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    • Hrrgurrraaaggrrr: Ensemble Turan Showcasing Kazakh Folk Music, Throat Singing, Amazing Furry Hats

      A little culture for you, first thing this week: the Turan Ensemble–or Ensemble Turan depending on your syntactic leanings–is a five man Kazakh folk group formed in 2008 by a bunch of students from the Kazakh National Conservatory. They've brought their Turan brand of throat singing to Shanghai in the past, notably the World Music Festival, playing venerable Turkic instruments like the dombra, zhetigen, kobyz, sybyzgy, sherter and shankobyz. If that greatest-argument-for-y-as-a-vowel sounds like your jam, Abzal Arykbaev, Maxat Medeubek, Bauirzhan Bekmukhanbetov, Serik Nurmoldaev, Erzhigit Aliyev (*unclench larynx*) and their sweet fur hats will be at Bandu Music tomorrow at 7.30pm. 120rmb on the door.

    • Di Shui Dong Closes As Dongping Lu Shutdown Edges Nearer

      Another year, another street. Dongping Lu, which we've been moaning and doomsaying about since 2016, is feeling the wrecking ball inch ever closer. Di Shui Dong is shut. Simply Thai closes in November. Pirata has about two months left. The street has really had the hatchet hanging over it since its northern half closed in 2017, taking with it Blackbird and the Coffee Academics. Things that remain untouched: D.O.C.. Green & Safe. They'll probably be fine.
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    • Chef Sam Norris Splits From The Parlour

      Chef Sam Norris will have to find another place to bake pizzas in a disco ball, after announcing this afternoon in a WeChat message that he is no longer working with Columbia Circle restaurant The Parlour. In fact, he's had a fairly acrimonious split with the investor, who, he charges, used Sam & co. to get his place up and running and then basically kicked them out. Norris will focus his full-time attention on his Japanese restaurant, Xime, now.

    • Ginormous Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park Isn't Open To Foreigners Until November 20

      The Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park located waaaay out in Pudong near Dishui Hu, opened for trial operations on October 1 with fanfare, waterworks and excitement. It's got freaking everything. Five major biomes! Six exhibition venues! A giant volcano! A resort! Jetskis! Those water-powered jetpacks! Polar bears! A submarine restaurant! Underwater mermaid shows! But hold your seahorses, Aquaman. Foreigners can't get in until November 20. Read on
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    • Body Talk: A Clothes Swap for the Curvy

      If you’re above a certain size shopping for clothes in Shanghai can range from difficult to impossible. Scholastica Tanyi wants to change that. She hosts a clothes swap with the intent of getting quality threads in the hands of self-proclaimed “curvy girls". This weekend’s clothes swap is just one piece of Scholastica’s body positive community AmBADASSador which is out to spread not just acceptance but embracement of all sizes in a city where body consciousness thrives. Read on
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    • "God" Leases Space on Donghu Lu, Plans Burgers, Milkshakes, Divinity

      Arise, desert dwellers, shine, for your light has come. The Lord your GOD has spaken unto Donghu Lu, and thusly he spaked "I am the Lord your 'GOD,' who takes hold of your right hand, and puts in it burgers, milkshakes, hot dogs, some fried chicken." (Isaiah 41:13) So the space that was once Bonobo has been taken over by a young entrepreneurial deity who was going to call it Banana, but was apparently inspired at the last minute by "GOD". Read on

    • Hema Introduces Robot Restaurant in Suburbs, Plans to Conquer Downtown Soon

      Alibaba’s first Robot restaurant is decidedly less dystopian than it sounds. In sleepy suburban Nanxiang, famous for soup dumplings and bamboo architecture, Alibaba has installed a gleaming branch of its digital supermarket Hema, and inside, Robot.He, where diners eat fresh fish delivered to the table by small AI powered robots. Those expecting a glimpse at the animatronic overlords looming on the horizon might be disappointed; the robots are small white cubes large enough to convey a single dish. They arrive at your table, a glass window on top opens, and a cute voice tells you that your food is ready. Read on

    • ORO: Of Tiramisutecas and Designer Tiramisu

      What the hell is a Tiramisuteca? And why are there lines out the door for it? Those are the main questions raised by ORO, a so-called Tiramisuteca on the corner of Shaanxi Nan Lu and Jinxian Lu, that has been trending highly on social media in the past weeks. I had to go. Read on

    • Elevator Closing Again, No, Like, For Real, This Time

      The tiny elevator that could will stop shuttling nightlife aficionados up to the fourth floor of 218 Xinle Lu very soon. Elevator is closing on October 26, but like for real this time. Their three-month extension, which saved them from their last closing, in September, has been cancelled for "complicated" reasons and so the team is outta there after one last party on October 26. They'll keep doing pop-up parties around the city while searching for a new location but if you want to dance in the original space, you have less than two weeks left to do so.

