2007

At Home for the Holidays

Yes, Virginia, there is more to the holiday season than frantic trips from mall to mall trying to get your hands on this year’s “It” item (Halo 3, perhaps?), scrubbing floors before the in-laws arrive, standing…

Wine! Inside 7 Verde Valley Vineyards

Speak to the owners and winemakers at the seven wineries in the Verde Valley and you’ll hear one thing again and again: Visitors just can’t get over the fact that vineyards are being grown and wine…

Get The Picture

Most of the millions of visitors who come to northern Arizona are connected to their cameras like it was a third eye. Wandering through galleries, seeing images of iconic locations such as Red Rock Crossing and…

Star Attractions!

For as long as humans have inhabited our corner of Arizona, their necks have been craned to the sky, gazing at the stars. Look at the pictographs of animals and hunters at the Palatki Heritage Site…

The Inner Light: Inside 3 Slot Canyons

Antelope Canyon is one of the most alluring spots in the Southwest, thanks largely to the talented nature photographers who’ve beautifully captured and shared its ethereal light beams, golden hues, and corkscrewing rock walls that seem…

Summer Casual

  Sedona’s style is more about comfort than chasing trends – in Red Rock Country, women need clothes that look good and ­transition easily from lunch with the girls to working in the garden to happy…

Romancing the Stones

Alice Lister excitedly pulls out a plastic bag full of dusty stones from under her workbench, pulling out chunks of uncut turquoise, dark blue lapis, and purple sugilite like a kid showing off a prized baseball…

Sedona After Dark: 7 Days of Nightlife

From the first time I visited Sedona in 2000 I’ve always heard the same thing: The streets roll up at 5:30 p.m. In Sedona, it’s midnight at 9 p.m. There’s nothing for young people to do….

Sweet Treatments

Since our last look at the Sedona spa scene in December 2005, three new spas have opened up – at Amara Creekside Resort and L’Auberge de Sedona, as well as the Infusion Spa in the Village…

Sharpening the Independent Focus

Thirteen feels like it’s going to be a lucky number for the Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop. Now in its third year under executive director Patrick Schweiss, you get the feeling the annual celebration of…