Sedona AZ (August 22, 2016) – The Sedona Heritage Museum will partner with John V. Bezy for 3-day cultural tours of northwest Chihuahua, Mexico. The three-day trip to a non-tourist part of Mexico features a visit to the village of Mata Ortiz. The town is known for its ceramics which are a revival of the prehistoric Paquimé tradition. The air is often filled with the smoke from the many kilns.
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Verde Valley AZ (August 22, 2016) – Yavapai County Recorder, Leslie Hoffman would like to announce that the last day to vote early in person is Friday, August 26, 2016 by 5:00 p.m. for the August 30, 2016 Primary Election.Please visit the Yavapai County Recorder’s Office at 1015 Fair St., Prescott or 10 S. 6th, Cottonwood to vote early in person.
Sedona AZ (August 22, 2016) – The Sedona Hub is excited to host the third event in its Street Arts Festival summer series! The Sedona Street Arts Festival returns on Saturday, August 27, 2016 from 1-6 p.m. at the Sedona Posse Grounds Hub and Skate Park, followed by a special evening fundraiser concert from 7-9 p.m. The Festival is FREE and open to the public, and tickets for the fundraising Concert are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.
Sedona Lit is a series by Dr. Elizabeth Oakes, an award winning poet and former Shakespeare professor. A Sedonian of three years, she will highlight the literature, written or performed, of Sedona, past and present.By Elizabeth Oakes (August 22, 2016)In Sedona, light is our habitat, just as the red rocks, junipers, bluest of blue skies, clouds, and vortex energies. It’s not just beautiful sunrises and sunsets, although there surely are those; it’s the way the actual light sometimes enters our world. I don’t know that there’s even a word for it. Some may say it’s the refraction on the camera…
By Tommy Acosta(Sedona AZ, August 22, 2016) I don’t think there is anything in the world I hate more than being wrong –especially on a political call. The last time that happened was when I predicted George McGovern would defeat Nixon in 1972.I had so much egg on my face I could have made an omelet.In my first post on Trump, prior to the Republican candidate debates, I correctly predicted Trump would consume his opposition with flash, bravado, candor and color.I also predicted the Bush dynasty would find a way to derail Trump’s candidacy before the RNC, where Jeb would…
By Nazih Hazime, Fire ChiefVerde Valley Fire DistrictCottonwood AZ (August 20, 2016) – Verde Valley Fire District would like to congratulate Reserve Firefighter Heath Kuehne, Firefighter Pete Bailey, and Firefighter Jacob Marx for passing the 18 month EMT to Paramedic class that was offered by Northern Arizona Healthcare Education Department and Coconino Community College. All three attended class once a week from 8:30am to 5:30pm, which came out to 584 classroom hours.
Flagstaff AZ (August 20, 2016) – Fire managers on Coconino National Forest continue to use lightning-caused fires to benefit the landscape by allowing them to burn in confined areas.The fires will consume heavy fuel accumulation—dead vegetation on the forest floor—which will cultivate healthier wildlife habitat by breaking down dead underbrush and releasing nutrients into the soil so new vegetation can thrive.
Sedona AZ (August 19, 2016) – Please join David Young and experience his incredible music as he creates a portal between Heaven and Earth. During these musical meditations, over 3,000 people at these events have shared experiencing either a conversation or spiritual travel with Jesus, Buddha, Mother Mary, St. Germain, Gandhi, Quan Yin, Lao Tsu, Wayne Dyer, Moses, King Soloman, Isis (the Egyptian Goddess), John Lennon and George Harrison, Archangels or even one of their loved ones in Heaven.
By Ted Grussing… this drake Canvasback has just taken off, nosed over and is accelerating before rotating and climbing sharply about twenty feet down line to clear a steep embankment and rocket skyward … he was on a mission … and I was there to capture the action. I took this shot last December and am looking forward to the arrival of fall, both for the return of my favorite creatures and the cool weather that precipitates their migration south.
Sedona AZ (August 19, 2016) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Met Live Opera: Live in HD series for the 2016-17. Once again, the festival will host the productions via satellite at its Mary D. Fisher Theatre, 2030 W. State Route 89A in West Sedona.Each opera will be shown LIVE and then repeated later that day as an encore. Season ticket holders will have the option of choosing the live performance or the encore (or can mix and match for scheduling convenience).
Sedona AZ (August 19, 2016) – A group of 27 professional artists in Sedona and Cornville are excited to open their private studios and show their latest work during the Sedona Red Rock Artists Open Studio Tour. Visitors can talk with the artists, experience their workspaces and purchase art, all while enjoying the beautiful landscape of the Verde Valley as they tour from one studio to the next.
By Ted Grussing… few things are more important in a society than family … those who love us without condition and are there to provide stability and safety in a sometimes scary world. I was noodling through some old portfolios tonight and came on this image from a shoot I did of one of Fran’s liters of Golden Retrievers in 2008. Fran was a caring giving person who through her Hairy Angel Foundation raised Golden Retrievers, had them trained and donated them, to charitable causes, notably to autistic kids. The puppies grew up in an environment of love which prepared…
Award-winning documentary premieres at Mary D. Fisher TheatreSedona AZ (August 18, 2016) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a special premiere of the award-winning new documentary “Miss Sharon Jones!” — hailed the modern-day female James Brown — showing one day only: Thursday, Sept. 1 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.Two-time Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County USA”, “Shut Up And Sing”) follows Grammy-nominated R&B dynamo Sharon Jones during the most courageous year of her life.
Sedona AZ (August 18, 2016) – On Friday, August 26 at 5 pm the Pumphouse Poetry and Prose Project will present staged readings of two ten minute plays by local playwrights Mary Heyborne and Martha Entin. Musical entertainment will be provided by Devin Angelet and J.R. Robusto. Pumphouse Poetry and Prose events take place in Sedona on the southernmost end of the Creekside Plaza parking lot on the steps of the historic Hart Pumphouse beneath the shade of the giant sycamore trees.