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April 28, 2008
Photo by Cy Goldsbie Torontoist kept its readers in the know during a surprise transit strike—it was announced by the workers' union just after 11:00 p.m. on Friday night, and went into effect by midnight—with a continually- updated status post.Gothamist readers commented extensively on the not guilty verdict of three NYPD detectives who were on trial for fatally shooting Sean Bell, an unarmed man, on his wedding day in 2006.It was an accident-prone week...
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April 21, 2008
Shanghaiist was shocked by this highly provocative depiction of the state of Sino-US relations by a Chinese netizen.LAist fires up reactions when one reader describes getting a $200 ticket for smoking on a public sidewalk. Do you like Heinz Condensed Cream of Tomato Soup and misogyny, but can't figure out a way to unite the two? Torontoist featured one of the soup company's ads from 1950 that contains this gem of a line: "Most husbands,...
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"Photos from Hélène Franchineau Shanghaiist's Paris correspondent Hélène Franchineau brings us these photos of a demonstration conducted by the Chinese student community there on Saturday in protest against the western media's biased reporting of events within China. On the same day, similar protests were conducted by the Chinese community across the United States. The anti-CNN demonstration which took place outside CNN's studios in downtown Los Angeles attracted "thousands of Chinese Americans and overseas Chinese"...
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April 19, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Shanghaiist:YANA (You Are Not Alone) - an outdoors club which takes you off the beaten track. Still unsure what you'll do this May holiday? Sign up for YANA's 3-day adventure trip to the Hakka Earth Buildings, named by UNESCO as the eighth world wonder.Witopia.net - Can't stand the Great Fire Wall anymore? Sign up for your own VPN now. Reach 220,000...
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From Ananova: A Chinese man is hoping to get in the record books after creating what he claims is the world's largest working mobile phone. Mr Tan, of Songyuan city, says his 3ft high phone, which weighs 48lbs, is an exact copy of his own phone - but 620 times bigger. A local journalist tested the phone by making calls and sending text messages and pronounced it completely functional, reports City News. Tan says it...
Continue Reading "Chinese man builds world's largest cell phone"April 11, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Shanghaiist:YANA (You Are Not Alone) - an outdoors club which takes you off the beaten track. Sign up for their 3-day May holiday trip to the Hakka Earth Buildings, named by UNESCO as the eighth world wonder.Witopia.net - Can't stand the Great Fire Wall anymore? Sign up for your own VPN now. If you are interested in advertising on Shanghaiist, check...
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And here's an assortment of pictures that will give you a good sense of what we saw and experienced: Photos by Hélène Franchineau UPDATE, 02:32: The torch has been extinguished a third time. UPDATE 2, 02:48: This raw video of the protest just in from AP:...
Continue Reading "Photos and videos: Olympic torch relay protests in Paris"April 7, 2008
Image credit: Presidentialmemorial.org SFist broke news about the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco's plan to rename the city's wastewater treatment facility to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.After the previous week's chaos and confusion at Heathrow, Londonist was soothed somewhat by news of a novel way to ease congestion on the runway. The piggyback flights are apparently April fuel efficient.Gothamist was impressed the NY City Council approved congestion pricing, the controversial plan to...
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This Sunday, kick back and enjoy this discussion on press freedom in China on Al-Jazeera's 101 East. The show begins with an excellent backgrounder on the current state of press freedom by Tony Chen who interviews people like Melinda Liu, Newsweek's Beijing bureau chief and president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China; former CCP official Bao Tong who is now under house arrest, and Huang Tianliang, the former chief editor of Bai Xing...
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The Crash Test Dummy Video Blog features videos of bike journeys around Shanghai. Recently they have been chewing over the same problem as Shanghaiist: Bought a good bike, Shanghai is great for cycling ... keep running into no-bike dead spots. Good for us, they have just released their first version of a Puxi cycle map. The map is a work in progress and all readers are invited to submit routes in the comments section. Routes...
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A weekend trip had us stopping off at the Lama Temple, the center of Gelug Buddhism (the particular branch of Buddhism practiced by the Dalai Lama) in Beijing. In light of the recent developments, it probably shouldn't have come as a surprise that they would step up their security but there wasn't any real change that could be detected on the surface. But then we took a closer look. Scattered throughout the temple complex were...
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Shanghaiist recently caught up with Philippe Tzou, the Shanghai Couch Surfing volunteer. Couch Surfing is a great non-profit organization that helps people travel around the world staying in the homes of like minded people and sharing their knowledge and experiences. Shanghai has developed a unique CS community. As Shanghai-resident Philippe Tzou’s current guest Sascha Wenzlick put it: In Germany loads of people have CS accounts so you don’t get requests to surf so often. But...
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We can see it now. Fast-forward to 2010. An ancient Tibetan god called Gozer arrives atop an apartment building near Xintiandi in Shanghai, where it tells the neighborhood's restaurateurs that the next thing they think of will be the form Gozer will assume to destroy their world. Despite their efforts to clear their minds, Bob Boyce imagines Haibao, the irksome mascot of the 2010 World Expo. As he explains, Haibao "just popped in there" as...
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April 1, 2008
Taikang Lu is best known for its quiet galleries, trendy cafes and relaxed atmosphere but hidden away inside Building Three are a group who take beating you into submission very seriously. Unlikely as it sounds, studio 311 is home to top Brazilian Jujitsu and MMA trainer Tony Eduardo Lima. Mixed Martial Arts encompasses several styles and professional competition circuits. American and Japanese fans follow big fights and big names in comps such as K-1, UFC...
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Here, Shanghai, were your favourite stories for the month of February: Most Voted: 1. Quote of the Day: Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪) 2. Opinionist: Lhasa should make us feel for all suffering 3. The lone woman protestor 4. China celebrates its status as world's number one air polluter 5. Quote of the Day: Zhang Qingli 张庆黎 Most Commented: 1. Opinionist: Lhasa should make us feel for all suffering 2. Terrorism, the Olympics, and the Xinjiang crackdown...
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A Reminder: Shanghaiist's Comment Policy
We rarely enforce this, since we are too busy to moderate our comments section and generally believe in a thing called free speech, but lately things have gotten a bit unharmonious in certain portions of our site. We apologize to anyone who has been offended (which basically means we apologize to all humankind). So, dear commenters, please refamiliarize yourselves with the Gothamist LLC comments policy: Comments Terms of Use Gothamist loves our readers, and loves...
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