Nightlife & Activities

Longines Global Champions Shanghai

Date: April 20-22 - 10 am

Venue: South of China Art Museum

The Longines Global Champions Tour is the world's premier show jumping series, bringing together the top ranked athletes in the world to compete in prestigious locations for unprecedented prize money. From the sands of Miami Beach to the lights of Shanghai, under the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the breathtaking Stadio dei Marmi in Rome, it offers some of the most explosive and exciting competition of any equestrian series. Revolutionary in the sport, the LGCT of Shanghai is in its fifth year running, breaking records by being one of the first major equestrian events in the heart of China, and bringing top sport to new audiences. Now highly respected as one of the most prolific social and sporting events on the calendar, the Shanghai leg of the Championship will welcome the world's best horses and riders as they battle it out for the prestigious top spot in their season long campaign for the coveted LGCT Champion of Champions title. Over the course of three days, fans will be treated to a spectacle of show jumping as the world's best come together to battle it out for top honors.

The Pearl Movie Night

Date: March 13 - 8 pm

Venue: The Pearl, Shanghai

Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the local police department is rampant. His mission is to put crime lord Capone (Robert De Niro) out of business, but Capone is so powerful and popular that Ness is not taken seriously by the law or the press. One night, discouraged, he meets a veteran patrolman, Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery), and discovers that the acerbic Irishman is the one honest man he's been seeking. Malone has soon helped Ness recruit a gunslinger rookie, George Stone (Andy Garcia), and, joined by nebbish accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith), the men doggedly pursue Capone and his illegal interests. At first a laughingstock, Ness soon has Capone outraged over his and Malone's sometimes law-bending tactics, and the vain mobster strikes back in vicious style. Ultimately, it is the most unexpected and minor of crimes, tax evasion, which proves Capone's undoing.