Best Practice for Pathauto and Redirect for Events and Contribution Pages

[sonicthoughts]

Typically, event workflow requires creating a "pretty" URL for an event or contribution page.  This requires going to the drupal redirect module and adding it manually.  Most CMS pages use a pathauto function and redirect - are there any best practices to generate a pretty URL directly from the event.  I noticed the drupal http://drupal.org/project/redirect module now has robust API/Token support - wonder if anyone has played with this.