By Rabbi Alicia MagalShalom 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.Come join us either in person or online. See jcsvv.org for instructions to register for in-person services or online links. Visitors are welcome to attend services. On Friday, July 15, a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Joe Berger, VP of the Religious Affairs Committee, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by…
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Camp Verde Community Children’s Library invites community members to an after-hours reception and viewing of the community art mural the children have worked on this summer. Join us Tuesday, July 19 between 6:30p and 8:30p to see the fabulous underwater ocean scene. Meet local artist, Mary Rush, who got us started by painting the background that inspired the children to create sea creatures to add to it throughout the summer. We are building up to the finished project which must be seen after sundown under black lights to get the full effect.”The children have had a blast creating ocean art…
… I took this shot of the Coopers Hawk dining on a lizard in a tree near dark tonight from the deck … the normal diet for Coopers Hawks is other birds, but the population of birds around here is down so a change in diet and mostly they have been eating lizards and things this year. He is also mantling over his kill to conceal it from other birds … not much for sharing a hard earned meal. The Western Grebe below was cruising the waters of Lake Pleasant yesterday along with a number of others looking for small…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the award-winning documentary “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” showing July 11-14 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. From executive producers Martin Scorsese and Lori Cheatle comes “Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel”. The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture and a haven for famous artists and intellectuals including Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol’s Factory, is under renovation. Soon it will reopen to the public as one of New York’s most fashionable luxury hotels. Dozens of long-term residents, most in their…
A portion of the Coconino National Forest surrounding Sycamore Creek will temporarily close at 6 a.m. Saturday due to an increased risk of flash flooding.The closure area includes Parsons Trailhead, Parsons Trail north (including Parson’s Spring), and the confluence of Sycamore Creek and the Verde River. The purpose of the temporary area closure is to protect the public from increased risk of flash flood events during the monsoon season due to the post-fire debris that has accumulated in Sycamore Creek due to the Rafael Fire. The Rafael Fire burned through the Sycamore Creek drainage in June 2021, leaving large amounts…
Arts Academy of Sedona presents Friday Night at the Theater on July 15, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Arts Academy of Sedona in The Collective Sedona located at 7000 SR-179, Suite C-100 in the Village of Oak Creek. This cabaret-style event will feature music, dance, recitation and drama from a variety of local artists. Entertainment slated for this month includes Musicians, Linda Damita and Nathan Trujillo, Bob Grogan, Shaeri Richards, The Village Troubadours: Jashan and Chantal, Gary Ever, Dancers, Cassie Mavis, Poets and Performers, Melinda, McElroy, Gary Scott, Matt Egan, Craig Schneider, Michael Steel and Camilla Ross. If you’d like…
There is a McDonald’s location in Arizona that has gone viral for being different from every other McDonald’s location in the world. Can you guess what’s different without scrolling down? If not, take a peek and be as surprised as we are!On the inside of Sedona’s McDonald’s, everything looks right on target, pairing up visually with all of the other McDonald’s you’ve perhaps visited over the years. Tile floors, customer ordering counter up front, tables, self-serve soda machines, and so on…But the outside of this McDonald’s has one glaring difference that separates it from all the other McDonald’s anywhere and…
… so the hope was to come home with some shots that were better than those taken before today … all in all it was pretty good and I got a few I like a lot and here are two of them. The shot above is of an egret just leaving his perch from some branches of a mostly submerged tree in the lake … the photo is exactly as shot and no cropping other than to reduce size from the original size of 8192 pixels x 5464 pixels to 1200 pixels x 800 pixels. That doesn’t happen a lot…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Fourth of July” showing July 8-13 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. A recovering alcoholic and jazz pianist in NYC confronts his acerbic family during their annual Fourth of July vacation in “Fourth of July” — a new comedy directed by Louis C.K. Jeff, a recovering alcoholic, is a jazz pianist living in New York City with his loving wife, Beth. He often finds himself rifled with anxiety, which he manages with the help of his therapist (Louis C.K.) and AA sponsor, Bill. Having been sober…