Around Shanghai: Persepolis 2.0, hot property, insane weather

This is pretty damn cool: Two Iranians are reshuffling scenes from Persepolis, a black comedy cartoon by Iranian-French emigre Marjane Satrapi, into a story about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed victory. Where are they working from? GOOD OLD SHANGHAI. Check out the comic here. [AFP]
The average price of commercial residential houses in Shanghai reached 19,603 yuan per square meter last week. Anybody got a house to sell? Now seems like the time. [People's Daily]
The Book Fair was wildly successful this week - about 240,000 people visited, buying 28 million yuan worth of books. [Shanghai Daily]
Ooh, recent That's Shanghai winner of best Spanish food (more on that later), El Willy, will be opening a cocktail bar. Sounds lovely! [SmartShanghai]
How insane is the weather right now? For the first time this year, the weather bureau had to issue four different alerts - wind, rain, heat and thunder - in ONE DAY. [Shanghai Daily]

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