Travel 5 Awesome Trips For CNY! Chinese New Year is coming and you haven't made any plans yet have you? Tut, tut. Here are some awesome trips to get ensure you won't be stuck in China for the holiday!
On Stage Magnificent Ballet & Dance Events This Winter Culture Vultures! This winter is jam packed with high brow entertainment. With three (yep, THREE) versions of Swan Lake, some Irish jigging and physical theatre, there's something for every dance enthusiast, people looking
Music Monthly Mash - Promising new act furthers career with Shanghai cancellation In an already meteoric rise to the top of the pop world’s esteem, up-and-coming ethereal folk-punk act Ceramic Sea Turtles have cancelled their upcoming Shanghai tour stop. “It really is an honour
Art Theatre: Bite My Thumb cast interview As a part of the sixth year of Shanghai Pride celebrations, East West Theatre present their production, Bite My Thumb. Our Theatre and Arts editor Hannah Cherrington-Hall popped over for a chin-wag with
What's on at the cinema? May '15 Add our WeChat! Welcome to May! April was a good month with fast cars (Furious 7), moustaches (Mortdecai) and aliens (Home) - these ones may well still be out as you read so
247 interviews East West Theatre! Hannah Cherrington-Hall speaks with the director, producer and the cast about their new production 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress and the English language theatre scene in Shanghai. So this is your first
What's on at the Cinema - April '15 So last month was a great one for cinema. Paddington and Big Hero 6 were ruddy heart-warming, Cinderella was far better than expected and both Jupiter Ascending and Taken 3 gave us a
Urban BA GUA GALS #4 Gwyneth Paltrow is the Queen B of classy, so you know her divorce was always going to be an showcase in sophistication. Drama? Ugh, so bourgeoisie. On the one year anniversary of their
Urban BA GUA GALS #3 The Kids Choice Awards were held this past weekend, and it looks like celebrities have started to emerge from their post-awards-season hibernation. Hosted by Andy Dwyer aka Chris Pratt, the awards also saw
Sport 247 CHINA SPORTS WEEKLY #4 Top of the league! Two of Shanghai’s teams sit top of the stack in the Chinese Super League with perfect starts in their opening three games of the season. It appears luck
Urban BA GUA GALS #2 Another week, another round of sweet, sweet gossip all up in your face, because celebrities continue to be stupid and wonderful in equal measure and we continue to be appauled and amused simultaniously.
TRAVELERS SOCIETY - LET'S GO! Living in China can be hard. Sometimes trying to get the simplest thing done can be super stressful, especially if you don’t speak the lingo. In fact, it can be tough just
Urban BA GUA GALS Running a cinema site has many perks, one being that we’ve made it our business to know what's going on in the lives of those who grace the silver screen. We’re
Art 10 THINGS TO EXPECT FROM A CHINESE CINEMA We all love going to the cinema, but it has to be said that a trip to the movies in China is slightly different to back home... 1. You don't have salty popcorn?
Sport FAST CARS AND LOUD NOISES - FORMULA 1 PREVIEW Next month on the weekend of April 11th and 12th, the fastest show on earth rolls into town. There will be glamour parties, millionaires galore, the whole world’s media, but most importantly,
Sport 247 CHINA SPORTS WEEKLY #3 So the weekend just gone was the opening of the 2015 Chinese Super League. With all three Shanghai teams in action and some big debuts expected, it was going to be a big
Urban HOW THE ACTIONS OF ONE PERSON RUINED MY NIGHT. People are idiots and I hate them. For Christmas, my aunt got me tickets to see Ed Sheeran here in Shanghai. I was excited. I saw Ed four or five years ago in
Film What's on at the cinema? March '15 Ok, so last month was a pretty awesome one in terms of blockbusters in Chinese cinemas. At last us Shanghai-dwellers got to see The Hobbit and The Hunger Games, and they did not
Sport 247 CHINA SPORT WEEKLY #2 So last week, using intellectual foresight I spoke about the quiet off-season Shanghai Shenhua were having. Well, how wrong I was. The day following publication, they went and signed former Everton, New York
Music Like dancing? And food? And giving to charity? This is your lucky day. HEALING HEARTS BALL DANCE COMPETITION Tickets available at 247tickets! Healing Hearts Ball Dancing Competition is an event designed to establish an amateur classical ball dancing cultural environment in Shanghai, China. It is going
Sport 247 China Sport Weekly Good morning sports fans. Welcome to my new column, where each week I will be recapping the goings on in Shanghai's professional sport, and offering my two cents on all things sport in
Music Incoming: Jozef K Jozef K plays Arkham this Saturday in what's set to be a brilliant night. They also have Calculon (shoot Records, USA) on the bill. Two international DJ's on the bill for just 60rmb.
Art What's on at the Cinema - January/February It's cold outside. The air pollution sucks and the internet speed is so slow that trying to watch Netflix is as entertaining as an under 10's cricket match. Luckily for you, there are
