Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “All of Us Strangers” showing Jan. 26-Feb. 1 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “All of Us Strangers” is receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences around the world and features a stellar ensemble cast, including Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Andrew Scott received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O97iSjvqBlY One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has…
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… beauty surrounds us no matter where we go … some of it is created by man and some created by nature! I was on the floor doing exercises a couple of days ago and I looked up at the sculpture of Athena which was created by Heather Soderberg-Greene and a shaft of morning sun was illuminating her … grabbed a camera, back to the floor and spent five minutes shooting the beauty before resuming my exercises. There is enormous creative energy in each of us and some have the skill to create art like this. Be sure to visit the website…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory What is, is what is. You can’t change it. It already is what is. Change, however, is always happening, so change, it will. We never know what will appear in the next breath, or if we’ll be given a next breath. It’s impossible to know. It hasn’t happened yet. There are too many variables, so many things in play, that just trying consumes every bit of energy, eating up the lifeforce like Pacman gobbling up dots bite by bite. The next song in the song of songs doesn’t have to sound like the current one and…
By Steve Segner – – Sedona, AZ — We agree with the new city DMMO (Destination Management & Marketing Organization) plans to encourage a targeted audience of upscale travelers who will spend several nights in Sedona. But first, let’s look at the numbers – the “facts!” The Sedona Lodging Council is surveying many of the hotels and resorts in Sedona to identify where their overnight customers are coming from. So far, the survey of hotels shows that at least 50 to 60 percent of our overnight visitors come by car from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Of that, about…
By Tommy Acosta — Sedona, AZ –The city is now tasked with managing tourism after crowning itself as the new Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) for Sedona. All eyes are upon the city and its council as they walk a treacherous plank above the stormy waters churning beneath as they try to come up with a plan to curb runaway tourism yet attract visitors who would spend money and stay. Good luck. TripAdvisor just named Sedona as one of the most beautiful places to visit and stay. Everywhere in the travel business world, Sedona is being lauded for its beauty, its…
… for us going fishing or hunting is less a food gathering exercise than it is a sport, but for those creatures we see in nature it is survival and essential to life itself … each species has a part in creating a balance in nature … in some areas when the apex predators have been removed, the species they have kept in check explode and the natural order is disrupted. Probably no more dramatic restoration of the natural order was the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park in 1995.This video is only four and a half minutes long and worth the…
Sedona News – The city invites the public to save the date for its next artist reception on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers and Vultee Conference Room at City Hall, where paintings created by Karen Taylor and paintings and ceramics created by Mariann Leahy are on display through May 2, 2024. Special music guest at the reception will be Nathan “Saith” Gangadean. Taylor, originally from San Francisco, majored in Anthropology at San Francisco State University, which cemented her fascination with the broad range of cultural splendor and diversity around the globe. She…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection” showing Jan. 26-Feb. 1 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection” premiered to rave audience reviews at the 2023 Sedona International Film Festival. It is returning to Sedona by popular demand for a theatrical run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zVIlAitMFU She’d only just begun. Forty years after her death, this captivating, revealing, and unvarnished documentary provides astounding new insight into Karen Carpenter’s tragically short life and enduring musical legacy. She was the first in a long line of celebrities to suffer from an eating…
By Tommy Acosta For Republicans, it’s not really about who the candidate for the presidency is going to be. It’s about winning back the White House by any means necessary. The Dems are dug in, ready to rumble, united, and will steamroll anything standing in the way of another victory. The Biden effigy has been tuned to optimum pitch, and enough voters out there think he is still viable and ready to lead the country for another four years. Head-to-head, DeSantis will get crushed by the Dem juggernaut, the same as Haley. Even for the mighty Trump, beating Biden again…
Sedona News – Celebrate the music of Gordon Lightfoot when Eric Elison comes to Sedona with “A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot” live concert. There will be one performance on Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. They call him “The Lightfoot of The Rockies” for good reason. Renowned Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Artist, Eric Elison brings his incredible performance to Sedona for an unforgettable celebration of the music of Gordon Lightfoot. Eric will perform many songs from Lightfoot’s considerable catalog including: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, If You Could…
… we headed down to the lake this afternoon to compare the shooting and light to the early morning shooting we have been doing … it was good, warmer and some very fine lighting. Verdict? We’ll likely do it again! The shot above is an Osprey taking his second wingbeat coming off the top of a dead tree in one of the NE bays of Lake Pleasant. I especially like that he is looking directly at us. The shot below is a Greenhead Mallard taking off with a burst of energy and gaining altitude rapidly. They are very common, but…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world for a global theatrical event: “A Case for Love” on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “A Case for Love” is a heartfelt yet personally challenging movie inspired by the teachings and writings of Bishop Michael Curry, most well-known for his passionate sermon about “The Power of Love” at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLTxUBCbLiQ This documentary examines whether or not love — specifically unselfish love — is the solution to the extreme societal and political divide…
By John Rea — Cottonwood AZ — Now that issues regarding the massive black slag pile in Cottonwood, AZ have risen to the surface, it behooves conscientious community members to objectively examine the relevant information available on the subject Revelations are based on empirical scientific data including independent testing, testimonies of affected individuals and precedent setting case law pertaining to toxic contamination; all the aforementioned being willfully ignored or casually set aside to date. On a personal note, I was a victim of environmental poisoning over 40 years ago. It was literally a cover up where a housing project was…
… Michele was down here last week with Lennox and Bridger, and we were working on the upcoming event at the Mary Fisher Theater scheduled for February 7th at 4PM. It is going to be an incredible event … I will be presenting photos and tales of Michele’s birds and some of their wild brethren for about twenty minutes and then it will be Michele taking you through the wonders of everything American Kestrel. We will be joined by her friend and fellow Falconer, Devin Jaffe who is coming down from Colorado and bringing two of her American Kestrels too.…
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, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. The show will feature headliner BJ Johnson with Jas Clay opening the evening. BJ JOHNSON Comedian BJ Johnson’s distinctive styling give middle class suburbia a taste of inner-city sensibilities with his unique twists on fatherhood, relationships and his fight with Chronic End Stage Renal Failure and Kidney Transplant. BJ was the Winner of the 2001 Spokane Comedy Competition, was a semi-finalist in the 2003 Seattle Comedy Competition, placed second in…