Ok I think that I might have started this completely wrong, so I'll explain a little more in detail:
I have a site that informs about recent/upcoming events. Obviously these should be categorized in different categories, such as: cultural events, clubs & pubs, cinema.
The problem is that sometimes I have a lot of data for an event, so I want it to appear on the front page and sometimes I jsut have a title and a date for the event so I do not want to display these events on the front page.
Additionally I want to display a list in the sidebar displaying the next 10 events from all events (categories) no matter if they appear or not on the front page.
How I solved this until now was that I only had 2 categories: uncategorized and sideblog. All events were published into sideblog which made the mappear on the sidebar list, and those events I wanted displayed on the front page I put also in uncategorized - using the sideblog widget to display next 10 events in the sidebar with the sideefect, that the sideblog category is hidden from the front page.
The problem arose only recently when I wanted to also put all events inside the coresponding category aka. cultural events, clubs & pubs, cinema which would automatically put them on the front page....
One possible solution using the sideblog would be to make cultural events, clubs & pubs, cinema also sideblog categories, thus excluding them fro mthe front page and renaming uncategorized to frontpage so it is clear what that cetegory does.
sorry for the long and winded post, I just wanted to make sure, I find and use the easieast way to do this... waiting for some suggestions.