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• Posted Movie Review: Jia Zhangke's Still Life to Shanghaiist
  Jia Zhangke’s Golden Lion-award-winning Still Life (in Chinese, Sanxia Haoren, or "The Good People of the Three Gorges") isn’t quite the masterpiece that we’ve come to expect from the man responsible for the pitch-perfect The World (2004) or Platform (2000). But save for a few minor hiccups, it comes awfully close. The plot, as is often the case in Jia’s films, is window dressing of the plainest variety. In two non-overlapping storylines (fans of Babel...
• Posted Foodie Alert: Shanghai Creative Bazaar has paninis to Shanghaiist
  Tomorrow marks the arrival of the Shanghai Creative Bazaar, which as dutifully reported in our local English-language rags, is a celebration of those brave souls who flout conventional wisdom and revel in offbeatedness. (Otherwise known as artisans.) Forty designers and 30 shops of handcrafted zaniness, y'all. We’d be amiss, however, if we didn’t mention that in addition to sartorial sizzle, there’s plenty of sizzling food to be had as well. The luncheon, which runs in...
• Posted Where we're not going tonight: So Much Soul to Shanghaiist
  Tonight, we were all set to show our out-of-town visitors that hip-hop is alive and well in Shanghai. The tide, we reasoned, was beginning to shift, and if the previously moribund live music scene could find its second wind, why not a bona fide community of true hip-hop heads? Of course, much of this speculation hinged on the continued growth of So Much Soul, the weekly hip-hop event sprung into action by the Lab, and...
• Posted Week in Review: What was good (and not so good) to Shanghaiist
  Good Frankly speaking: Being able to get a "N.J. ripper" hot dog in the middle of the night on Tongren Lu. Hot damn!Taichi a day keeps the doctor away: Old men practicing early morning taichi in Chanfeng park, Putuo district, have been getting the blood circulating a little faster than normal. Reports abound of certain women offering their wares at 5 kuai a look, 15 a feel to the randy old fellas.Goooooooal: The lads from...
• Posted Week in Review: What was good (and not so good) to Shanghaiist
  Good Boonna Café: We miss bohemian charm like we miss an old-fashioned milkshake. Luckily, Boonna Café (open in two locations; Boonna 1 is on Xinle Lu, Boonna 2 on West Fuxing Lu, directly across from JZ Club) has both in spades, not to mention attentive waitstaff, a Mac G4 (how often do you see one of those in a coffee shop?), and no cell phone rings set to the blare of (bad) Korean pop. Yet....