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    • [Advance Thinking]: Five Parties and a Concert For New Years Eve

      You've got a little under two weeks left to use that gym membership, learn cross-stitching, and go on that silent meditation retreat in Myanmar like you said you would on January 1, 2018. Or, just write this year off, and start planning where you'll renew your resolutions for 2019! We've got a party each at Park Hyatt, POP, The Peninsula, Bar Rouge and the McKinnon Hotel (ooh, of Sleep No More fame!), and a concert from the Strauss Capelle Vienna. Read on

    • Shooting for the Stars: Wanghong Gone Wrong

      There is no sky full of stars at the Starry Sky Exhibition (白夜星辰展), the latest wanghong ("internet famous") exhibition to vie for your attention and Moments in what has been a wanghongful year. The large, themed exhibition, in the Raffles City Changning mall, is designed as an "immersive experience", which just means it's a backdrop for cool selfies. That's what everyone is here for, anyway. This exhibition starts off with a lot of promise. An abundance of fiber lights creates a dreamy atmosphere and a beautiful backdrop to photos — the only reason you come to these things in the first place. In the next room, spotlights shine on and reflect off disco balls. Still doing well. But then things start going meh. Read on

    • Seven Hot Chocolates You Can Order on Ele.Me Because It's Cold Now

      You know what the best thing about cold miserable weather is? Hot chocolate. Love it. Mug of hot, hot cocoa, marshmallows and memories of childhood. This being Shanghai, we're spoiled for choice, but this also being Shanghai, a lot of it is let's say underwhelming. But I needed an excuse to guzzle an irresponsible amount of that sweet brown nectar, so here we go, something like seven-ish hot chocolates. That you can get on Ele.Me! Sounds like web content to me. Read on

    • Bookmark This: The 2019 Holiday Schedule

      Holiday schedule for 2019 is out, and man, it's a doozy. No weekends in February, all of August off for a country-wide relocation to the south of France, and then every other day off in November to allow us all to practice for the 2019 Annual Plaza Dancing Festival. If only. This coming year looks pretty much like all the other years. There is some holiday. There is some swap-your-weekends-for-"holiday" f*ckery innovation. There are big breaks for Chinese New Year and October holiday. Hit the jump for the oh-so-smart SmartShanghai holiday calendar, which you'll want to bookmark and refer back to throughout 2019. Read on

    • Family Fun: Alice in Wanghongland

      Curiouser and curiouser! As Alice chased after the white rabbit, she stumbled into a wanghong exhibition in Hongqiao. Close enough. Alice – Into the Rabbit Hole builds on the original novel’s eccentricity and ramps up its quirkiness, bringing you through Alice’s journey into the wonderland. From the slanted dining table and chair that seems to be frozen in time, and projection simulating a fall into the rabbit hole, to the pool of tears which Alice cried out after drinking a suspicious liquid — all the rooms are named and designed with certain scenes of Alice In Wonderland in mind. Read on

    • The Bar Biz: 1/3 Blossom Barely Lasted A Season

      The delicate F&B flowers. How swiftly they wither. Is that some kind of record? Who's keeping count. After barely three months of operation, Yanqing Lu's most exuberant cocktail destination, 1/3 Blossom was unceremoniously shuttered back in November. The space turned out to not have a bar license, and the authorities took umbrage with their giant peach bar-front. Built around a perfume/cologne-themed cocktail menu and a weird, weird interior, it was... well, some of it was okay. The sign on the front says that it's "under renovation," so there's always that Hail Mary chance of them getting a license and re-opening. Technically.

    • Ramen Boy Sends Rare Noods to Shanghai

      If you are a living being in Asia, you can’t escape the instant noodle. As convenient as they are bad for you, the highly processed packaged noods can also be addictive. Meet Chico (“Boy”) Ngou from Hong Kong. At one point in his life, he ate instant noodles for 526 days in a row. Before quitting his job in media and advertising, he tried more than 300 types of instant noodles, eating upwards of 2,000 packs. Now he has an instant noodle shop in Shanghai. Read on

    • Meat Street: El Bodegon's Second Shop Opens in a Week

      Argentinean steakhouse El Bodegon has a devoted following for their super-fairly priced Argentinean steaks. And other stuff. I think they do other stuff. It's really hard to tell what's on other people's tables, because those other people are usually ravenous guys hunched over plates inhaling some type of meat off a cutting board. It's one of the few places in Shanghai you can count on being full every night of the week, including rainy Tuesdays that kill their competition. They are on to something. Maybe it's the unapologetic devotion to meat; one of the "sides" offered for their steaks is chorizo. They are now parlaying that success into a second location. It opens next week. The space is bigger; they may add a Uruguayan wagyu onto the menu. But that's it for changes. The formula remains nice, grass-fed beef, over flame, to table, for surprisingly reasonable prices. Like 150rmb for a 300 gram rib-eye. The new location will be on Panyu Lu, above the Brasa Chicken there and just down the road from Pie Society and The Tipsy Fiddler. Good luck, gauchos!

