Thank you for replying so quickly,
Good news is I already solved my #1, the recurring events issue. I hadn’t done the “recurrence rule” correctly. I saw that immediately when I went back to do the screenshot. Sorry I didn’t see it before. (It’s a Monday.) I look forward to the bug fix so I can save my settings.
Thanks for showing me how to remove the events bar.
About my sidebar issue. Your fix works for the individual event pages only. Example: http://madaboutwords.com/event/book-club-author-reading-forty-martyrs/ It doesn’t change the main events page. (Another reason it would be good if that were a “real” page.) http://madaboutwords.com/events/
The shortcode I think you’re recommendomg works for widgets. I use it on the home page of my site and get a simple listing. But it is not the same as the excerpt results I get from the option here: Settings > Display > Enable event views > List which is what I want on my events page. (It seems to me your plugin uses the word “list” for two different display results.)
I appreciate any additional help you can give me. Thanks!