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China Club
Hong Kong's high-flying China Club straddles the best of East and West and it's already planning a party for 1997.On the thirteenth floor of Hong Kong's former Bank of China building, where the running dogs of Peking's cultural revolution once spat on the colonial paper tigers, hangs a picture that tells a story. It is a pastiche of a 19th-century work depicting imperial China's pigtailed mandarins with the top-hatted emissaries...
Smart set beholds the great sprawl of the China Club
China Club Ambience: hip. Features: two bars, 40-foot dragon kites, photo gallery and a glow-in-the-dark Buddha. Clientele: beautiful people prowling for more beautiful people. Address: 616 W. Fulton. Phone: (312) 466-0400. Hours: 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Proper attire: anything black; casual but chic. Music: eclectic - hip-hop, alternative, R & B. Cover charge: $7 to $10. Parking: valet ($5). Minimum age: 21. Rating: `Where's...
The Star Attraction of Hollywood's China Club
Pop music: Celebrities often play at the late-night hot spot, where everybody--everybody who can get in--is somebody.
The long-haired young man seemed a bit fazed on a recent Monday night when the doorman at Hollywood's China Club wouldn't let him enter the nightclub. After a trip to the side door, the man returned to explain to the doorman that he'd been told he would be allowed in."OK, so what's your name?" asked the doorman, a tall New Yorker in a beige trench coat.The young man paused. "Well . . ....
China Club: GETTING THE JUMP ON CHICAGO HIP-HOP SCENE
TRIO USES MAGAZINE TO PUSH THE MUSIC
Raymond O'Neal, Michael Shane and Alberto "B Boy" Trevino publish a magazine, manage artists, help promote concerts and run a corporation. They also wear hoodies and baseball caps to their "office," which on this day happens to be the student lounge of Columbia College in the South Loop. They're slapping palms and passing out fliers to a hip-hop show they're helping promote at the China Club later in the...
