Sedona, AZ — If you are looking for a good time, dancing and a great Italian meal, enjoy live music beneath the stars at Bella Vita Ristorante with Alex Ogburn and Jerry McFarland performing on the outside patio stage this weekend. On Friday, April 17, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Bella Vita Ristorante features the marvelous talents of local musician and solo performer Alex Ogburn. This highly talented, multi-faceted singer from Birmingham, Alabama is one of Sedona’s premier performers. A great voice, an ample repertoire of Classic Rock songs under his belt, Alex knows how to engage an audience. He…
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International Raptor and Falconry Center hosts special Earth Day program at Fisher Theatre Sedona, AZ –The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with the International Raptor and Falconry Center to present “On the Brink: Earth Day and Falconers Saving a Species” at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Celebrate Earth Day by exploring the historical making of the first Earth Day, the Endangered Species Act, which were the crossroads of falconers that saved raptors like the Peregrine Falcon and Bald Eagle from certain extinction. Afterwards there will be a meeting of a…
Sedona, az — The Rotary Club of Sedona Village is partnering with local Rotarian Paul Bowles of Arizona North Tree Service to provide critical yard cleanup and tree removal for a Village of Oak Creek veteran in need. On Wednesday, April 8, beginning at approximately 11:00 a.m., a professional crew will remove a dead pine tree, perform additional yard cleanup, and create safe clearance around the home’s roof antenna. The project supports a veteran who is unable to maintain his property independently. Wood material from this and other service jobs will be chipped and donated to the Rotary Club of…
Prescott, Arizona —Yavapai College leaders and faculty honored the best of the best students across academic disciplines during the annual Night of STARs awards ceremony April 2 at the Jim and Linda Lee Performing Arts Center on the Prescott Campus. In all the Night of STARs spotlight shined on 29 high achievers who, as the STARs acronym denotes, are Students who are Thriving, Achieving and deserve Recognition. Yavapai College President Dr. Lisa Rhine and Provost Dr. Doug Berry took the stage with the night’s top honorees, President’s Award winner Sarah Khalil, and Provost’s Award winner Abigail Munchinsky. Directly addressing the…
Sedona, AZ — On Saturday, April 18, the Arizona State chapter of the Colonial Dames of America will hold a ceremony to dedicate the Schuerman Homestead House as a national historic landmark. The ceremony will take place in the historic Apple Shed at the Sedona Heritage Museum at 11 am. It is free to attend the dedication ceremony. The Schuerman Homestead House, located on Loy Lane just off of the Upper Red Rock Loop Road, is a nearly 120 year old house which was built by Heinrich Schuerman. Schuerman was the first vintner, or wine maker, in Sedona and, in…
SEDONA, Ariz. – The city will hold a public meeting for residents and the local business community to give feedback on community expectations of the Sedona Police Department (SPD) as part of the development of their strategic plan, on Thursday, April 16, 2026 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Council Chambers, located 102 Roadrunner Dr. The SPD recently began the process of developing a strategic plan that will include a vision and goals for the department and a road map of how to execute that vision. The meeting will be led by consultants from the Center for Public Safety Management. Input from…
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 22-25. 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 State Park, site…
By Rabbi Alecia Magal The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadowlark Drive off Route 179 in Sedona, is a welcoming, egalitarian, inclusive congregation dedicated to building a link from the past to the future by providing religious, educational, social and cultural experiences. The JCSVV offers soul-enriching services, programs, concerts, and classes, all listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Office telephone: 928 204-1286. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. Those who cannot attend in person can access the service through zoom. All are invited to Erev Shabbat service on Friday, April 17 at 5:30…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Sedona, AZ — I don’t have a lot of interest in improving the world anymore or any capacity to see it as needing improvement. Life as it is, is what’s here and playing make believe or pretend no longer grabs my attention in any way, so call me whatever you like. I was never much of an activist, other than perhaps an activist for seeing through every fear that clogged up my heart and mind and gut with its fallacies I didn’t need to look into a murky crystal ball to see a hoped-for future. There…
Sedona, az — Sedona Great Decisions Group will discuss the United Nations, World Bank and IMF in a Changing World on April 20th from 10 am to noon at the Community Library Sedona, 3250 White Bear Road. This meeting is open to the public and free of charge. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were created to bring economic stability to an unstable world. The United Nations was established to maintain international peace and security, promote friendly relations among nations, foster social progress and serve as a center for harmonizing global actions. The current administration wants to expand…
By David Stephen — It was while Amodei worked at OpenAI that the imagination that Anthropic could exist, was possible. It was while it was ripe enough to strike out that Amodei was able to leave with some people, to make Anthropic. For all the chatter about Altman being deceptive and manipulative, the one person on earth that Amodei should forever be thankful to, is Sam Altman, who invited him early, to work at OpenAI. Without Amodei at OpenAI, Anthropic would not exist, not in this form, not in another form. Amodei may found a startup, but it would have been…
By David Key — Sedona, AZ — The checks and balances of the U.S. constitution are being challenged. Greed and inflation have drastically impacted the cost of living. Those in power sow division because they reap the benefit of distraction. Does this mean everyone with money or political power is your adversary? No, because good people have been able to succeed in this country under capitalism through hard work and grit and grassroots campaigns have put honest people into our democratic system. It is easy to have empathy for those who have lost hope, but those with hope remaining must…
By Tommy Acosta — It’s not often that poo is in the news, but these past weeks and months it seems we just can’t flush it away, with the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier being put out of commission because of toilet malfunctions, and the crew of the recently launched moonship Artemis II not able to take a decent pee because of clogged or frozen pipes in their capsule. Imagine 3,000 people contained on one ship having to relieve themselves in toilets that don’t work. What a crappy experience it must have been—having to do their thing in buckets, then…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal The Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley, located at 100 Meadowlark Drive off Route 179 in Sedona, is a welcoming, egalitarian, inclusive congregation dedicated to building a link from the past to the future by providing religious, educational, social and cultural experiences. The JCSVV offers soul-enriching services, programs, concerts, and classes, all listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Office telephone: 928 204-1286. Visitors are welcome to attend services after a security check. Those who cannot attend in person can access the service through zoom. All are invited to Erev Shabbat service on Friday, April 10 at 5:30…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory — Sedona, AZ — There are infinite responses available to us as we approach possibly the last (anything’s possible) peaceful handover of power on January 20th. Several come to mind: unbridled anger, deep and clawing angst, suffocating depression, willful ignorance, and feigned neutrality that would put Switzerland on notice. Oh, I forgot myself for the moment. Geez, can’t forget to add unreasonable joy, although for the life of me, I will never understand that one. Sorry guys, that’s a step too far. I do, however, realize and accept that some of you do. From the looks…