2024 Hot List
The 2024 Hot List has arrived. In these pages, you’ll find plenty of small businesses, area attractions and places worth celebrating. Our team took engagement from our readers, and we checked it with recent news and…
Sedona International Film Festival
Be Kind
The City of Sedona has proclaimed that Nov. 13 is Sedona Kindness Day. This coincides with World Kindness Day, and Sedona is celebrating. On Nov. 13, you can watch nine different award-winning short films that have…
Celebrating Our Culture
MERKIN VINEYARDS HILLTOP WINERY & TRATTORIA Northern Arizona wine has slowly made a name for itself throughout the state and country. In late 2021, the Verde Valley earned its official American Viticultural Area or AVA. One…
The Watters Band
The Watters band may be based in Texas, but the band has deep roots in Sedona. Husband and wife team, Daniel and Jenna Watters, were both born and raised in town. They were even on the…
2023 Hot List
Great Causes Sedona Oak Creek Unified School District The ability to get a world-class education is one of the most important parts of a child’s life. Each day the team at Sedona Oak Creek Unified School…
Sedona International Film Festival
One of Sedona’s most popular events has returned. From Feb. 18 to 26, watch over 150 films that are a part of the Sedona International Film Festival. Find documentaries and narrative features from all over the…
“Forever Wild”
On a trip to Telluride, Colorado, Ron Melmon was riding a gondola and saw an empty swath of land. He asked his niece that he was visiting about it. She told him that that’s the Valley…
Sedona International Film Festival
The Sedona International Film Festival has returned to form and will only be live and in person as opposed to having a digital component. “We are going back to a totally live-only festival. We’re not doing…
The Sound of Music
Few instruments are as legendary as the Stradivarius violin – considered to have an amazing, unmatched sound. And on the opening night of the Sedona International Film Festival, you can hear violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn play one….
Festive Films
Rescheduled from February, the Sedona International Film Festival is from June 12 to 20. During this time, attendees can watch more than 100 films during the 27th annual festival. See full-length features, shorts, documentaries and foreign…
Women In The Arts
Shey Khandro “I’m a sculptor, a jewelry designer and a pointillist painter, and I imbue a prayerful intention into everything I create. Ordained as a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition for 15 years, I was…
Sedona International Film Festival
Editor’s note The Sedona International Film Festival has been postponed until June 12-20, 2021. Visit sedonafilmfestival.org for more. The Sedona International Film Festival is returning in 2021, and for the first time ever, will include a…
Sedona International Film Festival
One of the largest member-supported organizations in Sedona, the Sedona International Film Festival is returning for its 26th year. The nine-day film festival will feature more than 160 films at three different venues around town –…
Beatle Mania
If you’re looking to take a break from all the holiday hoopla, may we suggest checking out the 90-minute long “Deconstructing The Beatles: The Birth of The Beatles”? Hosted by the Sedona International Film Festival, in…
Masterpiece Theater
Next year marks what would have been the 250th birthday of legendary composer Ludwig van Beethoven. To kick things off early, the Verde Valley Sinfonietta and Sedona International Film Festival have collaborated and are paying tribute…
Sedona International Film Festival
For the 25th anniversary of the Sedona International Film Festival, Patrick Schweiss, the festival’s executive director, says movie lovers will find nods to the festival’s past and present. From Feb. 23 through March 3, more than…
Jane Alexander
You might say Jane Alexander’s acting career is the stuff that dreams are made of. She earned an Oscar nomination for her film debut in The Great White Hope (1970) but only after she starred in…
