dtirer

i figured it out. Because News is set to my front page, I need to use:

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1; ?>

And the Calendar page (or any other) uses:

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; ?>

subtle difference 🙂