Verde Valley News – Start the New Year right and join us in the Fireside Room at Camp Verde Community Library at 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 5th for a rocking concert from Music in the Stacks favorite Ed Cooper. Ed Cooper spent decades playing in bands around the country before settling in Sedona and becoming a solo performer. With soulful vocals and shredding guitar, Ed plays exciting arrangements of classic rock favorites from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. You can see Ed performing regularly at several venues around the Verde Valley. Camp Verde Community Library is located just off…
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Verde Valley News – ‘Vin de Filles’, an Arizona wine grown, produced, and bottled by women, released their 2nd vintage during its second Fund-Raising Dinner in mid-October on the Vineyard Deck at Page Springs Cellars, Cornville, Arizona. The group of female volunteers ranging in age between 11 and 68 started the Vin de Filles wine label in 2020. Thanks to the support of Page Springs Cellars, the community and a successful wine release event in 2021, the women rolled into caring for the same grape vines destined to become 2021’s VDF’s vintage. The wine is composed mostly of a Syrah…
Cottonwood News – Giggle away the holiday blues with Zenprov Comedy’s completely improvised show “Christmas in the AMAZON!” on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 7:00 PM at the Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood. Purchase tickets at OldTownCenter.org “We are taking aim at over-commercialization of the holidays and how Amazon has supplanted Santa Claus,” said Derek Dujardin, the director of Zenprov Comedy. “From petty family dramas to mindless consumerism to workers who can’t unionize, it is all fair game. Help us lampoon the cardboard juggernaut that none of us can live without!” The troupe will perform a sleigh full of new…
… whilst on my walk this morning, I saw two kids heading across the fairway with the older one pulling hi little brother on a sled … fast forward about two minutes and they are gleefully sledding down a gentle slope between fairways and making happy noises! I remember many a day like that when I was a kid in Minneapolis … the sheer joy of being alive and doing something fun. The sleds we had with metal runners would not have worked in conditions like today, but a flattened cardboard box worked great! Great memories for me and memories…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Inspection” showing Dec. 23-29 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Jeremy Pope received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for his leading role in “The Inspection”. In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he…
Arizona News – If you’ve ever wanted to take a good look at a forest thinning project up close, pay a visit to the Arizona Capitol Christmas Tree this holiday season. The Douglas Fir, displayed in the lobby of the Arizona State Capitol, was harvested by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management off the Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest as part of the Roosevelt Good Neighbor Authority Project. The tree had been tagged for removal to accomplish the project’s objectives. The Roosevelt GNA Project is part of the larger Cragin Watershed Protection Project, which plans to…
Sedona AZ News: Sound Bites Grill in Sedona is one of the best live music venues in Northern Arizona. On Wednesday, December 21, from 5 to 8 p.m. it’s Wineaux Wednesday, featuring Sedona’s favorite minstrel Patrick Ki on guitar. Ki is a consummate musician, well known and respected in the Sedona music scene. Although formally trained with jazz and classical music degrees, his melodic style has always been influenced by the sounds of the Hawaiian slack key guitar. In addition to performing extensively in concert and at music festivals, Ki has released nine albums as a solo recording artist. Patrick’s…
… sometimes it is good to have a change in pace and shoot subjects that you have ignored for a while. So, I’m beginning to shoot some landscape type photos down at the lake and also shooting the small objects like the Nandida berries in our front yard this morning … the bushes were infused with snow. The photo above was taken part way up Castle Hot Springs bay from the launch ramp on the NW side of the lake. In the foreground on the left side is what remains of a peninsula that came out from the east shore…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Broadway Rising” showing Dec. 23-29 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Directed by Emmy-nominated Amy Rice, “Broadway Rising” is an inspiring documentary that chronicles the reopening of Broadway after the COVID-19 shutdown. The film turns the spotlight on the community and highlights their stories of doubt, anxiety, perseverance and ultimately triumph on the long-awaited opening night. There is no New York without Broadway. It’s both a landmark and a community, an industry and a people, making magic in a dark theater, eight times a…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Each expression is a one off, a precious once in any lifetime formation and yet, we aren’t the data points that live within. What we are is unending metamorphosis. We are infinite aliveness – the entirety if there was such a thing. All visible expressions – what we call you, me, and a world — are reflections of the blueprints, mirroring the degree of alignment with what actually is, the actuality of life. The gradation of alignment reflects the expression’s actual direct experience of life, the emptiness of resistance, the innocent simplicity of awareness. We are…
… after untold millennia man has created wings whereby we can mimic the flight of all those beautiful creatures that inhabit earth and have been designed for flight, be they large or the tiniest of insects. While we can duplicate and in some ways go far beyond what nature has created we do not come close to the versatility and maneuverability of natures creatures. The shot above was taken at Sampley airfield near Aquila when I was descending to do a high speed low pass across the field before pulling up and flying an abbreviated pattern and landing. Next below…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to welcome back 5-time Grammy-nominee David Arkenstone for a very special holiday performance — “A Winter’s Eve Concert with David Arkenstone & Friends” — live on stage at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. Join David Arkenstone for an enchanting evening filled with joyful holiday spirits, virtuoso musicianship, and some of his chart-topping favorites reimagined and performed in exciting new arrangements. David has plenty of surprises in store for this performance, including the debut of some of his recent neo-classical compositions with strings, flutes,…
Arizona News – The Coconino National Forest is beginning to close several higher elevation forest roads throughout the Flagstaff Ranger District due to snow and wet weather. These closures are implemented for both the safety of visitors and to protect forest roads during inclement weather. Main forest roads along U.S. Highway 180 are expected to close where snow has fallen. The closures are expected to be completed by Friday. Forest Service personnel will be patrolling forest roads starting today and continuing through Friday to alert the public to this pending change. Forest road closures will include: Along US Highway 180 -…
Don’t miss Wednesday night’s Ugly Sweater Contest and Wineaux Wednesday with Patrick Ki performing live, Dec. 14, 5 to 7 p.m. There will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes awarded for the ugliest sweater. First place gets a $25 gift card and free Wineaux Wednesday tastings through the end of the year. Reserve a spot today! Call 928-282-2713 Sound Bites Grill is located in Uptown Sedona, adjacent to the Hyatt Resort. 101 N S.R. 89a, Sedona AZ 86336.
… mornings in the neighborhood provide a lot of beauty which really gets the day off to a good start … after the morning calisthenics and walk it is time to relax with a hot cup of coffee on the back deck … above is a photo of a bobcat walking beside the cart path as he comes up towards our home, backlit by foliage on the edge of the arroyo … below and looking down the path towards the 10th green of Oak Creek Country Club, the golf course is being given a thorough wetting before play comes through.…