It seems like everybody is getting on the "Make a movie in China" train. There was John Cusack in Shanghai last year, then Hugh Jackman in Wendy Deng's Snow Flower & The Secret Fan. There's even a Disney reinterpretation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that will take place here. So perhaps its not surprising that our favorite time traveler-turned-surf cop-turned-virtual reality messiah has jumped aboard as well. more ›

Sure, you can't have actors pretend to be doctors anymore, but nobody said you couldn't dub over existing actors' voices to make them sound like shills for your product. more ›

Here, Shanghai, were your favourite stories for the month of October: more ›

Keanu Reeves was spotted on Friday at the Yuyuan Gardens at some Chinese restaurant enjoying his Shanghai dumplings (does anyone know which restaurant that is, sure doesn't look like Nanxiang to us?) more ›

The Shanghaiist Weather Center is 100 percent sure the answer will be yes (although is Shanghai Circuit really in Shanghai?). It's dry now in the French Concession, but the dark clouds above suggest it won't stay that way for long. Here's the latest weather update from the official Formula 1 website: Thus far Sunday has been dry with a little wind, but no sign of the edge of Typhoon Krosa, which is sweeping through the... more ›

This has nothing to do with Shanghai, or China for that matter. But we can't get enough of these Japanese television commercials for Suntory Boss coffee drink featuring Oscar-winner and Harvard-grad Tommy Lee Jones. Jones has been appearing in Boss ads for a year now, we think, but we first learned of the campaign recently after a friend returned to Shanghai from Japan confused about the billboards he saw all over the place featuring huge, and not particularly flattering, head shots of the craggy-faced Mr. Jones. more ›

As much as we hate to start out on a bad note -- and breaking our own rule of dissuading musicians in this town to “find themselves” -- we do feel the need to ask a big, big favor for Screeching Stripy Siren and Mr. Bongos who graced the open-mic stage at Tanghui on Wednesday evening: more ›