LONDON - For all its chandeliers-and-Champagne style, opera has long enjoyed a voyeuristic interest in low life. Half its heroines are fallen women, briefly flourishing in sin and paying in the end. But opera's love affair with sleaze took on a new dimension when Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom Playboy centerfold and tabloid-culture princess (who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007) took to the lyric stage.
Luis Tigre boarded the uptown D train with two colleagues one recent morning to go to work. But unlike the other commuters on board, the three had already reached their job.
It's 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what's next?
A new ploy by transport chiefs to tame Beijing's unruly road users may be too soft to curb the behavior of most motorists, experts told METRO on Sunday.
Prosecutors can now suggest sentences for convicts as part of innovative efforts to make trials more transparent.
While most people are focused on reducing the weight of traffic on Beijing's congested roads, one innovative city official has come up with a way to deal with cars when they are off the streets.
Marrying later in life is a very modern trend, not just in China but also in Europe, Japan and the United States. That's why articles in Chinese newspapers this month referring to people still not married by 30 as "leftovers" seem so, well, old-fashioned.
Since moving to Beijing in August 2006, I've tried hard to take in its myriad of cultural riches. But despite spending most weekends (and many evenings) over the past four years doing that, I'm surprised by all that remains to be seen and experienced.
With a new season on the horizon, the tide is changing for cruise trips, Li Jing discovers
Until recently, Beijing has mostly lacked the facilities for the growing number of people who work on their own or in small groups, without regular offices, but who see the social and inspirational value of working alongside like-minded people.
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