What are your interests? Would you like to be notified of events in your city that matches your interests?
Eventful.com has a TON of events. And you can create custom calendars based on a keyword. You can create custom calendars based on a set of keywords. It will notify you via email when there are new events.
AND! You could easily add it to your calendar via the iCal feed.
I made a bunch of watch calendars for Chicago with the following keywords: Antarctica, atari, badminton, dodgeball, Estonia, free hugs, hot wheels, laser tag, monster jam, Nerf, origami, paper airplanes, pinball, pinewood derby, Podcast, rock paper scissors, snowball, SpongeBob, wiffleball, WWE, and YouTube. Check ’em out at: http://eventful.com/calendars?q=owner:spudart.
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You can also subscribe to rss feeds for searches.
Thanks sparx, although their rss searches end up giving you results for ALL locations. So let’s say i want to be notified when UB40 plays in Chicago. I subscribe to a search of UB40. Then the RSS feed gives me ALL their shows WORLDWIDE. Man, i don’t care about all that! Be warned! You must create a custom calendar first to get JUST local listings.
Not true! As long as you set your location (or change it in the rss feeds url) you should only get local stuff.
Then why does a search for UB40 yield a RSS feed with a URL of: http://eventful.com/rss/events?q=ub40 I don’t see a location variable in that URL.
OOOH! Because it delivers a different page if there are no results. Just add the “/rss” before “/events” when you do a search. http://eventful.com/rss/events?q=ub40&location_type=metro_id&location_id=4&l=Chicago%20metro%20area That’s the feed for Chicago for UB40 🙂
OH WAIT! ok, here’s what’s happening. If you search for something in a particular location, let’s say chicago, and if there are no results, the RSS URL will come up as a generic URL with no location in it. BUT if you search for an event in Chicago that does yield results, the RSS feed will properly show up with the location variable. e.g. A search for snowball in chicago will result in two events. And the corresponding RSS feed is: http://eventful.com/rss/events/?q=snowball&location_type=metro_id&location_id=4&l=Chicago%20metro%20area
oh haha! we just discovered it at the same time. You did it one minute before me! 🙂
We are BOTH smart dudes.
The podcast calendar is proving to yield some interesting results. Cuz an event might mention a tie-in to some chicago podcast.