… I cycle through the years ePhotos on my three monitors throughout the day and spent more than a few moments looking at these photos today … they brought back memories from the year present and many years back, so I’ll share them with you too. The top image is of my high performance sailplane at Sedona airport years ago. It was a fantastic soaring day and I was flying with a friend … we were waiting for the towplane to get here from Aquila and then we were off. The opening in the nose serves a dual purpose…
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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the acclaimed new drama “Being the Ricardos” showing Jan. 7-12 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Being the Ricardos” features an award-winning, all-star ensemble cast and has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actress for Nicole Kidman, Best Actor for Javier Bardem, and Best Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. Oscar-winners Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem star as the power couple behind the beloved 1950s television sitcom “I Love Lucy” in Oscar-winning writer and director Aaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes drama, “Being the Ricardos”.…
By Carson Ralston Join us on Thursday, January 20th from 5:30-7:00 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for a special performance by Joe’s Garage. Joe’s Garage (Band) is the creation of Joe Newnam. Joe’s passion for music led him on a quest to search for musicians with a common interest and good chemistry to play rock, pop, and blues music. Many musicians have passed through Joe’s garage over the years (Jeff, ‘Guitar’ Johnny, ‘Pedal Steel’ Steve, John T, Kathy, Ed & Markham, to name but a few). All have a passion and energy for the music and…
Sedona News – … and what better way to help close a wonderful year out than to remember the critters we turn to for friendship and comfort … whatever else happens during the day, when you come home there are those delightful creatures we call pets who brighten our day and immediately we forget about the problems we were facing just hours or minutes before. The upper image is of a couple of Fran’s golden retriever puppies from years ago. Fran raised golden’s, had them trained and then gave them to autistic kids and others who needed service dogs.…
Sedona News – Tickets are still available for the Sedona Heritage Museum’s “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, January 6, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Guests will enjoy a glimpse at parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. Personalities who will present their stories are Sedona Schnebly-our town’s namesake; Dorothea Tanning-surrealist artist and Sedona resident for a time; a ranch wife; original pioneers; early orchardists; and even a Harvey Girl. After the show, guests will enjoy cider and home baked treats. Guests need to be prepared to walk and stand for a little over an hour.…
Sedona News – The city of Sedona will again accept Christmas trees for recycling from Dec. 27, 2021 through Jan. 7, 2022, Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., at the city’s maintenance yard located at 2070 Contractors Rd. Trees dropped off for recycling must be free of lights, tinsel, ornaments, nails, stands and plastic wrapping. Please do not bring yard debris. The trees will be offered to the U.S. Forest Service to be used as erosion control in the national forest and mulch will be available to the community at the maintenance yard on a first come,…
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…
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…