Results tagged “hockey”

Looking for something cool (ridiculously bad pun intended) to do this weekend? Why not head out to Songjiang to check out the China Sharks? Shanghai's entry into the awkwardly-named, seven-team Asia League Ice Hockey is going to be finishing up its inaugural season with a three-game homestand against one of their Japanese rivals, the Oji Eagles, and will be looking to improve on their admittedly modest 5-22 record.

Torontoist has some awesome, cutting edge news: A movie is being made about a gay hockey player - filmmakers even got approval from the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs! Also awesome: Toronto's "Do the Sneeze Sleeve Campaign". And most awesome is this dreamy photograph of Toronto's skyline in fog.

As a kid, Shanghaiist was a video arcade fiend. Looking fondly back on that Golden Age of video game entertainment, plenty of hard earned allowance and Chinese New Year money would have been better off being saved in a bank account rather than being flushed down a coin slot. The Mortal Kombat bloodlust was just too strong to resist! Remember that ego-inflating boost of self-esteem that came with whupping someone's ass for only 25 cents? If you are in need of a reminder, then it would be wise to make your way to the newly opened Sega Player's Arena in People's Square (as previously mentioned).

From what we can make out from the small print on the billboard, Gillis is 52 years old and 1.71 meters tall. He is a university graduate who does business in Canada. He is financially secure, responsible, honest kind and non-smoking. He has two children, ages 25 and 29. He is interested in travel, internet, movies and books. He has been an English teacher in Hefei for more than two years. He loves beautiful Hefei, and is looking for a "Chinese lady who understands English." She must be intelligent, pretty and under the age of 45.

A poster over at Metafilter posed the following question under the title "'shanghaied to beijing' hurts my brain":