From an e-mail I sent to a friend about things to do this weekend:

• 021 Bar is hosting indie rock band Wuliaoqi from Guangdong on the 25^th at 9pm.

  http://www.wuliaoqi.com/NEW/20060825.htm

• Qiying Music is doing a one year anniversary concert with their metal friend at Harley's on the 26^th at 5pm.

  http://www.sus2music.com/bbsxp/ShowForum.asp?ForumID=26

• San Huang Ji is doing an album release party at Yuyintang's new place on the 26^th at 8:30pm.

  http://yuyintang.com/module.php?act=yg&do=showd&id=130

• An author I like, Qiu Xiaolong, will be giving a talk in English at the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club on the 28^th at 7pm.

  http://upcoming.org/event/100686/

Also, the Lion King is in town at the Shanghai Grand Theater, the Shanghai Circus is in its summer season, and the St Petersburg ballet is in town doing a "Sleeping Beauty on Ice" performance :)

I really want to be at the Qiu Xiaolong talk, but I've got Latin dance class that day. He wrote a series of English-language detective novels set in 1990's Shanghai that I read before I knew I'd be living in this city, and which I wish I had access to now.