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[Lookback]: The Drunk's Guide to 2019

The year in bars, clubs and other nighttime hideaways.

KOR Shanghai Opens This Weekend For Sneak Preview, Rest Of Us Get In Sometime After That

KOR Shanghai, the extension of the Taipei venue is finally juuuust about neeeearly ready to open...

MYST Becomes BEEHIVE, Skrillex Presiding Over Its Baptism

Shanghai's nightclub scene acts like it's reinventing itself after a messy divorce and custody...

[On The Radar]: Ce La Vi, Don Club, Tiandi

A threesome of new and newish clubs out there in the dark city.

JZ Opening Huge "Jazz Living Space" In Minhang, Calling It JZ Live

Who knew jazz was such big business? JZ has. For a long time. They see Jazz at Lincoln Center...

[On The Radar]: Shanghai's Biggest Club, Space Plus

Clubbing writ large on the other side of the river.

Shanghai Gets A Second Perch Courtesy Of The Rooster

Seems like September is avian themed. First we had Perch, and now we have a brand spanking new...

[On The Radar]: Blue Note Opens With a Bang, Dead Poet With a Howl

A big name in jazz opens in Hongkou, while Blackbird launches a new cocktail bar/poetry anthology.

Need A Bar? Brazilian Spot Barraco Is For Sale

Here's a gem from our super duper awesome housing section: colorful Fuxing Lu Brazilian bar...

Is This Going To Be 2020's Hot New Lounge?

The Muse Group, which owns the super-popular lounge The Nest and restaurant Cannery is opening a...

Resurrected: Japanese Speakeasy Oji Lives Again In Fengsheng Li

The Zhangyuan refugees are slowly putting down roots again. The latest one to end its diaspora is...

The Old Elevator is Becoming a New Trap and Bass Club

Hot developments in the club world: the former Elevator space on Donghu Lu, which had been turned...

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...

Dada, Le Baron, Celia and More Closed For Rest of June Just Because

In case you hadn't noticed, some things have been happening in the nightlife world in the last...

Cobra Lily Closed And Rebranding To A "Premium" Boxing Cat

Not ground-breaking news, since we mentioned it back in March, but Boxing Cat Brewery's upscale...

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