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Your up-to-the-minute guide to Shanghai life, culture, pop-ups and openings

Design mag Wallpaper is opening a Shanghai store

The centrepiece of many ‘cool parent’ coffee tables (or any design nerd’s, to be honest), Wallpaper magazine recently opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar shop in the Jing An Kerry Centre. The publication – covering design, fashion, art and luxury lifes...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 9:43 pm, 25 November 2021

Rave about this: there’s a huge UK bass party this weekend

If you have liquid in the form of funk, drum ‘n’ bass and the like running through your veins, then there’s a festival happening on Saturday that should be right up your alley. Taking place at The Garage in K...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 12:55 am, 19 November 2021

The best things to do in Shanghai this week

Thanksgiving is only a couple days away, so most of the talk this week revolves around turkey and eating a lot (still don't have plans on Thursday? Here's our list on where to dine out or order in)...

Posted: 11:34 am, 16 November 2021

These are Shanghai's Michelin-starred restaurants for 2022

The stars are out – Shanghai's 2022 Michelin Guide has been released. But the question remains, which of the city's fine-dining temples were recognised by the French tire company for all-round dining excellence...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 10:02 pm, 13 November 2021

There’s a Prado Museum pop-up in this Shanghai metro station

In a city where anything can happen, an art exhibition from a world-famous cultural institution inside a metro station shouldn’t be too much of a stretch… Well, that’s what’s currently going down near the West Bund, in Exit 1 ...

By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 4:59 pm, 11 November 2021

Cameras out: These Shanghai streets are covered in fall foliage

Autumn doesn’t hang about for long in Shanghai, but it sure does leave a pretty mark. Leaf-peeping season is officially upon us and as is tradition, the municipal government has announced that a number of the city’s streets will ...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 12:16 pm, 11 November 2021

It's Movember: grow a moustache for charity

Dudes, does your facial hair grow at an impressively quick rate? To the point where your credentials rival the likes of Borat Sagdiyev and Ron Burgundy...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 7:36 pm, 05 November 2021

Ars & Delecto's Ray Shih on being a neighbourhood bartender

Ray Shih got his first taste of bar action at a ski resort in Heilongjiang Province - Club Med Yabuli, to be exact - where he mixed 'alcohol with juice' and was taught how to properly serve wine. He quickl...

By: Rupert Hohwieler Posted: 9:30 pm, 04 November 2021

Rockbund Art Museum has re-opened with a fantastic John Armleder retrospective

After keeping Shanghai’s art scenesters waiting in anticipation for over a year and a half, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) has finally reopened with a dazzling retrospective of John Armleder. Titled Again, Just Again, the exhibition explores five decades of ...

By: Yu Zhiming Posted: 11:31 am, 28 October 2021

Here's the official Chinese public holiday calendar for 2022

It’s a scary thought (fitting for Halloween) but there’s no denying that we’re quickly nearing the end of the year. 2021’s flown by, and, we hate to break it to you, now just might be the time to start plann...

Posted: 10:43 pm, 26 October 2021