If you've been waiting with baited breath for the last...few years or so for Disneyland to open in Shanghai, good news: you can get a wintry taste of magic starting next Wednesday. For five days, the Shanghai International Gymnastics Center will be turned into a magical kingdom of icecapades in "A Disneyland Adventure:" all your favorite Disney characters will be ice skating their way through a fantastical story about, well, going to Disneyland. Sounds great for the kids, but since we've already had our share of the Disney experience with ice, we'll probably pass. more ›

This weekend is the next stop for Olympics hopefuls at the Gymnastics World Cup stop in Shanghai. The action begins tomorrow with the preliminary competition, which will determine the eight finalists that will compete on the four apparatuses for the women and six for the men. Since this is a World Cup event, there will be no all-around competition. Tomorrow's preliminary competition will be followed by the event finals on Saturday and Sunday. With the... more ›

Although the Olympic Games are over a year away, a preview of what's to come next summer has arrived in Shanghai this week. Shanghai is the host for this year's Chinese National Gymnastics Championships, featuring some of China's best and brightest gymnasts. China's men's team AND women's team are the defending World Champions. The preliminary competitions finished up last weekend, with the team finals finishing today and tomorrow, and the individual competitions (all-around final and... more ›

Shanghai is fast becoming George Costanza’s dream city. First, there is a sandwich craze that is sweeping through town and now the 34th Annual Miss Bikini International Pageant is being hosted by our fair city. Yesterday at Taipingqiao Lake in Xintiandi, there was a promotion for the festival that included Julia Liptakova, last year’s winner and Yang Lei, the runner up. more ›