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...Finally, get primitive at Banpo Beer Hut, tel: (86-10) 6525 5583, the little grotto that can. Named for the Neolithic settlement outside Xi'an, this underground pub on central Wangfujing Street is so bad it's great. Sip a Tsingtao on the heated platform beds, necessitated by the chilly air-con. The friendly staff is in on the joke, hyping the primordial kitsch while urging you into the karaoke cave. Chest thumping accepted; hair pulling discouraged...
...Pub Crawling (thatsbeijing.com) Called to the Bar Pulled from the pages of the expat monthly, this site has the most complete listings and cheeky reviews of Beijing's bars. The index is under the homepage's events directory, where you'll find descriptions of 179 drinking holes...
...busy Berlin street to shout into their cell phones. Some participants claim flash mobs unite strangers and create communities, but not all resort to such high-minded justifications. "We're part of the biggest group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator, sitting in a pub on Tottenham Court Road last week, before he and a friend made their way to a sofa store to join the city's very first flash mob. Along with 200 other Londoners, they gathered in the shop for 10 minutes and then left, to the befuddlement of the manager...
...Only to regroup at the nearest pub...
...Bill. "I'm a political person," he says. "I do engage in protests, and I don't see this as a substitute." So if it's not social protest, what is it? London mobsters' reasons varied from boredom ("I get to do something interesting before going to the pub") to something grander ("It's about creating a community, but because it is London it only lasts [finger snap] that long"). How big can the mob movement get? Who knows? New York just had its sixth and there are plans afoot in Australia and Asia. And how will the mob project...