Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is taking its show on the road with its new “Movies on the Move” mobile movie truck and outdoor film experience! The next event of the summer will be Monday, Sept. 9 at Hillside Sedona, featuring the blockbuster big screen comedy “City Slickers”. Showtime will be at dusk (approximately 7:45-8:00 p.m.). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4k7AK6oK9U Bring out your inner cowboy or cowgirl and get into the spirit of the film by dressing in Western attire, if you’d like! Bring your lawn chairs and your family and friends and enjoy “Starry Night Cinema” under the stars…
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Sedona News – The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers and area residents and businesses to plan for continued lane restrictions on State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon. The restrictions are needed for drainage-and-sediment repair work in Oak Creek Canyon resulting from a rockfall event in March 2023. Continued single lane restrictions SR 89A is narrowed to one lane only with alternating north- and southbound travel between the switchbacks and Oak Creek Vista (mileposts 387-390). The around-the-clock restrictions will be in place through the fall. A temporary traffic signal will be in place to direct traffic through the…
Verde Valley News – In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Camp Verde Community Library (CVCL) is excited to present a coloring contest, for grades 1st through 8th grade, and a series of interactive workshops centered around the Dia de los Muertos holiday. These engaging activities are designed for families and children to explore and celebrate this significant tradition. Starting September 16, 2024, CVCL will launch its Dia de los Muertos Coloring Contest. Entry forms and coloring supplies will be available for pickup at the library. The contest invites participants to use their creativity to reflect the spirit of the holiday.…
Sedona News – The Arizona Community Foundation and its donors are pleased to announce grant and scholarship distributions for the first quarter of its fiscal year. Between April 1 and June 30, 2024, a total of $25,783,221 was awarded from funds of the Arizona Community Foundation and its six statewide regional offices in Cochise, Flagstaff, the Gila Valley, Sedona, Yavapai County, and Yuma. The $25.8 million in both discretionary and advised grants and scholarships were awarded in five strategic priority areas: Health Innovations, Community Improvement & Development, Environment & Sustainability, Arts & Culture, and Quality Education. Health Innovations: A total of…
Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Great Art on Screen series with “Perugino: Eternal Renaissance”. The film will premiere in Sedona on Tuesday and Sunday, Sept. 10 and 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the festival’s Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Great Art on Screen is a series of documentaries featuring an in-depth look at the most extraordinary and groundbreaking art masters of their time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2uAFyWsCk “Perugino: Eternal Renaissance” is a journey to discover Perugino, one of the most revered artists of the 15th Century and to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of his death. Journey through Italy to discover his great…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. People who cannot attend or who live far away can access the service through zoom. Erev Shabbat services begin on Friday evening, September 6 beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, who will chant a selection from Shoftim, Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9, in which Moses instructs the Children of Israel to appoint judges and law enforcement officers in every…
By David Stephen How big of a problem is digital piracy? It can be argued that regulation and litigation have ensured mitigation from the mainstream. However, when some AI companies needed training data, why were pirated copies of contents allegedly [accessible to be] crawled and scraped? Why are several other unlawful events possible online, in ways that are not in the physical world—so to speak? What is peculiar about digital that makes it difficult for regulation and litigation to be decisive in eradicating problems? One easy-to-identify issue, especially with the internet—in recent decades—is that development has been ahead of safety.…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Dance First” showing Sept. 6-12 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Dance First” — directed by Academy Award-winner James Marsh — stars Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Fionn O’Shea and Sandrine Bonnaire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PzvjVZEBW8 Literary genius Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, WWII Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband, recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his, way he was a man acutely aware of his own failings. “Dance First” is an imaginative, playful and often poignant account…
… a true love has been making itself present in my thoughts lately and so I called my good friend Russ Hustead at Sky King Soaring and I’m thinking I may get checked out in one of his motor gliders so that I can get some fresh aerial photos to use in my presentation on October 27th … it would be good to be back up in the air again … maybe more days like when I would fly in the morning and be boating in the afternoon 🙂 If you have never had the thrill of flying in a glider or…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona theatrical premiere of “The Cowboy and the Queen” showing Sept. 6-12 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “The Cowboy and the Queen” won the award for Best Indie Spirit Documentary at the recent Sedona International Film Festival and was one of the top audience favorites in the lineup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE2WOqqCAEc “The Cowboy and the Queen” — from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Andrea Nivens — chronicles the life of Monty Roberts, a renegade horse trainer whose non-violent techniques never would have seen the light of day if it weren’t…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “Between the Temples” showing Sept. 6-12 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. With a 1970s aesthetic and comedy tone, “Between the Temples” is a sharply witty and heartwarming portrait of suffering, faith, and relationships, starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, directed by Nathan Silver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqBcFAOOoU Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman) is a cantor who’s lost his voice, his faith, and his purpose following the sudden death of his novelist wife. His obtuse rabbi (Robert Smigel), his doting mother (Caroline Aaron) and his overeager stepmother (Dolly…
Sedona News – Every Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m. in September, the city of Sedona’s Parks and Recreation Department will host the Red Dirt Concert Series at the Posse Grounds Pavilion at 505 Posse Ground Rd., which features a wide variety of musical acts. The 2024 fall series will feature: Sophia Rankin & The Sound (headliner) and S T E E N (opener) – Friday, Sept. 6 Reverend Jon (headliner) and Jonathan Cady (opener) – Friday, Sept. 13 Charlie McNeal (headliner) and Austin B. Sweeney (opener) – Friday, Sept. 20 The Originals (headliner) and Rick Cucuzza (opener) –…
Arizona News – As drivers make plans for Labor Day travel, the Arizona Department of Transportation has announced no construction closures will be scheduled along state highways over the extended holiday weekend. To help with travel conditions, ADOT and its contractors will not set any full highway closures from Friday afternoon, Aug. 30, to Tuesday morning, Sept. 3. That includes restrictions for Phoenix-area freeway projects. Last year, 15 fatal vehicle crashes that claimed 18 lives occurred on all roadways, including local streets, over Labor Day weekend. Six of the fatalities involved alcohol-related crashes, according to law enforcement reports. A total…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “You Gotta Believe” showing Sept. 6-12 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. A team of underdogs with the spirit of champions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_nbHSOyDE “You Gotta Believe” is based on the inspiring true story of one team’s transformational journey from district underdog to taking its place in the Little League record books. After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated youth baseball players from Fort Worth, Texas, takes its Cinderella run all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series…
… so, I received my new Canon R5 MK II’s last Thursday and spent the day and part of Friday setting them up to suit my particular taste and then it was down to Bubbling Ponds to try the camera out. I initially set the camera up for high-speed shooting … 30 frames per second, up from the 20 in the R5. I also set them up to use the pre-capture feature which is available to go back and get the previous half second before you depress the shutter button fully. Basically, the camera is shooting at 30 frames per…