“The MUG Event Calendar” keeps humming along this week, with two MacNotables live and in person, and homegrown presentations.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will be the featured guest at a Texas group, while Macworld Senior Editor Christopher Breen will make a return visit to a Hawaii group. Jean MacDonald of SmileOnMyMac will speak to one California group while the folks from Smule will be at another, Paul Garay of Mac Video Training will discuss their products at an Oregon group, and a host of video gurus, including Richard Galvan of Adobe, Kevin Monahan, Robert Sharp, Mark Christansen and Bruce Gee of Gee Three will participate in a California Final Cut Pro group meeting. Other topics on tap this week include DVD backups, the iPad, Garageband, a demo of the Wi-Fire, a picnic, two different swap meets, Mac maintenance and more.

“The MUG Event Calendar” can be found at The MUG Center (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac User Groups, Mac User Groups are starting to officially celebrate the holiday season.

MUGs are good places for making new friends in the Mac community, imProving your computing skills, finding solutions to technical Problems, and perhaps locating a good deal on used hardware. For more info on MUGs, and to find the location of the one nearest you, go to Apple’s MUG page (http://www.apple.com/usergroups/).