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- Community Markets: Central Studios 10th Summer Fair This Sunday
  
  One of Shanghai's larger photos studios and hub for creative types, Central Studios has been organizing an annual non-profit fair for years. It started out for friends in the industry, editors and stylists and the like, but it's gradually been ballooning. This Sunday 10th Summer Fair and it's shaping up to be a doozy. Taking over the yard are 50 vendors of the designer and artisan persuasion, with food from Egg, Bitter, Homeslice, Ask Jerry, Little Catch and more, eight DJs including China Social Club, Doggy and Cavia, an all-day ping-pong competition, free haircuts and, crucial, pay attention, a 100sqm studio set-aside for kids to build an enormous maze out of recycled cardboard. Plus they're giving out free stuff! Totebags and custom vinyl crates! For charity! Read on
- Photojournalism Agency Magnum Brings Free Show to Downtown
  
  Here's a small photography exhibition worth stopping by: "HOME", a collaborative project between FUJIFILM and Magnum hits China this month. Running until July 3, the project brings prints from 16 Magnum photographers to the FUJIFILM X-SPACE on Huaihai Zhong Lu. They'll have an artist talk and a workshop in the coming days. Read on
- The New Mansion Club Opens This Weekend, Six DJs Playing in the Toilet
  
  After closing in winter 2018, the concerns behind closed Hongqiao crazy party house The Mansion will open a new club+++++ this weekend. Six DJs are scheduled to play in the Eco-Toilet alone. It's gonna be kuh-raaaaazy! The new place is named 3NTRY, which is, like, very easy to pronounce and remember, and as we wrote back in May, located in the basement of a Xuhui mall. The secret entrance is next to a McDonald's, apparently. Read about it here. If you're into super DIY grassroots nightlife and aren't busy this weekend between 10pm and 4am, the 3NTRY Test Party is happening, with a gazillion people playing music in every nook and corner of the space. Crazy, ambitious, divisive and inclusive, all at the same time. What will they think of next!
- SmartShanghai Needs Fresh Intern Blood, Again
  
  It's that time of year again — intern season — and SmartShanghai is on the hunt. One of our last batch got an American visa, so, you know, that's the end of that. Her chair is still warm. We want you to fill it with young, fresh blood! We will teach you the dark arts of English language media, we will pay you, keep you air-conditioned during the day, and even let you out of the cage to play for 15 minutes every once in a while. Is it a deal? Read on
- This Three-Michelin Star Chef Plans to Open a Modern Nordic Restaurant in Shanghai
  
  Sneaky news from the depths of the chef world: Bjorn Frantzen, whose eponymous restaurant in Stockholm has three Michelin stars, plans to open in Shanghai in 2020. The new restaurant will serve "modern Nordic" food with Asian influences, all set in a casual and relaxed environment. In that regard, it will be much like Frantzens Kitchen (and maybe even called that) in Hong Kong, which opened in 2016. Guess what's on the menu there! “SWEDISH SUSHI”: crispy lichens, roe deer, cep mayonnaise & frozen bird´s liver! Add him to the list then, and place your bets now: will he be a Vongeritchen or a Berasategui? Is the hole in Shanghai's dining scene really New Nordic shaped? The delightful mysteries of Shanghai F&B!
- There's a 299rmb Annual Museum Pass That Grants You Access to All the Major Museums in Shanghai
  
  Contemporary art shows in Shanghai are kind of pricey these days, aren't they? Good news is a handful of organizations including iwen1, Qingnian Bao (The Youth newspaper), and the newly established Museums Association of Shanghai have joined forces to launch an annual museum pass. For 299rmb, the museum pass can be used at 52 museums, 36 art museums, and 13 attractions in Shanghai before April 30, 2020. Your year in culture, sorted! Read on
- Sort Your Garbage or Get Fined! New Recycling Regulations Come Into Effect on July 1
  
  It's all over WeChat and Weibo over the past few weeks: Shanghai has become the first city in China to enforce harsh regulations on household waste sorting and recycling. The new regulation will come into effect in two weeks. For mixing garbage, an individual can face a fine up to 200rmb. We've published a detailed article on how to sort household waste in Shanghai according to a list of categories including wet, dry, recyclable, and hazardous waste. The government has also released an official guide recently. With pictures! You might want to save it on your phone. Read on
- CinnaSwirl and Spread The Bagel Are Now In Cahoots
  
  The bagel engineers at Spread the Bagel and the cinnamon craftsmen behind CinnaSwirl have joined forces and created a carbohydrate utopia in the CinnaSwirl location on Yuyuan Dong Lu. It's just called Spread The Bagel x CinnaSwirl. Our cholesterol levels cry out in fear. Read on
- Snow Patrol Show Sold Out Immediately, So They Added Another Performance
  
