CAMPUS Sick of reading and underlining in your dorm room? Take your highlighters out tonight - the Middle East is firing up the blacklights for this weekly dance party. DJs E-Marce and Jay-K will spin indie, electro, and pop tunes; Gentlemen Hall and On the Surface will perform live. Homework can wait. 18+. 9 p.m. Nov. 12. $10. Middle East Upstairs. 617-864-3278. www.mideastclub.com
JUST GOT PAID Everybody’s working for the weekend. Start this one off right with two floors of DJs at the Good Life. DJ Paul Foley will mix house and hip-hop classics upstairs, and DJ Bradford James will provide House beats downstairs. Double the DJs, double the fun? 21+. 9 p.m. Nov. 13. $5. Good Life. 617-451-2622. www.goodlifebar.com
LUPEC TIKI BASH This weekend we feel like going to a 1950s tiki lounge, complete with rum punches, burlesque, Island Creek oysters, and canapes. Done and done - no wayback machine required. The women of LUPEC are throwing this retro fete to benefit On the Rise. Keep an eye out for Uke Springsteen and his ukelele and the Boston Derby Dames skating around with treats from Taza Chocolate. 21+. 7 p.m. Nov. 14. $45, $35 in advance. Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. www.lupecboston.com
COURTNEY HOLLANDS
SHANE MAUSS Mauss headlines Mottley’s, fresh off of taping his first half-hour special for Comedy Central last week. He appeared three times on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien’’ and is gearing up to appear on O’Brien’s “Tonight Show’’ and release an album next year. 21+. Nov. 13-14, 8 p.m. $20. Mottley’s Comedy Club. 877-615-2844, www.mottleyscomedy.com
RYAN HAMILTON Hamilton, who appeared on “Last Comic Standing,’’ has been doing one-off shows in Boston for a while, including this summer’s Boston Comedy Festival. He’ll headline Cheers this weekend, which is booked by festival founder Jim McCue. Nov. 13-14, 9 p.m. $15. Comedy Club at Cheers. 877-548-3237, www.thecomedyclubatcheers.com
BROKEN LIZARD The troupe that brought “Beerfest’’ and “Super Troopers’’ to the big screen get back to their roots on the stage (its members started out as a sketch troupe at Colgate University). They’ll be performing original sketches and scenes from their several films. Nov. 14, 7 p.m. $22-$28. Comedy Connection, Wilbur Theatre. 866-448-7849, www.thewilburtheatre.com
NICK A. ZAINO III 
