Daily Briefing

Art Dycke’s Celebration of Life, Local Ham Radio Clubs Test Emergency Capabilities, Palm Coast Historical Society Executive Board Meeting, Gamble Jam, Albert Camus’s jottings on life and death.

The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at the Hammock Community Center, the Friday Blue Forum meets, Acoustic Jam Circle, a United Nations Human Rights commission concludes Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in its genocide in Gaza.

It’s between Beats and Eats in Town center and the Flagler County Tiger Bay candidate forum at the Community Center. Also, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, and the World Cup can be lopsided fun.

River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meeting, Conversations in Democracy, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, sets Trump straight, Anna Akhmatova, Renato Carosone and Bill Day on Italy.

Clay Jones on Trump’s dissimulations, the School Board holds a workshop in the afternoon and one of its pro forma meetings in the evening, an epidemic of machine-made insincerity, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, Fox’s second-class World Cup match-ups, France takes on Iraq, braving Disney on a hot summer day, Henry James on aging.

Story Time on the Farm at the Florida Agriculture, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when Pat Buchanan blamed the AIDS epidemic on homosexuals, the media and the Democratic Party, remembering Howard Ashman.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library, Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meet, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, traveling back to Etruscan tombs.

The disappearance of jail bookings, Clay Jones on the president’s many loves, Free For All Fridays, The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) meets, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, a few lines from Kafka’s Castle.

Third Thursday Together in Flagler Beach, a monthly event for residents to interact with Flagler Beach city departments. Today: finance. Marineland Commission meeting, Sabah el-Ward, Cary McMullen on CBS’s devolution.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Conversations in Democracy, contending with the American message to foreigners during the World Cup, Portugal, England, Ghana are all in action today.

The Palm Coast City Council ,meets at 9 a.m., Switzerland’s multilingual model in danger, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library, John McPhee on “La Place de la Concorde Suisse.”

Clay Jones on Donald Trump’s hypocritical criticism of Graham Platner, the Mosquito Control District meets, the Flagler County Commission meets in the evening, walking out of an interview when challenged.

Four World Cup matches today, Country Highway’s “2026 Fifa World Cup Events By State,” Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village.

Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Gamble Jam, Brazil v Morocco and Haiti v. Scotland, the idiotically parented third grader and the AR-15 hat, a little serenity from Bach.

Food Truck Friday at the Farm, Florida Agriculture Museum, United States v. Paraguay, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, Paraguay’s similarities with the United States but for the great Augustin Barrios Mangore.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, the Palm Coast Democratic Club meets, “The Green Book” and the history surrounding the segregation-era travel guide for Blacks.

Free Car Seat Safety Check at Palm Coast Fire Station 25, Community Preparedness Workshop at the Emergency Operations Center, Conversations in Democracy, Scott Pelley on his firing, democracy and dictatorship.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop to discuss taxes and the land development code, the Flagler County School Board meets as does the county planning board, a B’TSelem report on Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem.

The Flagler County Commission talks constitutional officer budgets, including that of the sheriff, a quick trial before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols, Nietzsche on art, Werner Herzog talks to Anderson Cooper.

Watermelon Festival at European Village, a suggestion to commenters everywhere from the Myth of Sisyphus, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, a few lines from Mary Gaitskill’s “This Is Pleasure.”

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m., The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, the Normandy landing and what New Yorkers were reading about that morning.

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres features the developer of the Palm Coast westward expansion and Byron Donalds, First Friday in Flagler Beach, The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, the shoot-down of Iran Air Flight 655 on the eve of Independence Day 1988.

The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, getting the measure of the universe without falling into an abyss of absurd.

Jermaine Williams is in court for a docket sounding, Conversations in Democracy, Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge 2709, electric vehicle sales worldwide, how immigrants pay more in taxes than the native-born.

Joshua King is arraigned after getting booted out of a recovery program where he would not profess faith in God, the Palm Coast City Council meets, Beaufort Castle from the Crusades to Israel, back under occupation.

