Catherine Eastman of Whitney Lab’s turtle hospital on Free for All Fridays, the Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) meets, a Clay Jones update, cartooning’s place.
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Town of Marineland Commission meeting, Jamie Foster at Tiger Bay, thoughts on pain and life from the Sermon at Bénarès, pictures from Rick Belhumeur’s exhibition of Minnesota cornfields, Bach’s Mass in B Minor.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, the Flagler County Industrial Development Authority meets, driving Bunnell’s Commerce Parkway for the first time, Bruce Springsteen’s hometown.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 6 p.m., the School Board meets, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Elvis singes Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 13, 2025
Clay Jones will recover from his stroke, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, a talk with Clay Jones by cartoonist Angelo Lopez.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 12, 2025
A Celebration of Life in memory of Jorge and Nancy Salinas at the Palm Coast Community Center, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize, and a few caveats.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 11, 2025
Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market , Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, Bari Weiss takes over the house that Ed Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Fred Friendly built.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 10, 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize is announced this morning, the Friday Blue Forum, remembering Malala Yousafzai’s Peace Prize Lecture, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, Neil Postman on a culture’s memory holes.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 9, 2025
The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded this morning, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series explores the skeletons of dinosaurs, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk, the TPO’s Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the county library.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council, Flagler Beach’s and Bunnell’s planning boards all meet, when Nixon was claiming he would not use personal attacks in the same issue of the New York Times that led to the Sullivan ruling, Anthony Lewis on “Make No Law.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 6, 2025
The Flagler County Commission meets in the morning, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets in the evening, and the Mediterranean brings back all sorts of memories from Homer to Braudel.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Final day of the Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve, final chance to see ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre in DeLand, the wonderful George Hanns turns 79.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Creekside Music and Arts Festival at Princess Place Preserve postponed, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique in Daytona Beach, the American Dream.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 3, 2025
First Friday in Flagler Beach, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, The Friday Blue Forum, Free Family Art Night: Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre, the problem with theology, ideology and teleology.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) annual meeting, The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the county library, reflections on the horrors of classical music at a young age and Bach’s Orchestral Suite in B Minor.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
“Nunsense,” at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Random Acts of Insanity, the Trump’s peace plan for Gaza and what it owes Sykes-Picot and Wilson.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 29, 2025
The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee is hosting one of four community engagement meetings this evening, John Oliver and others on the Jimmy Kimmel turning point, the problem with Fara Dabhoiwala’s free speech.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 28, 2025
‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, live football from Dublin at Beachfront Grille, Gamble Jam, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre in DeLand, George Carlin on free speech, John McPhee on the Alaskan flag.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Peps Art Walk, “Avenue Q” at CRT, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, “Sweeney Todd” at Athens Theatre, from Andre Gide to Hemingway, a few deep thoughts from Charlie Sheen.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 26, 2025
“Avenue Q,” at City Repertory Theatre, Harold Bloom on how to read a book, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, the origin of wokism on a Paris street.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Palm Coast Concert Series brings SoulFire to The Stage at Town Center, Connecting to Palm Coast Expo at the Palm Coast Community Center, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, AI compares Captain nemo and Ahab.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Ex-Firefighter James Melady is scheduled for a pre-trial, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Israel’s genocide and a few lines from Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the School Board has a pair of meetings, including Derek Barrs’s last, Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills, on accommodating an uninvited guest.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 22, 2025
Flagler County Government’s second and last tax and budget hearing, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Ernest Gaines’s new volume in the Library of America and a thought from “A Lesson Before Dying.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 21, 2025
‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, ‘All Shook Up,’ at Daytona Playhouse, a few thoughts on Philippe Lançon’s memoir of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and its current echoes.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Flagler Beach Centennial Cardboard Regatta, Florida Highwaymen Art and Sale Show, ‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, what Trump’s cabinet meetings have in common with Stalin’s ovations.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 19, 2025
Clay Jones revisits immigration phobia, the Flagler County Cultural Council meets, ‘Avenue Q,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, inflation ahead, Mehdi Hasan against 20 far-rightists.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Jay Scherr gets Dave Freeman talking Appalachian Trail, Marineland Commission meeting, Town Halls with Council member Charles Gambaro, a few performance reviews for America’s citizens, model yacht races in Central Park.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Peter Kuper on erasing American history, the Palm Coast Planning Board talks concrete plant on Hargrove Grade again, Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker Roger B. Handberg, an appreciation of Edmund Wilson,
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Kiwanis Community Open House, Food Truck Tuesdays, The Palm Coast City Council meets, the suffocating atmosphere of a country’s propaganda, leaving our heart in San Francisco, John Darkow on the Department of War.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 15, 2025
Canadian Michael De Adder’s take on American outrage, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, the County Commission meets, traveling the rest rooms of I-4 in “free Florida,” Tom Hanks goes maga, changing place names.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, why your personal parcels from abroad are not reaching your door anymore.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Peps Art Walk near Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, American Association of University Women meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the connection between Seal Team 6’s killing of innocent Koreans and a Jules Verne pearl diver.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 12, 2025
John Darkow and a few other voices on on Florida’s anti-vaccine reversion, the Florida Ethics Commission meets and presumably resolves the Lauren Ramirez questions, the Friday Blue Forum meets.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 11, 2025
9/11 Tribute Climb at Hammock Beach Resort, Flagler County government tax and budget hearing, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series return tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, replaying the Gulf of Tonkin hoax in Venezuela.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Peter Kuper on Trump’s optical allusions, River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization’s bike and pedestrian committee meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, remembering Charles Aznavour.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 9, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets in an evening workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, so does the Flagler County Planning Board, a Bulgarian view of the tariffs, on the mythology of progress.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 8, 2025
Clay Jones on the octogenarian president’s strange and shaky health, The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Library Board of Trustees meets, the great historian William H. McNeill’s optimism.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 7, 2025
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when the Southern Baptist Convention told women to submit to their husbands the day before the Wisconsin Supreme Court opened the floodgates to school vouchers and called it safe for secularism.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, September 6, 2025
It’s Casino Night at the Flagler Woman’s Club, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, where medieval scribes and today’s fact-averse ideologues join hands, fact-checking Ronald Reagan.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 5, 2025
First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Flannery O’Connor’s “Geranium” and “Judgement Day.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 4, 2025
Clay Jones on flag-burning, Joao Fernandes, the 50-year-old Palm Coast resident a jury convicted of hit-and-run on Belle Terre Parkway in July, is sentenced, Palm Coast’s Residential Drainage Advisory Committee meets, when writers back censorship.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Flagler County Republican Club, the Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, chatting with James Garner, America’s undistinguished years before the Founders.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council and both Bunnell’s and Flagler Beach’s planning boards meet, a warning about silly season in the Florida House, visiting with the Ministry of Silly Walks, a few incomprehensible lines from Richard Powers.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, September 1, 2025
It’s Labor Day. All government offices, courts, schools and some shops are closed. Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration at Palm Coast Parkway Overpass. When sanctuary cities had nothing to do with migrants and everything to do with oracles and games.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 31, 2025
Overdose Awareness Day Walk Over Flagler Beach Bridge starting at Wadsworth Park, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Chandler Fritz on the demolition of public education.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 30, 2025
Clay Jones on Cracker Barrel’s new logo, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Flannery O’Connor’s uncomfortable fixations, a few words on bad taste, Grace Community Food Pantry.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, August 29, 2025
The Friday Blue Forum, when coroner made a hero of a dead burglar, Harold Brodkey on the power of reading, and a few lines from Brodkey’s sorrows.