Coconino County News – The Flat Fire located north of the San Francisco Peaks and 4.5 miles west of U.S. Highway 89 (GPS: 35°28’04.0″N 111°39’16.3″W), began Monday, July 10, was caused from an individual burning grass trimmings. The fire is currently estimated to be 32% contained at 156 acres and started from a private citizen burning grass trimmings in a burn pit that got out of control due to wind conditions and spread quickly. Coconino County Sheriff’s Office arrested an individual and charged him with reckless burning and violation of the county fire ban. Current resources assigned to the fire include…
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Sedona News – In a collaborative effort between Manzanita Outreach, Yavapai County Community Health Services, and the Yavapai County Free Library District, a new website was launched this week to increase access to basic needs resources throughout Yavapai County. Individuals, social workers, and basic needs providers will use the site – MOHelp.org – as a simple process to find comprehensive support. All three organizations independently received funding in 2022 to support such an initiative. Beginning last year, representatives from each organization began meeting to discuss how to collaborate with each other in lieu of producing nearly identical projects separately. “Collaboration…
By Tommy Acosta We all know that tourism remains the lifeblood of Sedona’s economy. The recent discord between the city and the Sedona Chamber of Commerce has led to a significant decline in visitor numbers. To revitalize tourism and restore Sedona to its former glory, strategic efforts from multiple stakeholders are needed. We, as a community, need to explore various avenues for enticing tourists to visit Sedona and outline actionable steps that businesses, the City Council, the Chamber of Commerce, and local media can take to boost tourism. First, Sedona must adopt an integrated and targeted advertising approach. The city…
Artists get asked a lot of questions, but one of the most common just might be: What inspires you to create? In preparation for In the Mood, Rowe Fine Art Gallery’s latest show, which opens with a reception on Friday, August 4, at 4 p.m., the gallery posed that very question to its own family of painters, sculptors and jewelers. As it turns out, inspiration can result in either a specific artwork or just the drive to spend time in the studio. Navajo stone sculptor Alvin Marshall gets in the mood to create by waking up early, a practice his…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” showing July 21-27 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s feature documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom…
… in just a few months we will be enjoying cooling weather and forget the heat of summer … throughout the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s all governmental agencies and the media including scientific journals and papers were proclaiming the eminent coming of another ice age … mercifully all scary predictions whether heat or cold never seem to actually occur … I love this cooling scene at the airport after a very warm day in Phoenix and it will be this way again in just a few months. The airport was closed and I spent some time shooting everything I could…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with the Sedona Historical Society to celebrate the National Day of the Cowboy with a special screening of “Stay Away, Joe” on Saturday, July 22 at 3:00 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. This is the Society’s annual screening of a vintage western film made in Sedona. Join us for an afternoon of Sedona classic movie history and entertainment. Promoted with the tagline “Elvis goes West…and the West goes wild”, “Stay Away, Joe” stars Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Katy Jurado and Joan Blondell. Intended to be a…
… another great day, marred only by about ten program crashes the past couple of hours whilst I was trying to get the photos worked up that are included in tonight’s missive. Just for fun I added some pretty testy language to the mouthed complaints of the birds who are acting out tonight … also for fun, they spoke some words that earned them a mouth washing or three. The beta version of Photoshop has some serious problems and with more than ten crashes since midnight it has truly irritated me … but then, I know it is the beta…
Sedona News – The Unauthorized Happiness Improv team is back and honored to bring a night of laughter to the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Tuesday, July 18 at 7 p.m. For July’s show, the UH Team invites audience members to bring more random objects for the game, Object Freeze, which debuted in June’s show. The troupe would like to thank the audience for the many great, family-friendly, objects that were given in June’s show! If you attended the show, and your object didn’t get picked (because of time) we’d love to have the chance to use it this time!…
By Mark TenBroek Sedona, Arizona – At the June 28, 0223 update to City Council on the Sedona Climate Action Plan, the City Sustainability group described the programs they have developed and their calculations on how large the carbon emissions were from both City operations as well as the overall community. The efforts to benchmark how much carbon dioxide is being generated and emitted as part of all activities within the community is to be commended.
… in a sense, today was terrific because I got so much done … I was working with beautiful photographs and that is a pleasure, but the day was spent going through folders deleting photographs and that is not so much fun … more like unpleasant work! This is the second time through these folders, the first time is after the shoot and typically 85% end up in the bit bucket and on the second time about 65% of the remaining ones are being deleted and for the most part they are good enough to be published, but there are…
Sedona News – The Watters will be returning to their hometown of Sedona for a special acoustic performance at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, July 22, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. Now based in Austin, Daniel and Jenna Watters began performing together in Northern Arizona in 2005 and have released nine albums since. They are currently working on their 10th studio album. The performance at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre will be an acoustic trio with Dan and Jenna singing songs that span their fifteen-year career, featuring Jenna’s amazing vocals and their beautiful harmonies. Joining them…
Sedona, AZ — Gerardo and Maria Moceri, owners of Gerardo’s Pizzeria, a family-run, Italian-inspired wood-fired pizzeria and homemade pasta restaurant located in Sedona, Arizona is announcing the creation of an apprenticeship program for culinary students. The Moceri’s opened Gerardos’ Itialin Kitchen restaurant in 2016 which has grown to be one of Sedona’s premier places to dine with a following of dedicated residents and visitors. After years of being an apprentice himself in Italy and other parts of Europe, Chef Gerardo has seen how impactful this experience can be first-hand and would like to give back the opportunity for dedicated culinary…
… a good weekend … tasks around the house, time with friends and more work on the portfolio and finding some very nice photos that I have forgotten about. Portfolio is shrinking and I deleted half a terabyte of images this past week with at least another terabyte to go. The goal is no more than 2 TB of images including duplicates and triplicates … twenty five years of digital photography plus many years of digitized film and slide photography are in there. All the components for my new computer build are here now, so going to try and get…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival announces award-winning recording artist Arvel Bird will be performing his “Celtic Indian” concert live on Saturday, July 15 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Celtic Indian is a reflection of Arvel Bird’s mixed-blood American Indian and Celtic heritages (S. Piaute/Clan Kennedy Scotland). With his violin, fiddle, Native flutes and Irish whistles, Arvel weaves a powerful tapestry of music and stories of his original compositions. Classically trained as a violinist, Arvel’s concert, compositions and performances are a confluence of styles from Celtic, bluegrass and his original Native American folk and…