The Flagler County Commission considers a proposal to keep the Adult Day Care program going through a public-private partnership, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, Stade Rolland Garros’s sordid history.

Both Flagler County high schools hold their graduation ceremonies at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach today, Voltaire’s 248th death anniversary and a few thoughts on death by him, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a conversation with Bertrand Russell and the problem with teleology: Aristotle was wrong, Walt Whitman was right.

Flagler County Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord and Rabbi Merrill Shapiro on WNZF’s Free For All talking about hurricanes and communications, the Friday Blue Forum, North Carolina legislators lose their marbles with a constitutional amendment declaring to be murder any destruction of a fertilized human egg.

Spotlight on Flagler Youth Talent Show this evening, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, an Israeli colonists beats a Palestinian family’s dog almost to death, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park.

The meaning of and indifference to Eid el Adha, one of Islam’s two high holidays, Conversations in Democracy, reflections on Abraham’s sacrifice, Marian Kamensky on the alleged end of the war with Iran.

Artificial intelligence’s problems, the Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee meets this afternoon, the NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library.

Palm Coast’s Memorial Day commemoration is at 8 a.m. at Heroes Park, Flagler County’s is at 10 a.m. at the Government Services Building., Riccardo Muti loses it at the Chicago Symphony, Casanova on temper, Saint-Georges’ Overture to L’amant anonyme.

Ed Wexler on insurrectionists’ payday, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, “Once on This Island,” a musical, at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, the tales an ash tray tells, memories of Tell Zaatar.

West of the Tracks: A Story of the Past Before Palm Coast: A Palm Coast Historical Society Lecture, Fire Station 26 Grand Opening and Hose Uncoupling Ceremony, the end of Stephen Colbert and the limits of satire.

Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson and City Commissioner John Rogers on Free For All on WNZF, the Friday Blue Forum, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, “Once on This Island,” a musical, at Limelight Theatre, Camus and Olivia Rodrigo.

Third Thursday Together in Flagler Beach, with the focus on the city manager’s office, Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, “Once on This Island,” a musical, at Limelight Theatre, The New Yorker, and a New York State of Mind.

AdventHealth Palm Coast is offering free sports physicals and ECG screenings today, Conversations in Democracy at Pine Lakes Golf Club, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Randy Fine tele-town hall.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall, “Once on This Island,” a musical, at Limelight Theatre, an illustration of thinking always in crisis, the trouble with scholasticism.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, discussing the lost colony of Flagler Estates in one and the future creation of the enormous Bulow Headwaters county park, a few words about personhood and Wendell Berry.

‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, “Once on This Island,” a musical, at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, when Steinbeck’s Lonesome Harry met Albert Camus’ Harry in Prague and Simone de Beauvoir wondered what the hell she was doing in Rochester.

Unity in the Community, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Edward Johnson City Park in Bunnell, Chess Meet-Up for at all ages at the Flagler Beach Public Library, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production, two shows at the Fitz, Trump’s diminishing fortunes.

A Disaster Preparedness Expo at the Palm Coast Community Center, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production, at the Fitz, Superintendent LaSjakia Moore on Free For All Friday, foreign language learning.

Palm Coast’s Loop Road Groundbreaking on Matanzas Woods Parkway, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,’ an FPC Production at the Fitz, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, a Maupassant story anticipates Trump’s bloodlust at a UFC fight.

Conversations in Democracy at Pine Lakes Golf Club, Jonathan Brown on the cognitive test Trump failed, on being part of something bigger than oneself, David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose.

Day two of Gary Durso’s trial, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meet as does the school board, for a workshop, catching up with Robert Caro at 90, as he continues his biography of LBJ.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, Flagler County’s Land Acquisition Committee, Francis Fukuyama on the future of democracy, a few words from the Philippines.

‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, the maimed run in Gaza, Shell’s obscene war profiteering, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when corporations were survivalists.

Palm Coast Spring Arts Festival in Central Park, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, AAUW Monthly Meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, William Maxwell’s “A Final Report.”