Year: 2019

In 1918, Shanghai had one coffeeshop. A hundred years later, and how the landscape has changed. Coffee is on a tear across China, and its home base is right here in Shanghai. By some counts, the city now has more than 7,000 coffee shops, with more than 3,000 of those shops in downtown alone. It is more than any other city in China, by a few thousand. In 2018, we added almost 100 Starbucks alone, bringing the Shanghai total to more than 700, the highest number of any city in the world. But just because they serve...

Shanghai’s bar scene began to fill up again in 2018. Saturation. Maturation. Masturbation. About 40 new places opened that were noteworthy and sometimes even excellent temples to libations. If you are doing the accounting, that’s around twice as many significant closures we saw this year. Two steps forward, indeed. What happened at the bar? The cocktail price index increased, as it always does, driven up by a few pricy openings and maybe rental and labor costs. Jing'an's stock price is trending upwards, while Xuhui's recession appears to be accelerating. There's even more gin, probably? There's even more craft...

So many art shows! So many galleries and art museums in Shanghai have something new to offer! In Huangpu, the mediums and the concept of art are redefined, and boundaries are crossed. At the West Bund, old infrastructure is reborn as a new home for visual fireworks. And in Pudong, Gian Lorenzo Bernini comes “alive” in the form of a robotic arm. A real abundance of art this month. *** Close Your Eyes and Drink This Daily except Mon until May 26 2019 Tobias Rehberger: If you don’t use your eyes to see, you...

We’re already three full months into 2019... how did that happen? April has crept up on us, which means Easter is right around the corner. This year it falls on Sunday April 21, so we’ve put together a guide on which churches are hosting services this year. Happy Easter everyone! Note: All those attending English services will need to bring their passport for entry. Moore Memorial Church 316 Xizang Zhong Lu, near Hankou Lu View ListingTaxi Printout The English Services: None Built by American missionaries in 1887 and renovated in...