    • Gang of Four Coming in March, Playing Entertainment! in Full

      Damaged goooooods, whoa oh oh ah, send me back, who ah ah oh!!! Open the till, give me the change, the change you said would do me good, whoa oh oh ah. Clever, spare, anxious and legendary: Gang of Four (the post-punk band, not the uh, political group...) is coming back to China in March 2019 for a tour, behind the 40th anniversary of the release of their Entertainment album. Which is a classic. Which you should hear if you haven't heard. Which Pitchfork dissected in 2005, essentially calling it a pop album with morse code guitar playing and bad disco drums. Sounds like perfection to me, and a hell of a lot of other people who identify with its deadpan, black humor lyrics and anxiety in overdrive. If you know, you know, and you'll be at the show. Tickets available NOW from SmartTicket.

    • F&B Crumbs: New Clubs! New Bars! New Places to Go Broke!

      The crumbs of the city's food and beverage gossip, wadded up and put back in the bread basket. Appetizing! These, then are new clubs, with an S, on Donghu Lu (who said it was dead?), some reheated fine-dining restaurants in "old Xuhui" (damn censors) and a Jing'an mall, good old fried fish, more clubbing clubbing clubbing in high-fidelity down in the 158 Pit, a swish-looking sake bar on the Bund proper, heritage Italian brands looking to Shanghai for a new revenue stream, and some events! Clear the table, we're about to serve the news. Read on

    • The Six Flavors of Disappointment: New Uni Specialty Restaurant UniBar

      Uni is everywhere these days. Sea urchins are having a moment, becoming fetishized in the international “foodie” community and turning up in unlikely places (like on pasta at Otto e Mezzo). It’s not a mystery, really. Like other foods that have had turns in the spotlight — bacon, wagyu beef — they are basically just fat. Of course they taste good. It’s against that backdrop that Shanghai, never one to miss a trend, recently got its first specialty sea urchin restaurant, a Japanese joint opposite Taikoo Hui named UniBar. Curious, I took a few friends for dinner last night. For something so simple and obvious, it seemed like an easy win. God, it was bad. Read on

    • Slash (feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) at ModernSky Lab on January 22

      Yes! The Grammy-Award winning solo instrumentalist, film producer, fashion icon, once-and-again lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses and rock legend, Slash, is coming to Shanghai early next year. With him comes the backing chorus to his sweet, sweet Les Paul, as part of their "Living the Dream" World Tour, supporting the third album that Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators (that's really the official name) have released since 2012. Slash doesn't truck with the usual "Band" feat. "Artist" malarkey. Slash brushes back his luscious locks and goes "let's be honest here, my name goes at the top of the flyer." Oh, and he also has a film production company called SlashFICTION. It's all just magnificent. The show's at ModernSky Lab on Jan 22. Tickets start at 1,280rmb and, of course, SmartTicket has them.

    • Curtain Falls Suddenly on Above The Globe

      Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air. After one and three-quarter years of slinging Shakespearean-themed cocktails in a cozy industrial nook above the McKinnon Hotel, Eddy Yang's Above the Globe has closed down. Sounds like logistical shenanigans. The Sleep No More people needed to take the whole floor back anyway for something happening in 2019. Read on

    • Events for Earnest People: Fermentation Workshop, VeganSTEP, Free Beer to Donate Clothes

      Sometimes I'd like to be a better person. In this fantasy, I'd stop eating tiramisu for dinner and talking shit about my friends behind their backs. I'd give up eating meat, I'd donate things to charity, and I'd learn to do an honest job for an honest wage, like fermenting cabbages into sauerkraut. Of course, none of those things will ever happen for me (I've already bulk-ordered my tiramisu for the years 2019-2022), but they can happen for you. All in one month, in fact, as VeganSTEP launches an awareness campaign, The Rooster offers a free beer in exchange for donating used clothes, and American author Tara Whitsitt teaches you how to ferment stuff using the micro-flora of vegetables. Earnest overload! Read on

    • Diva (That Nightclub Over Funkadeli) Closes

      First Elevator, now Diva; the nightclub count on the Fumin/Donghu Lu corner has hit zero. It presided over the intersection for a respectable four years and change, serving up delectable couches, lazers and table packages. It actually completed a bunch of renovation work back in late spring/early summer this year, proudly announcing itself as "Your New Favorite." Did they not know that Donghu's getting shut down? The fools! Most of the staff have moved to the newly reopened M2 and the soon-to-be-(officially?)-reopened Modu. RIP.
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