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Quality and beauty are the two features Andrew James looks out for when he sources for contemporary art. This was what he liked about Dorothy M. Yoon's works when he first came upon them at a London art fair. Last Saturday's opening reception for Dorothy's first solo exhibition in China attracted a good number of people, presumably intrigued by the bizarre portraits of Asian females in all kinds of blonde wigs imaginable. While surreal......

Photo by Wee Ling Soh Feeling artsy today? Go catch London-based artist Dorothy M. Yoon's exhibition which features 13 Asian females in blonde wigs and equally blonde bleached eyebrows inspired by her childhood fantasies. A joint exhibition by contemporary artists Christeene Britton & Wang Youling celebrating harmony and life can be a good bet if you're looking for something a little more abstract (and perhaps a little less quirky). Enjoy. Dorothy M. Yoon "13......

Shanghaiist recently stumbled upon a couple of little, somewhat inconspicuous spots that seem perfect for hiding away from the obnoxious cold of Shanghai’s deep winter. We’re planning on being regulars at these places not because the food is mind-blowing, but because they’re cozy and warm and, well, we’re softies like that. Amokka Café on Anfu Lu opened sometime early last year, but it took us getting lost during rush hour to accidentally come across it.......

Over this weekend, Blue Frog celebrated its grand opening in Macau's Venetian in a glitzy event that featured performances by Shaolin monks, Australian DJ Alex Taylor and Shanghai's very own Sugar Mama and the Cotton Club Band. Apparently, quite a number of people flew over from Shanghai for the event (too bad for us, we were never invited). In this video, Blue Frog looks a lot more like a club than anything else, and certainly......

There isn't a live music update this week, but it's art shows galore TONIGHT. Three picks that aren't in your conventional Moganshan Lu / Taikang Lu destinations. ART LABOR GALLERY, from 5pm 10–36 Yongjia lu by Maoming Lu (永嘉路10-36号，近茂名路) Phone: 6431 7782, info@artlaborclub.com, www.artlaborgallery.com Art photographer Yuichi Hibi from New York City presents a selection of his works from his internationally acclaimed book imprint. Influenced by film noir and described by critics as “weirdly charged......

Back in January, we told you how much we loved the food at Southern Barbarian, the great Yunnan restaurant that some people complained was too far away because it was north of Beijing Lu. Well, we are happy to report Southern Barbarian has moved farther south, and now resides amongst a cluster of art galleries and shops near the intersection of Maoming Lu and Jinxian Lu (just one subway stop from Shanghaiist headquarters). The......

Yes, we do know of scatting as a form of singing in jazz where the human voice is used as an instrument and no real words are used. But the first time we saw the name of this store in a mall right on the corner of Huaihai Lu and Maoming Lu, we were like, "Oh my God, did they really call it scat?" because the first thing that comes to our mind (and......

Maoming Lu is no longer a wild party street. Gone are the lascivious hostesses running around in a noisy chaotic fashion, challenging beer-drenched men to games of Connect Four. H & Y' s boss must have seen it all, because this low key Japanese restaurant is still going strong in this street after seven years. We enjoy this restaurant, because it has tasty, inexpensive Japanese food in a very casual environment. Inside, H & Y......

The good and the not-so-good from the previous several days The good: Wikipedia unblocked: Half-assed fact-checking (and hyperlinking) made possible once again. Live in Shanghai website: A surprisingly good source for Shanghai neophytes. And, um, the navigationally impaired.Time Passage: Drinking a few beers and rolling some dice at Time Passage is a fine way to spend a Saturday evening. Two gripes: Get at least one decent beer—Tiger makes us hurt the next day. How about......

Shanghaiist has a new favorite bar in town, and it’s great. It’s stylish yet unpretentious, has great cocktails, and a killer view. It’s ... Glamour Bar?!? Who knew! Adjoining old Shanghai chestnut M on the Bund, Glamour was once a nice place to chill while waiting for a table, but was easily outshone by the flashy upstarts elsewhere on the Bund. What a difference a renovation makes! It now takes up the entire floor below......

We were walking on Maoming Lu near Huaihai Lu recently when we spotted (behind the watch/bag/shoe hawkers announcing to us that Xiangyang Market was no longer) a rather large image of the Statue of Liberty being attacked by a giant octopus. This caught our attention. The advertisement adorning the west-facing wall of the Cathay Theatre was for the movie Octopus 2: River of Fear (also known as "OCPOTUS" on some local posters). We generally try......

Someone just sent us this joke (in Chinese) about the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Shanghai. The rough translation is: A Real Shanghai The SCO Summit will be held in Shanghai in June 2006. There are 20 minutes left before the start the meeting but none of the country leaders are here. The journalists are waiting. President Nie of the SCO Summit Committee started dialing numbers: “Where is Putin?!” “Mr. Putin is on......

The last time Shanghaiist was in the Bund Sightseeting Tunnel -- way back in 2002 -- we didn't get a chance to peruse the Sex Culture and Education Exhibition that is currently housed there. Needless to say, had we known about it at the time, we would have checked it out ... and probably gone back a couple of more times, just to really absord all of the sexually explicit content information. Originally, Shanghai Datong......

Last summer, Shanghaiist snapped this picture of the grassy roofs of the Jin Jiang Hotel on Mao Ming Lu. Hotel workers said the grass had been there "for some time" and that it was "mandated by the district government." Seeing as we'd never heard local cadres require anything as environmentally friendly, water conserving, or money saving as this, we were skeptical of this claim. That is, until Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau announced its new......

Bored of the same old over-priced and pretentious crap that seemingly dominates Shanghai’s nightlife scene? Then a new event kicking off on Saturday could be right up your street. OK, it’s not actually taking place at night, but it’s free to get in, and therefore unlikely to be pretentious. So why not check out PAUSE in the basement of YY’s on 125 Nanchang Lu between Ruijin and Maoming Lu, from 2 pm to 7 pm......

Shanghaiist visited a bar the other night. A new bar: Free Soul, on Fahuazhen Lu. What struck us most about this place was not the “choose-your-own-music” feature (the modest selection of CDs included Air, the Backstreet Boys, the soundtrack to Singles, and various Buddha Bar compilations). Nor was it the special “repellant dartboard” which failed to cling to a single dart we threw at it. Nor, indeed, was it the sign plastered on a notice-board......

Cheapest beers in town...

Too often, we hear Shanghai residents bemoaning the lack of good live music, especially when compared to our neighbor to the north. Sure, we all love a good Filipino cover band every now and then, but ... Well, tonight and, sadly, only tonight, the Sam Hooper Group will perform a night of blues rhythms and funky, rock-infused jams for their groove-thirsty fans in Shanghai -- and they'll do it for free. Last night, they jumped......