Don't miss Macy's Annual Tree Lighting on Friday, November 28 outside in Downtown Crossing on our Summer Street stage, 5pm, to catch performances by dynamic contemporary Latino pop group Menudo, cast members from North Shore Music Theatre's Disney High School Musical 2, dancers from Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker, and the Boston Children's Chorus. And of course, it's the season's official arrival of Santa Claus, who will "flip the switch" with Mayor Thomas M. Menino to illuminate the tree!

The Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston honored nine top journalists working for ethnic-media outlets in New England at the first New England Ethnic Newswire Awards on Thursday, November 20.

The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) is pleased to welcome the return, in time for the holidays, of the brilliant artist Aurélia Thierrée in Aurélia’s Oratorio, written and directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, presented at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Performances run from Friday, November 28 through Saturday, January 3.

The Publicity Club of New England is very proud to welcome special guest Professor Gustavo A Yepes López of Bogotá, Colombia to discuss his study of 1,008 Latin American organizations and their social responsibility practices. He will bring a global view of CSR at work, while our commentators offer advice on bringing Prof. Lopez’s findings home to the United States.

Governor Deval Patrick has set two new goals for energy efficiency and renewable energy: making all new malls and “big box” retail stores energy efficient and powered in part by solar energy by 2010 and offering a super-efficient building code as a local option for municipalities looking to take the lead in combating global climate change.

Here is the First Night 2009 button. This year's button includes artwork by local artist Rachel Maguire - for more about Rachel visit the First Night Button Artist page. Getting your hands on a First Night button is easy.

El Boston Globe reporta que el presidente Bush podría firmar un proyecto de ley que ofrecería más beneficios a los ciudadanos desempleados. Si se llega a concretar el proyecto, las personas desempleadas contarían con 13 semanas extra de cheques por concepto de seguro de desempleo.

¿Qué harán los conductores si los precios de los tolls aumentan? ¡Buscar vías sin tolls! El Boston Herald reporta que si es que se comienzan a ver incrementos en los precios de los tolls, los motoristas podrían irse por rutas alternativas a través de las calles y convertir sectores como Newton y Brighton en "zonas de caos vehicular".

The Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston will honor some of the top journalists working for ethnic-media outlets in New England at the first New England Ethnic Newswire Awards on Thursday, November 20.

The American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training presents its third production of the 2008-09 season: Vaclav Havel’s Largo Desolato, directed by Jonathan Carr, and performed by the Institute Class of 2009. It will be presented at the A.R.T.’s Zero Arrow Theatre, Corner of Arrow Street and Mass Ave., Harvard Square. December 5-13.