Wednesday Happenings

Huge voices

Opera Boston Underground advances the sacred cause of performing classical repertoire in venues that sell beer. Gil Rose & his posse of brilliant, attractive young singers always sell out the Lizard Lounge—with free admission to tonight's vocally acrobatic performance, the line down Mass. Ave. is likely to be even further down Mass. Ave. Get there early. Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 7 p.m. Free. More information.

Art for Sale

InsideOut, the Museum School's annual art sale, kicks off today. The sale will feature work by current students interspersed among art by really famous people like Mike and Doug Starn, Nan Goldin, and Ellsworth Kelly. Opening celebration tonight; sale runs through November 22. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 230 The Fenway, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. No admission. More information.

Wine

It's another Crash Course Wine Seminar from our friends at The Second Glass magazine. Tonight's installment tackles one of the most difficult conundrums in oenophilia: what to pair with Thanksgiving dinner. Downtown Wine and Spirits, 225 Elm St., Somerville, 7 p.m. $10.

Movies

Leave it to the Germans to put Peter Falk as himself and Nick Cave as himself in the same freaking movie. Wings of Desire (1987) is Wim Wenders's tour de force in which he takes a hokey premise (a heavenly angel who wants to become human) and inexplicably turns out a masterful meditation on city life. The film is to Berlin in the eighties what La Dolce Vita was to Rome in the fifties. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. Free.

Maggots and Men is Battleship Potemkin for the queer set. The film retells the Kronstadt mutiny as a story of star-crossed lovers, featuring female-to-male transgendered actors in all the roles. Presented by Truth Serum. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 9:30 p.m. $10.

Dr. Katz

Jonathan Katz, who played an animated doctor on T.V., continues his Wednesday evening residency at Improv Boston with a support staff of comedians including Steve Sweeney, Kelly Macis, Ken Reid, Maria Ciampa, and Myq Kaplan. ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $10/$7. More information.