Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Leaving: The Musical Journey Out” — starring Colleen Porter — live on stage at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. Sedona local Colleen Porter shares her one-woman musical and the journey of leaving what’s no longer aligned — from religion and relationships to environments and old paradigms. Join her for an evening of heart expansive songs and stories as she gets ready to leave Sedona and take off on her “Unsilent Tour” featuring the musical alongside Unsilencing Workshops for women. With songs…
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Now in its 21st year, Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima announces the 2025 class schedule in Beginner Hula, Hawaiian ʻUkulele, and Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo) language taught by Kumu Hula (master teacher) Kēhau Chrisman. Here is your opportunity to extend your knowledge of hula and other Hawaiian cultural modalities by learning from an authentic Hawaiian Hula Master Teacher and be immersed in genuine Hawaiian culture. Kumu Kēhau Chrisman started studying hula in 1983 until she began seriously training in 1993 to become a kumu hula under the direction of Kumu Bill Correa on Hawaii Island. This was achieved in 2000 to reach the highest…
Sedona, AZ — Welcome to Tech Talk Tuesdays with your host Allen Elfman — Sedona’s own tech-slingin’, sarcasm-spittin’ Jedi — only on MY AZ TV & Sedona.Biz! Today’s hot topic? Artificial Intelligence + Restaurants = The Future Just Got Delicious. Let’s be real: AI isn’t just for sci-fi movies and billionaires in hoodies. It’s the secret weapon your restaurant didn’t know it needed — like Sriracha, but for your business brain. Here’s how AI is flipping the food game faster than a short-order cook on double espresso: Menus that Think for You: AI analyzes sales, trends, and even weather. So…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Luckiest Man in America” showing April 11-17 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dw_pujgp5Y Based on a true story, “The Luckiest Man in America” is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter Hauser) steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations. “The Luckiest Man…
Sedona News – Retired archaeologist Neil Weintraub will share his favorite stories from his four decades of adventures, discoveries, challenges, and lessons learned in backcountry locations across the Colorado Plateau, including the discovery of “Tim’s Cave” outside of Sedona. Neil’s talk is part of the Sedona Heritage Museum’s Sedona Stories speaker series. It will take place on Thursday, April 10, at 10 am in the Museum’s Historic Apple Shed. It is free to attend. Neil Weintraub first visited Sedona in 1985 as a student at Grinnell College’s archaeological field school east of Flagstaff. After graduating in 1986, Neil worked as research…
Verde Valley News – Yavapai College has announced the launch of a 120-credit Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science. Registration for fall 2025 semester classes opens on Monday, April. 14, with the classes starting at the beginning of the fall semester on Monday, August 18. Anyone interested in pursuing the degree should go online to www.yc.edu/bscs to learn more. This is the third baccalaureate degree offered by Yavapai College. In May 2022, Arizona Senate Bill 1453 passed into state law, allowing community colleges in Arizona to offer baccalaureate degrees, and Yavapai College was the first rural community college in Arizona to…
… in true fashion for creatures on this little planet, a couple of crows resorted to the age old method of dispute resolution by engaging in a bit of rough play … no idea what it was all about, but it went on for several minutes and I got hundreds of beautiful shots of them so engaged, on the 11th tee box. I spent about an hour and a half relaxing on the deck this afternoon and there were a plethora of birds and critters that showed up. I missed the first attack in the pinion pine by the Coopers Hawk, as I…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Art for Everybody” showing April 11-17 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Thomas Kinkade’s pastoral landscapes made him the most collected painter of all time – and the most despised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPWMNuJFjGk You’ve seen his cozy cottages, idyllic gardens, and welcoming village streets on everything from canvas to commemorative plates. Both celebrated and disparaged for his kitschy signature settings, the “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade rocketed to popularity in the ‘90s by marketing himself to American evangelicals and pitting himself against the elite art establishment.…
Sedona News – In order to extend pavement life and improve road quality, beginning April 7, 2025, the city and their contractor, Cactus Asphalt, will begin the second phase of pavement rehabilitation operations along Soldiers Pass Road, from St. John Vianney Lane to Shadow Rock Drive, and a small section of St. John Vianney Lane (as shown in the map). Additional work consists of utility adjustments along Soldiers Pass Road, from State Route 89A to Shadow Rock Drive. This work is expected to be complete in one week. Work may occur Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.…
Trump is making a really big mistake vilafying individual judges and the judicial system itself, and it’s going to backfire on him. First, his use of the Alien Enemies act of 1788 as an excuse to deport immigrants suspected of criminal ties to jails known for human cruelty and atrocities without vetting them or proving they are guilty is moot because there is no war with Venezuela or the Tren de Aragua gang. There is no proof anywhere that there is an invasion going on. No gun fights. No bombs being dropped. No pitched battles. No unfirmed members of the…
By David Stephen Sedona,, AZ — There is a new book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, [Published: March 18, 2025] with the summary, “At age fourteen, Laura Delano saw her first psychiatrist, who immediately diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and started her on a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant. Delano’s initial diagnosis marked the beginning of a life-altering saga. For the next thirteen years, she sought help from the best psychiatrists and hospitals in the country, accumulating a long list of diagnoses and a prescription cascade of nineteen drugs. After some resistance, Delano accepted her diagnosis and embraced the pharmaceutical…
By Bear Howard Bear Howard Chronicles Sedona, Az — In a stunning and consequential move, the current administration of the United States has announced its intention to close the Department of Education—a decision that could profoundly reshape how America approaches the education of its children. The ripple effects of such a shift are vast: a potential reduction in federal funding to local school districts, diminished national oversight, and a heavier burden placed on states to define and deliver educational standards. This marks a pivotal moment, one that forces the nation to confront a sharp and vital question: Are our current…
By David Stephen Sedona, AZ — There could be several researchers and philosophers studying obesity with efforts of varying relevance. However, if the solution to obesity were to be found, work has to get to the point of identifying a target, say glucagon-like peptide-1 [GLP-1], towards developing its receptor agonist or an effect of matching usefulness. While the efforts to get to that point [of progress] may have taken years and several unconnected explorations, the solution, as the main goal, means that a target, closest to solving the problem, must be isolated. What would be the target to answer the question of…
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By Amaya Gayle Gregory I haven’t always loved as deeply as I could have. After Kenny passed I could see ways that I had fallen short, of what I am not sure. Perhaps of pure love, totally selfless love, the love that I feel and sense when I am clear and attuned to This That Is. I loved him as his human and I suspect, for him, that was perfect. He would never have asked for more. He never did. Why is it, do you suppose, that we tend to berate ourselves for doing the absolute best we can? Why…