Thursday Briefing: Evita at the Playhouse, Fernando Sor, Office Hours With Nelson Aide, Flagler Budget

Today: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index is at 148.
The OED’s Word of the Day: Mezzofanti, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
• Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Editor’s Tweets
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

All Flagler County schools are offering free meals to all students today and the rest of the week, by order of the United States Department of Agriculture, and as a consequence of Hurricane Irma.

A representative for U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson holds office hours from 2 to 4 p.m. at the 1st floor conference room of the Government Services Building, Bunnell, to talk about Hurricane Irma issues. For more information, please call:202-617-5864 or 904-346-4500.

The Flagler County Commission holds its second budget hearing, setting next year’s property tax rates, at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, Bunnell.

Thursday through Sunday: Evita, the musical, at the Flagler Playhouse: Evita tells of the life of charismatic political leader Eva Peron, who became the second wife of 1950s Argentine President, Juan Peron. With powerful music by Andrew Lloyd Weber and lyrics by Tim Rice, this wonderful musical follows Evita’s early life, her rise to power, and her death at age 33. The show features that most magnificent showstopper, Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina. Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Sunday performance begins at 2 pm. Doors open at 1:30 pm.
Tickets are $25. 301 E. Moody Blvd. Bunnell. Box Office: 386-586-0773 or see the website, www.flaglerplayhouse.com.

The Palm Coast Senior Games are on all week click here for details.

Announcements:

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.

Disaster recovery office: The offices of state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will help open a disaster recovery center for people affected by Hurricane Irma. (8 a.m., Lee County Veterans Park Recreation Center, 55 Homestead Road South, Lehigh Acres.)

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Editor’s Tweets

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Updates of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast usually run here, along with a link to the city’s Week in Review. But the Week in Review, under the guise of being modernized, has become flashier and power-point like while becoming less substantive and dumbed down. We may or may not link to it in future.

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Alexander Dunn plays Studies by Fernando Sor

Previous Codas:

• Fandango, by Antonio Soler
• Frescobaldi: Toccata in G, Magdalena Baczewska, harpsichord
• Willie Nelson: Full Concert, Woodstock, 1999
• How playing an instrument benefits your brain
• Mozart’s Requiem: Camerata Salzburg, Arsys Bourgogne, Cond.
• Repairing Willie Nelson’s guitar
• 100 Year Old Self-Playing Violin
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Symphony B minor, Christophe Coin Ensemble Baroque, Limoges
• Wynton Marsalis Septet: Sunflowers (From The Marciac Suite Album)
• Nikolai Kedrov: Otche Nash (Our Father)
• Ludovico Einaudi, “Elegy for the Arctic”
• Black Violin at Apollo Amateur Night
• Bach’s Beer Bottles: The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 1
• Mozart’s Only String Trio, K563
• Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
• Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: Marcus Roberts Trio, Seiji Ozawa, Cond. (2003)
• Wynton Marsalis takes the Horn Challenge
• Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, Afiara Quartet
• K.D. Lang: The Mind of Love
• World’s Oldest Violin: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
• Mark Knopfler on Guitars
• Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor, Performed by the Canadian Brass
• The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
• Macklemore Feat Skylar Grey: Glorious
• Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
• Why Don’t All Instruments Sound The Same?
• Joachim Horsley’s “Beethoven in Havana”: What the Piano Can Do
• Bojan Cicic and Richard Egarr: Giovanni Carbonelli’s Violin Sonata No. 1
• Voyager: The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
• Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet
• Down in the River to Pray: University of Texas Tuba/Euphonium Studio
• Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
• “The Day After” (1983)
• Rui Arayama Performs Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas K.427 & K.455
• Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
• Angelina Jordan, 10 Years Old Norwegian, Sings the Blues: I Put A Spell On You
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto in B Minor for five Recorders Op. 15 Nr. 4, Abateva
• Introduction to Bullshit
• Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
• Alike: The Best Short Film Ever
• Fauré’s Requiem, Performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Choeur Accentus
• Arthur Rubinstein Performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
• Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Reformation: Jérémie Rhorer Conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra