About a week ago, I mentioned some impending construction dust on the site. Judging by a couple comments on the site this morning -- one surprising and one (ahem) graphic -- let me renew and expand that warning.

Shortly after Thanksgiving, this site is going to transform into a broader local news and information site called Pegasus News. We'll still have the same depth of coverage on local music, but TexasGigs will be one tab in a site that also covers neighborhoods, news, politics, non-music arts, dining, sports, business, shopping and lots more.

Because we're building all this other stuff around TexasGigs rather than as a separate site, there will be some weirdness. Not only do our categories on events look different, you'll see that our event search categories look "f-in retarded," as one user put it. And there are a lot of nonmusical and duplicative categories in there. That'll be cleaned up by Thanksgiving, so bear with us in the meantime.

Also, as that crafty Mike Davis discovered, there are some non-music news stories hiding about the site, even though there is no table of contents leading to them. We're practicing our newsroom workflow, so some of that will appear. Consider it work in progress, though.

Looking ahead, here's what to expect over the next couple weeks. You'll see more goofy event categories pop up. And you may start seeing a lot of non-music events on the site if you look into future dates. That listing will look really overcrowded, but rest assured that we're going to break that up into more manageable and user-friendly chunks by d-day.

Most likely around midnight on November 21, we will shut down TexasGigs for a couple of days, partly so we can all have a bite of turkey, but mostly so we can finish the rearranging that would be REALLY disruptive to folks trying to use our site. We'll leave up a static list of the shows happening on the 22nd - 23rd. Then, good lord willin' and the creek don't rise, we'll emerge from our cocoon early the morning of November 24th.

So please be patient with us for the next couple weeks. We promise it'll be worth it. If you have questions or serious issues with the site, give us a shout.