Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Can I Say Yes to That Dress” live on stage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19. “Can I Say Yes to That Dress” — an outrageous one-woman show written by and starring Sarah Shippobotham — is a presentation of the film festival’s new Sedona Professional Theatre Company. Stuck in a wedding dress changing room, a middle-aged woman questions her life choices and what it really means to be a woman. This hilarious and touching one-person tour de force asks what…
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… lately I’ve been getting some terrific shots of crows in the neighborhood and above is another one on the backside of the tee box. Fresh and a mission to fly! Below are a couple of male Grackles that I shot down at the ponds this afternoon. Most of the other birds and ducks have already split for the summer and we’ll see them this fall as they reverse direction for the fall migration. Busy day … have a beautiful day! Ted To you who walk in shadows dark And keenly hark For kindly words if but to live, Myself…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “One to One: John & Yoko” showing April 18-24 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, “One to One: John & Yoko” delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s only full-length concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxagfYjeMV4 Featuring mind-blowing music newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a…
Sedona News – Professional photographer and digital artist Dale O’Dell will present at the meeting of the Sedona Camera Club starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 28th, at the Christ Lutheran Church, 25 Chapel Rd, Sedona. Doors open at 5:30. O’Dell will discuss how AI is beginning to be used in contemporary photography. Specifically, he’ll be discussing his own journey to AI, his initial experiments and some of his newest AI works that have been published. The philosophical issues raised by AI are complex and mystifying so he’ll be mainly discussing practical commercial use of AI imagery when used…
Verde Valley News – Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced that Michael MacDonald, MD, has joined Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC). Dr. MacDonald is a urologist, specializing in diseases of the male and female urinary tract system and male reproductive organs. He is accepting new patients. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. MacDonald to the team at VVMC in Cottonwood,” said NAH Medical Group President Pasquale Bernardi, MD. “Dr. MacDonald has extensive experience in urology and having his skills available to patients will be a huge asset to northern Arizona residents. We know how important specialty services are to the community, especially…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum is excited to announce the return of its popular Oak Creek Canyon guided history tours. This year the tours are offered April 24-26. Tour attendees will enjoy a ride in a coach up and down Oak Creek Canyon, led by a Sedona Heritage Museum guide. Scheduled stops will occur at historical sites scattered throughout the Canyon. Roughly 20 historic sites are included on the Tour. Some of the sites will be pointed out from the coach while others will invite attendees to exit the coach and explore the site. Stops include Slide Rock…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival proudly announced the 2025 award winners, celebrating outstanding achievements in independent film, screenwriting, and storytelling across multiple genres and categories. This year’s festival brought together visionary filmmakers and passionate audiences in one of the country’s most beautiful settings for cinema, culminating in a powerful celebration of creativity, community, and craft. Directors’ Choice Awards Short Films: Best Short – Drama: The Last Ranger Best Short – Comedy: Death Pays Flora a Visit Best Short – Dramedy: Camping in Paradise Best International Short: Hearts of Stone Best Student Short: Neither Donkey Nor Horse Best…
Sedona News – The city of Sedona invites area residents to its first Food Resilience Workshop to learn about sustainable food resources and ways to produce their own food in the Verde Valley, on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Community Library Sedona at 3250 White Bear Rd. More specifically, Gardens for Humanity, Verde Valley School, Garden of Life, Healthy World Sedona and Slow Food will discuss topics on sustainable gardening at home and in the community, designing food forests (a method of planting that resembles the way plants grow in their natural ecosystem and…
Sedona News – The Rotary Club of Sedona Village is pleased to announce the winner of its $5,000 Air Travel Gift Card Raffle—congratulations to Nicole and Kyle Funseth of Gilbert, Arizona. Thanks to strong community support, the raffle raised $20,000 to benefit Rotary projects, including the Rotary Community Garden, youth scholarships and Interact Clubs, and assistance for veterans at the Prescott Veterans Medical Center. The Club extends sincere gratitude to everyone who purchased tickets and helped make a meaningful difference in our community. Learn more at sedonasistercities.org.
Verde Vallley News – Students of ASU’s Center for Innovation in STEM Learning are designing a video game about drought in a futuristic and slightly dystopian desert world. Led by Assistant Research Professor Nicholas Weller, the team is in the stage of testing the game with different audiences and will be conducting two teen-age focus groups in two sessions at Camp Verde Community Library on April 25. Each session will be limited to 12 participants. The first session will be from 12-2:00p, and the second will be from 2:30-4:30p. During the playtesting sessions, the game will be available to play…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is once again proud to present “Red Rocks Magic” for an encore performance — an extraordinary audience-driven magical experience — on Friday, April 18 at 4 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. This is Sedona’s #1 magic experience! Mentalist Brett Barry presents his mind-boggling Sedona themed magic show, exploring the incredible power of the mind and the unseen connections we have to one another. Red Rocks Magic is a “sleights of mind” tour-de-force, with extensive audience interaction and this will not be your typical magic show. The 75-minute journey promises an…
… I drove down to Sampley’s Airport in Aguila, for an after soaring hangar party yesterday … saw some friends from other days and met some new ones … swarms of gnats added protein to the hamburgers and hotdogs, but nothing can change the beautiful lines of a high performance sailplane that has just spent hours in the sky covering hundreds of miles guided only by the mind of the pilot who is at home in the cockpit and senses and utilizes every vagary of the atmosphere. The sailplane is an ASW-27 and as much as I loved every minute flying high…
Arizona News – Today marks one month before the federal deadline for domestic airline travelers to have a federally compliant form of identification. If you plan to use your driver license or state-issued ID card for air travel this summer, now is a good time to visit an Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division office or selected authorized third party locations to get your Arizona Travel ID. Without the Arizona Travel ID or other form of federally compliant identification such as a valid U.S. passport, you’ll risk missing an airline flight. The gold star in the upper right corner…
Sedona News – Clean up and reduce your wildfire risk by disposing of yard waste during the annual Curbside Yard Waste Collection from March 31 to May 15, 2025. Find a list of the pick-up days here: www.sedonaaz.gov/curbside and place material curbside by 4 p.m. the day prior to pick-up; the pick-up date is determined by the evacuation zones for all residences noted in the link above and on the post card mailed to every property. Accepted for collection: Brush Tree limbs and trunks: Limbs eight inches or less and eight feet long or less. Shrub trimmings Paper-bagged leaves and…
By Allen D. Elfman (Sedona, AZ) & Mark J. Elfman (Delray Beach, FL) Sedona, AZ — Let’s talk bling and bots. Jewelry may be timeless, but the way we buy, sell, and value it is being transformed—thanks to Artificial Intelligence. In Sedona, where red rocks meet rare gems, I, Allen Elfman, have watched how AI is helping local jewelers streamline everything from customer personalization to inventory tracking. Platforms like Rare Carat use AI to help customers compare thousands of diamond listings based on quality, cut, and price (source: Forbes). A boutique in Uptown Sedona recently adopted a chatbot powered by ChatGPT…