Ah, Mao Zedong, so much about your life has been written in the annals of history. But there’s always room for a little more, right? While you may have known that Mao loved spicy food because of his Hunanese roots, did you know that red braised pork (hongshao rou) was his [...]
Just so you know, we – well, our parent company at least – now has an app out for the iPhone called The Istaverse. The great thing is, you can now easily read all the latest posts from all the Ist sites. It’ll also remember your previous city choice on relaunch, and (while [...]
Congratulations BEAN and all of you in Shanghai. Saturday night’s reggaeton drink-a-thon saw roughly 600 people come through Cotton’s on Xinhua’s doors, and pull 63,000RMB out of their pockets to donate to Haiti. Thank you Shanghai community, for opening your hearts and your wallets to this cause! In case you haven’t had enough of exercising [...]
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Torontoist discovered that if you don’t like all the construction happening in your neighborhood, you should just put up big banners announcing how much you think that construction sucks. Boom, problem solved.
DCist took note when a U.S. District Judge ruled that the Jefferson Memorial is not a public [...]
This 22 minute wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression:
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Photo by Michael Steverson of Expatriate Games: A man fights traffic as he delivers small blocks of coal to be used for cooking. Liuzhou, Guangxi, China.
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Sorry Rickshaw will shut the doors today at 5:00 pm.
We will gladly continue giving service in the Saddle Cantina and Side Saddle…
- Sign on The Rickshaw today
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It looks like The Rickshaw might have deep-fried its last wing and mixed its last Margarita, at least in the present spot, given a sign posted there today and [...]