This Weekend in Beijing

Happy Father's Day Weekend, Beijing! Make Dad proud by getting your groove on

at these events...

FRIDAY

Woody Alan Band @ Jianghu Bar

The very essence of world music: stone cold American blues with subtle and interesting Chinese overtones, all of it fueled by Woodie Wu's great slide guitar work. More >>

More Friday events >>

SATURDAY

Pitchtuner Asia Tour @ Yugong Yishan

Describing their music as Basement Jaxx deconstructed and ran through a Japanime film, Pitchtuner has a singularly unique sound. More >>

Dafay & Skyscraper @ VA Bar

D&S move audiences with simple rock and blues lyrics. More >>

More Saturday events >>

On Sunday, celebrate Father's Day at The Hilton, Westin, or Beijing Renaissance Capital.

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Around the Interwebs

• In honor of father's day, check out Dads Are The Original Hipsters - a great photo collection of Dads before they started wearing golf shirts and loafers. Trivia: Father's day used to celebrated on 8.8 (ba ba) in China. They still do it that way in Taiwan.
• Chinese artist Shi Jindian creates amazing wire sculptures that look like computer models
• Plus, a photo collection of simply awesome people hanging out together

And new at Beijing Stuff...

• You can now post your Status from the Main Page
• You can comment and like photos, videos, blog posts, and statuses inline from the Activity Feed
• The Activity Feed has a cleaner UI that makes it easier to interact with content in the feed
• Videos are playable inline from the Activity Feed, and photo thumbnails are larger
• You can now add pages to group. If you're a bar or restaurant owner, use the new feature to upload maps, menus and other details about your venue

That's all. And have an awesome weekend, Beijing!