Monday Happenings

Free Stuff

It's Columbus Day, which means it's time for the Fenway Alliance's annual Opening Our Doors event. That means free admission to everything from the Museum of Fine Arts to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and to just about everything in between. (Including the Izzy G!) Special events at most venues make the day an easy way to enjoy the sun and get some culture. Various locations, Fenway and Back Bay, Boston, More information.

Beer

Local magazine BeerAdvocate invites friends from the Ithaca Beer Company for "a night of fine craft beers and local harvest offerings." It's a four course beer dinner featuring oysters Rockafeller, high octane brews, and lots of animal bits. Not for vegetarians, the faint of palette, or the poor. Green Street, 280 Green St., Cambridge, 6:30 p.m. $45.

Movies

Ben Rivers is a relatively young experimental filmmaker who nonetheless has assembled an impressive body of work. He uses a lot of outmoded techniques—including hand processing and (gasp!) 16mm Cinemascope—and the vocabulary of mid-century British "poetic ethnography" to explore issues of nature and "the primitive," a realm outside the oppressive grind of the modern working week. Rivers will be on hand to present six of his recent films, and it's his first appearance in the Boston area. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $12.

Drone

Hippie dippy drone purveyors OM, Six Organs of Admittance, and Lichens will do their thing on the waterfront tonight, patchouli optional. Institute of Contemporary Art, South Boston, 8 p.m. $16.

Dancing Hipsters

The weekly Beat Research party comes strong this week with DJ Super Squirrel, the alter ego of Sarah Hankins, a "mashup maestro" who transforms pop songs into more interesting pop songs. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free.