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Actor-director Alice Lowe on the mother of all movies

[2017-04-01 07:45]

Two things stand out immediately about British actress, filmmaker and rising star Alice Lowe that make her an unusual subject in the rarefied but often pretentious world of celebrity interviewing.

Public lives, secret lives

[2017-03-31 07:14]

Zhou Meisen, a sharp dresser and an unconventional artist, once had many influential contacts in positions of power. Some of them are still in power. Some are in prison.

Blackcrane brings animals to life with his stories

[2017-03-31 07:14]

Gerelchimeg Blackcrane is more than 1.9 meters tall and when he shows up at public events, he wears Mongolian gowns.

Sun Yat-sen and his wife dined here. So did the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. Chairman Mao hosted visiting heads of state and welcomed Chinese writers, and Premier Zhou Enlai ate and drank with US envoy Henry Kissinger.

Change, the new constant

[2017-03-31 07:14]

I confess I was a bit taken aback to hear that Temple Restaurant Beijing, often lauded as the best restaurant in the capital, was abandoning the more laid-back format of its elegant spinoff, TRB-Bites. The company has reshaped the child more in the image of the father, to deliver the same fine-dining experience, the same menu and the same superb wine list at both locations.

Bars and restaurants ready for HK Rugby Sevens

[2017-03-31 07:14]

The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens are more than one of Hong Kong's favorite sporting events. The competition draws visitors from all over Asia, and keeps fans who can't make the trip glued to TVs at home and in popular bars and restaurants.

Family-style French

[2017-03-31 07:14]

Though Beijing's Waldorf Astoria is a fairly new kid on the capital block, it too claims a century of tradition from its famous New York forbear. Waldorf salad and red-velvet cake were born in its kitchens. US President Harry Truman favored sipping its classic bourbon old-fashioned, and the Peacock Alley bar created a special cocktail for Marilyn Monroe.

Face up to the future

[2017-03-31 07:14]

The digital age is transforming our lives, not least with our compulsion to record every minute of it. This means keeping up appearances, as who knows if the shot will go viral or last for posterity. And that, of course, means always having the right lipstick.

Beethoven powers Vienna orchestra across China

[2017-03-31 07:14]

Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony) is presenting for the first time in Shanghai the complete Beethoven symphonies, one to nine, which is an unprecedented project for the orchestra.

Fashion reaction: 'See now, buy now'

[2017-03-31 07:14]

For the first time in China Fashion Week, "see now, buy now" has become a reality. In collaboration with JD.com, one of the largest business-to-consumer retailers in China, the shows on Wednesday adopted the new model, which allows the customers to buy the garments online at the same time as they are paraded on the runway.

Fast forward

[2017-03-30 07:18]

In 2015, Furious 7, the seventh installment in the car-racing cinematic franchise The Fast and The Furious, distributed by Universal Pictures, earned more than $1.5 billion worldwide, and it remains the highest-grossing Hollywood blockbuster in the Chinese mainland with 2.4 billion yuan ($350 million) revenue from the box office.

Art-house film struggles to find screen space despite winning acclaim

[2017-03-30 07:18]

In a small theater nestled in downtown Beijing, a stage play is performed. But this is no performance, but a press conference last week to promote a movie.