Hurrah! We’ve got a New Website!

Hello, and welcome to the 21st century! At least, that's what it feels like here at Monday HQ, where we're absolutely thrilled (no, really) to finally upgrade our old 20th century website into something totally here and now . . . rather than something that's been and gone.

As well as all the usual content from the paper, you'll also find some funky new features—well, new to us, but standard fare for all you websavvy wunderkinds: comment boxes, social networking links, streaming video, online polls, all that kind of stuff. Best of all, however, is our snazzy new online calendar, which allows you to add your own events as far into the future as you like. That's right, thanks to our new online events calendar, Monday will no longer only feature week-of listings. (On the website, that is; the paper will still remain primarily week-of.) You can now add information for concerts, plays, events, readings, meetings and the like for weeks ahead, and by simply clicking through the dates they're interested in, readers will be able to plan ahead to attend your events. ("Look Madge, the seniors fetish group is having a cowboy/cowgal mixer in September. That's right after you get your hip replaced." "Yee-ha, Elmer! Now, where'd I put my spurs?")

Now the less-than-good news. Until we get fully up to speed with the website—and until you, our readers, get the hang of our using our new online calendar system—we won't have all the events that are listed in the paper appearing on this new site. Blame it on that mix of old and new: under the old system, you sent your listings to our calendar editor, the incomparable Bill Stuart, who would then input all that into his wonderful magic whammy machine and it would somehow appear in print; under the new system, instead of typing them out and sending them to Bill, you'll be typing them directly into the calendar itself. (But don't worry about Bill—there's more than enough to keep him busy at Monday HQ.)

In the meantime, you can access a PDF of each week's calendar by clicking here: http://int.mondaymag.com/monday/calendar.pdf. Just don't get lulled into sticking with the old system, because just like the man (kinda) said, these web-times, they are a-changin'.

And, as this introductory video (hopefully) proves, we're now able to put little movie files online, just like all them other websites. So if you happen to catch some breaking news, a swell live show or something else that falls under that "citizen journalism" catch-all buzzphrase du jour, send 'em our way.

Sure, there's bound to be a few kinks and 404s over the next couple of weeks, but remember, it's a work in progress, folks. Welcome to the working world of Monday Mag.

—John Threlfall, Editor in Chief