Best line from a press release this week: “Anyone over 21 who is not wielding a chainsaw on movie night will be allowed in to the Beck’s by-the-glass Beer Garden.” It evokes mental images of Disney World’s Halloween Horror Nights, when they used to let a bunch of paid freaks chase after guests with fake torture devices, but this Oktoberfest kickoff welcomes fall in a much more dignified fashion (sort of—they do ask that you wear a “retro German outfit”). A demonstration of how to carve a pumpkin with a Texas chain saw precedes a sing-a-long screening of The Sound of Music (the Best Musical Ever). Sold, sold, sold.

Sat., Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m.