Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady” showing May 3-9 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXPjLAWswQ “The Three Musketeers – Part II: Milady” features a stellar ensemble cast, including Vincent Cassel, Francois Civil, Romain Duris, Pio Marmai, Eva Green and Louis Garrel. From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, to the gutters of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle — in a kingdom divided by religious wars and under threat of British invasion, a handful of men and women will battle and tie…
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Flagstaff News – On Saturday and Sunday June 1st and 2nd the fifteenth annual Flagstaff Hullabaloo returns to Wheeler Park in downtown Flagstaff, AZ. Hullabaloo is a community festival and a celebration of summertime. Hullabaloo has been voted “Best Annual Event or Festival” ten times by Arizona Daily Sun and Flagstaff Live readers. Flagstaff Hullabaloo has raised over $165,000 for local non-profits since 2010. This year Hullabaloo will raise funds for Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff and Flagstaff Shelter Services. The Hullabaloo will kick off with the Flagstaff Athletic Club Bike Parade which stages at…
Sedona News – Bocce Ball League is coming to Posse Grounds Park beginning in May! This popular game is going to take place on the two new bocce ball courts in Posse Grounds Park, with league play great for all levels in a fun and easy-to-learn social sport. To participate, Captains may register with a team between 4-12 players. Team registration costs $85. Participants must be ages 12 and up. Bocce equipment will be included. Games will take place on Friday’s at 6:15pm beginning in late May. League guarantees eight games with a playoffs and championship tournament at the end…
Verde Valley News – The Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County will host an educational event for nonprofit leaders and professional advisors titled Northern Arizona Estate Planning Day on Thursday, June 6, 2024 at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Prescott. This year, founding attorney of Dana Whiting Law and native Arizonan, Trevor S. Whiting, will be the featured speaker.Trevor has spent his legal career working with individual clients with regards to their estate and business planning needs. Prior to the founding of Dana Whiting Law, Trevor spent three years in the estate planning group in the Phoenix office of…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ –While all the pundits are scratching their heads, wondering why students across the country are holding anti-Jewish rallies, the answer is obvious. Simply put, the students are demonstrating against the war in Gaza and want peace. Period. Just like they demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam back then. But there is a caveat. The anti-Semites, the Jew haters, the Hamas supporters are embedded and organized in the midst of the demonstrators, fomenting hate and waving flags, even though most of the demonstrators are there because they are outraged by the killing of innocent civilians…
Sedona, AZ — To plunge into the depths of existence and non-existence takes the courage of an astronaut exploring the outer and inner limits of a limitless universe. In her book “Actuality: infinity at play,” local author and Sedona.biz columnist Amaya Gayle takes us on a playful romp through the ever-changing what is, what’s not, what was, and what may be of one’s eternal journey in the knowing of self and beyond. Brutal honesty, loving playfulness, a rapier wit, and absolute fearlessness arm this author and metaphysicist with the tools one needs to face any monster or challenge encountered when…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory My religion is experiencing, experiencing all there is to experience, all that my life lays before me, savoring its taste, breathing in its scent, reveling in its touch, arms spread in awe of its vistas of glory, its spectacles of suffering, smitten by the music of its spheres. My religion sits on the bedrock of uncertainty, that lies in the field of unknowing. Realizing that nothing found can be ultimately true, I am relieved … of the pressure to get it right, the need to achieve, the push to conform. My religion is curiosity, rampant and…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Coup de Chance” showing May 3-9 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohcoh0KRvxg “Coup de Chance” — written and directed by Woody Allen — is about the important role chance and luck play in our lives. Fanny (Lou de Laâge) and Jean (Melvil Poupaud) look like the ideal married couple — they’re both professionally accomplished, they live in a gorgeous apartment in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris, and they seem to be in love just as much as they were when they first…
By David Stephen The National Library Week for 2024 was held from April 7 – 13. The American Library Association themed it “Ready, Set, Library!” The State of Arizona has over 200 public libraries and branches. There are college libraries as well as several private libraries available for public use. A path for libraries in Arizona that could kickoff a national and global trend is book flipping. This means that registered members of the libraries are assigned shelves or sections, where they would have to flip the books in a time frame, say a month, a quarter or a semester. The purpose…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after security check. People who cannot attend or who live far away can access the service through zoom. Several classes, holidays, and special events are coming up in April. Check the website and plan to join us! Erev Shabbat services begin on Friday evening, May 3 beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom led by Rabbi Alicia Magal. We will light 6 candles in commemoration of the six…
… it’s true, all we did was cruise by a little sand spit in the lake occupied by a Great Blue Heron and as you can see … we got flashed! Kind of a funny look on his face too! Below is a shot of a Snowy Egret departing the area and love the way he is just rolling out as he departs the area … this has been a very productive week down at the lake. Weather moving in for a few days and will not return to the lake (Lake Pleasant) until Monday morning and then in the…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Cat’s Life” showing May 3-9 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjK6ar4uY4 Clémence rescues a kitten named Lou in her Parisian attic, and they form an unbreakable bond. They venture to the countryside for her family’s vacation, where Lou’s curiosity leads to thrilling adventures in the woods. Amidst new friendships and dangers, Lou’s journey unfolds, marking a transformation from a curious kitten to a brave and adventurous cat. “A Cat’s Life” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre May 3-9. Showtimes will…
Verde Valley News – Governor Katie Hobbs in partnership with Arizona’s 10 public community college districts has created the Arizona Community College Workforce Scholarship program to help Arizonans earn a credential, degree or build advanced skills that lead to jobs in high-wage, high-growth occupations. The scholarship is designed to provide Arizona students with the incentive to pursue a higher education certificate, degree, credential or license resulting in a skilled workforce equipped to meet the demands of the state’s economy. Governor Hobbs has allocated $4.5M in EANS federal funding to get the program started with public or private funding helping to…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world to present the global premiere of “Jeanne du Barry” showing May 2-6 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. Johnny Depp stars as King Louis XV in the story of the entrancing Jeanne du Barry, a French peasant woman whose meteoric rise through the royal court to become the King’s last mistress creates a scandal of epic proportions. “Jeanne du Barry” is based on a true story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDk1Pekn-A “Jeanne du Barry” follows Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn), a working-class woman determined to climb the…
Arizona News – Navajo County Board of Supervisors and eX² Technology joined together with Governor Hobbs, community members, elected officials, and local, state and national leaders to celebrate the official groundbreaking and construction of a more than 100-mile open-access, dark fiber middle-mile network infrastructure to expand broadband throughout Navajo County, Arizona. The network will provide Navajo County with the ability to sustain the broadband capacity to support municipal fiber, telehealth, education, and Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) for homes and businesses. Additionally, it will interconnect with existing fiber networks in the region as well as facilitate future connections to Phoenix,…