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Some of Shanghai's best live rock and an all-you-can drink open bar for 100 kuai ... all inside one of the city's coolest new venues for live music? Yeah, that'll work. Set aside April 21 -- should be a fun night:

We checked out the third floor of Blue Frog on Tongren Lu last night -- pretty cool. That is where most of the Shanghaiist Happy Hour folks will be. We'll have our own bar up there, and there is a DJ booth where our DJ iPod jockey Jeff Jorve will spin his "tastefully eclectic mix of neo-soul, jazz, funk, and hip hop." We imagine the crowd will spill over to other floors of Blue Frog, which is fine, because everyone in the entire bar gets the drink specials. Not a bad deal.

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:

Just think, two weeks from now you will be getting ready for the Happy Hour people[1] are talking about all the way in Honolulu, Hawaii. A reminder of the details:

Even though we only sold two Shanghaiist T-shirts, most people who attended the first Shanghaiist Happy Hour last month at Cotton's -- thanks again, Cotton! -- thought it was a huge success (except maybe for the waitress who got hit in the head with a beer stein and never came back to work ... seriously, is she OK?).