Get Out!

1. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 6:15 P.M.

Did Ayn Rand, like, totally change your life too? Meet other anti-altruistic spirits at the Harvard Objectivist Club’s kick-off event, featuring a lecture entitled “The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth.” The illustrious B. John Bayer will speak.

Emerson Hall 305. Free.

2. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 6:00-7:30 P.M.

Sunset conveniently distracts from the trash lazily floating in the Charles River at River Sing. Celebrate the Autumn Equinox by singing along with five Boston-area choirs and two, um, giant puppets, Osun and Poseiden. Yeah. Bring your own bell to ring in the semester.

Since you go to Harvard, you’ll probably want to check out lyrics in advance by emailing riversing06@yahoo.com.

Walk down JFK Street and hang a left—the Week’s Footbridge is in front of you. You can stand on the Cambridge or Allston side, choose your alliance. Free.

3. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 8 P.M.

For those of you who still get misty eyed about Phish breaking up, here’s a concert where no one will blink at your bloodshot eyes and inability to stop eating. Georgia export jam band Widespread Panic plays to a heavily B.U. crowd in the school’s arena. Don’t forget your tye-dye!

Agganis Arena. 925 Commonwealth Avenue. Take the T to Park Street, transfer to the Westbound Green Line “B” train to the St. Paul Street stop. $35. www.agganisarena.com.

4.SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2-6 P.M.

Why wait until March? Celebrate being “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” at Oysterfest 2006, a 4-hour long, Irish-themed extravaganza starring live music from U2 cover band “The Joshua Tree,” pints of cold Guinness (duh), and the yum-tastic bivalve mollusks themselves.

The Boston Fish Pier: take the Red Line to South Station, transfer to the Silver Line (Outbound) to World Trade Center Station. Walk one block towards the NE on Viaduct St. Turn right on Northern Ave. $15 admission charge includes half-dozen oysters, and the first 300 shellfish aficionados get free t-shirts. 21+. Slurp.

5. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 4:15 P.M.

What the hell is happening in Berlin? Us plebians have no idea, and boy are we worried! Thomas Koebner from Universitat Mainz, knows, however, and he’s telling all in his lecture “The Contemporary German Film Scene: What’s Going On?” Enrich your absicht, brag about it to your mom.

Carpenter Center B-04 Free.