By Tommy Acosta Sedona News: For the vaccine hesitant and refusers, Omicron has become an “I told You So,” believing that by waiting they avoided the coming merry-go-round of approaching variants and the endless booster shots people will need to take to avoid infection. They waited, always suspecting that the vaccines would not work and that something would happen in the future to make the vaccinated even more vulnerable to diseases coming down the pike. And then came Omicron. The anti-vaxers knew something would render vaccinations mute. They are grateful now they waited and that their misgivings were justified. We…
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By Ted Grussing Sedona News – I’m going to spend this week featuring some of my personal favorites in various categories that I shot or processed in 2021 and we’ll begin the week with eagles and other raptors … winged predators including bald eagles which are apex predators and other hawks and falcons. The two featured photos are of juvi bald eagles that I shot at Lake Pleasant this year, bald eagles do not get the white heads and tail feathers until they are about five years old … links will take you to other photos of eagles, hawks and…
Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with “The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin”. The event will show in Sedona on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something remarkable happened. A new breed of collectors emerged and, before long, they were battling to acquire any work by these new, radical artists that they could find. Amongst them…
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 Jules Massenet’s “Cinderella” on New Year’s Day: Saturday, Jan. 1. There will be one show at 11 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s “Cinderella” is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which…
By Ted Grussing Sedona News – … and it is back down to the lake first thing in the morning as we have some pretty good weather coming in for the balance of the year … indoors in great storms is a wonderful thing, but our feathered friends do not have the luxuries that we have and will hunker down and ride it out. Same with my bobcat and other predator and food friends. I shot all the photos in this missive Tuesday. The photo above is of the female Bald Eagle as she is departing the perch in…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the award-winning new musical drama “tick, tick … BOOM!” showing for a limited time: Jan. 1-6. “tick, tick … BOOM!” is nominated for two Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Andrew Garfield. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with “tick, tick … BOOM!”, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of “Rent”. The film follows Jon (Academy Award-nominee and Tony Award-winner…
By Carson Ralston Verde Valley News – Join us on Thursday, January 6th from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for a special performance by The Village Troubadours. The Village Troubadours are Jashan Blackwell and Chantal Harte. Jashan grew up in the sixties, fell in love with the music of the times, was the first kid on his block to have a Beatle haircut, and has been writing songs and playing the guitar since the mid-seventies. Chantal is a Mediterranean-born world traveler. Now that she’s retired from her massage practice, she is fully embracing her lifelong passion…
By Ted Grussing … it was a very cool overcast day on Lake Pleasant today, and as usual, we launched not knowing what, or if we would find anything to shoot. It ended up an utterly fantastic shooting day with numerous opportunities to get great shots … I got some hits and some misses and even the misses turned out to beautiful in their own way. One of the hits I got is this shot of a pair of adult bald eagles perched on a tree that is not yet submerged … the male is on the top perch and…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the award-winning new drama “The Hand of God” showing for a limited time: Jan. 1-6. “The Hand of God” — Italy’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film — is nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture: Non-English Language. It has been winning awards at prestigious film festivals around the world and is being hailed as one of the best films of the year by critics. From Academy Award-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, The Great Beauty, The Young…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory I have zero control. I know you want me to say that’s just not true but what can I say, I cannot lie to make you feel better or to make myself feel better. I don’t work that way. Sometimes it would be nice if I could. Darn it all! It is what it is. I am what I am. I don’t even have control of my reactions. Reactions happen. They are sometimes startling in their ferociousness. Sophie, that beautiful pup, is teaching me so much, really driving it home. She is pushing every button that…
Sedona News – Sedona Heritage Museum volunteers surprised Mercedes and Jim Page of Orlando, Florida as the 10,000th visitor to the museum for 2021 when they walked through the doors on Monday, December 20th. Traveling down the West Coast of the U.S., the couple was touring through Arizona on their way to spend Christmas with their son in Tucson. They decided to visit the museum because they both are very interested in history, including the early days in the Southwest. The milestone for the Museum was marked with photographs and Museum docents presented them a gift bag of Arizona wine…
By Ted Grussing Sedona News – … on a beautiful September morning I took off from Sedona and it was one of those quiet and otherworldly mornings when there is a calm that stretches out as far as one can see or think … it was a day to just point the nose up and keep going. I took this shot just east and a bit south of Flagstaff and I was at 12,000 feet and climbing. Do not remember how high I went that day, but it was likely in the range of 17,999 feet 🙂 I took this…
By Carson Ralston Sedona News – Join us on Thursday, December 23rd from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for our new free Special Concert Series, a spin-off of Music in the Stacks round-robin style concerts that take have taken place at the library for nearly 5 years. Music in the Stacks Special Concert Series is a showcase of local and national musicians who entertain regularly in Northern Arizona. There will be one band or solo artist that plays for the duration of the concert with a different artist playing each month, on the 4th Thursday. December’s…
Sedona News – Hope, renewed intentions, the anticipation of new adventures and the desire to refresh your surroundings fills the start of a new year. Are you ready for 2022? Rowe Fine Art Gallery is! On January 7 from 4 to 7 p.m., the gallery presents New Art…A Great Start!, a special show to usher in the new year. Now that the gift-giving season has passed and the holiday decorations are safely stowed away, it’s the perfect time to refresh your surroundings with a new piece of art. Or perhaps you’ve recently purchased a second home and the turning of the…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, January 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will enjoy a glimpse at parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. These impersonators will breathe life into eight Sedona area pioneers and share a bit of that person’s life story and adventures in the Sedona of 70-120 years ago. Guests will rotate through the Museum buildings, delighting in parts of a “day-in-the life” of our early settlers and community-builders, and getting a peek at some of the hopes, dreams, and hardships in…