Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the summer encore of the Met Opera’s “La Cenerentola” (from the 2013-14 season) on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 12 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mJHWnjmHmM Rossini’s charming take on the Cinderella story returns to cinemas, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Juan Diego Flórez in Cesare Lievi’s whimsical production. Fabio Luisi conducts. The 2024 Met Opera Summer Encores are generously sponsored by Chris Fladlien and Bea Hanks. “La Cenerentola” from the Metropolitan Opera will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 3…
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Sedona, AZ — In an exclusive for Sedona.biz Yavapai County Board of Supervisors Vice-Chair Donna Michaels is interviewed by author Lane M. Badger, as part of Lane’s “The Other America” series. The following interview explores Donna’s vision for her county, constituents and future of the community she serves. “More than sustainability, regenerative practices will define the future of America.” “The health of the land and the people and the many Issues within the Verde Valley will represent a broad spectrum of rural Arizona.” – Donna Michaels Down a hard-tack road, dotted with ranches and barns, Courthouse Butte looms large as the dominant…
… and a wonderful weekend it was … much time going through photos and faceting gems … just a couple hours left on one I started yesterday and photos to follow. In the photo above a Great Egret has just speared a fish on the fly and is preparing to wheel up and out of the area; I love the way his right wing is spread and curved just centimeters above the lake surface and his snack securely speared on his beak. Below is another Great Egret with his catch flying straight at us. He was only about twenty-five feet…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Wildcat” showing Aug. 2-7 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYkEpDlqlQ Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award-nominee Ethan Hawke, “Wildcat” invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with…
Verde Valley News – In a dignified but festive ceremony brightened by proud family members and friends, sixteen Yavapai College Emergency Medical Service students received their completion certificates and now return to serve their local communities as certified paramedics. Yavapai College congratulates the men and women who completed their rigorous Paramedic Training Program and graduated Thursday, July 25 at the Prescott Campus. “You have chosen a path that demands courage, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to serving others.” Yavapai College EMS Program Director Alexander Lewis BAS, NPR, CEP, said in his remarks. “I have no doubt that you will rise…
Sedona News – Maurice Crandall, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Arizona State University will speak about “Playing Indian in Yavapai-Apache Sacred Spaces,” at the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 4 at the Synagogue at 100 Meadowlark Drive, on Route 179, in Sedona, next to the Fire Station. There is no cost and everyone is welcome. The Yavapai-Apache people have lived in the Sedona and Verde Valley area since time immemorial, and their history, culture, and identity are inextricably tied to this land. With good intentions, but without deep understanding, many non-Indigenous residents and…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Coup!” showing Aug. 2-8 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpPkX1FKPo Isolated on a seaside estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When the plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their wealthy employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and…
Lin Ennis will present “Listening to Trees” Sunday, August 11, 2024, as part of a summer series on Building Community, sponsored by Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. To suggest how to “build community” with inanimate arboreal objects, she will illustrate how they communicate with one another, nurture their young, deter predators and share food and water with neighboring trees. She will suggest building friendships with trees. Spending as little as two hours in the presence of mature trees improves a person’s health for as much as thirty days. Several specific health benefits will be highlighted. Recorded sounds trees make, their voice,…
By Steve Segner After reading the recent article in the Red Rock News about Olson Real Estate Group’s lawsuit against the City of Sedona and a handful of local NIMBYs, I am reminded of the old Uncle Remus tale of the Tar-Baby. In the story, Br’er Rabbit finds himself entangled with the Tar-Baby, a doll made of tar and turpentine, which was designed to trap him. The more Br’er Rabbit struggles, the more tangled he becomes. The City of Sedona and certain local groups have found themselves in a predicament similar to Br’er Rabbit’s entanglement in a lawsuit with Olson…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ/ — How sad Time is running out for the tenants of Windsong Mobile Home Park on 89A, as they now face a $300 to $400 rent increase on August 1 due to its sale to a new owner, as reported in the Red Rock News. For some of us $300 to $400 is dinner with a few friends. Sometime even a tip at our classier restaurants. For the tenants of Windsong, the rent increase of approximately 40 percent is a disaster. Most tenents are working class Latinos employed as gardeners, day workers, hotel staff…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory If I could see everything that is going to happen in my life, would I try to change anything? It seems like I might want to leave the good stuff alone and put some effort into changing the not so good, doesn’t it? Of course, that assumes I have the ability to do something different from what I am going to do that is going to create the future I can see. Feeling back into what I’d call the hardships of my life, one by one, painstakingly intricately intimately paying attention to them as if they…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ — Ok. All right. I was wrong. Argh!! My ego is bruised and battered. I might never recover. Yes, I was a bit premature saying Trump was invincible in my “In the Nick of Time” article. I have a pitiful excuse because at the time I posted the opinion Biden was still running. Now, with Biden out of the race tables have turned and Trump has a real fight on his hands. Clearly, he is going to have to reach deep to take down Kamala, especially made even more perilous if Hillary becomes part of…
… yesterday we scored some amazing shots on Lake Mary … last week we checked an Osprey nest, and the kids were still hanging around on the edge of the nest and not flying. Yesterday when we got in their neighborhood they were on the edge of the nest and going out on the limbs of the tree that the nest is built in … lots of wing flapping like the Red Tails that I shot just before they fledged and then it happened, one of the Osprey chicks spread his wings and went airborne over his sibling in the…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Cat Video Fest 2024” showing Aug. 2-7 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjv6qZ_1oME Join us for a family-friendly escape to the movies and celebrate everything CATS! Cat Video Fest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. “Watching silly cat videos is good for you.” — The Wall Street Journal Cat Video Fest is a joyous communal experience, only available in theaters, and raises…
Arizona News – Due to increased precipitation received across the Coconino National Forest, fire restrictions will be lifted at 8 a.m. tomorrow, July 26, 2024. While forest-wide restrictions have been lifted, several areas of the Coconino National Forest are subject to permanent year-round fire restrictions, which will remain in effect. Additionally, forest visitors are asked to adhere to best practices while building a campfire. Where fires are permitted, use established fire rings, fire pans or mound fires, and keep fires small. Never leave a campfire unattended. Use at least 6 gallons of water and a shovel to completely extinguish a campfire. Before…