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Girl puts three guys on a leash and takes them out for a walk
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Ah, the glut of netizens and their endless repostings and comments. With nearly as many Weibo users as there are Americans, the social media platform is receiving more attention than ever before.
A group of 20 girls (and one guy who tagged along) took to the Bannan line of Taipei's MRT subway last week to participate in a cheap ploy for attention their own No Pants Subway Ride. The annual flashmob event generally takes place every January in various cities around the world, though we don't really think anyone will complain about the girls in Taipei being a month late to the no-pants party.
Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Split Works brings us big-name indie rockers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Westlife is somehow back in town already, and Trash A Go-Go signs off! Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more.
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Seen on the streets of Wuhan: A girl puts three guys on a leash and takes them out for a walk on a busy street. Performance artist Kang Yi, the man behind the act, said he hoped to provoke a discussion about gender equality. He's also hoping to bring his little act to a city near you. Next stops for the performance: Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.
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Are public mass makeout sessions here to stay? Approximately 50 couples who didn't get the memo about Valentine's Day being over participated in a marathon makeout competition on Saturday the 18th, in the Anhui capital of Hefei. Some ladies even fainted due to the stress of extended lip-locking and having to hold acrobatic kissing positions.
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Another big weekend for DJs in Shanghai! Calvin Harris at G+, legendary Sven Vath opens Shanghai's newest club Boon, and TICT brings in Justin Martin for their latest warehouse party. If DJs aren't your thing, there's also a pub crawn, an intro to Art Deco, or a class on macrobiotic eating. Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for more!
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21-year-old Dai Guohong was a high school senior in Beichuan High School when he lost his legs during the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. Trapped underneath rubble for over 40 hours, Dai received medical and psychiatric help from the Sichuan People's Hospital, and eventually worked himself out a depression and regained his confidence through the help of his swimming coach, training 5 to 6 hours on a daily basis.
Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. In this week's late specially marinated edition, check out what's happening in the Shanghai metal scene at the Playful Warrior showcase, get the rare chance to see jazz legend Diane Schuur perform at the Peace Hotel, and on Sunday head over to an early 10RMB concert featuring new music from around the city! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for everything else.
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The Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano, Japan is the only place in the world where you can watch Japanese macaques, or snow monkeys, soak in natural hot springs.
Two awards and one honorable mention were given to Chinese photographers at this year's World Press Photo competition, a contest designed to highlight the achievements of photojournalism around the world. Considering all the news that happened in 2011, there was certainly some stiff competition.
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The Embraer Legacy 650 executive jet belonging to superstar Jackie Chan touched down in Singapore on Sunday 12th February, ahead of the Singapore Airshow where it makes its first public appearance since being delivered to Jackie on 3rd February. The Legacy 650 jet is liveried with Jackie Chan's iconic dragon logo, and will be on static display at the 2012 Singapore Airshow until 19th February. [TODAY / Singapore]
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The first dates for the Gagster's Born This Way Ball Tour have been announced, with the first stop on the 110-date tour to kick off in Seoul on April 27th. As it stands, Ms. Gaggle's only brush with the Chinese market will take place in at Asia World Arena in Hong Kong on May 2nd, the second stop on her world-eating extravaganza.
The above infographic, provided by the Gravity Group, is a brief summary of the hits and percentages that make up the Chinese box office totals for last year.
The latest Hiphop Hijack party (featuring DJ Mystykal Kut) is on at Zeal, as well as a few Valentine's-themed parties, the Battle of Wonky Kong vs Sweatshop at Shelter, and free-flow at Kaiba. If that's not your taste, there's also M50 gallery closings, a stroll through Shanghai, and a Deke Ehr's book launch. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more.
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Jeremy Lin gets the NMA treatment after the Knicks' guard became an overnight sensation over the past week. Lin scored 23 points (including a dunk) while notching another career-high ten assists in a 107-93 Knicks' win against the Wizards in Washington D.C. The only thing that could make this story better is if Whoopi Goldberg took over as coach.
