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"This" for things that are here, "that" for thing that are over there. The displacement may be in time as well as space.
"This weekend" means the one that is coming next, it's a bit of a colloquialism but again, "that weekend" would be one you would have to point out on a calendar (i.e. not the one that is right here).
middleofnowhere
Ramsaye
I know, by this evening I meant the evening mentioned in the first post :)
Is there a rule saying that in this kind of case "this evening" means "the current evening" rather than "the evening that was mentioned before"? I got corrected in the same way about "this weekend" yesterday.