Daily Briefing

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State holds its weekly meeting, the difference between intelligence and cleverness, a few moments with Andre Gide.

The Palm Coast City Council talks utility rate increases, the murder trial of Stephen Monroe, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the changing face of Town Center, how to build the perfect city, on the cult of open space.

Trans lives matter, the County Commission meets, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, a few words on “self-elected saints with gloomy brows.”

Paws 4 Protectors at 2K Ranch, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Athens Theatre, Willa Cather’s “Coming, Aphrodite!” Ramblin’ Man and a few words from Theodore Dreiser.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Gamble Jam, the dog-whistling behind the assault on DEI.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the Friday Blue Forum, First Friday in Flagler Beach, a preview of the Library of America’s 2025 offerings.

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, drug court, when Steinbeck was troubled by the cynical immorality of his country, Rushdie’s knife.

Palm Coast officials meet with a Rick Scott aide to discuss sewer-plant improvements, joint workshop of local governments, docket sounding for Derrius Bauer and Michael Jennelle, Flagler Beach Fire Chief Bobby Pace retires.

The Palm Coast City Council, the Flagler Beach and Bunnell planning boards all meet, Celebrating Black Composers, a concert presented by the Stetson School of Music, on cartoonist Jules Feiffer.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, on Peter Singer’s ethics about animal rights and the annual slaughter of turkeys, Jeff Koterba on the Statue of Liberty’s deportation.

‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the inability of half of Americans to name a single concentration camp from the Holocaust.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, St. Augustine and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a presentation by Dr. Butler of Flagler College at the Flagler County Public Library, when your cat shows white supremacist tendencies.

Palm Coast City Council member Ty Miller and Code Enforcement Manager Barbara Grossman on WNZF’s Free For All, the Friday Blue Forum, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, contending with the carpet-bombing of executive orders.

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, a conjunction between a Swiss cartoon and Laure Federiconi’s new novel.

Help Night at Flagler Cares, when total expenses for 24 hours at the hospital only cost $105. Now it’s approaching $3,000 a day in Florida. Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library.

A busy day of meetings at the Palm Coast City Council, the School Board and the NAACP, so take a break with ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, and the wiliness of John Marshall and judicial review.

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Beekeepers Association meets, the Library of America’s new “Black Writers of the Founding Era.”

‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, the mystery of that one Willa Cather letter, and a few more thoughts on the writer from Nebraska.

The cold-weather shelter opens, coffee with Commissioner Spradley, ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Gamble Jam, Cinderella: Youth Edition, at Athens Theatre, pining for the days when reading the press didn’t induce vomiting.

Remembering Dexter Romweber, the cold-weather shelter opens, Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers released, ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Cinderella at Athens Theatre.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and awards a contract to start demolition and construction of the pier, Lee Greenwood at the Fitz, a Palm Coast committee considers requests to rename two city venues, Alice Munro considered and reconsidered.

A discussion on book bans at today’s Separation Chat discussion, John Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend,’ at Ocean Art Gallery, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, reflections on the inaugural, a few words about Andrew Jackson.

The Palm Coast City Council meets, where James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice meets John McCain’s cheeky Islamophobia.

The cold-weather shelter opens. A strange conjunction between Martin Luther King Day and the inaugural, with a very special musical special to mark the special occasion, and Trump’s Letterman nights.

‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, the tautology of “Christian fiction,” Mencken’s two cents.

The Martin Luther King Day celebration and parade in Bunnell, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley returns, ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Woodrow Wilson’s racism.

The great Crystal Gayle at the Fitz, ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Chekhov.

The cold-weather shelter opens again as temperatures dip into the 30s, Marineland and Flagler County workshop a new agreement over park land, ‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Elvis’s Aloha from Hawaii.

The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, the Tourist Development Council meets, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board hears the site plan application for Palm Coast’s future maintenance operations center, the hottest year on record.

The cold-weather shelter opens, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Matt Gaetz’s name is floating around the 2026 gubernatorial race.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings and discusses coming budgets, a ribbon-cutting at the new tennis courts at Palm Coast’s Southern Rec Center, when the military is fetishized into an end in itself at the expense of the freedoms and the people it defends.

Democratic Party Congressional Candidates Meet and Greet, ‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, remembering Dalida and Gigi l’amoroso.

The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, American Association of University Women meet, Gamble Jam in the cold, The Isaacs at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, Bernie Sanders gets a vote for Lebanese president.

Free For All Fridays on WNZF recaps the top stories of 2024 with a roundtable of local reporters and editors, the Friday Blue Forum, reflections on Jimmy Carter’s funeral and the Burghers of Calais.

The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, China’s nuclear boom, a scene from “The China Syndrome,” Sarah Orne Jewett.

Flagler County Legislative Delegation meeting featuring Tom leek and Sam Greco, the Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, and why Donald Trump is right: America’s airports are awful.

The Cold-Weather Shelter opens again tonight, the Bunnell Planning Board takes on the rezoning of Reserve at Haw Creek, the Palm Coast City Council meets, Sydney Shlenker’s pyramid, an I.M. Pei’s.

Flagler County Commissioners make appointments and re-appointments to the planning board and vote on a dangerous-dog designation, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, memories of Baalbek.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Peter Kuper on global smoking, on Breaking the Silence, the organization of whistleblowing veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Grace Community Food Pantry, on the Soap Museum in Saida, and Barbara Ehrenreich talks candidly about cleaning up other people’s crap.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks, on the beauty of Maine’s flora, Steinbeck and Charley discover Aroostook County.

The Bunnell Coty Commission and its Planning Board hold a joint workshop on the pending rezoning application by Reserve at Haw Creek, on golden ageism, Philip Glass and the cosmic calendar.

It’s back to 1954 in Florida, launching a new year on a few thoughts by Pascal, a song suggested by Andy Montgomery (the poor have too much money), and Sabbath’s Theater.

Nothing doing around Palm Coast and Flagler County except shopping for Veuve-Cliquot, a few meaningless predictions for 2025, the absurdity of crystal balls, a final word by Voltaire.

Clay Jones on Jimmy Carter, last Night for Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Nar-Anon Family Groups, a few thoughts about Byblos, its etymology and history, goodbye Demis Roussos.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, next-to-last night of Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast’s Town Center, on the price of denying love to children, and the rewards of providing it.

Gamble Jam, Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden walks of the last 11 years, Ian Frazier takes te F and reflects on Brooklyn and its smells from coffee to fingernail polish to eucalyptus.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival, recalling Apollo’s orbits around the Moon at Christmas 1968, and Time Magazine’s year of culture.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival continues for a few more days in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Bachfest, a few reflections on Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs and the 100 best books of the 21st century.

Nothing doing today, and beside the chestnuts roasting on a natural gas fire and the remains of yesterday’s fog, it’s time for Bachfest and the smell of Christmas in “The Plot Against America.”