All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Lantern Festival signals the end of Spring Festival, Superbowl gets some replays around town, and Subcinema kicks off its Blaxpoitation month. Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

Bar Rouge is shutting down for renovations after this weekend, so catch some big parties over there for the next few nights, or head over to Shelter's usual Back to the Classics, a reflective art exhibition Cold Comfort, and some fun fightin' for your average Sunday morning. And don't forget, Superbowl Sunday lands early Monday morning here for all you NFL fans! Read on for details on that and more, or head over to our calendar for more! more ›

As the blame game begins in the next episode of the Groupon Super Bowl tragicomedy, all eyes are now transfixed on the ad agency that singlehandedly created the catastrophe: Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. The 1,000 strong agency has offices in the US, Canada and Europe, but no presence in Asia, which kinda shows. more ›

That's right. Lay aside everything you've heard so far about Groupon's ambitious plans to hire 1,000 China employees by March and its insistence that it will beat the many Chinese clones that are already up and running here. Hot air or not, Groupon China is effectively history in the People's Republic. more ›

The Steelers face off with the Packers in the Super Bowl this year and the game kicks off at 7:30am on Monday morning (Shanghai time.) Because of that fortuitus convergence of Super Bowl with the CNY holiday, there will thankfully be far fewer people heading to work drunk around noon on Monday. We mentioned a few places to watch the game in our Weekendist, but thought you guys could use a better roundup of all the breakfast and booze deals. For all bars listed below, I'd recommend getting there as early as possible if you want a place to sit. more ›

Hope you not too partied out from the first of the Chinese New Year celebration because there's a score of things to do continuing on through the weekend. more ›

Last week, the New England Patriot Cheerleaders visited Malone's just a few days before the Super Bowl. The girls, showed off their dance moves, signed various Patriot paraphenalia for adoring fans, and made some predictions about who would win this year's football showdown. Turns out they were right: Good job, New Orleans Saints. And good job, ladies, for getting it right on the money. more ›

If you watched Super Bowl XLIII in China, you missed out on what is often the best part of the show--the commercials that advertisers pay obscene amounts of money to air during the game. You can see them all and vote for your favorites here. more ›

href="http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_snowbal.php">photographing a big, organized snowball fight.

UPDATE: We're actually having some trouble getting these videos to play here on our Shanghai ADSL connection. Anyone (in China) having any luck? OK, it works when we have our VPN turned on. Try that or maybe a proxy. more ›

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Last fall, we told you about the China Bowl — the NFL preseason (American) football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks scheduled for early August in Beijing. In February, we told you about all the China Bowl plugs we saw during the international broadcast of the Super Bowl. And just one month ago, we told you about the three Chinese kickers (one named "Rambo") the NFL was training with the hopes that at least one of them could suit up for the China Bowl. We even had one reader email us to see if we could confirm the date (we had heard anywhere between August 7 and 9) — because he had already booked plane tickets for his brother-in-law, a huge Pats fan, to come to Beijing, but was worried he had him schedule to fly back before the game even started. more ›

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? more ›

We have finally woken from the slumber brought on by watching the Super Bowl (the Prince halftime show was much better than the game itself). If you were tuned in to ESPN Asia this morning like we were, you saw, over and over again, the same Allen Iverson "I'm not a gangster" commercial they've been playing for two years now — we love AI as much as the next guy, but would have preferred these. You also heard the announcers, over and over, talk about the "one billion viewers" that were tuning in to the game, and, almost as often, you saw them promote this August's "China Bowl" NFL preseason game in Beijing, featuring the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, on August 8. Here are the details of that game — not much has changed since we last told you about it in September, except now they have a logo (pictured). more ›

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. more ›

Beijing will play host to an NFL preseason game next year, the professional American football league announced today (it had been rumored for a while). The New England Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks at 8:30 pm on August 8, 2007 in Workers Stadium. The game will be televised live in both the United States (NBC) and China (CCTV). (The Associated Press story, linked to above, said the game "will be shown live on NBC at 8:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 9. The dateline was "FOXBORO, Mass." -- forgive them if they don't quite understand how the time difference works up in New England.) more ›

It's Super Bowl time. We'll be watching at our house, assuming our satellite holds out (a big assumption lately). Oh, and don't bother trying to buy Sam Adams beer at the supermarket in the basement of the Westgate Mall -- we cleaned them out last night. (Beer for breakfast ... mmmmmmmmmm.) more ›

There are strong rumors that four Englishmen in their 60s will strut what is left of their stuff on a stage somewhere in Shanghai this April. At this point they are still just rumors, but here are some reasons why Shanghaiist believes the Rolling Stones will bring their A Bigger Bang tour to our fair city this year (unless China's "mysterious" disease du jour once again scares them away): more ›

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If you have a real job, you'll likely be working. But if you're like Shanghaiist -- and you're also American -- you may be watching some good, old fashioned ganlanqiu ... American football ... the National Football League conference championships ... the two games that determine the contestants in Super Bowl XL (40, not "extra large"). The Pittsburgh Steelers play at the Denver Broncos in the American Football Conference championship at 4 a.m. And with a somewhat more bearable 7:30 a.m. kickoff, the National Football Conference championship pits the Carolina Panthers on the road against the Seattle Seahawks. more ›