Daily Briefing

“Mass Appeal” is in its final performance, “Wait Until Dark” at City Repertory Theatre, Cornel West’s fabulous commercial for his philosophy class, and rights as people’s bogus consolation for their actual misery.

“Wait Until Dark” at CRT and “Mass Appeal” at Flagler Playhouse, Francis Bacon, George Balanchine and John Donne give us flights of fancy, Yiyun Li’s tortured child.

Unemployment figures, “Wait Until Dark” at City Repertory Theatre, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse, Hutson and Renner on Free For All Fridays, an excerpt from Rebecca Makkai’s latest story.

Drug Court, “Mass Appeal” returns for a final weekend at the Flagler Playhouse, Federico Fellini talks to Dick Cavett, and a few thoughts on travel.

The Palm Coast Planning Board hears an application for yet another self-storage facility on Old Kings Road, 24 hours after the Palm Coast City Council approved one nearby.

A busy day in local government and courts with the Palm Coast City Council meeting and likely again discussing July 4 fireworks and the Flagler County School Board discussing a new way to handle library books, and, potentially, controversial titles.

A voting rights rally near Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach at noon, how a particular MLK quote is often used as a cudgel against calls for race-specific remedies for Black Americans, the cold-weather shelter is open, schools and courts and most government offices are closed.

The cold-weather shelter is open tonight for the homeless and for anyone who lacks heat, “Mass Appeal” in a matinee at the Flagler Playhouse, a matter of P-Section sex has neighbors frustrated, and a look back at a Jeremiah Wright sermon.

A Martin Luther King Day celebration parade is cancelled in Bunnell, but a prayer breakfast at Carver Center is still on, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse in Bunnell, a few words on heroes by Voltaire.

The biggest stories of 2021 in WNZF’s annual media roundtable, Meowy Hour at the Hilton Garden Inn, “Mass Appeal” at the Flagler Playhouse, Georg Büchner on the fatalism of history.

The Flagler Beach City Commission will receive the final report of the July 4 committee, “Mass Appeal” opens at the Flagler Playhouse, William Faulkner on his native soil in Oxford, and Neil Postman on smoke signals.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, and the Flagler Playhouse hosts its Community Night for “Mass Appeal,” which opens at reduced price tonight, regular price tomorrow.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the Palm Coast City Council discusses fireworks, its future manage and its video meetings, Flagler County marks the opening of a mental health center in Bunnell.

It’s trial week at the Flagler County courthouse. The Flagler County Commission meets for the first time this year, as does the Bunnell City Commission, the latter returning to the Government Services Building for its meetings, now that it’s homeless again.

Richard Nixon at 109, Simone de Beauvoir complains about how there’s always some holiday going on in America, and Octavio Paz explains why nature didn’t stand a chance.

Free tree recycling at Palm Coast fuel depot on Utility Drive, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Flagler’s January meeting with Dr. Mary Gatta on Generation X women, the morality (or immorality) of watching Squid Game, Isaac Asimov on Letterman.

James McIntire sentencing before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, recalling the Jan. 6 insurrection, hunting deer instead of hippies, a seminar on Ritchie Robertson’s “The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness.”

Flagler County students return to school for the spring semester amid a surge of omicron and a dearth of safety directives, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Linda Greenhouse on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s big mistake.

Happy birthday Jules Kwiatkowski. The Flagler County School Board discusses its own protocols, Bunnell Manager Alvin Jackson talks about changes at the city, the Palm Coast City Council meets this evening.

The grind returns. Court is back in session with arraignments, and the sentencing of former Seaman Isaac Julio Becker, the social virus of nationalism, remembering Arsenio’s first.

The great John Hope Franklin through the ages, LBJ’s “To Fulfill These Rights” address at Howard University, and a remembrance of the miserable Palmer Raids of 1920.

This is Be Kind to Food Servers Month, started by Memphis waitress Sybil Presley in 2008. A few words from Sandra Bullock on the subject, and C. Vann Woodward on the strange career of Jim Crow.

Government offices and courts are closed, fireworks are still banned in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, Wesley Morris on Black music’s miracle of sound, and Bach on the miracle of Cantata BWV 170, closing out the year on a plea for the delights of the soul.

Nixon, Kissinger and the great war crime of Christmas 1972, the Everglades crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, Mary McCarthy disappoints her confessional priest when he asks her what kind of impurities she’d committed.