    • You Probably Won't Get Extra Holidays Next Month Because of the Import Expo. Sorry!

      Next month sees the first China International Import Expo. They fixed the sidewalks for it. Xi is coming. Maybe you heard you're getting days off for it, too. That's probably not the case. The excitement in the nine-to-fiver community was caused by a government statement suggesting that Monday, Nov 5 and Tuesday, Nov 6 be made into holidays to avoid congestion during the expo, with Nov 3 and Nov 11 as make-up days. Unless you're a student or you work in a government body, this probably won't apply to you, as it is directed at some universities and government institutions. Private companies can comply at their discretion. So, as ever, check with your HR person and maybe don't start the sentence with "I'm not coming to work on Monday because WeChat said I don't have to."

    • Notes from the Stage: We Could All Use Some Stomp

      I first saw a production of Stomp in London when I was thirteen because Mary Poppins was sold out. Afterwards my dad was all, “Why’d we pay money to watch people bang on trashcans?” I felt vaguely disappointed. But when I saw it was touring in Shanghai I decided to give the percussion group another shot as a full-blown adult. Maybe with age your threshold for entertainment lessens (baseball games have recently become thrilling) or maybe when it feels like the world's burning there's something to simple entertainment — but this time around I thought Stomp was pretty great. Read on

    • This Week in Ticketing: Blossoms, Rhye, and Franz Ferdinand Incoming

      SmartTicket is back with all kinds of new shows for you to weep bitterly over missing because of a conflicting appointment at the mustache-waxing salon. We've got three, count 'em, three ticket-worthy things for you this week. Indie synth-pop from Blossoms and RHYE bringing downtempo soul from Canada. Plus, big news for fans of post-punk, Franz Ferdinand is coming to Shanghai with their new album and their 90's revival line-up. Read on

    • F&B Crumbs: Mucho Wulumuqi, Mall Stuff, Burgers and Ice-Cream

      Sometimes the city just has these little bits and pieces of news from the F&B world that you want to know but don’t belong anywhere. They are F&B crumbs. We’ve cleared the table and wadded them up for you. Fair amount happening on Wulumuqi Lu; new Swiss Butchery and WAWY, and Bonus steps up a bonus location, there's a new burger and pancake spot called Stack, some stuff in malls... Plus, closings; 45 Degrees and Bordertown. Eat up. Read on

    • Brazilian Religious Music Ceremony Gets Experimental, Lands in Columbia Circle Restaurant

      You know it’s going to be a weird night when it starts out like this: a Russian sinologist, a capoeira dancer and a neo-theatrics researcher walk into a restaurant for a show. That restaurant happens to be The Parlour, which seems like an odd place for this odd performance, but, what the hell. Where exactly is an experimental Brazilian Sound Orchestra supposed to play? Because that’s what is happening this Saturday night, as that quirky trio (Lena Kilina, the Russian; Dave Pushkin, the researcher; Virtual, the dancer) is joined by Italian sound artist and music producer Eugenio Altieri for a night of kooky art-stuff inspired by the Brazilian Afro-American religious tradition of Candomble. Read on

    • From Russia with Love, a 90s Alt-Rock Tribute Night at The Pearl

      Ah, the 90's. Worse than the 80's. Arguably not as bad as the 00's, still the decade of nu-metal, teeny dance pop and The Vengaboys. But also, you know, good music! Also the decade of alt-rock. Lots of anger in those lyrics, fuzz in those guitars and flannel in those shirts. Fans of the decade, here's something that might interest you: The Pearl has a new house band called The Red Stars. They're from Russia. What the Red Elvises are to funk and surf rock, the Red Stars are to Nirvana. Alice in Chains. Pearl Jam. Jane's Addiction. Bands that sound like high-brow pornos. They're doing a tribute show to the 1990s this Saturday with a list that includes Sound Garden, Silver Chair, Creed, Extreme, The Cranberries (RIP Dolores), Stone Temple Pilots, and, as a last resort, Papa Roach. Jeremy's spoken!
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Sam Smith The Thrill Of It All World Tour in Shanghai

Acclaimed British vocalist Sam Smith is performing in China for the very first time at Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena! Sam Smith, originally from London, has a walk-in closet of accolades to his name.

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