Friday Happenings

If you can't stand the cold, get out of New England.

Beer

-- Nothing makes subzero temperatures feel like autumn quite the way that a massive dose of beer can. The beer summit features offerings from a list of local, localish, and independent breweries that is so long that it would violate Bostonist's style guide to list them here. Do you have a favorite domestic brewery? They are at this thing. Seriously. Tickets for Saturday are sold out, but you can still attend tonight's festivities. The Park Plaza Castle, 64 Arlington St., 5:30 p.m. $40. Tickets and more information.

Extra Syllables

-- If you missed Das EFX at this summer's sort of rained-out Peace Concert, now's your follow-up chance. Yes, it's the crew that invented the suffix "iggity" and gave the nineties all its extra syllables. With Akrobatik. Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 8 p.m. $17/$20.

Garage Rock

-- Almost too good to be true: Legendary Boston rockers the Lyres (seriously) team up with Magic Christian, a supergroup that includes members of Blondie and the Flaming Groovies (seriously), and more recent garage rock icons the Prime Movers, to bring a showcase of the chords 1, 4, and 5, the likes of which you are unlikely to see again in the near future. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $10.

Movies

-- The Human Rights Watch film festival continues with Promises to the Dead, Peter Raymont's moving documentary about playwright (and Salvador Allende's cultural advisor and witness to his criminal ouster) Ariel Dorfman's return to Chile in 2006, as Pinochet lay dying. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 8 p.m. $10/$8.