Looks like Upcoming has made lots of process improvements:

New Add Event Form

As the number of events on Upcoming grew, several parts of the original design have become harder and harder to use over time. A perfect example was the “Add Event” form, which used a pulldown menu for choosing a venue. That worked fine in the beginning, but some metros have thousands of venues! Not fun.

That was the inspiration for the new Add Event form, which addresses some of our long-standing complaints. Among the changes:

• Venue autocompletion. Pick a venue by typing a couple characters in the venue’s name, and it will do a real-time search across all metros. No more huge dropdowns.
• Inline venue adding. If the venue you’re looking for doesn’t exist, click the “Add a new venue” link to open a window to add it without leaving the page.
• Better calendar. The calendar picker is much improved or you can still type right into the date fields, if you like.
• Better duplicate checking. We’re doing a number of tests to find events and venues similar to the ones you’re adding, which helps everyone.
• Add an event from anywhere! In the past, if you wanted to add an event, you needed to find the metro first. This was a big frustration for new users, in particular, so we’ve lifted the restriction and put the “Add Event” link right in the header.

Man, yeah. That’s badly needed. I use Upcoming [or, well, I'm working on it ... the initial data entry is a cast-iron bitch, and I haven't managed the workflow properly ... grrrr] for managing the collaborative calendar over on squarepegalliance.net; I dump SPA shows to the Square Peg Alliance group, which tumps it over with one of Upcoming’s badges. Saves me time.