  Irish indie rockers Snow Patrol, set to debut their new acoustic sound in China, sold out their August 23 performance almost immediately. You eager, eager devils, you! Luckily for their ravenous fanbase in Shanghai, they've added another performance the day after, August 24. Since Shanghai is known for the flexibility of its performance permits and licenses, this was definitely a spur of the moment decision in the interest of their fans, and not a ploy to drum up demand. Snow Patrol tickets go on sale over on SmartTicket at 2pm. Don't just lay there.
- Father's Day Is This Sunday, and These Deals Are For Dad
  
  Treat your old man this weekend, he deserves it. Think back to all the sound life advice he’s given you, his god-awful jokes that still make you laugh, and the times he’s had your back at the end of the month when cash is low. This Sunday is for him and there’s a ton of events happening, so he should be spoiled for choice. Read on
- ShanghaiPRIDE Is This Weekend, Here's What's Happening For It
  
  2019 marks the 11th edition of ShanghaiPRIDE, the annual festival celebrating the LGBTQ community. They throw all kinds of events, from workshops to forums to pink brunches, pride runs (registration already closed but you can wave a flag at the finish line) and paaaaarties. A host of events have already passed, and their art show is ongoing, but there's a bunch of stuff happening this weekend. We've got a list. Show up! Read on
- The Sportsfan's Abridged Guide to Professional Summer Sports
  
  Sweaty nights with strangers and acquaintances, perhaps more than a few cocktails — we know that’s how your summer goes down in Shanghai. We’re referring, of course, to hanging out with your buddies on hot nights at Shanghai’s stadiums and watching pro sports. And as always when we talk China and sports, that means we’re mainly talking about football. Read on
- We Shopped the New Aldi Grocery Store, This Is What It's Like
  
  After a slight delay, the Germans finally noticed China likes to grocery shop, something the British and French picked up on rather early. That is to say, ALDI, the German discount supermarket chain with more than 4,000 stores in Germany and 10k worldwide, now has the tiniest of presences in China: two stores in Shanghai. But this is not the ALDI you may be used to. I shopped the store this week. This is what it's like. Read on
  
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- [Five Questions]: Susan Xu, Writer, Director, Producer of Yellow Fever
  
  So an event listing dropped into our backend and we almost deleted it immediately because it just seemed like a bad idea. May have been a bit hasty on that one; turns out "Yellow Fever" is not, in fact, a horrible themed club night. It's a dark comedy written by Susan Xu, a Chinese-American living in Shanghai, debuting this weekend for a three-night-one-matinee run. We reached out to ask her about independent theater, interracial relationships and confronting uncomfortable themes. Read on
- Britpop Alert: Snow Patrol Coming to Shanghai in August, Tickets Selling Fast Already
  
  Super popular Britpop (post-Britpop?) band Snow Patrol are coming to Shanghai at the end of August for an acoustic show, and hey, we have tickets! But we won't for long — the well-established band, which has been around for more than two decades now, is apparently quite popular in China and our supply of tickets is going fast. A quick recap on the band, if you're not already a fan. Started out as an indie band, then did a curlicue into Britpop-not-Britpop, then won a bunch of awards, nominated for Mercury Prize and Grammys, and went on to global success. They sound kinda like Coldplay. This time around, they're touring behind new album Wildness, and making stops all over the European and Japanese summer stages (Glastonbury, Summer Sonic) before hitting China. Get your tickets here!
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Red Lobster After Work Party

Red Lobster is throwing a big party to celebrate its first restaurant in China, on the rooftop of the IFC Mall. Free-flow food and drinks from 7-9pm in the restaurant, th...

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Tan Dun & Orchestre National De Lyo...

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Christopher Nissen 2019 China Tour

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RP Boo

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La Fete de la Musique

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Midsummer Night Black Metal

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An Opera for Animals

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Queen Tribute Concert

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The Rooftop Pool Party

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Central Studios Summer Fair Day

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CETA Elite Tennis Academy Summer Ca...

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Trio da Paz

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a'a'a'jiao: an ID

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  Mx Drag China Pearl
  
  @ The Pearl
- June 5, 2019
  
  La Grande Belleza
  
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- May 30, 2019
  
  SCIS Events
  
  @ Shanghai Community International School (SCIS) Hongqiao Campus
- May 30, 2019
  
  SCIS Campus
  
  @ Shanghai Community International School (SCIS) Hongqiao Campus
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  @ British International School Shanghai (Puxi)
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  WISS DP Art Exhibition
  
  @ Western International School of Shanghai
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  Wellington Winter Christmas Bazaar
  
  @ Wellington College International Shanghai

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19 Jun 2019

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18 Jun 2019

Bloom….a long way to go before it blossoms

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17 Jun 2019

Hit the Sichuan bullfrog spot at Jin Xiao Guan

Wisefish99 on Jin Xiao Guan

For that sudden, special time of the year when you have a sudden craving for spicy bullfrog, Jin Xiao Guan on Anyuan Road has you covered. A Dazhong Dianping hero, the interior design aesthetic is simple, clean, and covered with stuffed frogs. It begs you to take pictures and plaster them all ... Read more