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(CNN) -- Gleaming as much from being brand new as from its shiny exhibits, the Shanghai Museum of Glass is the latest high-concept museum to open in the city.With sleek black-lacquered glass interiors and enameled glass doors, the museum could not look more modern, even while showcasing the history of the glass-making craft.The renovated former glass factory contains exhibits ranging from historical glass objects to contemporary glass artworks and modern scientific instruments. A library and glass-blowing workshop complement the glittering galleries.Though a private enterprise, the museum is the latest in a long line of cultural developments helping modernize Shanghai's image as a flagship city for the New China.A spokesperson for Coordination Asia, the company in charge of the museum's concept design and art direction, explained that an impressive 100 museums were built between 2000 and 2005 in Shanghai as part of an ambitious cultural development plan. [Read the full article] (MatadorNetwork.com) -- Matador Network's Eva Sandoval lays out the city's most avoidable attractions...and what you should do instead.Once Dublin's Jewish ghetto, Temple Bar is now home to several bars that drunken tourists in green face paint love to frequent. There are lovely things to see in historic Temple Bar -- for example, the Irish Photography Centre, the Temple Bar Music Centre and the Irish Film Institute -- but save your tour for the daytime, before things get pagan.Head to the area around Georges Street in City Centre or make your way down towards Rathmines. 4 Dame Lane and The Globe for your clubbing clusterfreaks; The Duke, The Bernard Shaw, The Bleeding Horse and Roddy Boland for your beer and GAA matches. [Read the full article] "The ones we already have only occasionally meet the stove," McCrary and Donovan Campbell posted in a message to wedding guests on their honeymoon registry. "As for fine china, we thought France & Spain would be more romantic!"The Miami couple is among a growing number of soon-to-be-marrieds who have opted to register for honeymoon travel instead of the typical blender or towel set. Eleven percent of couples registered for honeymoon-related gifts either in place of or in addition to traditional housewares, according to a 2010 registry study conducted by WeddingChannel.com and TheKnot.com.Honeymoon registries have gained in popularity in the past five years. And in the past year or two, the concept has become more socially familiar and acceptable, said Amy Eisinger, editor of WeddingChannel.com.Scott Ellingboe got into the honeymoon registry business early. [Read the full article] 
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