Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join cinemas around the globe for a worldwide theatrical fan event “ABBA: The Movie” showing Thursday and Saturday, May 12 and 14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Have the time of your life when “ABBA: The Movie” dances back into movie theaters for a special two-day fan event celebrating 50 years since the Swedish pop sensation was formed and 45 years since the film’s original release. Captured by director Lasse Hallström during their mega-successful tour of Australia, the newly remastered film will take you on a flashback journey…
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Sedona News – Beginning 8 a.m. Thursday, May 5, Stage 1 fire and smoking restrictions will be in effect on the entirety of the Coconino National Forest in addition to the Williams and Tusayan Districts (aka “South Zone”) of the Kaibab National Forest. The City of Flagstaff will enter Stage 1 fire restrictions at that time as well. Under Forest Service Stage 1 restrictions, fires, campfires, charcoal, coal and wood stoves are prohibited, except within a developed recreation site. Smoking is also prohibited, except within an enclosed vehicle, building or a developed recreation site. Fireworks are always prohibited on all…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum is hosting the next in its Living History speaker series on Thursday May 12 at 10:00 a.m. at the Museum when Joanne Vancore will present “The Harvey Girls”. The Harvey Girls were pioneers of the West who broke barriers as the country’s first national corp of independent women, working in the 1800s – 1900s, before women were readily accepted or expected in a work environment. These ‘young women of good moral character’ were hand-picked to work at Fred Harvey’s rail station diners, mostly in uninhabited areas of the vast and mostly uninhabited American…
Yavapai County News – In the past 2 weeks, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) K-9 units conducted three traffic stops on Interstate 17 which resulted in the confiscation of a combined total of: 45lbs (180,000) fentanyl pills, 66lbs of methamphetamine, and 1 illegal firearm. Four arrests were made, and the streets of Yavapai County became a little safer.
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join cinemas around the globe for a worldwide theatrical premiere of “THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE” showing Wednesday, May 11 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Shot on location in London & Brighton, Andrew Dominik’s new feature documentary “THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE” captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums, Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis). In…
Verde Valley News – The lower Verde River affected by the 2021 Backbone Fire has reopened to recreationists while other nearby areas – including Childs Camping area and Fossil Creek – remain closed. The Childs Dispersed Camping area will remain closed to river entry and exit, day use and camping. Visitors are, however, welcome to float the river past Childs. River users should plan to take out at Gap Creek or be prepared to go more than 40 river miles further to Sheep Bridge or Horseshoe Reservoir. The Fossil Creek corridor will remain closed due to potential post-fire hazards, including snags (dead…
Sedona News – Join Keep Sedona Beautiful on Wednesday, May 11, at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held live at 360 Brewer Road in Sedona, and doors open at 4:30. It will not be simulcast on ZOOM. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. Janeen Trevillyan, Sedona Heritage Museum President and Historian, and Keep Sedona Beautiful President Craig Swanson will speak about how KSB and the City of Sedona have evolved over the past half century. Fifty years ago, in 1972, Keep Sedona Beautiful was founded in a Sedona living…
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. Come join us either in person or online. See jcsvv.org for instructions to register for in-person services. On Friday, May 6, a Friday evening 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 reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory You know what you are afraid of, don’t you? You may not have seen it consciously but deep inside you know. It’s the reason your diaphragm tightens, leaving a band around your chest, your heart aches seemingly without reason and your mind bends towards escape. On some level, you know where this is going, and you can’t imagine going there. Naked vulnerability is unthinkable. Going there consciously, eyes wide open, heart exposed and still beating, is ludicrous, impossible. It is the antithesis of how you’ve lived life to this moment. Why, it would mean … letting…
… daily we walk trails, paths and streets and seldom give any notice to the tiny worlds that we pass by. Is there beauty around us? You bet, it is everywhere if you look for it … and the tiny little plants, flowers and bushes are the easiest of all to walk by because they do not have the striking appearance of say a large rose or other bloom. I went out early this morning to shoot some wildflowers down at Red Rock Crossing … we hiked the same trail as a couple of years ago after I sold my…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2021-2022 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will continue with Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” on Saturday, May 7. There will be one show at 10 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Plan to come early as Deborah Raymond will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the production. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska plays Puccini’s icy princess. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandot’s love, alongside…
Sedona News – If you have a piece of wood and a wood carving knife, come to Monday at the Museum at Sedona Heritage Museum on May 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and join the Verde Valley Woodcarvers. Hundreds of people have tried their hand at carving with this group since its founding in 1997 by Norm Knight. The group consists of carvers ranging from beginners to master carvers. Come by with your own equipment or just come to watch these artisans do relief carving, chip carving, and bark carving. There is no fee for this demonstration. This is an…
Sedona News – The city of Sedona and their contractor, Paul R. Peterson Construction, Inc., proudly announce the completion of the Posse Grounds Parking & Soldiers Pass Road Shared-Use Path Project. The project included the construction of a new parking lot at Posse Grounds Park that added 38 spaces of additional parking for park and trail users. In addition, an approximately one-mile-long shared-use pathway that runs from the new parking lot and along Soldiers Pass Road was constructed to offer locals and visitors alike safe walking and biking access along the road corridor and to nearby trails. After in-depth discussions…
Sedona News – On April 20, Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) presented its Annual Awards of Excellence. Having begun shortly after the organization’s incorporation in 1972, this was the 51st consecutive year that KSB has recognized businesses and individuals in the Verde Valley whose activities have contributed significantly to our communities. Layla’s Bakery-Café was presented an Award of Excellence for Sustainability by KSB Executive Vice-President Carla Williams. She noted that the bakery minimizes waste in several ways: their streamlined menu results in much less food waste, some leftover pastries become bread pudding and the remaining extra pastries are donated to staff…
… noodling through some old photos this evening and came4 on these two … above is one of the most well fed Bobcats that I can remember seeing and he is resting next to a fresh mound of dirt that a vole had just created that morning. Sleepiness would disappear as soon as he sensed the voles presence and he would score a fresh meal and the golf course would need to eliminate one less pest. Below is a photo a friend took as Corky and I were coming in for a landing at Sampley Field in Aguila. Turf Soaring…