How Wasatch Next works
Everything on this site comes from somewhere you could have found yourself. We just read a lot of calendars so you do not have to.
Where the listings come from
Cities publish calendars. So do county parks, libraries, theatres, resorts and museums. They are scattered across dozens of sites in half a dozen formats, and most people never see any of them. We read them on a schedule and put what is on in one list.
Every listing links straight back to its source. We are not trying to keep you here: if you are going to the event, you should be reading the organiser's page.
How often
Three times a week. Monday for the fortnight ahead, Thursday for the coming weekend, Saturday for anything that changed.
When we are not sure
Some sites publish a proper calendar feed with real dates. Others bury the date in a sentence, and some do not give one at all. Rather than guess, we say so: a listing that carries a warning is one where we could not confirm a detail, and you should check the original before relying on it.
We would rather show you something honest and uncertain than something confident and wrong.
Cancellations
A calendar records what was planned. It is very often not corrected when plans change, so we also read city news and alert pages for cancellations, reschedules and closures, and mark any listing they affect.
An event under a warning stays on the page rather than disappearing. If you saw it here yesterday, you need to be told it is off, not left to wonder.
Places, for the quiet weeks
Some weeks nothing much is on, and a list of events is then exactly the wrong answer. The bike park is still there. The aquarium is still open. Our places page is the standing list of things to do that never appear on anybody's calendar.
When we get it wrong
We publish our source status, which shows every calendar we read and whether it worked on the last check. If a city you expect is missing, that page will tell you whether nothing is on or whether we are broken.
Are you an organiser?
If we are listing your events and you would rather we did not, email us and we will stop the same day. If we are not listing them and you think we should, tell us where your calendar is and we will add it. A feed of any kind, iCal or RSS, is the most reliable thing you can give us.