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Beijing's choicest cocktail crowd gathers on nearby Xingfu Cun Zhong Lu, at the Neo Lounge, which is minimalist, marble-topped and features a large Buddha stoically surrounded by champagne bottles. All your favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some...
Like Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong or Leicester Square in London, Beijing's Bar Street, Sanlitun Lu, in the northeast of the city is the place to start. To reach the trendiest spots, it is constant push and shove past row upon row of Westernized joints and miniskirted cigarette and beer girls. The narrow space between the sidewalk seating and lines of inching taxis in the street throngs with people, mostly Chinese, who have come to check out the foreigners at play. Drinks are pricey, music is loud and there is more than a hint of illicit...
...most active venues, try Get Lucky, which has concerts every weekend featuring some of the Beijing underground's best and brashest. To find out who is performing, call (86-10) 6429-9109. Looking for punk acts? Head to the Bus Bar?constructed from three sawn-up buses?near Xueyuan Lu and the fourth ring road. To catch a ride, call (86-10) 6207-1631. Then there is the oddly named Happy Paradise, a club, bar and daytime ice rink in a dingy section of dilapidated hutongs, 300 m south of the railway track. Call (86-10) 6232-6821 for more...
...make Lan Yu and I, based on a gay novel published pseudonymously on the Internet. Kwan, a specialist in soft-focus romantic doom (Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward the end, and Lan Yu replies, "You probably don't know...
...surged the most: 85% in the past five years. As test scores rose, families who had fled to private and parochial schools started returning. Then real estate agents began to drop mentions of Hand's achievements into their pitches about heated pools and tree-lined cul-de-sacs. Mary Lu Dalton, Hand's curriculum coordinator, switched her son from a Catholic school to Hand three years ago. "At St. Joseph's there was one black student in my child's whole school," says Dalton. "Here he's getting an education in different faiths and cultures. He's even been...