Sedona News

Set in the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, the world-class Miiamo Spa offers guests a journey of exploration and new age treatments.

Miguel Jerry Zepeda, 22, accused of escaping from police custody on June 6 and dodging the Camp Verde Marshal's Office deputies later the same night, has been found and arrested.

The closure bans all public entry into the area, including camping, day use, hiking, and access to West Clear Creek via Forest Road 215.

Despite the cost coming in higher than originally expected, the Sedona Fire District will move ahead with plans to build a new fire station in Sedona.

The Sedona/Verde Valley Secular Freethinkers as a group may be considered young - they've only been meeting for a little more than a year and a half - but anybody picturing angry, chain-smoking teenagers and college-age anarchists should probably take a second look.

Twelve years ago, the city began discussing the creation of a Barbara Antonsen Memorial Park at Posse Grounds Park.

If your verse is tight and you find the flow, then step up. The first ever official Sedona Rap Cypher, hosted by 18-year-old rapper and slam poet James Gould, will give young performers an opportunity to compete and to demonstrate their rap abilities in front of a live audience.

It's Sedona Dynamite Diva time again! Steve Douglas and Artists in Rhythm is proud to present the 6th annual Dynamite Diva Concert, onstage at the Sedona Jewish Community Center, June 15, 7 p.m.

With the advent of warmer weather, Red Rock State Park, located at 4050 Lower Red Rock Loop Road, prepares for lots of visitors who are ready to take advantage of the five miles of hiking trails.

SEDONA -- Family and volunteers were searching trails in the Red Rocks off SR 179 last week looking for the missing 26-year-old Tim Waugaman of Maryland, but now police are wondering what he was doing in California.

While driving in Sedona on a warm summer evening last year, artist Christie Palmer was suddenly struck by the radiant scene surrounding her - a darkening azure sky radiant with iridescent clouds above clusters of shadowy rock. The hallucinatory effect of the monsoon was overwhelming. With the memory of that instant imbedded in her mind, she began work on one of her finest paintings.

The Sedona International Film Festival presents Ballet in Cinema on Monday, June 17, when it hosts the big screen premiere of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" from the famed Royal Ballet in London. There will be one show at 4 p.m. at the festival's Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premieres of "The Sapphires" and "The Angel's Share" showing June 18-21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

I am very pleased to announce that exhibitor registration for the 2013 Sedona Book Festival is now open.

Michael and Linda Harris, authors of The Miracle of Sam, will make a special presentation, along with Sam the coyote dog, on Friday, June 14, at 7 p.m. at The Well Red Coyote bookstore in West Sedona.

Andy Frasco, a blues/jazz musician hailing from the San Fernando Valley in California, is nothing short of an enigma. Influenced by Damien Rice, Sam Cooke, Professor Longhair, Van Morrison and Tom Waits, Frasco's style is as uninhibited as those artists who inspire him. Let's call it Party Blues.

Jessica Fichot returns to Studio Live June 13, 7:30 pm.

Sedona favorites Chris Seymour and Rick Cyge return to the Marketplace Café, in Village of Oak Creek this Saturday, June 15, 6-9 p.m.

A Verde Valley Regional Chamber Mixer will be held June 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Blazin' M Ranch in Cottonwood.

Chip Davis said the idea of letting Verde Valley towns put half of their WAC dues in a separate account for regional projects 'keeps everybody at the table.'