The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “Mr. Malcolm’s List” showing July 29-Aug. 4 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Seeking truly love. Conditionally. In 19th-century England, a wealthy, young lady named Julia Thistlewaite engages in courtship with Mr. Malcolm, a mysterious, wealthy suitor, unaware that he has a list of qualities required of a future wife in the delightfully charming romantic comedy/drama “Mr. Malcolm’s List”. When she fails to meet an item on this list of requirements for a bride, Julia is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact…
Author: Sedona Best
Last month was just the beginning. Rowe Fine Art Gallery’s two-part summer show, A Feast for Your Eyes, kicked off with an evening dedicated to the gallery’s painters in July. The fun continues in August when the sculptors and jewelers step up to the plate. Enjoy the latest works from Shirley Eichten Albrecht, Liam Herbert, Jennifer Inge, Kim Kori, Alvin Marshall, Erik Petersen, Joel Petersen, Ken Rowe and Joshua Tobey. The show opens at 4 p.m. on Friday, August 5, and runs through the month. Shirley Eichten Albrecht is excited to debut Regalia, a tall-body gourd that rests on a…
Food pantries are generally not associated with high-quality food. A traditional food pantry receives the excess, unwanted, or nearly-expired food that is unsellable through main-stream channels. However, local food assistance provider Manzanita Outreach is bringing locally produced, farm-fresh produce, meat and dairy products to its Food Sharing events.“Food assistance is a much bigger part of our community than most people realize. Manzanita Outreach alone has served nearly 20% of the residents of the Verde Valley since the start of 2021,” says Manzanita Outreach Executive Director Ben Burke, “If we want to increase the overall health of our community, one of…
By Amaya Gayle GregoryIt’s a slippery slope, a muddy slide, being present to the body’s sensations, the events unfolding before us, our emotional triggers while remaining fully present to the simple aware beauty of our beingness. It is easy to get drawn in, sucked down into ego’s story about what is going on. Perhaps that’s why most set up house in one or the other — the manifested world or the spiritual. Both, at the same time, seems unfathomable, feels profoundly irrational. Good lord! Is it even possible? It’s not only easy to be engulfed in the story, it’s nearly…
… I shoot a lot and for purposes of this nightly missive I usually select images from the days shooting or something close in proximity to the day. The the shots of yesterday are eventually forgotten as ever newer images are shot and added to the portfolio and eventually they become hidden buried by the thousands of shots I take every month.I was cruising through some older folders tonight and came on a number of shoots I did a few years ago in Northern Wisconsin. Above is a shot of a white tail deer that was standing next to a…
The National Theatre of London continues its new season with its acclaimed new production of “Prima Facie” showing in Sedona on Sunday, July 24 at 4 p.m. The Sedona International Film Festival hosts the big screen premiere at its Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Jodie Comer makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play “Prima Facie”. Tessa (Comer) is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines…
While there are no evacuation orders currently, representatives from the Sedona Fire District, Coconino County Sherriff’s Office, Yavapai County Sherriff’s Office, the Sedona Police Department, and city management proactively reviewed a preliminary evacuation map for Sedona’s city limits in light of the recent fire activity with the Committee Fire currently located along the Mogollon Rim east of Sedona. The preliminary evacuation map identifies geographic zones and outlines how neighborhoods may be evacuated in the event an evacuation is needed. This work also helps the incident management team quantify the time and resources necessary to conduct such an evacuation.“This press release…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “My Donkey, My Lover & I” showing July 23-27 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. In Caroline Vignal’s irresistible French comedic road movie “My Donkey, My Lover & I”, Laure Calamy (in a Best Actress César Award-winning performance) is the delightfully zany Antoinette — a heartbroken school teacher who impulsively goes on a six-day hike to follow her lover. Antoinette is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning…
Join us on Thursday, July 28th 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 the band Creekside Music in the Stacks Special Concert Series is a showcase of local and national musicians who entertain regularly in Northern Arizona. There will be one band or solo artist that plays for the duration of the concert with a different artist playing each month, on the 4th Thursday of the month. This month’s concert features Creekside. Classic rock merged with country music and rhythm and blues, you get a…