Yes, yes, we know everyone's tired of the meme already. But Shanghai laowais have finally made their own contribution to the meme and we thought it was a pretty good effort!
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra's creepy, racist Superbowl ad was just asking to be spoofed. And now, Funny Or Die has come up with the first of what we think will be many parodies.
Like every other basketball/sports dork on the internet, we're working ourselves into a lather over the Lin-credible (Lin-credulously and Lin-tensely Lin-sane!) play of the New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. We've provided a Sports Illustrated for Kids-style collection of quotes, facts and trivia on the latest flavor of the week, as well some Lin-teresting player-specific memery.
J.R. Smith is finally in the building! The Tatted One and the Zhejiang Golden Bulls will take on the Shanghai Sharks tonight at Yuanshen Stadium, in one of the last games of the Sharks' regular season.
Watched that video of the five young North Korean accordionists' rendition of A-ha's Take On Me and still haven't had enough? Now, here's a North Korean group named Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble performing Modern Talking's Brother Louie!
Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The guitarist from Jefferson Airplane plays solo at Yuyintang, Sweedish post-rockers Immanu El promote their new album, and local metal heads play a Lamb of God pre-party show! Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for everything else.
Manning the decks at the Hiphop Hijack party at Zeal this Friday night will be DJ Mystakal Kut (France), who's opened for Sean Paul and spun at parties for Usher, Gucci Mane, and Tony Parker. We caught up with the Miami-based DJ to get his thoughts on China, the perfect hypothetical music, and the relative merits of Beyonce and Rihanna.
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The basketball-loving city of New York is currently in a mild tizzy over the revelatory play of Jeremy Lin, after Lin shot 58.8% from the field to score 28 points and dish out 8 assists (both career-highs) against the Utah Jazz in a 99-88 win.
It's time once again for Shanghai's only favorite music + arts festival! And you can be part of it this year if you fancy yourself savvy with a camera. This year JUE Festival is teaming up with fashion brand ospop to launch the JUE Next Generation Photo Competition. Not only will they showcase a selection of 15 winners as part of the festival, they're also offering a cash prize of 10,000RMB to the winning photographer, and 3,000RMB to the runner-up!
China's national women's boxing team may have only been formed in 2010, but they're already aiming for Olympic gold. Huey Fern Tay of Australia Network News reports.
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On Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin (林書豪) officially went and got himself a hefty piece in a 99-92 win against the New Jersey Nets. Having been firmly planted on the bench all season (and all career, for that matter), Lin stepped up and gave an electric performance in front of the Knicks faithful at the Mecca of Basketball, scoring a career-high 25 points (with 12 coming in the 4th quarter) while dishing 7 assists and nabbing 5 rebounds.
All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Lantern Festival signals the end of Spring Festival, Superbowl gets some replays around town, and Subcinema kicks off its Blaxpoitation month. Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more!
Republican Peter Hoekstra who's campaigning for a seat in the US Senate in Michigan has run a creepy, racist Super Bowl ad against his Democratic challenger Debbie Stabenow to insinuate that she's actually working to help the Chinese:
Sister Feng, the self-promoting literary genius, was recently spotted outside of Columbia University on Manhattan's Upper West Side (she previously demanded husbands who were Tsinghua or Peking university graduates), handing out fliers with her requirements for a husband written in English. And though we can't confirm if Sister Feng will definitely be starring in that Japanese porno, we can confirm that she is no longer interested in Asian men!
A group of young accordion players from Pyongyang's Kum Song School perform Take On Me by A-ha as part of a multi-genre project that opens next week at Barents Spektakel, an arts festival in Norway. Seriously, now. What would the Dear Leader think as he looks down on this from wherever he is now in socialist paradise?
Bar Rouge is shutting down for renovations after this weekend, so catch some big parties over there for the next few nights, or head over to Shelter's usual Back to the Classics, a reflective art exhibition Cold Comfort, and some fun fightin' for your average Sunday morning. And don't forget, Superbowl Sunday lands early Monday morning here for all you NFL fans! Read on for details on that and more, or head over to our calendar for more!
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h/t to Tom van de Weghe.
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