For venues

If you run a room in Miami, you are probably already listed here, and it cost you nothing and will go on costing you nothing. This page explains what that listing is, where it came from, and what you can do with it.

What this is

Has Things is a free, neutral index of what is on tonight. It reads what venues, box offices and ticketing platforms already publish, and puts one night on one page in the order the evening happens. Every listing links out to you or your seller. Nothing is sold here.

The order is the clock. Listings are sorted by when the doors open, not by who paid. There is no paid placement, no promoted row, and no way to buy one — not because we have not built it yet, but because the order being honest is the only reason the page is worth reading.

Every listing says who vouches for it

Right now, 82% of what is listed in Miami comes either from the room’s own calendar or its ticketing platform, or from two independent sources agreeing. The rest carries an Unconfirmed tag on the listing itself, so a reader knows the difference. We would rather mark a listing than quietly present a rumour as fact.

Your own calendar is treated as the best evidence there is about your room. If we are reading it, your listings are confirmed on the strength of that alone.

What you get

• A listing you did not have to make, with a link back to you on every row.
• A page of your own. Every room with something upcoming has one — Kaseya Center, for instance, listing everything we know is on there.
• A feed you can put back on your own site. Your page has a machine-readable version at /feeds/venues/kaseya-center.ics, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. If your website has no calendar, this is one.
• Readers who asked to hear about you. Someone can follow a room and be told when it has something on — only what they asked for, no digest, no list we sold.

If something is wrong

Tell us and we will fix it the same day: send a correction. The usual causes are a room named two ways, a start time that is really the door time, or a series listed once instead of per night. If you would rather not be listed at all, say so and we will stop.

If you would rather we read you properly

The best thing you can do — for us and for anyone else building on public listings — is publish a machine-readable calendar: an iCal feed, a JSON-LD Event block, or any of the common calendar plugins. We read those directly and your listings stop depending on whoever else happened to mention you. We obey robots.txt and identify ourselves on every request.

And if you want the data

Everything here is republished as open JSON, CSV, RSS and iCalendar, with a read-only API: the feeds. Use it for your own site, your newsletter, a screen in the lobby. Attribution is all we ask.