Sunday, April 19

Exhibition
British Contemporary Art
Where: Art Issue Projects, A1 Beigao, Cuigezhuang, Chaoyang District
When: Until May 31, daily except Monday, 11 am – 7:30 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 6434 0266
Super China!
In this solo exhibition, Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul transforms UCCA’s Nave into a layful zone where visitors become participants in the story of contemporary Chinese art.
Where: Ullens Center For Contemporary [...]

Shattering convention – Post-80’s artist Na Wei talks one-child identity, painting

As an artist of the one-child generation, Na challenges established thinking. Blue and white stripes are his distinctive personal media to represent his generation. On a two-square-meter canvas, viewers can see the conflicts important to his generation.

Volunteer army makes TV speak Chinese

Every week, Internet forums are abuzz with users swapping subtitle files for the latest episodes of foreign TV series. Fansubbing groups, loose organizations of hobbyists who collaborate to create subtitles to new shows, have helped keep the Internet’s couch potatoes planted in their seats for the past few years.

Woody Allen Is Feeling Bleak Enough Without Your Judgement

http://gawker.com/5212699/woody-allen-is-feeling-bleak-enough-without-your-judgement
Woody Allen uses the word “tragic” four times in his front-page interview with the New York Observer. Also, “nihilistic,” “dreadful,” “sad,” “malcontent” and “embarrassment.” And that’s before he gets going about the “appropriate police.”
Life, the movie director says, is “a tough scuffle,” and “a tragic situation.” You do what you can. Which, in Allen’s case, [...]

Funny Boy: A down-and-dirty comedy on HBO

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2009/03/16/090316crte_television_franklin
By Nancy Franklin
The six-part HBO comedy series “Eastbound & Down,” now just past its halfway point, appears, on the face of it, to be another prefab house of laughs of the kind that’s been extruded, over and over, in the past couple of years by the belching adolescent-humor factory of Apatow, Ferrell, Stiller & Rogen. [...]

Reversal of fortune

（The Guardian)How the pop mighty are fallen. Robbie Williams, the man who has sold more albums in the UK than any other British solo act (55m), won more Brit awards (15) and sold more concert tickets in a single day (1.6m, for his 2006 world tour), has just been informed that he’s not wanted back [...]

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Agent gets foreigners Residence Permit illegally

Foreigners who come to China for work first need to get a work permit before they can claim their residence permit. Anyone caught obtaining these documents through unlawful means will be fined 5,000 yuan and deported。

European palace treasures on display at the Forbidden City

About 177 artifacts including crowns, a throne and a scepter belonging to the Polish royal family will be on display at the Forbidden City beginning this week.The exhibit runs until July, and tickets cost 20 yuan per person; students get 50 percent off.

Ask Beijing Today

I am looking for a place to study on the weekends, something like a library that’s walking distance from Chaoyang Park. It should preferably be a place where I could stay all day.
You can try the Chaoyang District Library, which is near the park.