Recent Entries in Arts/Entertainment
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Our free Akon tickets are still available!
Hey Shanghai, just thought we'd give you a heads-up: our Akon tickets are still available! If you and your plus one want to hear some of the catchiest club anthems known to man at the Akoncert, then you've got to get a hold of us soon. The concert's on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Arena, and we really want to give away some tickets valued at 780RMB each. So how do you get the tickets? Simply...
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Photo of the Day: Food vendor
Food vendor in front of the ferry terminal on Fuxing East Road. Photo by Shanghaiist reader Charles Clark. More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here)....
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Shanghaiist & BEAN's Halloween Party is TONIGHT!
100RMB for all-you-can-drink before 11:30pm. And it's not one of those demoralizing deals either, where you only get drinks you've never heard of. We're talking Bacardi, Cuervo and Smirnoff, a veritable holy trinity of guaranteed drunkenness. And did we mention there'll be prizes for awesome costumes? Two 500RMB voucher's for best dressed male and female come courtesy of Sherpa's, and MRKT accessories are also up for grabs, as well as a fat case of...
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Watch: New Jordan ad, featuring Melo, CP3 and D-Wade in Beijing!
Well, ever so briefly in Beijing, anyway. Regardless, this slick little piece of corporate advertising made our pre-Halloween Party afternoon. Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony (who flew over to China during the summer for some panda-hugging) are all of course currently locked-out basketball superstars, and have to play in all sorts of summer rec leagues to keep their springs from rusting, including a pickup game with hipsters in Williamsburg, a Jewish Under...
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Weekendist: Shanghaiist's Halloween Party tonight, and Halloween parties galore Saturday!
It's that time of year again! Halloween, our favorite excuse to dress up like an idiot and imbibe more than the recommended units, starts tonight! Kick off your Halloween by kicking it with us at Cargo JJ tonight, and make sure not to miss all the rockin' parties happening Saturday! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more.
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Watch: Survival of the quickest at a Chinese buffet
A group of diners snagging hairy crab at a buffet, at a speed more often seen on nature shows featuring sharks devouring something thrown from a boat. Be careful out there, folks....
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Last minute Halloween costume shopping in Shanghai: A refresher
If you still haven't secured yourself a costume for our party tomorrow night, check out our guide from years past. All that stuff is still relevant. But if you're looking for even MORE options, here are a few stores and websites we've stumbled upon more recently: Infinite Joy (欢乐无限) Okay, most of you might shy away from Taobao immediately, and if you honestly can't make yourself read the Taobao Field Guide or Google translate...
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Photo of the Day: Edifice
Recycling yard in the ruins around Xuejiabang Lu. Photo by Arnd Dewald. More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here)....
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Chinese football back on state TV next season
CCTV5, China's national sports channel, decided to cease coverage of the country's best-supported pro sports league towards the end the 2008 in response to a disorderly occurence which took place during a Beijing Guoan - Wuhan FC match. CCTV bigwigs, and presumably all those tuning in at home, were left spluttering into their teacups in disgust when a fracas broke out between Wuhan's big money signing Li Weifeng and Beijing's Lu Jiang. The on-field rumpus which ensued led to the Hubei province-based team pulling out of the CSL in protest at the CFA's decision to ban Li Weifeng for eight matches as punishment for his misdemeanours.
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Midweek Music Preview: Boys Noize, free French rock, and the annual Halloween Rock Tribute concert!
Midweek Music Mreview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The 5th annual Halloween rock tribute concert, French post-rock, Japanese speed metal, and Boys Noize returns to Shanghai! Read on for details, or head over to our calendar for more. WEDNESDAY Microfilm @ MAO Livehouse French post-rock band Microfilm is on their second China Tour (first was back in 2007) and they'll be over...
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Geisha Club: A Japanese-inspired Apartment
The newest addition to Shanghai nightlight held their grand opening party this past Saturday. If you've visited The Apartment, you'll already have a feel for what The Geisha is like: lounge style, chic venue, but the same old Shanghai clubbing vibes.
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Akon @ Mercedes-Benz Arena on November 5th (and we're giving away lower bowl tix)!
Far away from the American pop-culture epicenter, there are a few artists whose voices manage to be heard no matter where you might find yourself in the world. For the past few years, Beyonce's jerky soprano has been one of them, Lady Gaga's drone has been another. But amongst the males, Akon's reed-inflected voice, more than the sound of other artists, has been part of the global pop-culutre lexicon from Berlin to Beijing.
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Parade for the Shanghaiist Halloween Party canceled!
We're sorry to say that the parade for the Shanghaiist & BEAN's Halloween Party @ Cargo JJ has been canceled, meaning partygoers should head directly to Cargo JJ on Friday night, rather than Windows Too. The authorities got wind of our little shindig, and proceeded to have a major freakout over the idea of costumed revelers gallivanting about during an Occupy Jing'an flashmob (or so they must've thought). The party will still go on...
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Watch: BBC documentary on China's African impact
For those of you that weren't in Shanghai today, just know that the weather has affected the city's regular serotonin production in a significant way. Suffice it to say, the day's lack of sunlight and non-stop gray drizzle means that a great number of us are going to spend the evening moping about indoors, and we have just the perfect thing for it: an hour-long BBC documentary on China's expansion in Africa!
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Liked the Black Rabbit Festival? Intern for Spilt Works!
If you're interested in being part of the team that's putting on next year's Jue Festival taking place in Shanghai and Beijing, then here are the details. Split Works, the same people who brought you the Black Rabbit Festival, is looking for passionate interns who're way LEET when it comes to Chinese and international alternative music, and also possess the requisite language skills, ability to work in a team, and other such employment jargon....
