A heartwarming, magical sleigh ride of emotions as Charles Graves chases his dream The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Deaf Santa Claus” showing Dec. 12-18 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwb2Y5BVGI With an uncanny resemblance to the icon himself, Charles Graves chases his dream of becoming a professional Deaf Santa Claus. Filmmakers chronicle Charles and his family as he attends Santa school and enlists the support of others in an attempt to better provide for his loved ones. Directed by Ben Shelton and Anthony Mowl, the film offers…
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SEDONA, Ariz. — As the city of Sedona explores potential changes to residential, customer and employee parking in Uptown, it asks surrounding business owners and residents to attend an open house on Dec. 11, 2025 at the Best Western Plus Arroyo Roble meeting room to learn more about parking scenarios and provide community feedback that will be used to assess the feasibility of future solutions. More specifically, Uptown parking topics to learn about and provide feedback on include a parking assessment of current parking availability, expansion of paid parking and a potential residential parking program. These items are under consideration…
Sedona, AZ — The Sedona Heritage Museum hosts Merry Music at the Museum on Saturday, December 13, from 11 am to 3 pm. The event is free for all to attend. Festivities include crafts for children, vendors selling sweet treats, and musical performances. Live music can be heard throughout the event. At 11 am, Acapella Sedona will perform a set of holiday tunes. At noon the audience will be entertained by Reno & Sheila McCormick, who will play holiday favorites in folk and bluegrass styles. Carolers from the Mingus High School choir, under the direction of James Ball, will perform…
Sedona, AZ — Please see the following Joint Statement from the City of Sedona and Arizona Water Company regarding the removal of the City’s franchise fee from future Arizona Water Company bills for customers inside city limits. This information is also being sent to Arizona Water Company customers in their December bills: Working together, the City of Sedona (City) and Arizona Water Company (AWC) have agreed on a method to provide a small credit each month to partially mitigate the recent water rate increase for Sedona residents. Effective December 1, 2025, the City will remove a current franchise fee on…
Filmmaker Arnold Leibovit will host screening and two Puppetoons with Q&A discussion Sedona, AZ — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “The Time Machine” on Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 4:00 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZNdsV-clto This special event will also feature two Academy Award-winning “Puppetoons” restored in Technicolor: “Western Daze” (1940) — the first Puppetoon introducing Jim Dandy with key animation by Ray Harryhausen — and “Tubby the Tuba” (1947), considered one of the greatest of the Puppetoons. “The Time Machine” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup (John M. Elliot Jr.…
By David Stephen The collateral damage of the unprecedented success of NVIDIA is human intelligence. At this point, it does not matter if NVIDIA is Enron, Lehman Brothers, Cisco or if AI is in a bubble, if the bubble is about to crash or if an investor that called the 2008 financial crisis is sounding alarms in a distraction from the real catastrophe: human intelligence has been demonstrated to be replaceable by artificial intelligence, via the immense processing power underlined by NVIDIA. There has never been any stock market loss, bankruptcy, big corporation scheming that had ever been at the expense of…
The Mary Fisher Theatre in Sedona will hold screenings of Granite Rapids Moon at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Thursday December 18th. During the Q&A that follows the film you can let the producer know by a show of hands that you heard of the screening from Keep Sedona Beautiful, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to KSB. Written and directed by Kenneth Cran, Granite Rapids Moon follows a happily married father of two, shaken by a message written in a birthday card for his daughter, who abruptly leaves his family for a week-long trek through…
Multiple Tony Award-winner, including Best Revival of a Musical, hits the big screen Sedona, Az — The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Merrily We Roll Along” showing Dec. 5-10 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Spanning two decades, “Merrily We Roll Along” traces the complex, often heartbreaking unravelling of a once-unbreakable friendship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two closest friends — playwright-lyricist Charley and writer Mary. But this is no ordinary story. Told in reverse, the film winds backwards through time, beginning in fractured adulthood and journeying back to the bright-eyed…
Sedona, AZ –FutureView Multimedia, in partnership with the Sedona International Film Festival, invites you to join the celebration at the next Tech Savvy for Seniors workshop: “Music Platforms” on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 11:00 a.m. inside the Mary D. Fisher Theatre in West Sedona. This beginner-friendly session will introduce participants to today’s most popular music apps: Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, and Shazam. In a relaxed, step-by-step discussion, attendees will learn how to search for songs, create playlists, and even use Shazam to identify music playing anywhere Guided by the Tech Savvy Team, this 90-120 minute workshop will move at a…
Sedona, AZ — Most mornings, Sophia and I go down the rabbit hole, no really. That’s what one of the trails at Whipple Creek is called. Whipple is our favorite of many great walks here in Southern Washington. The great news is that it’s less than two miles from my front door. What a treat! Every time I set foot on the trail I find it hilarious that it’s named Rabbit Hole Loop. How perfect! What a great analogy for life. Most of us think of a rabbit hole as somewhere off the track, Alice’s unexpected fall into Wonderland, not…
Sedona, AZ — The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadowlark Drive off Route 179 in Sedona, is a welcoming, egalitarian, inclusive congregation dedicated to building a link from the past to the future by providing religious, educational, social and cultural experiences. The JCSVV offers soul-enriching services, programs, and classes, all listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Office telephone: 928 204-1286. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. Those who cannot attend in person can access the service through zoom. All are invited to Friday evening services led by Rabbi Magal on November 28 at…
SEDONA, Ariz. – On Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Posse Grounds Pavilion, located at 505 Posse Ground Rd., the city invites the Sedona community to bring new, unwrapped toys for ages newborn to 16 years old, to “stuff the bus” with all toys being donated to Sedona Toys for Tots. The goal is to fill a Sedona Shuttle with toys, which will then be distributed to local families in need. Gift givers can look for the Sedona Shuttle bus parked at the half-circle driveway for the Posse Grounds Pavilion. City staff will…
By David Stephen Sedona, Az — You can fight for discovery, but you almost probably cannot fight science. There are several battles within scientific fields all the time, adding to the rigor that theories and evidence have to pass to reach wide acceptance. However, it is almost not a winnable [or credible] battle to fight in directions that appear like an individual is taking on science. While science continues to evolve, there are some areas that an individual can get bogged down and get blindsided to new territories where far better progress can be made in that same era. There…
How a single order — “Kill them all” — became the center of the most essential accountability trial in a generation. The story is fiction—but the path to it, shaped by the 2028 election, is alarmingly real. By Bear Howard Sedona, AZ — Prologue: This story imagines a future America—2029—finally pulling itself back from a precipice it had pretended not to see. A new administration, carried into office by a landslide, confronts a truth too long ignored: power left unchecked will eventually turn against the innocent. And so Congress creates something that feels both radical and overdue—a tribunal built to…
The CBWG is a group of passionate Sedona residents and business owners who are willing to volunteer a significant amount of their time to learn about and participate in the development of the annual budget. The CBWG reviews information and makes recommendations, specifically regarding community service provider contracts, and requests for new or increased funding. The CBWG provides staff, the City Manager and the City Council an additional means of insight into community concerns and priorities. What the CBWG is not: The CBWG does not review the entirety of the City’s budget. Base budgets, or the amount of funding required…