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- Shanghai Daily tells us that some cinemas will maintain their half-price ticket Tuesdays, while others are selling full price tickets on the
money-spinninglove-based day."I think their approach is understandable," said Wu Hehu, deputy manager of Shanghai United Cinema Lines, the city's biggest cinema chain.
even though we're already very rich, we want to suck money from pressured youths like the RMB-obsessed vultures that we are"No one wants to miss Valentine's Day's huge business potential."However, the Grand Cinema, Peace Cinema and SFG Village Cinema City, all near the People's Square, are all maintaining half-price discounts. "We aim to attract more people to our cinema," said Fan Xiaozhou, a manager with the Grand Cinema, "though we may make less money."
- You might want to spend 35,000 yuan on 999 roses for your loved one. You might not want to, but then you deserve to be shot in the street like a dog for being such a stingy and mean-spirited cheap-skate.
- This article muses on the usual "are Western festivals taking over Chinese festivals". And who said journalists run out of ideas?
- This piece offers some gift suggestions.
- Paradise Warner Cinema City will give out gifts and red roses to audiences next Tuesday, while the SFG Village Cinema City will hold a speed dating event at its theatres. Three domestically produced romantic comedies will open in the city on Valentine's Day, which has become a busy day at the box office for local movie theatres.
- You might want to go and see a Chinese play about sexual intrigue and Valentine's Day at Shanghai Grand Theatre.
- Shanghai Daily also offers a few suggestions of where to party on Tuesday.
- Upcoming.org tells us about a special dinner set at Sweet Fajalobi.
- Or maybe you fancy a Valentines Dinner for Two at the JC Mandarin Wine Bar & Grill, which runs from January until 28 February 2006.
- CJW Bund Center offers a deluxe five course dinner for 498RMB each.
- Mint club has DJ Baz back for Valentine's Day, in their "concept night" -- send and receive messages from people in the club.
- Pegasus has a single's night of everyone there trying to get laid. (Unlike every night there?)
- Number 5 has a special 4/5 course menu for couples accompanied by everyone's favourite music -- sultry Jazz.
- Smart Shanghai provide an excellent and somewhat unbeatable listing of what the clubs and ritzy restaurants are doing for Valentine's Day.
- We'll be staying at home as usual. Dinner at 6, book-reading by 8, asleep by 10. Rock and roll people, rock and roll.
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