The holiday spirit dominates The MUG Event Calendar this week, with lots of celebrations and fun.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will deliver his “State of the Mac” address to a Texas group, and holiday parties are on tap from New Mexico to Michigan to California. Other topics up for discussion during the holiday festivities include iCloud, iTunes Match, backing up, Siri, Photoshop Elements 10 and more.

“The MUG Event Calendar” can be found at The MUG Center (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac User Groups. 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/).