Beijing Weibo user, 北京号外, posted this picture of the mad rush jam on Beijing Line 4 subway this morning!!! So folks, you think you have it bad if you’re stuck in traffic for 45mn in a cozy and warm cab? think again! Apparently, the trains stopped running for a good 30mn and there was no [...]
Tags: beijing subway, people jam, traffic jam
The ever amicable Mushroom, that you’ve seen around 2 Kolegas for the past few years, happens to run a company that makes some quality leather gear… pretty good stuff! This saturday and sunday, They’re putting together a flea market with secondhand books, clothes and high-end and vintage bags just to name a few.. Make your [...]
Tags: beijing vintage, flea market
Holly Batman… Even Bruce Wayne and his fortune can’t keep up with rising real estate prices in Beijing. As you can see from this picture, the increase in prices has forced Batman to ditch the batcave and relocate to a street sign on di’anmen wai da jie: This weibo user snapped the picture this morning [...]
Tags: batman
There’s been a lot of talk about the over abundance of festivals in China this year. Jon Campbell and China Daily, both have interesting posts on this. I agree 4 festivals competing in one weekend in Beijing is just stupid, but this my year of seeing more of China, and taking advantage of festivals and [...]
Tags: cuijian, live music, music festival, Nanwu, Steely Heart, tricky, XTX
It promised to be a great night, 17 awesome bands from around the world (Jindabaad from Nepal didn’t make it) including our own Amazing Insurance Salesmen, plus a special performance from last year’s winners Rustic. I had hoped to live blog the event, but the crappy local 3G service sucked my battery dry in around [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, GBOB, live music, rustic
I think by now, most people are aware that Santacon Beijing took place over the weekend on saturday! Yours truly took part in it and spent most of the day busing around Beijing with a merry group of locals and expats having fun and enjoying a beautiful Beijing day. Picture courtesy of Jonah Kessel: There [...]
Tags: santacon beijing 2010
It’s that time of the year folks: the white bearded read army is getting ready to swarm the streets of Beijing tomorrow December 11th 2010. In case you’ve missed out on the action last year or you have no clue as to what I’m talking about, please refer to The Official Beijing Santacon Website. Santa [...]
Tags: santacon beijing 2010
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics
The Food-related posts are stopping on 'daze! They have a new home over at The Noodle Diaries where you can find all the tales of my stomach's adventures through the universe of Chinese Food
