November 2007 - Shanghaiist - Chinglishfriend.com

Where we're going tonight: Shanghai Studio

Our friend, Jack Chen of Shanghai Studio, the wonderful guy that was responsible for all our freaky decorations during our Halloween party and the vampire that freaked quite a few of you out, shows us that his less creepy side can be just as creative...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 8:52 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Parties

Write for Shanghaiist!

Shanghaiist is looking for a few good men and women to round out its staff of talented contributors. If you think you can help make Shanghaiist just that little bit more fabulous, read on! You may be the one that we're looking for... What We Can Offer...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 6:53 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Announcements

China makes it to the Naked News

Yet more news on China's HIV/AIDS situation, and this time from a most unlikely source. Did you know, dear readers, that Naked News , the "program with nothing to hide" that has its news anchors strip as they read the news, has male strippers newsreaders...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 12:35 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Video

Yet more Engrish...

Thanks to reader Brian Lim who took this picture at the Shigongshan park in Suzhou! Send more pictures of bad Engrish our way at info AT shanghaiist DOT com

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 1:23 AM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Photos

Live Music: Carrchy, Re-tros and Reflectors are back in town

Yet another weekend has arrived, and seems a lot of people have been talking about the opening of the Shelter. They are holding a 'soft opening' tonight and hosting Dex, from the Underground Resistance , tomorrow. For those of you who are in the mood...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 11:40 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Music

Urbanatomy is not listed in the Urban Dictionary

Yet . For those who like to keep up to date on Shanghai-English-language-website news — yes, all three of you — head on over to Urbanatomy.com . That's the future home of a new website from the folks at That's Shanghai . And if Urbanatomy.com is as half...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 10:14 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Media

The HIV/AIDS confusion and circumcision

We've had a hard time making sense of the conflicting reports on China's HIV/AIDS situation that kept appearing on our RSS this morning. First, there was an AFP report that China says estimated HIV/AIDS cases rise to 700,000 , and then AP came out with...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 10:00 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Health

Satellite TV box fires ... and new sports channels

Heres' a public service announcement to (illegal) satellite TV users from Shanghaiist: Don't put stuff on top of your satellite receiver box. We had gotten in the habit of placing the occasional DVD or DVD sleeve on top of our satellite box, which is...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 9:51 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Television

DJs: The underground vs. the above ground

Saturday looks to be a big night for all you DJ lovers out there and will pit the underground vs. the above ground.......literally. Dex aka Nomadico , of the Underground Resistance, is set to blow away the electronic music crowd at the Shelter (underground...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 8:00 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Music

Can we just rename our city Starbucks?

One of the things that makes being on the tube during rush hour even more miserable than we had previously imagined possible is the "film" made by Starbucks and Pepsi showing on the subway TV. Titled 晴天日记 ( Qingtian riji ), the film is about a young man...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 7:00 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: News: Shanghai

Movie Review: Nanking

If you've been browsing the DVD shops lately, you might have already come across Nanking , a documentary—of sorts—about the Nanjing massacre of 1937. The film consists of three elements: first-person accounts from survivors and eye witnesses, including...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 6:09 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Movies

Sexy Beijing meets 42nd Street

So it turns out that 42nd Street was as popular in Beijing as it was in Shanghai . Our inside sources tell us that while the musical packed the halls in Shanghai and Beijing, ticket sales just about everywhere else sucked. Sexy Beijing 's Sufei went down...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 4:20 AM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Video

Curious Shanghai II: Medicine vending machine next to the city's biggest fake market?

Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap describes his uneasiness at finding a medicine vending machine on the edge of "the city’s best (if not largest) fake market". Honestly, since Xiangyang was torn down, we're not too sure which other fake market has taken over...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 12:00 AM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Photos

Curious Shanghai I: Bad English in JinJiang Park

JinJiang Park , that wonderful wonderland that we saw a few days ago, is, as Swiss James of ISpyShanghai.com discovers, a "rich vein of badly translated English". Reading through this sign just made us go "OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG..." The 3,541 members of...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2007 11:39 PM by Shanghaiist

Filed under: Language

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