Kate Ray

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• Posted Pencil This In: Spicy Art, Dragon boats, and the Habesha Fashion Show! to Shanghaiist
  Things you can do: meet up with fellow music-lovers tonight, watch the Suzhou Creek Dragon boat competition before heading off to what's bound to be a super interesting talk on Shanghai writer Eileen Chang on Thursday, and maybe even go to a fashion show on Friday! Today Tonight Shanghai's awesome music webzine Layabozi is organizing its first "Spicy Art Hang," a pretty cool music social gathering/open mic/party at Kuluska. They've got "tropical acoustic rock"...
• Posted Internet Statistics: China logging on to Shanghaiist
  If you're reading this blog in China or if you've got one of your own here, you're part of a national trend: having blogs is about five times more popular in China than it is in the US. If you're listening to some music online and instant messaging at the same time, you're an even more typical Chinese Internet user. That's just some of the things we've learned from this great chart comparing American...
• Posted Pencil This In: MxPx, Ratatat, Seagull cameras to Shanghaiist
  It's going to be an artsy rest of the week. Besides the busy weekend - where you can choose between going to the Antidote Electronic Music Festival or the Cut&Paste arts competition - there's a couple things to make sure your weekday nights are just as crazy. Tonight American pop-punk band MxPx is making Shanghai the first stop on its Asia tour! The three-man band has come a long way from its humble origins...
• Posted Hangzhou's drag-race driving "rich boy" arrested for manslaughter to Shanghaiist
  The drag-racer who killed a pedestrian on May 7 has finally been arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter, after a week of public outrage that the boy's money might protect him from being charged. Hu Bing, a 20-year-old university student in Hangzhou, hit and killed 25-year-old Tan Zhuo with his Mitsubishi Evo sports car while he was racing on May 7 with two other friends. In the ensuing week, netizens became furious that Hu...
• Posted Remembering the Sichuan Earthquake to Shanghaiist
  As most of us in China were aware, yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the earthquake that killed 90,000 people in Sichuan province. While Shanghaiist was having our own commemoration and fundraising event at our weekly happy hour (thanks to sponsors and everyone who came!) the rest of the country was finding its own way to remember the tragedy. Here's a breakdown of what went on: In Shanghai:University students participated in commemoration ceremonies....