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Weekenders looking for a break from the usual club and pub offerings should consider these two interesting events this weekend.

Summer is here and everything is heating up. Leading up to this weekend, this is what Shanghaiist thinks is going to be hot today and tomorrow.

Just wanted to let you all know (again) that you are invited to the Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Henry's Brewery & Grill, near the Bund, this Friday (April 20 ... tomorrow) from 7 pm to midnight. Entry is free and all house-brewed beer (Honey Brown, Perfect Pilsener, Shanghai Nights, Raspberry Helles and Pale Ale) will be discounted 30 percent — that means a pint will be just 21 kuai. House wines and soft drinks will also be offered at 30 percent off.

Everyone is invited to head on down to the Bund (or near it) a week from Friday and enjoy:

On a recent stroll near the Bund, Shanghaiist chanced upon a curious joint that was billing itself as a restaurant, design house, hair studio, live music joint, and art gallery. Ma.Design, it was called. We were intrigued.

Don’t panic yet, but seriously, it might be inappropriate to say "Bund 18" in the future. According to this Eastday report (in Chinese), one of the 2006 government projects -- cleaning up the city's street names -- is going to be finished by the end of this year. There are 838 roads involved in this project: 146 road names are going to be written off, 154 road names are going to be changed and 225 road names are going to be prefixed. (We've checked the street names that will be written off and fortunately they are all in suburbs, like Qingpu, Fengxian and Baoshan)

If you're anything like this particular Shanghaiist (young at heart, possibly infantile), you'd probably enjoy checking out the opening night of the "I, China" exhibit at da>space gallery. Curators Eddi and Jukai have kept things lighthearted and playful, asking 60 young designers from around China to customize Beijing-based WZL's "I" vinyl figurine.

Taggers, bombers, stencil artists, vinyl toy junkies and street artists around the country are heralding the arrival of Da>Space, Shanghai's first retail gallery and studio focusing on urban art.

While we were enjoying a candlelit dinner -- seriously, there was no other light source -- at No. 5, we wondered: Is there a bar or restaurant in Shanghai with more comfortable chairs? We highly doubt it. They are almost too comfortable -- we found ourselves nearly nodding off during the main course.