Arts The C-VILLE Minute! [video] First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries. Several spaces offer receptions. brendan-fitzgerald | May 6, 2008 Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here. Free news is good news! Nearly $1 million a year goes into the work you’re reading—covering local government, spotlighting the arts, and telling the stories no one else does. If you value that, help fund it for $10 a month (or whatever tax-deductible gift you can afford). Save the free word.