According to Facebook Events product manager Aditya Koolwal, the new feature is meant to be "like a weekend or weekly digest of cool stuff that you can do in your city," and is designed to give people enough lead time to spot an upcoming event and invite their friends. For this initial rollout, the cities include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The listings will also focus on large, public events with broad appeal so there's no fear that your 10-person backyard cocktail party will suddenly get featured and go viral. Although it won't be selling the listings just yet, it's possible that Facebook will monetize the listings in the future. And, after that whole Trending Topics mess, Koolwal says the new Events listings won't feature anything political or religious in nature either.

Finally, as Recode points out, this is a relatively minor change for Facebook, but it could put another huge dent in print media and smaller city blogs where event listings never quite disappeared.