Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with award-winning surround sound composer and producer Koz Mraz for a Surround Sound Music Experience, featuring The Eagles, on Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Experience “The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over” in a surround sound experience that will blow you away in 5.1 surround sound in Sedona’s best sound system. After a 14-year hiatus, the Eagles performed live for the first time in April 1994 at Warner Brothers film studio in Burbank. Recorded and mixed in 5.1 Surround by engineer extraordinaire Elliot…
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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Chamber Music Sedona for a special encore of “The Secret Song” and “The Last Repair Shop” in celebration of the Chamber Music Season on Thursday, April 25 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. THE SECRET SONG “The Secret Song” won the Marion Herrman Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2023 Sedona International Film Festival. “The Secret Song” chronicles the final months of Doug Goodkin’s fabled 45-year career teaching music to children in San Francisco. Goodkin’s time-tested methods are thrown into disarray as the…
Sedona News – The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) has awarded the city of Sedona the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the city’s fiscal year 2024 budget. This is the eleventh year the city has received this award. In conjunction with the award for the city’s fiscal year 2024 budget, the city has also received special recognition for discussions in the budget related to strategic goals and strategies. The award represents a significant achievement by the city. It reflects the commitment of the city council and staff to meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting. To receive the budget award,…
Verde Valley News – The Yavapai County Detention Center (YCDC), in collaboration with Prison Families Alliance (PFA) is pleased to announce the launch of in-person support meetings for families who have incarcerated loved ones. The first family support meeting was held on February 1st, 2024, and by the number of hugs, tears, laughter, and stories shared amongst the group, it was a success! The goal of these gatherings is to offer a welcoming environment where families can connect with others who are facing similar circumstances in having a loved one in incarceration. Creating a space for peer support that fosters…
… there is such beauty in life and in every life form … in the photo above an egret is taking off from the rock in the lower left corner of the photograph and it is about ten feet above the water level. The egrets’ legs are done giving the initial force to lift him into flight and the wings are being forced downward to keep the initial momentum going … the curvature of the wings and the positioning of every feather has purpose … and we get to witness this beauty whenever we take the time to do so.…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present Stand-Up Comedy Night live onstage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Sunday, April 21 at 7 p.m. The show will feature headliner Claude Stuart with Brian Kohatsu opening the evening. CLAUDE STUART From packing comedy venues across the globe to regular television appearances on shows like “The Tonight Show” and “Last Comic Standing”, veteran comedian and popular Dry Bar comic Claude Stuart has come a long way from his down-home southern roots. His explosive, in-your-face, rapid-fire, madman stage style is truly an exhilarating assault on the senses…
Verde Valley News – On the heels of earning the top spot in the Arizona region last month, the Yavapai College chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) international honor society has earned a No. 5 ranking nationally, as well as five additional national awards. The announcement of the fifth-place national ranking out of 1,290 chapters nationwide, “speaks volumes about our students’ dedication, hard work and exceptional leadership,” said Denise Woolsey, YC PTK chapter advisor. She and four PTK officers and members were on hand to accept the award during the PTK national conference known as “Catalyst’ earlier this month…
Sedona News – Every Friday evening from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in May, the city of Sedona’s Parks and Recreation Department will host the Red Dirt Concert Series at the Posse Grounds Pavilion at 525 Posse Grounds Rd., featuring a wide variety of musical acts. The 2024 Spring Series will feature: Friday, May 3 – Well Dressed Wolves, with opener Moon Tsunami Friday, May 10 – Foxy Koshka, with opener Craig Yarbrough Friday, May 17 – The Swamp Poets, with opener Jack OC & The Alien Friday, May 24 – The Storytellers, with opener Banjo Joe & Danielle Friday, May…
Arizona News – Building and maintaining Arizona’s vast highway system isn’t an easy job, and to do it, Arizona Department of Transportation crews spend a lot of time near traffic as it rushes by. That closeness to oncoming traffic can come with serious safety risks when motorists speed through work zones or choose to drive dangerously. That’s why during this year’s Work Zone Awareness Week, ADOT is calling on motorists to be patient and alert when driving through work zones so everyone can get home safely. The theme of this year’s Work Zone Awareness Week, which runs April 15-19, is…
Arizona News – The Arizona Alliance for Adolescent Health (The Alliance), a program of Affirm, Arizona’s designated Title X (Ten) agency, has issued the first-ever report on the health and wellbeing of Arizona’s youth. The State of Adolescent Health in Arizona is the result of extensive research, thoughtful deliberation and collaboration among key stakeholders and Alliance organizational partners. The report presents indicators in the following domains to broadly describe the state of adolescent health in Arizona: Health and Wellness, Education and Workforce Development, Family and Community, Environment and Climate, and Economic Wellbeing. Together, they reflect how complex interactions between youth and their social, cultural, economic,…
By Tommy Acosta — Sedona, AZ So, it looks like the referendum on the Cultural Park made the ballot. Now comes the rallying, meetings, community forums, ads, and arguments between those who support or oppose the Safe Parking concept. There are good arguments that elected officials should be allowed to do their elected jobs and that the public should lean back and let them work. But you can’t beat a good old-fashioned referendum that brings the final say to the citizens themselves. That’s the bottom line, the foundation upon which democracy is built. Get over it. The council’s only job…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Life is a mystically magical tangle of highs and lows, shadow and light, happiness and sorrow. Most of us want the highs and light and happiness without that other stuff. It may be natural, but it isn’t possible. Desiring the good without any of the bad, devising ways to win and conquer, or at least to not feel as bad, is life as most live it: round and round on the hamster wheel. It’s spiritual mud wrestling with a ghost, in short, the hero’s journey. Funny that it’s called a hero’s journey. Makes it sound romantic.…
… another day of catch up and do things around the house … always a satisfying feeling when you get to see the results of your labor … I did that! Sometimes you just to let things slide for a while though and then when you do it, it is doubly sweet! That’s my category. A sequence that I shot on Wednesday down at the lake of an egret flipping his catch so that he can swallow the fish headfirst … dorsal fins on fish require that or else the egret is in serious trouble. In the top photo he…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2023-2024 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season continues with Puccini’s “La Rondine” live via simulcast on Saturday, April 20 at 10 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, April 24 at 3 p.m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_NttbVS1s Plan to come early as Russ Fox will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the sophisticated French courtesan Magda,…
Arizona News – The Coconino National Forest will begin selling 2024 season firewood permits at its ranger stations and headquarters Monday, April 15 as seasonal road closures begin to lift for roads suitable for motorized travel. The minimum cost for a permit is $20, with a maximum purchase of 12 cords per household. Permits allow for the cutting of down and dead wood or standing wood that meets certain criteria in specified areas. The cost for oak, aspen, juniper and maple will be $5 per cord, and the cost for pine and mixed conifer will be $2.50 per cord. Even though some forest roads…