[support] How to have 'featured events'?

[Jody Cleveland]

Hello,

I've got a website I'm developing for a library. On the front page will
be displayed new events, updated and added pages, etc. What I'd like to
do is have a small area on the page that shows a few featured events.
Kind of like this site: http://www.aadl.org

My question is, where do I start? How do I classify an event as being
'featured', and how do I get a block to only display those items?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

- jody