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• Posted Photos and videos: Olympic torch relay protests in Paris to Shanghaiist
  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:...
• Posted Anti-China protestors douse Olympic flame not once but twice in Paris to Shanghaiist
  Editor's note: Former Shanghaiist contributor Hélène Franchineau was present at the Olympic torch relay in Paris earlier today and tells us of what she saw and heard. Today at 12:35pm Paris time, the Olympic torch left from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. It was supposed to travel through the capital for 28 km along the Champs Elysées, the City Hall and the Louvre to end its journey at 5pm in front of the...
• Posted Cosmos Gaudi: The world of Spain's greatest architect to Shanghaiist
  An exhibition on Antoni Gaudi in Shanghai? It sounded too good to be true. Held in MoCA, from August 19th to October 5th, "Cosmos Gaudi, Architecture, Geometry and Design" is definitely worth the visit though. On two floors, you will be guided through examples of his work, studies he made on different materials, furnitures of all shapes and sizes, to show you how he used geometrics and ergonomics to incorporate them into his constructions. Two...
• Posted Meilongzhen: Parental visit= best meal of the month! to Shanghaiist
  Since the family was once again in town, we decided to have dinner, not at Jade on 36 this time, but at what is maybe Shanghai's most famous restaurant of Shanghainese food (with a Sichuan twist, according to this site): Meilongzhen. We first tried this place two years ago, and then again last April, but this time we went to their branch accross the street, on the 6th floor of the Westgate mall (which incidentally...
• Posted Photos from World Cup Gymnastics in Shanghai to Shanghaiist
  "Train hard or go home". That's what we read on the Singaporean gymnasts' T-shirts yesterday at Shanghai's World Cup Gymnastics competition. They didn't rank well though, however, compared to the Chinese team, who won gold medals on every event except men's high bar. Newcomer Jiang Yuyuan finished first on the women's floor exercise with a dynamic routine, while her teammate Pang Panpan tied for second place with Kozich. In women's beam action, Pang Panpan,...