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All the top stories from the past 7 days: An open rebellion in Wukan, glowing meat in Beijing, and Batman routed by Chinese police. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Gay penguins, Putin's Confucius Peace Prize, and Chongqing's chutzpah architecture. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Outlawing disposable chopsticks, Good Samaritan Law finally arrives in Shenzhen, and Georgetown students "crack" China's nuclear secrets. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Nudie netizens support Ai Weiwei, Huntsman talks China's downfall, and a leech found living in a teen's throat. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Putin wins the Confucius Peace Prize, workers strike in Guangdong, and alien structures in Western China? It's less likely than you think. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Ai Weiwei's fundraiser, Shanghai's cancerous fog, and Lady Gaga with Chinese characteristics more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: US Presidential candidates try to talk China, Ai Weiwei's 1 million RMB loan, and Chinese scientists cook up some blood. more ›

International music acts are descending en masse on Shanghai this weekend. Steve Aoki, Slugabed, T-1000 and more (including some RnB artist from the UK). Hard mode: can you catch them all? Nightmare mode: can you do that and also get your social responsibility on by helping out at Rivers of Hearts or JAR Animal Adoption Day? And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the top stories from the last 7 days: Siberian tigers, scary pollution photos, and a mini bubble-burst in Shanghai's housing market. more ›

100RMB for all-you-can-drink before 11:30pm. And it's not one of those demoralizing deals either, where you only get drinks you've never heard of. We're talking Bacardi, Cuervo and Smirnoff, a veritable holy trinity of guaranteed drunkenness. more ›

It's that time of year again! Halloween, our favorite excuse to dress up like an idiot and imbibe more than the recommended units, starts tonight! Kick off your Halloween by kicking it with us at Cargo JJ tonight, and make sure not to miss all the rockin' parties happening Saturday! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

All the top stories from the past 7 days: Yueyue, Shanghaiist's adventures in Huaxi, mega-nerd Zhang Xinyang and Shanghai police looking for Occupy Wall Street instigators. more ›

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Shanghaiist has finally been blessed with a makeover! The current look is already up and running at Gothamist and other sites in the Istaverse, and we're happy to now share the same design as the S(Ist)er Sites in our network. more ›

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Next weekend kicks off the October holidays here in China, so now's your chance to either prepare for it with parties or have one last normal weekend before the craziness starts. We've got D.A.F.F. Art Festival happening tomorrow (of which we are a proud media sponsor!), documentaries on falling satellites, tech "un-conferences," and Save-the-Planet Eco Seminars. Read on for details or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

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Astute Shanghaiist readers have probably noticed that I haven't been posting much anyway for the last couple of months, but here it is officially: I'm heading out of the country and will no longer be contributing to this site. It's been a great run and thanks everybody for reading! more ›

We'd like to take a moment to wish all our readers a very happy Mid-Autumn festival! 中秋节快乐！ more ›

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• While typhoontropical storm Muifa may have missed us (which can't be said for Jiangsu province), we showed you photos of all the crazy flooding that took place after Friday morning's electrical storm, which ended up killing three people in Shanghai!
• We noted that Keanu Reeves is just the latest to jump on the "let's all make a movie in China" boat. Whoa.
• We were very skeptical over the recent "happy cities" report that listed Hangzhou first and Shanghai 97th.