Monday Happenings

Garage Rock

Charlie's Kitchen is Bostonist's unofficial offices, but it's also home to live music in Harvard Square. Tonight, the burger joint mounts a program of garage rock, featuring local three-chord masters The Coffin Lids, The Acrobats, and The Egos. Charlie's Kitchen, 10 Eliot St., Cambridge, 9 p.m.

Sounds of New England

Celebrate the chill in today's air with a program of choral music from New England composers. Erica Washburn conducts the NEC Concert Choir and Chamber Singers in A Musician in New England.. The program features works by Ives, Fine, Walker, Thompson, and a premiere by Anthony Maglione based on Edgar Allen Poe's Spirits of the Dead. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., 8 p.m. Free.

Dancing Hipsters

The weekly Beat Research dance party welcomes a DJ from up north who will play music from down south. Ontario DJ Valeo specializes in the current sounds of South Africa, India, Haiti, and Jamaica and will bring his tropic heat to Cambridge tonight. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free. More information.

Movies

The HFA concludes its Ulrike Ottinger retrospective with The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press (1984), which pits a drag king Gray against Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, a nefarious media tycoon. Trippy. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.