You know winter is dead and gone when ripe avocados appear in the market and on menus in force. We enjoyed their silky goodness last week at Happi Sake, the sibling of Beijing's more upscale Sake Manzo. Forty yuan ($6.40) got us a sushi handroll with a nice chartreuse fan of avocado slices and a mound of jewel-toned tuna chunks. The extensive sake menu is indexed in English by category, with light, medium and earthy offerings at many price points.
Zhenjiang, a small city on the banks of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu province, will be in the spotlight during the May Day holiday when it plays host to the Changjiang International Music Festival.
It's a Friday afternoon in Beijing's Daguanyuan Theater.
Rock veterans Scorpions will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2015 and perform in China for the first time.
Bird billows. Wonder water. Magic mountains.
An Wang, a Chinese-American computer electronics engineer who was an important contributor to the development of magnetic core memory, said, "Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."
Floyd Mayweather Jr. refused on Wednesday to back off earlier comments declaring himself a better fighter than Muhammad Ali.
A dispute over tickets to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight was settled on Wednesday, clearing the way for a limited number of seats to be sold to the public.
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