Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Good Boss” showing Sept. 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Good Boss” takes place in and around the Básculas Blanco factory, where all things must be in balance at all times. After all, they manufacture scales of all shapes and sizes. There, the seemingly benevolent boss, Blanco (Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem), is preparing his workforce for an upcoming inspection by a group visiting local businesses to select one for a prestigious prize – the Business Excellence Award. Everything has to…
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Sedona News – The League of Women Voters of Northern Arizona will host a forum featuring Samaire Armstrong and Scott Jablow, the two runoff candidates for Sedona Mayor in the November 8th general election. The mayoral forum is co-sponsored by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce. The forum will be held Wednesday, October 12, 2022, from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. The forum is free and open to the voting public. Questions will not be provided to the candidates in advance of the forum. The forum will be videotaped, posted to YouTube, and publicized when available. The last…
… September is here, summer is winding down, the harvest season is here and cooler weather is in the offing. Migration of birds is about to begin and transition is everywhere and in everything. Planet earth is wobbling and the northern hemisphere receives less energy from the sun … that beautiful out of control nuclear and thermonuclear mass that provides us with around 99 percent of our energy. Those few hours of less sun every day is the difference between the heat of summer and the snows of winter … so I absolutely love September … and I was born…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” showing Sept. 9-14 on the big screen at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” is a celebration of the human spirit that combines the unique artistry and music of Cirque du Soleil™ with the power of film. Filmed on location at various natural and historical landmarks around the world, “Cirque du Soleil™ Journey of Man” follows the stages of human development from birth to maturity, with each stage introduced by a Cirque du Soleil™ act. Lavishly costumed performers…
Sedona News – Red Earth Theatre brings ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ to the stone arches of Tlaquepaque, the Patio de las Companas, on September 15th-16th and 21st-22nd A classic, written by Edmond Rostand in 1897, this lean production (barely 2 hours) for 8 actors is adapted by Kate Hawkes and Scott Coopwood from the translation by Sean Patrick Taylor. Hawkes and Coopwood also co-direct. The stellar cast is led by special guest Scott Coopwood (AEA) as Cyrano, a role he has played several times, most recently in 2019 at Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He also serves as the fight choreographer in this production.…
… I’ve spent a lot of today trying different techniques on images of Katie in an effort to find a way I want to emphasize her beauty and personality. Since she is strictly an indoor feline, depictions of her will be different than any of her predecessors … I can get the occasional composite out, but I am trying to come up with images more in line with the environs in which she lives. The photo above pretty much sums up her after dinner energy level whilst I worked on her image. Prior to settling on this, I had her…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Love Song” showing Sept. 9-14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “A Love Song” was an audience hit at prestigious film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca, and has screened at more film festivals than any other movie this year. Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveler biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Academy Award-winner Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his…
Sedona News – SAVCO will be hosting its annual charity golfing event on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at the Oakcreek Country Club (OCC), 690 Bell Rock Blvd. Sedona, AZ 86351. This fun scramble event will include putting and chipping contests, straightest drive and closest to the pin contests as well as top team awards and a $10,000 prize for a hole in one! All proceeds of this event enable SAVCO to continue its patriotic missions of conducting the annual Memorial Day Ceremony, manning the 89 Flags on 89a & uptown, providing scholarships to Sedona High School graduates, aiding veterans via…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal Shalom and greetings from the Rabbi, Board of Directors, and congregation of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley. All the services, classes, and programs are listed on the synagogue website. Visitors are welcome to attend services. Special uplifting weekly messages for the Hebrew month of Elul recorded by Rabbi Magal are posted on the synagogue website. On Friday, September 9, a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory It’s confusing for the seeker. There is only absolute awareness. All the great gurus point to that truth, therefore it must be so. As awareness there is no goal, but in this goallessness of the spiritual world, awareness itself unwittingly becomes the goal, the certainty within uncertainty, the known at the heart of unknowing and the manifestation slips into obscurity. Tricky little bastard. A mind wants to name it, claim it, tame it. Doing so, defames it. The law of awareness is but one aspect of an infinite, eternal puzzle. While true, it is not the…
… so this morning it was exercises, grab a large coffee and hit the road to drive down to Prescott and take advantage of an offer to get a ride in and fly an Icon A-5 land/amphibian based airplane. The top photo shows this luxury ship parked in the front lot at Cutter Aviation at Prescott Regional Airport … it is one very cool airplane! The second shot I shot through the open canopy and framed a Gulfstream V that had just come in a little while before I took the shot. The shot below I took from the Prescott…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “True Things” showing Sept. 9-14 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life in “True Things”. In the sleepy seaside town of Ramsgate, bored by the daily tedium of her office job as a claims worker, Kate (Ruth Wilson) is sleepwalking through life when a chance sexual encounter with a charismatic stranger (Tom Burke) awakens her. The encounter enlivens her spirit. High on infatuation and the exhilaration…
Sedona News – The city opened new September and October appointments for Straight Talk with Karen, a program in which once a month, residents can come to City Hall and sit down with City Manager Karen Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice. The goal of this popular program is to facilitate an opportunity for residents to meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. The September and October format will feature an open forum, so that up to four residents can sit down together with Osburn, hear each other’s…
Verde Valley News – For 35 years, Library Card Sign-up Month has been held each September to mark the beginning of the school year. During the month, libraries participate in a national effort to remind parents, caregivers, and students that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to an unending world of academic achievement and lifelong learning. The most important school supply is a library card! Libraries play a crucial role in the education and development of children, offering a variety of programs to spark creativity and stimulate an interest in reading and learning. With access…
Yavapai County News – Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office received a report, Saturday, Aug. 27, from the parent of a seventh grader at Prescott Valley Charter School stating that his son had a video recording of another 12-year-old student making threats to “shoot-up” the school. Deputies responded in conjunction with Prescott Valley Police Department to the reporting party’s house and were able to verify the claim and see the video, which was recorded on the school bus ride home the previous day. The camera on the cellphone used to record the statement was covered, but the child stated he knew who…