There's a lot going on this weekend and it's a really mixed bag! Time Out Shanghai is finally getting its website off the ground and will be throwing a bash tonight at Zeal. You could head there or your other best bet is over to Prive where Ministry of Sound DJ Phil Drummond will be playing house beats. Party round the clock as Shiva celebrates its first birthday starting at House of Roosevelt, Lang Lang teams up with world champion figure skaters for a two day show, and "Panda Dad" Alan Paul is in town to talk about his memoir of adventures in Beijing. Read Shanghaiist's interview with him here. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

When Time Out: Shanghai English came on the scene, we were admittedly skeptical about their success. Now they've managed to survive a year and plan a couple of pretty awesome parties besides - most recently their first year bash and an awesome movie night at Lola this weekend. I caught up with their chief, Toby Skinner, to ask a couple questions about how he felt they did living up to the grand ambitions he'd outlined when they first started. more ›

In case you were hoping for something fun to do on a Thursday and you didn't already know about it, Time Out: Shanghai is celebrating their first year of existence at Gosney & Kallman's Chinatown. You're invited. more ›

"...[T]here just isn't any room for 'mad' teen behavior in Shanghai society. There's already a group of people who meet in groups on the streets and in parks to dance, sing, smoke and indulge in subcultures that no one else understands. I'm talking about the over-60s, who are Shanghai's equivalent of the teenager, except that walking backwards while clapping and humming is far more radical than taking Class C drugs in a car park." more ›

• Our friends at Time Out have got a deal for you. If you fill out the questionnaire attached to the most recent issue of Time Out, and then head over to Vue Bar at Hyatt on the Bund with it tomorrow night, you can drink for free from 7pm to 9:30pm. They're calling it: Time Out Thursdays. Get to it.
• With a new bagel shop in town, CNNGo pits it against numero uno bagel baker Hayas on three popular bagel varieties to see which one should be crowned bagel king. [CNNGo]
• Meanwhile, City Weekend hunts for the best bread you can find in Puxi (since Pudong's is solely owned by House of Flour). [City Weekend]

So despite the - well, let's just call it "tumultuous" - climate for magazines all over the world, it seems that the Time Out franchise is taking its chances and starting up a new Shanghai division - an English Shanghai division, that is (Time Out Shanghai has been out for years in Chinese). What we were surprised about is how much of the new TOSHE (as we're gonna call it now) writing group we knew. Guess that media circle here is smaller than we thought. TOSHE will feature: more ›

Shanghaiist is still working here in the capital and an article entitled The Birth of Chollywood caught our attention earlier today while flipping through the October issue of Time Out Beijing. And it informs us that a new Bollywood film will soon be shot in China and it will be entitled — yes, you guessed it — "Made in China". more ›

Newsweek has story Shanghaiist can relate to this week. It's called "The Drifter" and has a subhead "Young expats looking for adventure and opportunity are being drawn to China, where the economy is booming, rents are cheap and skills in short supply." The story tells us that "China seems to be awash in expats who seem content to drift from one job to another before landing something that catches their fancy." Who is the lead subject for this story? Jeremy Goldkorn, who is the main man behind Danwei.org. Here's what they say about him: more ›

Chinese cities are notorious for their pace of change. In particular, restaurants and bars tend to open and close with stunning speed. The editors of Lonely Planet must have a nightmare on their hands trying to keep track of it all. In fact, Shanghaiist’s edition of LP -- which we think has only just been superseded -- includes entries for Rollo di Pollo (a pizza restaurant at the back of M on the Bund) and Shanghai Sally’s, among other anachronisms. And last year, Time Out released a Shanghai guide which, in the space of about two or three pages, mentioned Cotton’s, Red on Anfu Lu, the Kiwi Bar and a bunch of other venues that had already sadly departed. (Okay, nobody was too sad about the Kiwi closing). more ›