Thanks for the heads up on the Charlie Parr venue change, Adam.

Regarding Deafyet's comment, I should remind everyone that since the PDD Calendar component was launched in September, there has been a change to PDD's blogging policies.

Posts that simply give notice of an event are no longer published on the blog, because the whole reason the calendar was created is to organize events in a useful way rather than randomly publish them on the blog.

But that doesn't mean all posts about events are off limits. Specifically, there is a post every week highlighting events in the calendar. Occasionally someone has a particular angle to an event that's worth highlighting on the blog format, and we allow that, too.

Not everyone follows this blog on a daily basis and understands completely everything that happens on it, so it's probably a good idea to repeat this kind of information more often.

The PDD Calendar was created because as the PDD Blog evolved more and more posts were about events, but the format of a blog is not a practical way to organize that type of information for readers. 

For example, if you wanted to find out what was happening in Duluth on any given day using PDD's blog before the calendar existed, you had to scroll through dozens of posts about events that weren't happening that day and look for the date in the small print to find what was relevant.

The implementation of the calendar also makes the blog more interesting because topics of interest don't fall off the home page as quickly.

It's still acceptable to post on the PDD Blog about event-related stuff; we're just looking to eliminate the simple event announcements that now belong in the calendar.