We don’t start and end
each others’ sentences. We
belt out made-up tunes.

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How can so many
artists spend so much time and
yet produce such crap?

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Work by Jill Marlar

Artwalk 2009 promises to be wet and wild. (It just had to rain this weekend, didn’t it?)

The free downtown event runs from 5 to 10 tonight and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. So what are you going to do with those 11 hours?

Our marathon last-minute itinerary …

Hour 1: Don’t know where to start? How about Dave West’s picks for Artwalk, including perennial faves Charles Buchanan, Jill Marlar and Véronique Vanblaere and newcomer Abi Wright? Wait, Dave who?

Hour 2: Speaking of our friend, Buchanan promises no prints over $50, and some as low as $18. Wow!

Hour 3: It’s the 7 o’clock dinner hour, so grab a bite. Black and White has a guide to the area restaurants and bars ready for hungry patrons.

Hour 4: Drop by Greencup Books for the return of editor Todd Dills (now a Nashvillian) for the 2nd Hand event, “Extraordinary Rendition.” The reading will feature Dills, Jim Murphy, Nadria Tucker, Soapy Jones and Meeksworth. Free, but donations accepted.

Hour 5: Need more recommendations? Birmingham Weekly has picks from A to … W.

Hour 6: It’s noon Saturday! Stake out a spot at the Kidzone, behind Space One Eleven [map]. Children can make masks, tiles, murals and glasses (eyeglasses, not drinking glasses) with teachers and artists, and also have their faces painted (the kids, not the teachers or the— well, you get the idea.

Work by Nada Boner

Hour 7: So who should you see this afternoon? Deep Fried Kudzu recommends Nada Boner, Liesa Cole, Tony Rodio, Joe Minter, John Lytle Wilson, Don Stewart and Charles Buchanan. Get moving!

Hour 8: Become a video star. The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham wants to capture your vision of this city’s bright future on video, so stop by the booth [map] on Saturday.

Hour 9: Say hi to your friends. It’s easy to do while wandering First Avenue North as 10,000 other art fans stream by. (Or just follow along on Twitter …)

Work by Stephen Smith

Hour 10: Check out recommended artists like Salty ’Ham Cartooneesta Stephen Smith and painter Kate Merritt Davis.

Hour 11: Thank a volunteer. Without them, events like Artwalk don’t happen. (Of course, you can thank them any hour and every hour.)

Did we really just
leave 9/11 victims
without true justice?

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Meet you at the bar
for networking after some
time at coffee shop.

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Dogs for dogging, hands
for clapping. Birds for birding,
and fish for fishing.

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I declared my love
over shakes and a burger,
hold the mushiness.

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Overproductive,
underpaid, stressed out, under
deadline, over it.

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Enjoy your labor-free day!

The aughts? The naughts? The
zeros? The oh-ohs? Decade
ends in just four months.

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The raging crowd roars
its lusty approval as
the team marches in.

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When approached by the
mascot, make no eye contact
and don’t shake its hand.

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Just a quick preview of what lies ahead this month …

• We’ll have a special Artwalk preview next week. The free downtown art festival takes place Sept. 11-12.

• We’ll have our annual extended coverage of the 11th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, also downtown on Sept. 25-27. Look for movie reviews, preview coverage, site coverage and a whole lot more.

• And don’t forget the “Food Inc.” screening at Bottletree Cafe this Labor Day weekend.

What else is going on this month? Let us know what we should be covering by leaving a comment.

Do you know why you
suck? I shall tell you why. You
suck because you suck.

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Noble collegians
preen with school spirit on their
fermented torsos.

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