Wednesday Happenings

Grupos

We dug King Sunny Adé's outdoor performance in the MFA's Calderwood Courtyard last week, so we're hoping that the weather will hold out for Grupo Fantasma, an Austin Latin orchestra with chops enough to make you think that its funk comes with a 1973 vintage. Nonetheless, the Grupo mixes things up with unexpected shots of dubby rhythm that makes its sound unmistakably 21st century. Calderwood Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m. $28/$24.

Movies

New York's Lower East Side has gone from an immigrant haven to a ditch of druggies to a trust fund playground all in the course of a handful of decades. Clayton Paterson has documented the neighborhood since 1979, watching it change, flower, wilt, and become gilded, and his footage anchors Captured (2009), a documentary about the neighborhood. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., 7 p.m. $10.

Wine

The Second Glass wine magazine offers its weekly Crash Course Wine Seminar, featuring wines from Portugal. Hint: It's not just vinho verde and Madeira. Downtown Wine and Spirits, 225 Elm St., Somerville, 7 p.m. $10.