Sedona Jazz on the Rocks poster 2010

If you want to listen to great Jazz coupled with the acoustics and breaktaking views of the Red Rock mountains, then Sedona Jazz on the Rocks

is for a wonderful place to experience this and more. The Jazz Festival started in 1981, but last year, due to economic conditions, the festival was cancelled.  I attended Jazz on the Rocks several times, in the late nineties and early 2000 and totally recommend it. Not only is the festival great, but Sedona itself is a place, in my opinion that is not to be missed. SJOR  website, is still evolving with news, and announces that the festival will be held October  2, 2010 at Poco Diablo.

Sedona,Arizona

Sedona/chamberorcommerce photo

is well known for it’s spiritual vortexes as well as it’s red rocks, and art community, jeep tours, and horsebacking riding in the red rocks. And starting in the late 30′s Sedona was and has been the site location for many western movies, such as “Texas Trail” in 1937 with Gabby Hayes,  ”Cheyenne” in 1947 with Jane Wyman, and “The Rounders”, 1964, with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda . Sedona has also been the backdrop for numerous television series and commericals.

Sedona and the Jazz festival are a great mix for October. Maybe I’ll see you there.

It is heartwarming  that independent booksellers are able to make it in this world of  gigantic bookstores. Independents have a special dare I say independentness about them. They are warm and welcoming with a lure all of their own.  A personal touch is felt in each, from Seattle to Maine, no two are the same. Certainly not the cookie cutter of the giants.

Despite this stumbling economy many have survived and hopefully have flourished, thanks to the support of local city and town people and the lovers of small independent bookstores who are travelling through on vacation.

photo Boulder Bookstore /A.M. Boyle-amboyle.net

The American Booksellers Association is a great way to find an indie bookseller in your area as well as news about the industry and excellent information on opening your own bookstore.  Many not only have local author’s signing, but poetry reading as well as children’s storytelling. I encourage you to walk back in time and get the local flavor of your town by strolling into an indie bookstore.

Here is look at the costs of running the Greenlight Book Store from New York Magazine Indie Bookstores Rising – An Inside Look at Greenlight Book’s Monthly Ledgers — New York Magazine.

Museum of Art – Rhode Island School of Design – Exhibitions.

Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor

The exhibit runs Friday, July 2 through Sunday October 31, 2010. The exhibit will be closed the month of August and re -opens on September 1st running through October 31st ,2010.

Linda Connor "Lotus"/RISD museum

The 40th anniverary issue of Smithsonian is packed with fascinating articles  ”40 things you need to know about  in the next 40 years”.  It features the list of 40.  Amazing forward thinking.  Here are a few.  “Plant Spinach in Tall Buildings” , “World War III will start in 2050, In Space, “Organs Made to Order, Five Species Most Likely to be Extinct in next 40 years, bye bye Dolphin? ” “Finding Life in Space “.

Titan a satellite of Saturn/photo Smithsonian/Space Science Institute / JPL / NASA

40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine.

cover Smithsonian Magazine 40th Anniversary/photo Smithsonian

Thanks to TechCrunch I got this video. It is really an awesome piece of work! Shot in 1.3 days and edited in 2 days! And it’s great fun to watch. Wow, this really speaks volumes about next generation of video production. A whole new world of videographers will emerge, how wonderful! Movies shot in weeks. The possibilities are endless.

John Lennon’s autographed manuscript of the lyrics for the “A Day in the Life”, from the final track of the Beatles 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sold for $1.2 Million USD.

Full story and pics at Sotheby’s – Auctions – Calendar – Books & Manuscripts.

From art21.org Season Five of the Peabody Award-winning television series “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century” premiered on PBS in the United States (Fall 2009).

This trailer spotlights the artists Mary Heilmann, William Kentridge, and Yinka Shonibare MBE, offering brief glimpses of an additional eleven, dynamic and engaging contemporary artists.

Famous American Writers Fashion – How to Dress Like a Writer – Esquire.

Esquire Magazine’s Chris Wallace takes a look at how famous writers such as Walt Whitman and F. Scott Fitzgerald dressed. Writers take note!