In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of well... whatever catches their fancy that week. This week: Three costume ideas to get your communism on for our Shanghaiist Communist Party Party tomorrow! more ›

Why wait for the launch of the iPad 3 when you can build it yourself? This guy shows us the ultimate in DIY shanzhai: Watch him painstakingly saw, file, screw, mount the motherboard, put together the other parts of his home-made tablet, install Windows XP (*gasp*), and lovingly apply his finishing touch with an Apple logo sticker! The end-product really doesn't look too bad at all for a homemade gadget made in just two weeks -- it's got a touchscreen, keyboard and a nice case to go along with it. We'd be happy to buy it off this guy -- provided he can stick in some other operating system that's not the XP! more ›

There's nothing more fun than dressing up for Halloween but, despite the increasing popularity of Halloween parties around town (yeesh, let's just say the competition's getting harsh!), Shanghai shops have yet to step up. Unfortunately, the places to buy a ready made outfit are basically the same as last year's places. So why not get into the do-it-yourself spirit? Shanghaiist helps you get dressed specifically for our Halloween party: Haibot Apocalypse 2010 with three easy DIY robot-themed costumes. more ›

If the tweets of Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa K Chan are to be believed, Farmer Yang, the man who protected his land with homemade cannons and bombs has run afoul of the local government. more ›

No, it's not a mechanical rampage of social awkwardness - it's a conference and a cool sounding one at that - a grassroots meeting where artists, engineers, scientists, DIY enthusiasts (and you!) interact under the broad delineation of “people doing strange things with electricity.” more ›

We're all for a little self love, but we're not sure we're willing to pay 88RMB for 60 minutes to do-it-ourselves. more ›

With dodgy versions of Photoshop available from every fake market, DVD shop and noodle stall in the city, it takes more than a few flashy images to make your club flyer stand out from the crowd. more ›

We previously told you about one man's dream to build, and fly a tiny home-made helicopter between live power lines. more ›

The weekend is finally here, and despite the buzz surrounding Linkin Park on Sunday, there are plenty of other shows that are also worth checking out. Friday, Yuyintang warms things up for Linkin Park fans with four local nu-metal bands strutting their stuff and letting out their best screams. While over at 4Live, Pixel Toy, from Hong Kong, provide an eccentric mix of Cantonese pop electronica. Opening for them is Banana Monkey. Phreaktion in celebration... more ›

If you fancy yourself a punker, pretend to be a punk, or just like watching punks, then the 1234 Beach Rock Festival, is a dream (possibly wet) come true. Scheduled for the 20th and 21st of this month, the 1234 BRF is bringing together some of China's best punk/skinhead bands and adding a sprinkle of international flavor. Included in the line up are well known Chinese punk bands: the Unsafe, SMZB and Misandao, while Shanghai will be represented by local favorites Banana Monkey, Loudspeaker, the Mortal Fools and Muscle Snog. There will also be over a dozen other Chinese bands traveling here from Nanjing, Beijing, Wuhan and Xian to take part in this festival. International acts (as of today) are Cheb Samir and The Black Souls of Leviathan, Skip Jensen, Anti-Clockwise and MIMY. more ›

It is official...the golden week has finally hit Shanghai, and it is hitting us hard, with a multitude of music festivals. So for those of you who are taking the vacation serious and drinking so much you can't think straight, Shanghaiist is here to do the thinking for you. Feel free to print and paste the sample itinerary listed below to that one pair of underwear you plan on wearing for the entire week. more ›

Shanghai, typically a live music wasteland, is preparing for a gaggle (Shanghaiist has the hippest vocabulary) of music festivals, all scheduled for the normally dead October Golden weekend. Get ready for 4...yes, count'em....f-o-u-r....music festivals, with some pretty damn exciting bands. more ›

Everyone has their own way of celebrating or dealing with the inconveniences of the World Cup. Take this trio of pregnant women, who painted footballs on their bellies. One of them said it was love at first sight when she saw her future husband, running like a "crazy horse" down the field and, with a deft motion of his feet, kicking the ball straight into the goal. Sounds kinda kinky too -- but everyone knows, after all, that "sex 'n' footbawwwlll" go together well. Recently, one woman has been trying various football related means to capture the heart of a football fanatical man she's been secretly jonesing for. This meant decorating her apartment with various football related paraphernalia, but also by ... making football underwear? This is the phrase in Chinese: 动手DIY足球内衣. The report doesn't say much about it, leaving it to one's imagination (and perhaps for the better). Please, let us know what you think this might mean, as long as your mind isn't in the gutter. More deeply and irrevocably entrenched in the gutter than ours, that is. more ›

Jeremy Goldkorn, the creator of Danwei.org, a Website that documents urban life in China, has recently joined the millions of vbloggers worldwide in getting comfortable speaking to the camera. more ›

Via Boing Boing, we learned of a great China blog called Virtual China. The post that caught Boing Boing's eye is entitled "what's on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers" and it highlights some of the "DIY projects" China's farmers are undertaking (likely with all the free time they have thanks to a land-grab). Two of their efforts are pictured. more ›

Michael Ohlsson, underground DJ more ›

We hate to sound like we're shilling for Live Bar, but with ten shows in the five weeks since they officially opened, the Yangpu dive is fast becoming the number one venue for live rock music in Shanghai. Three consecutive concerts this past weekend meant six long cab rides, 13 bands, and innumerable (20-kuai!) pitchers of beer. more ›