Wednesday Happenings

Anniversaries

-- Our old friends Socializing for Justice, a networking group for young, left-leaning nonprofit types, celebrates two years of "putting the social back into social justice." Come for the cupcakes. Lir Irish Pub, 903 Boylston St., 7 p.m. $2.

Dancing Hipsters

-- Sinden, half of an up-and-coming British house act, brings his hard drive to Boston tonight. It's a Basstown event and features DJs Hot Pink Delorean, Etan, and Die Young. Great Scott, 1222 Commonwealth Ave., 9 p.m. $10/$15.

-- Canadian Deadmau5 channels the spirit of techno past. With DJ Melee. Underbar, 275 Tremont St., 10 p.m.

Burlesque

-- Three Day Threshold and the Shadow Box Blues Band play a rockin' blues combo as the Boston Babydolls Burlesque girls shake things up a bit. Bill's Bar, 9 Lansdowne Street, 9pm. Free. (KS)

Kerry Skemp contributed to this post.