First Priority: SAFETY
Night lane restrictions continue between Canyon Drive and Morgan Wash – Lane restrictions continue from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday night through Friday morning between Canyon Drive and Morgan Wash for at least another month. These restrictions will last until the work on the walls is complete.

A special feature – the Tony Curtis Art Tent – has been added to the 2009 Festival activities. Over 150 world-class artists and craft persons are showcased over two days with continuous live musical entertainment, great food, an extraordinary raffle, and the interactive KidZone.

The stars will be shining tonight… Hollywood style. Rub elbows with the stars and schmooze with Sedona’s cinephiles at tonight’s Sedona International Film Festival’s annual cinema under the stars fundraising event.

This year’s event, Reein’ at the Ranch sponsored by Sedona Rouge Hotel & Spa, premieres a new comedy, special guests and a tribute to Lainie Kazan and Sedona legend Marion Herrman highlight the evening.

Editorial –
I understand the exuberance of visitors when they arrive in Sedona: the beauty, the magnificance, the Energy, the art, nature and hospitality that IS Sedona. Be careful out there! Whether you’re “into-it” or not, there is a high energy in the Sedona area… it amplifies things. You may feel like you can fly but, please, save that for a bi-plane, helicopter or hot-air ballon ride.

Cottonwood’s decision to annex 8.5 square miles of forest land northeast of the city is a major step backward for our region. With this action, the city council has undermined years of good work many people have put in to foster regional progress and regional cooperation. The Cottonwood city council rationalized their decision partially because Clarkdale annexed the Ruskin forest parcel years ago.

Creativity and a flair for artistic expression is a given in Sedona, where one never knows, unless shown, what hidden talents neighbors, acquaintances or professionals might be.

Such is the case with Sedona Director of Community Development John O’Brien, who brought the house down at Olde Sedona Bar & Grill Thursday, Aug 20, with a stand-up comedy routine that had the patrons laughing in stitches.

“I don’t know that there’s very many people in the world who want to kiss, love, hug, lick, touch, and talk to sandstone,” says 89-year-old Katie Lee, as she sums up the loss she felt when the 170-mile Glen Canyon in Arizona was dammed in 1965. The Colorado River backed up, creating one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, Lake Powell, etching about 2,000 miles of shoreline as it flooded the main canyon and nearly 200 side canyons.

Airport mesa will rock with the sound of music, roar with dozens of airplanes and growl with high-powered luxury cars on September 19-20, during the first ever Sedona Community Fair, operating through a new nonprofit organization managed by Al Comello and Shondra Jepperson.

First-class Las Vegas entertainment in Sedona? That’s right!

Studio Live welcomes Molodi to the stage Friday and Saturday, August 28 & 29. Molodi is body percussion taken to the extreme. With speed and precision, Molodi blends traditional percussive dance forms such as tap, stepping, and gumboots with guerilla style theatre, poetry and robust personalities that bring to life an experience which will leave the audience in awe.

Arizona Solar Power is proud to announce the opening of their new Scottsdale location at 14870 N. Northsight Blvd., Suite 109. The opening of this, their third store, has been much anticipated, in that as a Premier Dealer for SunPower, they will now be able to provide one of the state’s most sun-drenched locations with a truly superior solar product.