It's that time of month again! We're breaking out the giant scrabble board and giving you great drink specials at Cotton's on Xinhua, so come enjoy this undoubtedly beautiful night with some friends and fancy wordplay. more ›

From 6pm to 10pm, we'll be hoisting up our giant scrabble board and inviting everyone to engage in cunning word play. more ›

Congratulation Hoo Hoos, for blasting past the competition at our most recent Shanghaiist Scrabble night! The five of you managed to throw up 1004 points worth of words onto the board, effectively beating out everyone else by quite a large margin! Hope you enjoyed the 250RMB worth of drinks and join us again for the next Shanghaiist Scrabble on September 28th. more ›

From 6pm to 10pm, we'll be hoisting up our giant scrabble board and inviting everyone to engage in cunning word play. Rules rehash:
• Each Happy Hour drink gets you five tiles. You can wait until you've got a couple orders under your belt - heck, we're not putting a limit on how many tiles you can come up to the board with - but just know that someone might take that triple word score from you if you wait too long.
• We'll be using the SOWPODS dictionary. If you don't know what that means, don't worry too much about it.
• You can come up to the board as many times as you like between 6pm and 10pm. But you can't make words consecutively, you'll have to wait until at least one other person has tried first.

We mentioned it briefly in our Pencil This In, but we figured we'd give it a louder shout out too: tomorrow is our monthly Shanghaiist Scrabble Night, where all you wizened wordsmiths can pit your wits against each other on our especially oversized Shanghaiist Scrabble board! more ›

Hey guys! Looking for something to do? Come tonight to Cotton's Xinhua to play scrabble with us! The weather may be frightful, but inside Cotton's it's delightful! Plus, we'll be playing a newly compiled setlist of the best indie rock songs from 2010 (in case you wanted to check out The National or Titus Andronicus' new albums). more ›

It was a rainy night, unfortunately, but that didn't stop us Shanghaiist Scrabble fans from enjoying a cool game and a warm drink anyway. While the competition was lower than other nights, our winner didn't need the help anyway. After all, Sandy's won before... at our first scrabble night in fact! That makes her the only team/person to win twice! more ›

It's the last Tuesday of the month, and that means it's time for Shanghaiist Scrabble! Come out to Cotton's on Xinhua Lu tonight to partake in a couple of after work drinks and word smithery! The day has been warm, so the night should be wonderful. more ›

Congratulations BEAN and all of you in Shanghai. Saturday night's reggaeton drink-a-thon saw roughly 600 people come through Cotton's on Xinhua's doors, and pull 63,000RMB out of their pockets to donate to Haiti. Thank you Shanghai community, for opening your hearts and your wallets to this cause! In case you haven't had enough of exercising your charitable spirit, there are still more ways to help out coming up! more ›

Egads, could it be? Our first Shanghaiist Scrabble TEAM NAME? Whoever the mysterious L/J/N/H were, they managed to win this session with a pretty spectacular 348 points. Unfortunately, since they didn't leave an email (tsk tsk, guys), we have no idea who they are and how to give them the 250RMB Cotton's voucher they deserve for words like PICQUET, QUEEREST and a 62 point QAT. Man, they got a lot of Qs. more ›

UPDATED WITH MORE PRIZES! Yes, yes, we know - you guys are all awesome enough to give charity for charity's sake. But the many businesses around Shanghai are also remarkably giving souls as well, and to help facilitate your help for Haiti, they've sent BEAN Shanghai a bunch of amazing raffle prizes for this weekend's Drink up for Haiti fundraiser. more ›

We know where you're gonna be tonight. Or at least, we know where we hope you're going to be tonight: at Shanghaiist Scrabble having a drink and making ten dollar words on our shiny Shanghaiist-specific scrabble board! Yes, after a month of waiting, Scrabble night is here again, so come on over to Cotton's and prove yourself the cunningest linguist in the city. more ›

We know a lot of you have been racking your brains, trying to figure out how else you can help the ongoing relief efforts in Port au Prince. While we've outlined some of the ways you can donate in this article, city-wide volunteer organization BEAN is now organizing a way to donate while having fun with friends: A reggaeton party on Saturday with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Haiti fund. more ›

Oops, so we had meant to post the winners of our Shanghaiist Scrabble happy hour earlier last week... but, well, holidays called. It's a shame, because this last time was a doozy. Not only did we manage to use up all our Shanghaiist Scrabble tiles before the end of the night, but our winners got the highest score ever reached so far: 372. None of their words were particularly large scorers; nope, these guys won through sheer persistence, coming up to our Scrabble board 14 times in the two-and-a-half hours they were there. more ›

Can you believe we've had three of these already? We barely can. Nor can we wrap our minds around the fact that this will be the last Shanghaiist Scrabble of the year... nay, the decade! So, if you happen to be around Shanghai tonight, come out and join us for a fun wintry Scrabble match. We've got warm drinks, good music, a sweet fireplace, and - of course - a way to exercise that big, big brain of yours one last time before you lose your mind for the end of 2009. more ›

Okay, let's get a few things straight. We love happy hours: you love happy hours. We love Cotton's: you love Cotton's. We love Scrabble: you love Scrabble, but probably not as much as we do. If we're off on any of that, you can take it up with us tonight as we spend the evening combining all three at our very own Shanghaiist Scrabble @ Cotton's! more ›

Hey folks, remember our last Shanghaiist Scrabble night? You can win 250RMB of Cotton's vouchers and the title of Shanghaiist Scrabble champion if you come to the next one we're hosting: Tuesday, November 24th. Pit your vocab and scrabble strategy against the drinks you'll be getting in order to compete. It'll be a cold night, but with the copious amounts of alcohol and Cotton's warm fireplace (with real fire!), you'll be sure to feel as cozy as possible on a Tuesday night. more ›

Hats off to Sandy from Sarnia for rocking the board all night despite your surprisingly limited amount of drinks. Your winning word "FOXIER" managed to garner you 48 points and delivered you to victory. You win a 250RMB Cotton's voucher to be used (hopefully!) at the next Shanghaiist Scrabble happy hour night. more ›

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Come on out and have a drink with us! more ›

Yes, there have been a couple hiccups with our original plans to have semi-monthly Shanghaiist Happy Hours, but with the weather cooling off into nice, comfortable weeknights, we're ready to get back on schedule. more ›

And if you happen to have any John Hughes films you'd like to see, bring them on over - lest we have to play The Breakfast Club twice (Shanghai DVD stores had a surprising dearth of good 80s flicks this week). more ›

In case you're looking for a chill place to hang out tonight and celebrate French National Day, come on over and hang out with us at the Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Cotton's on 294 Xinhua Lu. more ›

If you're a Francophile looking for something a little more special (but maybe a little more low key than a six hour ladies' night, though if that's your thing then chacun ses goûts) to do on Bastille Day, come and hang with us at Cotton's on Xinhua Lu. more ›

Yep, it's tonight. Come on over to Cotton's on Xinhua Lu for the Shanghaiist Happy Hour, which will feature yet another live performance from Philadelphia based musician Brian Seymour (MySpace). Want to read up on him? See more on our Seymour interview. more ›

Just a reminder for everybody hankering for an after work drink. The Shanghaiist Happy Hour starts at 6PM tonight! Come for the music, the company, the drink deals (20RMB Tsingtaos, 30RMB other select drinks) and the chance to win one of THREE vouchers for Aegis Co-op! more ›

Wondering what to do tomorrow after work? Why not join us for our next installment of the Shanghaiist Happy Hour? Since it's the third one since we're restarted hosting these things, we're raffling off THREE gifts this time. more ›