The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to Payson, AZ, on August 25-28, 2022 at the south general purpose field at Rumsey Park, 400 N. McLane Rd., and will be open 24 hours a day, closing Sunday at 2 pm ,and is free to the public. The Wall That Heals honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed forces in the Vietnam War and it bears the names of the 58,281 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.“We…
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By Amaya Gayle Gregory”As you know, I follow the war every day. I’m not going numb… and will do everything I can to stop it. This is not just Ukrainian PR. I’ve seen pics from all over the country of Ukrainian soldiers protecting animals.” Sky Otter. For lifetimes, we have survived by going numb … and in our numbness nothing changed. If anything, the diconnect continued to build, to worsen. Today’s world is hard to experience, devastatingly hard. Friends and families are torn apart, taking sides, hating each other — the fallout of partisanship reminds me of stories about the…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Score” showing June 4-9 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. From the producers of “Yesterday”, “The Score” boldly combines real time heist-thriller suspense with offbeat romance and a killer soundtrack; starring and featuring the music of Johnny Flynn, alongside Noami Ackie and Will Poulter. Every great plan need orchestration. One false note can ruin the perfect score. Two small time crooks, Mike (Flynn) and Troy (Poulter), are on a mission – the ‘score’ – that they both expect will transform their circumstances. At a roadside…
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.On Friday, June 3, a Friday evening service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah service. Verses…
… a small sample of the life that is lived daily at Lake Pleasant and for that matter, near water throughout Arizona and the rest of the world. While some of us engage in acts of silliness and lose our minds to those useful, but wasteful digital things we call smart phones, life goes on all around us and it is not dependent on the latest email, sms message or twitter post … life is lived in the real world where it counts! We were on the water by 6AM this morning and almost immediately we were engaged with wildlife…
The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2021-2022 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will conclude with Brett Dean’s “Hamlet” on Saturday, June 4. There will be one show at 10 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Plan to come early as John Steinbrunner will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the production. When Australian composer Brett Dean’s “Hamlet” had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get…
In consultation and coordination with the U.S. Forest Service, Yavapai County, and other fire agencies, Verde Valley Fire District will be entering into Stage II fire restrictions beginning 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 26, 2022.Stage II fire restrictions prohibit all solid fueled open fires, fire pits and campfires. Fireworks and other pyrotechnic displays are prohibited, unless permitted by the Fire Inspector. Also prohibited is the outdoor use of equipment that generates sparks or open flames; including, but not limited to: Welding equipment, grinders, and chainsaws. Commercial operators may apply for a hot work permit. During the period of fire restrictions…
…on my flight back from Falcon Field on May 20th 2014 I saw the initial smoke columns rising from Oak Creek Canyon from what was named the Slide Fire and I documented the fire nearly every day that it was burning and a number of photo journalists up to get photos on several occasion. It was a nasty fire and the USFS did an amazing job on it. On numerous occasions during the fire, Sedona and environs had all but disappeared in the smoke.This was the beginning to a summer that saw Sedona, the plateau and surrounding areas buried in…
Many respected theater critics consider the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy to be the greatest American musical of the 20th century. Loosely based on the life of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee and her relationship with a domineering stage mother, the original production featured the iconic Ethel Merman as “Mama Rose.” The character of Rose’s younger daughter “Dainty June” was played by then 21-year-old Lane Bradbury, a debutante from Atlanta, GA with just one previous Broadway credit on her resume. Sixty-three years after Bradbury opened in Gypsy—singing songs composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim—“Dainty June” is coming to…