Romonia Rowe, Mona to her friends and family, loved to paint landscapes, create children’s illustrations and sculpt cats. And she’s one of the reasons her son, wildlife sculptor and gallery owner Ken Rowe, became an artist. For many years, Ken attended amateur painting classes with his mom, first as a way to distract himself from his day job (drywall finisher, for those who are curious) and, later in life, as a way to spend quality time with Mona, who passed away in 2003. “She was a really good painter, but she never thought about doing it for a living,” says…
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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Good Person” showing April 21-27 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “A Good Person” — written and directed by Zach Braff — stars Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh and Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman. Sometimes we find hope where we least expect it. In “A Good Person”, Allison (Florence Pugh) is a young woman with a bright future — a wonderful fiancé, a blossoming career, and supportive family and friends. But her world crumbles in the blink of an eye when…
… the Great Blue Heron seen above, asked me to give a five star review to the Rainbow Trout Farm, up canyon from Sedona on SR89A … note the beautiful rainbow trout he has speared and is preparing to have for dinner once he has made it to shore. All of the trout at the farm are raised from eggs obtained from the state and they are hatched, raised and kept in fresh spring water from the property. Although adjacent to Oak Creek, they are never in water from the creek, just pure spring water. The photo of the Black…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game” showing April 21-27 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game” won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film Comedy at the recent Sedona Film Festival where it premiered to rave reviews and received some of the highest audience ratings in the festival lineup. “Pinball” tells the story of Roger Sharpe, the GQ journalist and real-life pinball wizard who in 1976 single-handedly overturned New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball machines. It started as a simple,…
Prescott Valley AZ News – Service has always been integral to her life. So says Judy Baum as she reflects on her retirement as Chief Executive Officer of Mountain Valley Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Prescott Valley, Ariz. Baum served 17 of her 47 years in healthcare at the rehabilitation hospital. When speaking of service, Baum recalls being influenced by her mother at a young age. Her mom would regularly care for sick neighbors and take Baum to visit her grandparents and other elderly residents at a local nursing home. “Even in her 80s, my mom would help feed people in…
Sedona News – Chamber Music Sedona invites attendees to participate in the upcoming session of “Let’s Talk Music,” a series of events held at the Sedona Public Library. The session titled “Rachmaninoff and Friends” is scheduled for Tuesday, April 25, 2023 from 5-7 pm and will explore the music of Rachmaninoff and his Russian composer contemporaries in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Presented by Rob Schottland, a member of the Chamber Music Sedona Board of Trustees, “Rachmaninoff and Friends” will consist of lively discussion, music examples, and a showing of a 100-year-old artifact of Rachmaninoff’s first years…
… and still looking, finding and sharing the beauty of the natural world … the photo above is of an eared/black necked grebe swimming and looking for food down at Lake Pleasant and below a photo of a drake cinnamon teal exploding into flight from one of the ponds at Bubbling Ponds Fish Hatchery in Page Springs … love the beauty of each bird and what fun being close to them. A friend and I went up to Lake Mary in the Flagstaff area this afternoon and I was blown away by the sheer volume of water in the lakes.…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Moving On” showing April 21-27 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. “Moving On” was the closing night film at the recent Sedona International Film Festival and is returning to the theatres by popular demand. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower (Malcolm McDowell) of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Fonda’s character reunites with her great love (Richard Roundtree) as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other.…
By Kristina Sabetta, LMSW NAMI Yavapai Verde Valley News – Please join us for our next Mental Health Monday program via Zoom which will take place on April 24th, 2023, 10:00 to 11:30 AM, and will focus on the mental health epidemic and the increasing rates of mental illness in America. Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author who has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research…
Sedona, AZ — A laid back New York supper club ambiance and décor; a state-of-the-arts sound system; professional lighting; a selection of fine wines and cocktails; and first-class cuisine combine to create the perfect night out at Sound Bites Grill on Saturday, April 22, from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring Jazz luminary and recording artist JJ Sansavorino. JJ, with a Billboard #1 smash hit under his belt titled “Style & Elegance” and numerous highly acclaimed albums and singles recorded during his meteoric rise in the music world, brings to the table an act every Reggae, Jazz and R&B aficionado can…
Sedona News – The Dead would like to have some words with you. And so, begins a cemetery walk at Sedona’s oldest cemetery on April 21 and 22 at the Schuerman Red Rock Cemetery on the Upper Red Rock Loop Road. The Sedona Historical Society has announced that a limited number of ticket holders will meet a whole new set of Sedona’s earliest residents portrayed by re-enactors at this Cemetery Walk. “Voices from the Grave-Spring Spirits Rising” is an open-air cemetery tour with re-enactments by professional actors at this cemetery dating from 1893. Musical interludes will help guide tour groups…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Hilma” showing April 21-27 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Hilma” was the opening night film at the recent Sedona International Film Festival and received some of the highest audience ratings in the festival lineup. Director Lasse Hallström was honored with the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing. Hallström’s “Hilma” brings to the big screen the life story of a woman who defied conventions and who revolutionized the art world when her work was exhibited in its entirety in 2019 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Hilma…
By Steve Segner Sedona, AZ — The Sedona City Council spent the April 12 council meeting trying to put a positive spin on self-inflicted wounds; it got fired! The Sedona Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau quit its million-dollar contract to provide marketing support for the city. That’s right. The city’s largest not-for-profit vendor walked away from the table. Sales in Sedona are off by close to 100,000,000 dollars and tax income for the town by close to $10,000,000. Yes, $10,000,000.00 will not be used for public services for local citizens. I have lived in Sedona for over 25 years.…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ At its April 12 meeting the Sedona City council agreed by consensus to direct staff to hire a consultant to assist the city in forming its own “in house” destination marketing and management program. Say what? Wait! The City of Sedona, which has over the last few years done just about everything it could to stop the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau from destination marketing, now has to participate in the marketing effort as well. I was going to write a straight-ahead news article on this but the sardonicism of it all was just…
… it was beautiful down at the lake today … winds were calm, spring flowers are everywhere beautiful and life was everywhere. In one back bay we turned the engine off and just spent time listening to the sounds of nature … and we got some nice shots. Earth is still orbiting the sun and the sun continues to provide us with about 99% of our energy. It was warm on the lake today thanks to old Sol … still breathing and still loving this little planet we find ourselves on. I love the shot of the great blue heron…