When I lived in Shanghai, I would run into people there who had been there years earlier and they would all say the same thing: “I don’t even recognize this place.” It’s a common line, and being almost three years separated from Shanghai, I’ll probably say the same thing when I go back. The photos [...]

A friend sent me these photos of the complete Shanghai cityscape made only of materials that can be found at a craps table. Unlike similar endeavors, like the Beijing Olympic village made of Legos, which was purely a gimmick, it seems this type of model art is now recognized as art, as this display of [...]

If you wake up Tuesday morning in Shanghai and something is amiss, perhaps the air has a tinge of the Can Can fragrance and off in the distance you can hear faint utterances of “that’s hot,” it may be because there’s a certain heiress in town. Fresh off a stint in jail, Paris Hilton arrives [...]

Shanghai needs a Disneyland like it needs 18 million more people. But often times here, like in the case of Tongren Lu or the Oriental Pearl Tower, garishness supersedes function. And in the case of the Shanghai Disneyland, the plans for which have been resuscitated as of Tuesday, garishness supersedes the thousands of Chinese people [...]

Monday night, for the first time ever, those Shanghai residents crazy in love with the R&B star Beyoncé Knowles will get to experience her music up close and personal at the Shanghai Grand Stage. Beyoncé’s Shanghai stop is part of the 8-stop Asia leg of her “The Beyoncé Experience” world tour, a seven-month sweep of [...]

OK, a quick game. Which guy from the photo holds the Major League Baseball consecutive games played record and which is that bald guy from The Shield? If you said the guy on the left holds the MLB record, you are right. That’s Cal Ripken Jr. And the guy to the right is that bald [...]

It looks like LeBron James is really happy to be in Shanghai for the NBA China Games 2007. In a China Daily photo in Wednesday’s paper, it looks as though King James is gripping his royal jewels. While James’ Cleveland Cavaliers are in town for a preseason game Wednesday night against the Orlando Magic, he [...]

So I guess they’ve evacuated Shanghai and no one bothered to tell me. Typhoon Wipha has landed in Shanghai and reportedly, to paraphrase from a BBC report, shit is gonna get fucked up. Winds are expected to hit 155 miles per hour and dump 55 millimeters of rain, however much that is. This is no [...]

California-bred Linkin Park will rap-rock its way into the mainland on November 18th for what promises to be Shanghai’s biggest fall concert. The sextet will stop at Hongkou Stadium for one night as part of their “Minutes to Midnight” world tour. Along with the Shanghai show, the band will perform in Seoul, Singapore and Hong [...]

In a secret ceremony in Shanghai Monday, Yao Ming and his baller bride Ye Li are now officially married. Well, as secret as a 7’6″ man in a tuxedo and a 6’2″ woman in a wedding dress can possibly be. The couple, who have been together since 1999, took care of the marriage certificate on [...]