Today is International Museum Day and all over the world this weekend museums that usually charge entry are waving it or cutting their ticket...

There are two TED events this week in Shanghai, the third time the global ideas conference thingamy has come to Shanghai. The first is on...

Two of Jack Nicholson's finest moments screen free on Sunday at Bikes & Friends, as part of Cinephilia's weekly serving of classic cinema. First...

A couple of spring fairs going down this weekend, top among them is the annual spring get-together of designers and fashionable people at...

Entrepreneurs - Now Hear This: We're two days away from Transition China 2012, a big conference on how to start businesses here, "transition"...

Meiwenti's 10th annual short film contest is coming up and the deadline if you want to be involved is this Friday. Meiwenti is an...

If you’re a little jaded after last weekend’s long excesses, atone for your sins with something soothing this weekend. On Sunday, Bean...

This is what UdanceCN has got coming up this week. Udance is Shanghai's only dance music radio station. It now runs 24-hours a day and has a...

The Apartment hosts another free Chinese cinema screening tomorrow night. They're showing Chen Kaige's Palm d'Or-winning Farewell My Concubine,...

If your wheels are still spinning from the Alleycat event two weeks ago, you might want to check out this 10km bike race in Kunshan this...

This Sunday Cinephilia, who host a weekly retro film screening at Bikes & Friends, are showing David Lynch's atrociously awesome version of...

That's Shanghai hosts a Grand National party this Sunday at The Public. The Grand National, for non-British readers, is the most chattered-about...

Is this town big enough for two chili cook-offs? There's a scrappy upstart cook-off out in Jinqiao that says, "yes." On April 21, Tex-Mex...

Huge weekend for cycling. Factory Five and a wealth of sponsors organized what some are claiming was the largest Alleycat race in the world....

What with a couple of festivals lined up, summer 2012 is already looking pretty fabulous indeed. Raising the bar, ShanghaiLGBT have shifted...

News is out about the 2012 Alleycat race. Having taken a year off in 2011, this one looks like it's going to be huge. There will be three days...

Local do-gooders BEAN have their second film screening at the Apartment on Sunday. This time they're showing Last Train Home, a documentary...

If you haven't had enough hot literary action for one year, there's a chance you could still get in to see Shanghai Lit Fest's two star acts...

Greetings, oddball sports fans. You know that sport Tri, the one played with three-teams and a long, pointy ball? This weekend it's the second...

Factory Five and People's Bike have hooked up with Shanghai Tattoo to organize a Beer Bash this Saturday. Guess what the theme is... Yup it's...