April 1st marked the birth of Comme à la maison, the new French online magazine based in our beloved city. Directed to a young (half of it between 25 and 40 years old) and growing readership (more than 6,000 baguette-eaters are said to amble their way around Shanghai these days – compared to 5,000 Germans and 3,500 English), this new online publication clearly defines its aim as dealing with “art de vivre” (the art of......

We passed by the Huxi Mosque on Changde Lu the other day, walked around and loved it. Here's some history of the mosque that we found on ChinaCulture.org:The Huxi Mosque is one of the famous mosques in Shanghai City. It was originally called Yaoshuinong Mosque and located at Xikang Road, and moved to Changde Road in April 1992. In 1914, Moslem paupers from Hubei, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui provinces lived together in the area near......

Most Shanghaiist readers are familiar with legendary dive bar C’s and with the music pub Logo too. Darkness, taxi rides and alcohol make the rest of the area a bit of a blur but we have the benefit of living there. The area, called The Xinhua Community, is centered around Xinhua Lu’s heritage architecture and greenery. We covered this a bit by introducing J. G. Ballard’s old home in a previous post. It also has......

We've just spent an entertaining and enlightening weekend at the Learning2cn education technology conference at Concordia International School in Jinqiao. The topics covered included podcasts, wikis, cyberbullying and making exciting lessons within a technology setting. Issues related to laptop schools may seem irrelevant to most of us, but the event is groundbreaking inasmuch as it is probably one of the largest and most significant English language technology conferences that has ever been held in China.......

"Lost in Beijing" seeks OK from China censors "After seven days spent re-editing the adult drama 'Lost in Beijing,' producer Fang Li said Friday that he and director Li Yu have agreed on 65% of the cuts requested by China's Film Bureau. The movie is scheduled for a February 16 premiere at the Berlin Film Festival." James Bond arrives in China - not shaken not stirred "Craig chatted with fans and signed autographs at......

Last October, Shanghai Daily announced plans for a city-wide wireless broadband network: Once completed, it will be the first citywide wireless broadband network on the Chinese mainland, the commission officials said. Shanghai Telecom Co Ltd and China Mobile's Shanghai Branch have signed agreements with the commission to invest a total of 40 billion yuan (US$5 billion) to improve local IT infrastructure, including the wireless network. "Every one can access the broadband network at anytime from......

This week’s editions of SH and City Weekend, summerviewed. (That’s a combination of summary and review. Look it up.) SH Where’s the love for our senior citizens?, asks SH, taking a double-edge stance in their coverage of Double Ninth day. Charity organizations and other philanthropic projects attempt to raise awareness among the city’s youth, but it’s not exactly clear from the article’s guardedly optimistic tone how productive these efforts are. Says octogenarian Shen Renjin: “There......

Imagine this: A high school parking lot in Irvine, a small city in southern California. It's the mid-1990s and Shanghaiist, who in his wildest dreams had never thought he'd grow up to be a blogger, is busy scraping a faux-"handicapped" sticker of a stick figure in a wheelchair smoking a bong off his car. So this is what teenagers do to relieve their boredom in the O.C. (Orange County or 橙县). Flash forward to 2006......

Shanghaiist isn't a Christian by a long shot, but lately we've been a bit nostalgic for the whole Christmas spirit thing, so we decided today to venture to the Community Church on Hengshan Lu (located right across from Narcissus and One Thousand and One Nights, which are perhaps landmarks for you decidedly un-Christian types) to see what was going on. In the afternoon we managed to walk into the middle of a play about some......

While Chinese pop stars exploit hip-hop to sell fizzy drinks and fries, the nation's turntablists and DJs have been preparing for the year's biggest hip-hop music event. They will be competing for turntablism's premiere title, the China region DMC World DJ Championship this Sunday at ARK in Xintiandi. The winner will go on to represent China in the final round in London on September 25. Shanghai's own DJ V-Nutz, who won China's first DMC (Dance......

The Crystal Method at Miami's 2005 Winter Conference music festival Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland met while working at a strip club in Las Vegas -- thankfully they were just the DJs! Better known as The Crystal Method, they moved to Los Angeles and made their fame mixing breakbeats into rock riffs. Their arrival in Shanghai later this week -- July 16 at La Fabrique -- follows an ascension over the last decade to......