Local digital music collective Antidote is throwing its 17th monthly gong show tonight. more ›

After dozens of tryouts, we have finally selected the DJ for the Shanghaiist Happy Hour, coming up Friday, March 3 at Blue Frog on Tongren Lu. And the winner is ... "The Weasel" ... aka Shanghaiist's own Jeff Jorve (really, his iPod will be spinning all the tracks). Expect an eclectic mix -- and likely several songs with references to ultimate frisbee. To get a better feel for what Jeff-Jorve-the-DJ will be like, check out our top albums of 2005. Here is Jeff's top 20: more ›

Remember way back to the time when you first came to this marvelous city and felt obliged to go to the Bund and get snap-happy with the Pudong skyline behind you? That impulse is what lures many a visitor to the Bund to employ the services of the good folks in green -- the people that take pictures for you, for a fee. Apparently they've been MIA for awhile because they've been undergoing training -- training on how to provide good service to people, and especially to correct their main vices -- taking too many pictures (so as to charge more) and also "carelessly composing" pictures (everyone slacks off at work, but composing pictures nicely when the target ain't even moving is not asking too much). No longer will they be trying to haggle and force tourists into taking pictures, because while that might bring in some quick cash, in the long run, they end up "damaging our reputation". Naw, you think? According to the new deal between the Bund folks and the photography folks, from now on, it's two strikes and you're out. Sounds like an anti-photographic pollution campaign we can agree with. Read the Chinese report here. more ›

Since Shanghaiist kicked off in July this year, we've inflicted opinion after opinion on you, our faithful readership. Here comes a whole bunch more. more ›

Fumin Lu in between Changle and Julu Lu is a small yet concentrated swath of Shanghai’s “pink and pirated” trades. more ›