Wednesday Happenings

Mummies

If you are among the apparent majority of Boston residents that has the day off today, you have little excuse not to high-tail it to the MFA for its Free Community Day, featuring free admission to its ongoing mummy exhibit The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Free.

Movies

On a more relevant tip, the Brattle recognizes Veterans' Day with a screening of The Good Soldier (2009), a documentary that follows five veterans from different generations of American combat and learns what they mean when they talk about being "a good soldier." Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. More information, tickets, and showtimes.

Booze

It's yet another Crash Course Wine Seminar, this time focusing on Japan's "rice wine," sake, which people apparently drop into beer? Confusing. The Wine Gallery, 375 Boylston St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $15. More information

Over in West Roxbury, representatives for The Glenlivet will serve the celebrated Scotch at four different ages—12, 15, 18, and 21 years—in order to illustrate whisky basics. Cheese and chocolate will accompany the single malts. Blanchard's Wine and Spirits, 418 LaGrange St., West Roxbury, 7 p.m. $20.

Rock

Austin's White Denim isn't just an accessory for kids in art school. TT the Bear's Place, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge, 9 p.m. $10/$12.