If your weekend isn’t fun, don’t blame us. We’ve got 11 great ideas for going out, and 1 great idea for staying in. Why not do a little of both?

Drink – Thursday night
Get your weekend started early with Truck Stop at the Beach @  Main Street’s White Trash Party complete with strippers, beer and greasy munchies 9pm-2am $5 [Main on Main]

Shop – Friday & Saturday
Hooray for bags! Foley and Corinna are having a Sample Sale of up to 75% off designer labels Friday and Saturday 11am-7pm and Sunday 12pm-6pm at their Melrose location [Foley & Corinna]

Cheer – Friday night
Feeling sporty? Check out USC Lady Trojans vs. California Women’s basketball Friday night at 7pm at USC’s Galen center– Cal is favored to win, but those private school girls may be scrappier than people think [USC]

Dance – Friday night
The award season has only been over for a few days but we’re already missing the glamour — for some much needed swank hit up Fridays at Bordello Bar downtown (formerly Little Pedro’s) [Bordello Bar]

Eat – All Weekend
Tired of the lines at Blue Plate and 17th Street Café? Good thing Huckleberry Café just opened to eagerly awaiting customers on the Westside at 1014 Wilshire 8am-4pm [Huckleberry Café]

Eat, Drink – Saturday night
Sake lovers take note- Japanese and Macrobiotic favorite, Bar Hayama, is holding their Sake + Kozara tasting event this Saturday from 4pm-6pm where one can sample up to 25 different kinds of sake and snacks for a flat fee [Bar Hayama]

Eat – All Weekend
This weekend is the opening of Rivera Restaurant across from the Staples Center, that specializes in modern and upscale Latin cuisine [Rivera Restaurant]

Look at Pretty Pictures – All Weekend
Stuck in a weekend rut?  It’s your last chance to put your remote down and get to LACMA Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913- 2008 closing on March 1st. Small price to pay for feeling cultured… [LACMA]

Commune With the Dead – Saturday night
Want to connect to the other side?  Sylvia Brown, Montel William’s favorite psychic (admit it, you’ve tuned in) will be speaking to the dead at the Orpheum Theater Saturday as part of her ‘farewell tour’ [Sylvia Brown]

Laugh, Dance – Saturday and Sunday nights
The Nokia Theater is busy this weekend with in your face comedienne Lisa Lampanelli Saturday night, followed by in your face rapper Busta Ryhmes on Sunday [Club Nokia]

Sit on the Couch!
Don’t feel like going out at all?  Stay in, pour some cheap wine, and tune into NBC- first for a 3 episode marathon of Law & Order, then to cheer yourself up they switch to SNL – hosted by Neil Patrick Harris with musical guest Taylor Swift, this is a repeat BUT was the best episode of the season, Neil Patrick was meant for comedy [SNL]

Drink, Play Bingo – Sunday night
Big Foot Lodge Bingo Night offers up a retro family style evening with 16mm home movies and prizes almost as good as Sunday dinners with mom [Big Foot Lodge]

Be a Spaz – Sunday night
The uber 80’s and super nerdy, Spazmatics at Dragonfly are an LA tradition and the band is back for another Sunday night of Spazzing [Spazmatics]
[photos courtesy of Bordello Bar and Sylvia Brown]