Tree-lighting ceremony in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, artificial intelligence in a 1940 tank, Richard Powers, Don DeLillo.
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, November 28, 2025
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, finishing up with Henry James’s “Traveling Companions” and its calvary through museums as Traveling Willburys go to the end of the line. ,
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Are you kidding? Nothing’s going on today! Happy Thanksgiving. Packers and Lions at 1 p.m., Cowboys and Chiefs at 4:30, Bengals and Ravens at 8:20, and right now, a little traveling companionship with Henry James.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Not much happening today as the country shuts down for Thanksgiving. A look at Kingsport, Tennessee, and the old Kingsport Press, which used to bound and print some of the country’s leading authors’ works.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Keep the Holiday Lights On, a fond look back at City Repertory Theatre’s “Around the World in 80 Days,” and a full-length look at the miniseries.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, November 24, 2025
The Bunnell City Commission meets at its new City Hall on Commerce Parkway, Donors Wanted to ‘Keep the Holiday Lights On’, a man’s message to ICE, Dostoevsky at 59, explaining the Cloudflare outage.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Clay Jones returns, “Around the World in 80 Days” at City Rep Theatre, Gamble Jam, Patrick Chappatte reports on the American resistance.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, November 22, 2025
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre in Palm Coast, City Manager Dale Martin is the special guest at Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Peps Art Walk, the selected letters of John Updike.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, November 21, 2025
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres talks Keep the Holidays Lights on with Flagler Cares, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, Voltaire’s birthday and night thoughts.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, Scott DuPont at the Flagler County courthouse, Al Pacino at the Criminal Courts Building in Baltimore Bertrand Russell on human impulses.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Leigha Mumby in court, Jean Stafford’s “The Echo and the Nemesis,” Flagler Tiger Bay’s monthly lunch, The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, a 1969 Dick Cavett monologue.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. It is voting on a new city manager, groundbreaking for SMA Healthcare’s new facility on Justice Lane in Bunnell, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Elsa Morante on Mussolini, and ICE.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, November 17, 2025
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets, the Mosquito Control Board meets, the Flagler County Commission meets, Voltaire and Casanova meet and talk Trump, Christopher Weyant on a distant return to normal.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, November 16, 2025
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, 3 p.m., Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, Grace Community Food Pantry from noon to 3 p.m., John Cheever’s first story in The New Yorker.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, November 15, 2021
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Democratic Women’s Club meeting, a confederacy of crocodile tears, Casanova on what to keep private.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, November 14, 2021
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, Flagler Schools College and Career Fair, Flagler Outreach Brings Social Service Providers to Cattleman’s Hall, Long Island City then and now.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, November 13, 2025
The Flagler Beach City Commission considers the annexation of Veranda Bay and Summertown, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, rich and miserable, a snapshot of SNAP.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
A hearing in the bankruptcy sale of Marineland Dolphin Adventure is scheduled for 10 a.m. in Delaware federal bankruptcy court, TPO committee meeting, on matters of Augustine and the soul, a Schubert Impromptu.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade, 10 a.m. in Bunnell, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Democrats cave, Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn, Balzac on cowardice.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, November 10, 2025
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens tonight, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, when the Lutetia Hotel in Paris was a reception center for concentration and death camp survivors.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Grace Community Food Pantry, noon to 3 p.m., Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine how the Swiss see Zohran Mamdani, and how he interviewed with the New Yorker, an excerpt from Aeschylus’s Persians.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, November 8, 2025
Grace Community Food Pantry, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, how François Le Lionnais survived Dora-Mittelbau, the Nazi subcamp of the Buchenwald.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, November 7, 2025
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres is all about today’s Food-A-Thon on Flagler Broadcasting radio stations, Sealing and Expungement Clinic for Flagler and Volusia Residents, a French magazine cuts to the chase on American tyranny.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Visiting old Moody Homestead Park again in unsung Bunnell, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, “Stand By Me” in the treehouse.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Women United Flagler Grant Awards, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the way President Millard Fillmore improved the White House.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets, a celebration marks Sheriff Rick Staly’s 50 years in law enforcement, The Bunnell zoning board meets, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, how data centers are raising your electric bill, whether they’re in your town or not.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, November 3, 2025
The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets, the Flagler County Commission holds a morning meeting, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, Joan Didion’s later writings, the Library of America edition.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, November 2, 2025
Jon Stewart on the ballroom for Trump’s third term, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, a few lines from “The Autobiography of Jane Pittman.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, November 1, 2025
J.D. Vance’s food stamps cruelty, Grace Community Food Pantry hours, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 31, 2025
Rocky Horror Picture Show at Athens Theatre, Free For All Fridays on the pending food crisis if food stamps are cut off, on life sentences, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Rocky Horror Picture Show at Athens Theatre, Randy Fine’s “America for Americans” muse, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, A Forum on the Future of Volusia County’s Beaches.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Another Clay Jones special on his recovery and a rewind to those Obama years, weekly chess club for teens at the county library, Frances Fitzgerald on a 2008 letter imagining Obama’s America in 2012.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council and the School Board hold meetings, the latest Israeli theft of Gaza, the Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee, Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills at Flagler Cares.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 27, 2025
The Bunnell City Commission meets and will discuss the possibility of having voting districts in the city, Pasco County library director Sean McGharvey reminds us of library’s jazziness, a few words from Bertrand Russell.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 26, 2025
‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam, Hendrik Willem van Loon’s prejudices, Sam Cook’s Wonderful World, bubl-shaped church spires’ history.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Palm Coast Founders’ Day, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk, Rick Belhumeur’s birthday, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 24, 2025
The Florida Ethics Commission meets, Sheriff Staly discusses open carry on Free For All Fridays, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Wikipedia’s unsung heroes.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, October 23, 2025
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets this evening, Model Yacht Club Races in Central Park, Trump protests are three times as voluminous as in his first term, Peter Paul and Mary blow in the wind.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Kermit Booth, the former Palm Coast resident and Volusia schools employee, is in court (he faces two capital charges of sexually abusing a girl), Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, Aristophane’s Acharnians.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m., Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry morning hours, the reliably revolting Randy Fine on Saturday’s protests.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, October 20, 2025
The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets at 6 p.m., the Flagler County Commission meet at 5, Jermaine Williams, facing the death penalty for the stabbing to death of his wife, is in court, old age.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 19, 2025
City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the Charlie Kirk effect in Europe, John Oliver on Bari Weiss.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 18, 2025
No Kings Rallies in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, Motown & Mo’s Production — Rocking Around the Clock at the Fitz, FPC’s photographers, Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, October 17, 2025
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.
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.






















































