Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join cinemas around the globe for a worldwide theatrical event “Duran Duran: A Hollywood High” showing Thursday Nov. 3 and Thursday, Nov. 10 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. In this feature length docu-concert film, Duran Duran celebrate their four-decade long career, the release of their latest studio album “Future Past”, and the launch of a global world tour. An extraordinary night of music, shot on a Los Angeles rooftop, with the iconic Capitol Tower behind them and the Hollywood sign in the distance, the film was directed by…
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Verde Valley News – Health First Foundation invested more than $510,000 in community health, reaching 72,500 northern Arizona residents through grants and other outreach in fiscal 2022, according to its recently released annual report. The report details the impact of donor dollars in communities throughout the region. It includes stories on how Health First funding improves children’s health and nutrition, addresses the health needs of those experiencing homelessness, provides integrated care for those most in need, and assists Havasupai tribal members with pandemic aid. Health First reports investing $18.43 million to improve health and well-being in northern Arizona since the…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will hold a Rummage & Treasures Sale on Saturday, November 5 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Museum. Proceeds will benefit the Museum’s programs. The sale will include many rummage sale type items plus antiques, vintage pieces, art, furniture, home decor and tools. Special items already donated include original art by Sedona artists Marlys Mallet and Michael Redhawk, a Lazy Boy recliner, antique oak table, other furniture and lamps, jewelry, collectibles, kitchen and garden items, luggage, linens and much more. Some items are new in the box. Anyone who would like to donate…
… we never know what we will find when we go down to the lake, but we always come back with shots of something we have never seen before, nor could have anticipated getting. That was the story this morning too as we saw very few different species than before, but the behavior of the grebes was fascinating … so, we followed them around for awhile. When grebes dive to get their prey, which is mostly fish, they usually consume them underwater, but when they get one that is too large to swallow underwater they bring it to the surface…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join cinemas around the globe for a worldwide theatrical event “Grateful Dead Meet Up-At The Movies” showing Tuesday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 5 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The Grateful Dead return to cinemas worldwide for the 2022 Meet-Up At The Movies. This year we’re celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Europe ‘72 Album, by bringing the previously unreleased Tivoli Concert Hall 1972 performance to the big screen. The sixth show on the Grateful Dead’s famous Europe ’72 tour was a return engagement to the Tivoli…
Sedona News – The city opened new November and December appointments for Straight Talk with Karen, a program in which once a month, residents can come to City Hall and sit down with City Manager Karen Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice. The goal of this popular program is to facilitate an opportunity for residents to meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. The November and December format will feature an open forum, so that up to four residents can sit down together with Osburn, hear each other’s…
… wow, the weekend is already gone and we’re into another day and week waiting to be filled with all things good … starts for me in just a few hours as the lake is calling. The migration is in full swing and we’re hoping for more feeding frenzies like the mini one we had last week when the grebes and gulls were going nuts in a large school of bait fish. The photo above is of a gull that just splashed in and is grabbing a small bait fish and the next frame with it secure in his beak…
Sedona News – Just in time for Halloween: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — the outrageous cultural phenomenon that has been a hit with movie lovers for nearly four decades — returns to the big screen in Sedona on Saturday, Oct. 29. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the return one-night-only engagement at 7 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Feel free to dress in costume — if you wish — and come dance, sing along and do the time warp with other Rocky Horror fans! Relive Richard O’Brien’s sinfully twisted salute to horror, sci-fi,…
Sedona News – SedonaKind will host a three hour workshop with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) entitled “Benefits of and Creative Ways to Share Kindness” on Thursday, November 10th, at 1pm. This special, one time workshop will take place at the Sedona Center of Yavapai College at 4215 Arts Village Drive. The simplest acts of kindness have a rippling effect that can spread across the globe. Come and meet some of the members of SedonaKind, which is a local non-profit that encourages acts of kindness, large and small, locally and around the world. Learn about simple acts of kindness. …
Sedona News – Kicking off our “Hallo-weekend” of films and just in time for Halloween: “Young Frankenstein” returns to the big screen in Sedona on Friday, Oct. 28. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the return one-night-only engagement at 7 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Feel free to dress in costume — if you wish — and come kick off Halloween Weekend by seeing this classic comedy the way it was meant to be experienced: on the big screen! There will be special concessions treats in the theme of the evening! Mel Brooks’ hit…
By Craig Swanson President, Keep Sedona Beautiful Sedona News – Keep Sedona Beautiful has created a new film showing the devastation to the National Forest by irresponsible OHV drivers. We urge you to watch this film and then contact the Forest Service at 928-527-3600 to demand that OHV abuse stops in both the Broken Arrow Neighborhood and in the Bear Mountain area. Find out more about the Sedona OHV Crisis. Please share this video as widely as you can. Shareable link: https://vimeo.com/762765604
By Rabbi Alicia Magal Shalom and greetings from the Rabbi, Board of Directors, and congregation of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley., All the services, classes, and programs are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services. On Friday, October 28 a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and live-streamed for members and their invitees. This is the New Member Shabbat to welcome those who joined in the last two and half years, since it was not possible to hold this…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Pez Outlaw” showing Oct. 28-Nov. 3 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “The Pez Outlaw” was a hit at prestigious festivals around the country and world, including SXSW, Nantucket Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival and more. This incredible fish-out-of-water story follows the adventures of Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan man, who boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to…
By Carson Ralston Verde Valley News – Join us on Thursday, October 27th from 5:00-6:30 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room for our next free Music in the Stacks Special Concert Series featuring Gary Simpkins, Mike McReynolds & Joe Clyne. Gary Simpkins has been around the folk/rock, singer/songwriter scene since the ’60’s, cutting his teeth on the Open Mic scene in his college days in New Haven. He’s played gigs all over the Northeast, notably at the Bitter End in New York City, Club 47 (Now Club Passim’s) in Cambridge, the Exit in New Haven, and Salt in Newport…
Sedona News – Back by popular demand! “Monday at the Museum” will feature a Pueblo Pumpkin-Piñon bread baking workshop by gifted baker Clancy Sage on October 31, from 11:00am –1:00pm. Give fall a hearty welcome with this warm, freshly baked bread using a most interesting recipe from the award winning cookbook Spirit of the Harvest, North American Indian Cooking. The book won the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award and the Julia Childs Cookbook Award. Baker Clancy says she is always asked for the recipe! Please bring an apron and a container to take your bread home, everything else will be…