Tlaquepaque and Sedona’s New Day Spa will kick-off the partnership with a pre-holiday special, a Holiday Shopping and Spa Day. Participants will receive a $20 gift certificate for shopping at any of Tlaquepaque’s 40 stores and galleries, as well as a discount for a truly Sedona rejuvenating treatment.

For more information, please call Tlaquepaque at (928) 282-4838 or go to their website at www.tlaq.com. Or call Sedona’s New Day Spa at (928) 282 7502 or go to their website at www.SedonaNewDaySpa.com. Both Tlaquepaque and Sedona’s New Day Spa are open seven days a week.

Enjoy one of Sedona’s oldest holiday traditions of music and festivities including the amazing lighting of 6,000 luminarias at Tlaquepaque’s 34th Annual Festival of Lights on Saturday, December 8 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event, which is patterned after the 17th Century La Posada, a folk tradition of Old Mexico, will warm hearts and brighten this holiday season.

The restaurants at Tlaquepaque - Secret Garden Cafe, Oak Creek Brewery and Grill, Rene, and El Rincon Mexican Restaurant - will be serving throughout the weekend and reservations are highly recommended. All of the shops and galleries will be open until 8 p.m. on Saturday evening. Sedona Trolley will provide free shuttle service every 15 minutes from 3 to 8 p.m. with pick-up and drop-off in the Uptown Municipal Parking Lot at Apple and Jordan, one block from Highway 89A.

For updates on activities and times, please call Tlaquepaque at 928-282-4838. The Art and Soul of Sedona, Tlaquepaque is the home to more than 40 shops and galleries and four restaurants, visited by more than one million tourists each year. For more information, please visit www.tlaq.com.

The Sedona Dream Theater has so much to offer including an acoustically perfect room, a great sound system for concerts, the largest movie screen in Northern Arizona, real butter on your popcorn, 220 stadium style seats, and a complete Boar’s Head Deli & Sedona Coffee Roasters coffee shop in the lobby!

Here’s What’s on Stage this week:
Friday Dec. 7

- Arvel Bird & One Nation Concert, 7:30 PM December 7th - Tix $20.00 This is the Native American Music Awards Artist of the year and promises to be the concert event of the fall! Special Guest Black Raven and Grammy nominee Will Clipman, (who is also playing at the Sedona Chamber Music concert in January!) Arrive early and have a great meal for under ten dollars!

Saturday the 8th- Battle of the Bands! Ten Local Bands battle it out for the title! This is a Family and Kid Friendly Event! Get the teenagers out of the house and somewhere safe!! 6:00 PM only $7.50 to get in!

Also, don’t miss all the fabulous movies playing this week! Check show times and find out more at www.sedonatheater.com.

Visit Sedona’s New Day Spa for cappuccino and hot chocolate and a tour of the Spa during the Holiday Open House on Tuesday Dec. 11th from 10am-5pm.

Sedona’s New Day Spa has a warm & caring spa atmosphere, high-quality products & certified therapists. It offers massage specialties, body treatments e.g. salt scrubs, flower wraps, Sedona Secret Garden treatment, Ayurvedic massage, Hot Stones, Sedona Clay wrap, facials with Yonka products, waxing, nails & wedding services.

Receive a $20 gift towards facials, body treatments, gift certificates or products over $85 valid through 1/31/2008.

They are located at 1449 West Highway 89A, Sedona. Call 928-282-7502 for more information or visit www.sedonanewdayspa.com. Stop by the Day Spa with the resort feeling!

Join the Sedona Chamber for the combined celebration of the grand opening of Sedona Story (1st floor) & the re-opening of Mago Café (2nd floor). Located at 207 North Highway 89A (Front parking lot of Cheers Sports Wear at Forest Road) on Friday, December 7, 2007 from 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM.

Sedona Story is a Coffee Shop and Gathering Place, offering refreshments, gifts and art, hands-on healing, Internet experience, and information for an enhanced Sedona experience. Mago Café re-opens for Lunch and now Dinner - after an extensive remodeling of its upstairs space and an expansion of its menu to include exciting Korean and creative American foods and drinks. The magnificent 2nd-floor red-rock view remains the same.

Special guests will include the Vice Consul of the Republic of Korea Consulate General in Los Angeles and the President of the Korean-American Association of Northern Arizona.
Program of Events:

11:15 - 11:40 AM - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony - organized by the Sedona Chamber of Commerce
11:40 - 12:30 PM - Korean Traditional Cultural Entertainment - drumming, DahnMuDo martial art, and holiday singing
12:30 - 1:30 PM - On-the-house Buffet Lunch - Food from Mago Café and Drinks from Sedona Story