… this is a really beautiful place we live and the photo above displays the elegance that draws so many of us here. The view is from just east of Chapel Rock, which is in the foreground and just behind it is the upper and lower loop area. The road that can be seen crossing the side of the hill on the right side is Upper Loop Road and just above it is the High School complex. above and to the right of the high school is the iconic Cockscomb formation. Below the skyline from the left is Black Mountain,…
Author: Sedona Best
Rafael Pons will present at the meeting of the Sedona Camera Club starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 28, 2022, at the Sedona Creative Life Center, 333 Schnebly Hill Road, Sedona. Doors open at 5:30. Due to Covid-19 concerns about safety practices for indoor events, attendees will be required to wear masks. The Sedona Creative Life Center allows for social distancing and the club will not serve refreshments to further mitigate risk. Additionally, the club requests attendees to be fully vaccinated. Join Rafael Pons (“The Bard” of the PhotoPills Team) in this intensive 1-hour PhotoPills training. After this training,…
If you knew without doubt who you really are, that you are magnificent beyond your capacity to imagine, are this which is never born and will never die, that you are not you but This that Is, how would that change your experience as a mortal?Knowing, life goes on. Experiences, both fun and not so, continue. The body ages and loved ones sicken and die. Your tribe leaves you, one by one, and you remain. The world changes, appearing to be in its death throes, and it seems no one really cares. As more and more depart this plane, you…
Georgia’s official submission to the Academy Awards debuts at Fisher Theatre The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the critically-acclaimed, multiple award-winning drama “Brighton 4th” showing Feb. 11-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Brighton 4th” is Georgia’s official submission for Best International Feature Film for the Academy Awards. It won three of the top awards at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, including Best International Feature, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Former wrestling champion Kakhi (Levan Tediashvili, himself a former Olympic wrestling champion) always has his family on his conscience, and in “Brighton…
The city of Sedona invites the public to attend its next artist reception on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the City Council chambers and Vultee Conference Room at City Hall to celebrate two couples: master painters Betty Carr and Howard Carr and painters Susan Kliewer and Jeff Dolan. Special music guests will be Gina Machovina and husband Alberto Hinojoza. Masks are required at the event due to pandemic concerns. This exhibit is planned to be on display through the end of April. “It is with great pleasure I present the city’s first exhibit featuring couples.…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the critically-acclaimed, multiple award-winning drama “Brighton 4th” showing Feb. 11-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Brighton 4th” is Georgia’s official submission for Best International Feature Film for the Academy Awards. It won three of the top awards at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, including Best International Feature, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Former wrestling champion Kakhi (Levan Tediashvili, himself a former Olympic wrestling champion) always has his family on his conscience, and in “Brighton 4th”, this leads him on a journey from his home in…
The Old Town Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a special appearance of GRAMMY® and five-time Native American Music Award winner Micki Free, opening for the Sedona Film Fest showing of “Jimi Hendrix Live at Maui”, Monday February 7, at 7:00 PM.Micki Free and band will play a couple of Jimi Hendrix classics – ‘All Along the Watchtower’ and ‘Voodoo Chile’ to get the audience in the mood to watch the dazzling rock-umentary “Jimi Hendrix Live at Maui. You can check out Micki playing Voodoo Chile at Hyde Park in London, to a crowd of over 30,000 folks,…
By Amaya Gayle GregoryWhen I thought I was somebody I had a role to play, impressions to maintain — mostly impressions inside my head. No one else really held onto images of me. They were too busy hanging onto images of themselves. In a way, it was a suicide, killing the real, the authentic expression aching to get out, in favor of the make-believe, the one I thought would make it possible to be loved.Now that I am nobody, I am free to be anybody, like a chameleon taking on whatever role appears. Being nobody there is no need to…
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 12th and join us on Main Street in Historic Downtown Clarkdale for our 11th Annual Car Show sponsored by the Clarkdale Downtown Business Alliance and the Clarkdale Foundation.From 9am to 2pm we’ll be featuring cars, trucks and motorcycles. There will be beer, food and a live remote broadcast with Yavapai Broadcasting. Come stroll Main Street and enjoy another fun event in Clarkdale.For more information on the event, to volunteer or to register your vehicle please visit www.clarkdalecarshow.comRegistration is limited to the first 150 vehicles.