The neighborhood of Georgetown -- particularly the stretch of Airport Way between Corson and 13th Avenue South -- is among the most charmed real estate in this city.

Not only will you find truly great bars and cafes here , but also cool shops, band rehearsal spaces, packs of tattooed hipsters on art bikes, and all the artists, musicians and scooter gangs that gentrification has managed to push out of Seattle proper.

On Saturday, June 18, all those elements come together to do what Georgetown now does better than virtually any other Seattle neighborhood: have an unselfconscious good time. Artopia allows all of the neighborhood's artists, dancers, musicians and lunatics to show what they've got.

It's quite a bit. There will be so many things worth seeing that I can't possibly list them all here. (Check out the full artist list at the Artopia Web site, if you wanna make your head swim.) Personally, I must see "Now Serving Cheesecake," a show of classic pin-up art at Fantagraphics Books; the "Dope Emporium" stages, which will serve up as much Northwest hip-hop as a booty can shake out; "Public Opera No. 1," a sort of "opera for dummies"; and for some perverse reason, I'm fairly dying to see artist Christopher Pfeifle's homage to 1970s prop comic Gallagher's "Sledge-O-Matic" routine.

That's just a tiny selection of what Georgetown is putting up for your entertainment and edification this Saturday. It'll be fairly difficult to find something not worth seeing at Artopia. Then again, that's true of Georgtown on most days.

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