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A stunt man seriously injured during a performance in Shanghai's Zhabei District on Saturday has come out of his coma. Oldrich Svarousky*, 48, "can open his mouth following directions from doctors in English." He is not paralyzed, but suffered a concussion, a fractured rib, a broken nose and four broken teeth. A member of the Filmka Stunts Team, Svarousky was attempting to jump through rings of fire from atop a moving car during a Hollywood stunts show when he tripped and fell and landed head first. The bloodiest of the photos we saw can be found here. You can see a video clip of the accident here.

The restaurant is called Southern Barbarian, and it is up in Zhabei District, our old stomping grounds. They sent us an email back in September. Here is what it said:

Unfortunately, Shanghaiist didn't make it to the actual track meet, the main attraction of which was the 110m men's hurdles, where Liu Xiang narrowly beat out American Allen Johnson, clocking in at 13.07 to Johnson's 13.09. You can read about some of the other results here. We heard from someone who attended that the musical performers, which included Karen Mok, Lee Hom Wang, and Macy Gray, were lackluster. We didn't make it to the dinner afterwards either, but thanks to Aimee at Blue Frog we made it to the last stop of the night -- the post party, held at the Life Hub, a shopping/entertainment complex up on Gonghe Xin Lu, near Daning Lu in Zhabei District (yes, Zhabei District). Blue Frog catered the event (and is opening a new store in the area) where Liu Xiang was presented with an award and where the other athletes got a chance to drink, dance, and let off some steam. You can check out some of our pictures from the night above.

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Shanghai has managed to snag yet another "first in China" milestone, as the Shanghai Glasses Museum opened for public viewing this week. In an attempt to promote proper eye care, the museum houses an impressive-sounding collection of over 5,000 glasses, dating all the way back to the Song Dynasty, and is spread out over three floors of exhibit space. If this sounds rather boring, don't fall asleep just yet: Four-eyed excitement is just around the corner.

Image via Gridskipper from Inner Scopes: Contemporary Chinese Photography as Conscious Practices, which runs at the Shanghai Gallery of Art until April 2.

Dog Year treats

Shanghaiist avoided the internet over the weekend, thus we had no clue that another typhoon was headed our way. Typhoon Khanun, named after a Thai fruit, arrived Sunday night and made Shanghaiist have bad dreams. Heavy rains and winds canceled hundreds of flights, forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 Shanghai residents and closed schools today. While at least seven died in coastal Zhejiang province, the Shanghai Daily reports one injury locally: a lighting fixture landed on a man's head in Zhabei District. Although things seem to have died down a bit, Reuters said Shanghai "barred companies from penalising workers who arrived late due to the weather." So, hopefully you took advantage of that.

Shanghaiist’s worst travel experience ever was on a 15-hour “sleeper bus” (ha!) from southern Shandong Province back to Shanghai. Packed to the rafters, Arctic January temperatures, layers of ice on broken windows, an ancient, festering interior dotted with rusty metal benches and the occasional sodden blanket (actual interior, pictured), black smoke chundering out of the engine console inside the vehicle, a desperate need to urinate for the second half of the trip and a Soup Nazi of a driver who couldn’t even be bribed to stop. To make matters worse, we joyously spied the night lights of the Oriental Pearl Tower in the disorientating haze of bladder pain and thought the horror was over, only to discover it was a miniature of the Pearl Tower located about 200 kilometres northwest of the city and we still had a four-hour crawl left to go.