The funniest pandemic video you’ll see this holiday season, Frederick Douglass remembers his encounter with Andrew Johnson at the Lincoln inaugural, the novice who likes to watch women rub clothes on the stones.

On the death of E.O. Wilson, the great biologist and advocate of the Enlightenment. Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, which Nixon signed into law while on vacation in California.

The criminality of Monday’s existence the week between Christmas and New Year’s, Wesley Morris on Motown’s wonders, Oriana Fallaci on Interviewing Henry Kissinger.

One of the hottest Christmases on record continues, the James Webb Space Telescope gives us something otherworldly to look at, more from Patricia Lockwood’s “Priestdaddy.”

How they saw Christ: Will Durant, Anthony Burgess, Bruce Barton, Thomas Mann, Bertrand Russell, Bill Day, plus a gift from Bach and the Lucerne Chamber Circle.

Midnight Mass with a fabulous musical program at Elizabeth Ann Seton, and a 5 o’clock program for those who can’t hack the midnight thing, plus Darlene Love’s Christmastime for the Jews and Ronald Reagan on carpet-bombing Vietnam in time for Christmas.

Waste Pro garbage pick-up schedules for Christmas and New Year will not change. Jamelle Bouie on “a homegrown ideology of reaction in the United States.” Holiday rules on what not to talk about around the dinner table.

Barely three days left to shop around Omicron, on the little-known enslavement of Native Americans, Beethoven’s big concert, and a few words about “a monument of German stupidity.”

The latest uncertainties on the Omicron variant, All Things Christmas Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar, an excerpt from “Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind,” by Tracy K. Smith.

The cynics take hold of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” David Denby on capitalism, our children and the avalanche of crud, and a quick preview of the 2022 election.

Community Cats of Palm Coast is hosting the Third Annual Pawsitively Purrfect Auction at the Pine Lakes Golf Club Dec. 19 from 2 to 5 p.m., Karl Ove Knausgaard on faith.

“All Things Christmas” Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar Catholic Church, why people and birds aren’t real, Ronald Dworkin on the degradation of free speech in America.

Last day of school as Winter Break begins this afternoon and until the first week of January, local and state unemployment figures are released this morning, and how to celebrate Saturnalia without waiting for Christmas.

Circuit Court Judge Terence Perkins hears a plea from Joey Renn, the 22-year-old man facing a charge of vehicular homicide. Patricia Lockwood on her father’s belief that cats, which he despises, are Democrats.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, “Gone With the Wind”‘s anniversary, and a few words about Chief Justice John Marshall and his sordid history.

The Palm Coast City Council talks manager search and sets up new community development districts, Flagler Beach’s July 4 committee meets to finalize its report, the county’s planning board meets.

The Flagler County Commission meets for the last time in regular session this year and will approve the platting of the Beachwalk development in the Hammock. The Bunnell City Commission also meets and may discuss the revelations of serious problems at the police department.

Anniversary of the swearing in of Joseph Hayne Rainey, first Black man to serve in Congress, and birth anniversary of William Lloyd Garrison, plus a few words from Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project.

The Flagler Woman’s Club honors Flagler Beach police at a pancake breakfast, and you’re invited, the Palm Coast Starlight Festival is this evening in Town Center, Darlene Love at the Flagler Auditorium for a Christmas Show.

Michael Waltz on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, the Choral Arts Society’s Christmas concert, Mortimer Zuckerman decries American education, in 1988, “All Things Christmas” Sale at Santa Maria Del Mar.

Flagler Beach city commissioners are expected to approve submitting a $17.6 million loan application to the State Revolving Fund to fund sewer plant repairs. The All Things Christmas sale at Santa Maria del Mar in Flagler Beach continues.

“Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories,” at the Main Library in St. Augustine this morning, the Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s guest this evening is CNN’s Alice Stewart.

A neighborhood meeting regarding the development of Eagle Lake on Old Kings Road is scheduled for this evening. The School Board meets in workshop and will discuss “equity.” The Palm Coast City Council meets. Jack Kemp when he called American football capitalism and European soccer socialism.

Flagler County commissioners are set to approve a new, expanded agreement with the East Flagler Mosquito Control District and approve their own new schedule of impact fees.

Craig Flagler Palms’s 18th annual Candlelight Service of Remembrance, Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, Holiday Concert, Stetson University Concert Band, U.S. Sen. Henry Kuchel, R-Calif., decries self-styled “I am a better American than you are” organizations.