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Some people take portraits of children. Some take portraits of pets. Others take portraits of dried mushrooms, dessicated squid and preserved fish bought from Chinese wet markets. Nicolas Santa Maria Cea falls into the third category — my kind of... Read more...
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia! Local LGBTQ community group Qmmunity is throwing China's first IDAHOT Gala , cramming high-filutin'... Read more...
If you haven't heard of Bohan Phoenix, we did a Shanghai Famous on him, and picked JALA as the
We Are Shanghai is Shanghai's (mostly) annual compilation album. It's like a census and/or time-capsule, compiled by dozens of Shanghai bands and musicians from every imaginable genre. Volume 6 is already out
Matthew Hildebrandt (DJ Frau) and Phillip James (DJ PCJ) have been playing music and throwing parties in the indie club scene for the past five years. Together they make up China... Read more...
Xenia Sidorenko the designer behind the UseDem project, takes your old pair of jeans and magically bibbidi-bobbidi-boo 's them to a trendy backpack, apron—really anything you want. This project's goal is... Read more...
I guess we know by now that people other than white dudes can aspire to be comedians (thanks Tiffany Haddish, Kumail Nanjiani, Ali Wong, et al.) but still seems worth shouting out Reyhaneh Rajabzadeh and her
Just released last week , the results of the latest official Shanghai-focused survey on residents' diet and health offered an unsurprising conclusion:... Read more...
Rebecca Kanthor and Liu Jian are the Shanghai-based couple that decided to organize a children's music festival in China, due to a lack of variety in kid-pop. If you build it, they will come. And they have, with the third edition of
Dr. Nicolas Romanov has worked with seven Olympic teams and published over a dozen books on one thing we all wish we were a little better at: running. He’s kept a watchful eye on the running boom in Shanghai and for the second year his... Read more...
Shanghai's developing, bourgeoning, budding, (festering?) comedy scene is abuzz with the imminent arrival of American stand-up Doug Stanhope , a self-admittedly "vulgar, opinionated,... Read more...
Founded in 2015, Farmonize is an eco-farming project aiming to connect people directly to the process of growing their own vegetables by leasing them farmland. Basically, they provide subscribers with a 120-square-meter plot of farmland and the... Read more...
Late last year, Lindsey Fine of Happy Buddha managed to launch not one but two simultaneous, successful crowdfunding campaigns to raise the roughly 150,000rmb needed... Read more...
Beijing's most wonderful arts, music, and creative writing media platform LoReLi (short for "Look", "Read", "Listen") is hosting two nights of creative chaos in Shanghai on
Mindfulness, mindfulness, mindfulness . The thing where you try to think about nothing in order to be a happier, less anxious, well adjusted person. It's Brandon Mehrgut’s hope that this practice will become as routine as a morning shower —... Read more...
NBA name-about-town Tracy Murray's showing up in Shanghai this week. Let's reel off some achievements? Ex-UCLA Bruins, left as their #5 All Time Top-Scorer, spent 12 years in the NBA,... Read more...
There’s a magical place right here in Shanghai, a quiet, serene spot with several floral arrangements and even more shades of pink. It’s Sorority... Read more...
Frank Tsai, is the one man tour de force working behind the scenes of four lecture series: Hopkins China Forum , M Talks China , Shanghai Thinkery , and China Crossroads . Altogether these series bring about 50 lectures... Read more...
Broadcasting from a hole in the ground straight to your internet speakers is Shanghai's newest arts, culture, music, conspiracy theories, conservative talk radio platform "
Ton Mak is a visual artist who has created her own doodle society of little creatures called Flabjacks . According to her what makes a flabjack a flabjack is their “curiously ambiguous face, rotund body, and... Read more...