there on us if you answer Trivia Travails. For those not lucky, lucky, lucky enough to win those tickets our cover feature is packed full of suggestions to while away the Beijing nights from average Beijingers, such as your good selves. Also we’ve been chatting to former Hong Kong supremo Chris Patten and finding out what the devil is going to happen to those shiny Olympic venues. Plus all the latest on where to eat, drink and be merry.

45,000 copies of the November issue are out around town; should you be unable to locate one, contact our distribution department at distribution@thebeijinger.com or download the PDF version of the issue below: