Sunday Happenings

It's a quiet, sunny day in the Hub today. Good news if you wanted to spend your afternoon watching the Sox and Pats. Luckily or the rest of you, there are a couple of things worth doing.

Festivals

Harvard Square's Oktoberfest is a big tourist bomb that closes the square to vehicle and reasonable-speed human traffic. It's also the final destination of the Honk! Festival parade, which makes for a gloriously incongruous tableau. Crusty punks with matching uniforms and tubas mingling alongside straight-laced families from the suburbs. Various locations, Harvard Square, noon to 6 p.m. Free. More information.

Open Studios

It's the second day of East Boston's Open Studios, and if it sounds like we're shilling for the event, it's only because the neighborhood is chronically overlooked. Bostonist went on a whim last year and, after getting sidetracked by a massive feast day march, spent an entire afternoon discovering new artists and getting an unwitting tour of the neighborhood. Start at 80 Border Street and work from there. Various locations, East Boston, noon to 6 p.m. Free. More information.