About

It can be really hard to find out what's going on in town. There are too many places to look, and Facebook is unreliable; it shows you things weeks away, or ones that aren't anywhere near here. I wanted one place for everything happening in town that I could filter and sort.

So I made one. Cape Fear Compass lists what's on in New Hanover County: Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Kure Beach. Everything is in time order, earliest first, and nothing is ranked.

Businesses can pay for a spot. A paid listing sits at the top of its day, marked "Sponsored", and only shows up when it fits the filters you picked. The listings under it don't move. The ad beside the listings is marked "Sponsor".

It's free, and there's no account to make. Sponsors and tips on Ko-fi help pay for it.

Where the listings come from

Listings come from venues' and organizers' own calendars, the city, county and library calendars, community calendars and Facebook. Most of it is automatic: the site reads those calendars on its own and adds what it finds. I look over what people send in through Submit an event before it goes up, and I fix anything that gets reported.

If an event page says its details haven't been checked, it was picked up automatically and I haven't looked it over yet. The page links to where it came from.

Each event page says where its details came from and when they were last checked. When a source doesn't give a price, an end time or an age limit, the page says "not listed" instead of guessing. Opening hours come from each place's own website or from OpenStreetMap, and a place without known hours isn't shown as open.

Something wrong or missing

Every event page has a Report a problem link at the bottom. To add an event, use Submit an event. For anything else, write to me, Kevin Stauss, at info@capefearcompass.com.