“No town, no city is complete without its art, without its spirit,” artist Shonto Begay said when he was honored at last year’s Viola Awards Gala as a Legacy Award winner. “Because I believe art is the spirit and the soul of the community.”
Nanobah Becker’s short film “The 6th World” opens with a dream as the camera pans across a barren, red landscape save for a field of dried corn stalks on their last legs under the unforgiving sun. In the waking world, Diné (Navajo) astronaut Tazbah Redhouse is preparing for a mission to Mars…
Whether spoken through webcams, typed into numerous emails and texts or spoken across the airwaves, words connect us despite distance.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the ways in which people can safely get together, Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney still found a way to share the magic of reading with children with a series of drive-through events.
Preparing for the end of times is nothing new for Flagstaff author Nicole Walker. Having grown up within a Mormon family in Salt Lake City, Utah, although never herself a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, earlier generations ingrained preparation and survival in her mind. Grow tomat…
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Among many other things, 2020 was a year that saw great strides in youth empowerment. Protests were attended en masse by passionate young adults, voting registration drives allowed those who weren’t 18 yet to be involved in one of the most divisive elections in history and pushes toward acti…
The faces and places that give Flagstaff its unique character are on loving display in the new book Walking Flagstaff: A Photo Journal by George Breed. Breed’s wise and insightful collection of photos and writings was released by Flagstaff-based Soulstice Publishing this weekend just in time…
Ask Flagstaff native Amber McCrary why it’s important that she has embarked on an ambitious mission to launch a publishing house dedicated to Native American poets, and she pauses a beat, perhaps to consider which of a litany of examples of marginalization to use as illustration.
While the Frances Short Pond near Thorpe Park is a veritable wildlife oasis along the Flagstaff Urban Trail System, it wasn’t always so. The pond behind what’s now Flagstaff Junior Academy presented a hazard in the mid-1960s as it was partially filled with trash and residents worried childre…
While the Frances Short Pond near Thorpe Park is a veritable wildlife oasis along the Flagstaff Urban Trail System, it wasn’t always so. The pond behind what’s now Flagstaff Junior Academy presented a hazard in the mid-1960s as it was partially filled with trash and residents worried childre…
You are what you read, as that literary wag Oscar Wilde once cracked wise.
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