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What's in store for this weekend in the 'Ming? Bit more variety than usual, by the looks of it...

Friday: Reworks 2 at Club House
GoKunming's not heard of Club House before, but with prices like these (20 yuan for girls, 40 yuan for guys) for an all-you-can-drink deal (selected drinks), who's complaining? Tormod & Martin, DJ Shonny & DJ Tony will be playing music throughout the night. We're told Club House is located near the Hump: Go to Pandora, take a right in the courtyard and follow the alley round to the huge staircase. Head to the top.

Organiser Piers has offered 6 free tickets to GoKunming readers - 3 for guys, 3 for girls - to claim them, send an email to piers [DOT] tussaud [AT] gmail [DOT] com, with your phone number. First come, first served .

Friday: Uprock
Uprock hosts SCRATCH!! with DJ Macro & DJ Echoo from 10pm. Entry is free.

Friday: Movie screening at Yuansheng Studio
Yuansheng Studio is showing Tunnel War (地道战) at 8:30pm. Entry is 10 yuan.

Saturday: Beerfest at The Box
Starting from 7pm, The Box has special beer and sandwich discounts. We're told that the list of discounts is "too long to write", but "Duvel, Erdinger, Moretti, Weihenstephaner, and Sol" were mentioned.

Saturday: Exhibition opening at Yunart Gallery
'Used to being alone': oil paintings, performance photos and live performance featuring the work of Wu Zijie, Chen Junyu, Wang Le, Yang Zhongyi and Pang Jipeng. Yunart is in the same building as Moonlight Corner, whose resident jazz band is always worth a look.

Saturday: Concert at Yuansheng Studio
Happy Accordian, 9pm, free entry

Saturday: Uprock
DJ dd and DJ Mong, 10pm, free entry

Sunday: Movie screening at Yuansheng Studio
The classic movie festival continues with The Classified Bureau's Gunshot (保密局的枪声), 8:30pm, entry 10 yuan.
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More than 80 are injured and more than 3,200 homes are destroyed after an earthquake shook the countryside around 175km Northwest of Kunming on Thursday night.

A 6.0 magnitude tremor rattled Yao'an County (姚安) in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture yesterday, with damage reports only just beginning to be released to local media. As of 12:00 am today, more than 620,000 people have been affected by the quake, with 56 seriously injured and 28 lightly injured.

The quake, which was felt in Kunming, took place at 7:19 pm on Thursday night, 10 kilometers below the earth's surface. In addition to Yao'an, injuries and damage have also been reported in Dayao, Mouding, Nanhua, Yuanmou and Yongren.

The tremor collapsed more than 3,200 homes and more than 4,800 have been damaged. Five thousand tents have been sent to Yao'an for victims left homeless by the quake.

Update: As of 8:30 am on Friday, China Daily is reporting 336 injured with 18,000 collapsed homes, and 30,000 homes suffering damage.

Other reports have put the quake at 6.2 magnitude. One person is reported dead, with over 300 injured, 29 seriously.

Image: news.kunming.cn
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