Around Shanghai: Cherie Blair, fun at Dali, and hacker arrests!

Yes, we told you about it before, but we wanted to remind you: Cherie Blair, wife of former-British PM Tony Blair, will be visiting Shanghai to talk about important things on August 16. The seminar will be from 3:30pm to 5:30pm and the wine salon will be from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. 380RMB pre-order and 480RMB at the door. [Urbanatomy]
Blogger Jenn Wong has some great pictures up of the Nike Human Race, which happened over the weekend. Over 10,000 people participated. [Our Way to Fall]
Shanghaiist contributor Rebekah Pothaar checked out the Dali exhibit, making sure to pose hilariously next to as many Dali masterpieces as she could. [Chinatravel.net]
More from a Shanghaiist contributor: Jake Newby informs us that Mao Livehouse, the new music venue for Chinese indie label Soma, will be opening in September. [Kungfuology]
Shanghai Disneyland status non-update: Still not approved. [Alibaba]
The dude who allegedly hacked into Shanghai's computer system and paralyzed its monthly car plate auction last month has now been taken into custody. It was the first successful hack attack the auction's seen since it started 15 years ago. [Shanghai Daily]

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