Rebekah Pothaar

SHContemporary 09: The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair at Shanghai Exhibition Center Our third year of crashing the best art parties for Shanghai's ShContemporary art fair is approaching, and we can barely contain our excitement. If you are going to any art event this year in Shanghai, this is... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Cherie Blair on stage at Shanghai's JC Mandarin. Yesterday afternoon we attended a talk at the JC Mandarin with Cherie Blair and guest speakers Jane Huang and Sha Sha. The Chinese version of Blair's autobiography Speaking for Myself was launched at the Shanghai Book Fair yesterday. We were a... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Did we ever tell you how much we love Meiwenti Productions or Juan Vargas' slapstick, pervy sense of humor? We were there for the epic Swat Chicks set in sci-fi Shanghai. We walked out thinking WTF!!! (but in a good way). And we giggled and guffawed through last year's... continue reading on Shanghaiist

The folks at ChinaTravel.net noticed a little (or perhaps not so little) something about a recent image of Haibao: Like the USA pavilion, he seems to have gotten a mysterious, but very well endowed new package. Haibao Americano also has the extra perk of looking quite campy. Nice. The... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Back in 2007 Shanghaiist's Hélène survived the Great Wall Marathon. Following in her footsteps, we decided to give it a try. But we decided that running 21 k (the half marathon) was plenty exercise for us on a Saturday morning. While Olympic runners train at high altitude to build... continue reading on Shanghaiist