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.
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, May 14, 2026
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, May 11, 2026
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, May 10, 2026
‘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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, May 9, 2026
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.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, May 8, 2026
Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin at the Jacked-up Bean, ‘The Curious Savage” at Daytona Playhouse, more sappy reflections on “As Time Goes By.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Disingenuously bemoaning the days when Liszt and Brahms were celebrities, Philippe Lancon on Bach, Model Yacht Club races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club and the Flagler County Republican Club meet, but quite separately, Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge, a church declares the end of hell, and a few thoughts about eternity.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The Palm Coast City Council meets, Flagler Beach’s Planning Board meets to celebrate Chair Suzie Johnston’s 45th birthday, The Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets at the Flagler Beach library, another Jim Thompson excerpt.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, May 4, 2026
The Palm Coast City Council holds a “retreat” at the Southern Recreation Center, the County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, crime novelist Jim Thompson’s Library of America volume.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, May 3, 2026
Last performance of ‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ and last performance of the season at City Rep Theatre Simenon’s existentialism, Bill Murray’s energy, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Paws For Music: Community Cats Fundraiser at 1405 Saloon, Palm Coast Library Bookfest, ‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre, when a Texas school board banned a textbook over a paragraph on capitalism.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, May 1, 2026
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ enters its final weekend at City Rep Theatre, First Friday in Flagler Beach, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, consumer confidence at an all-time low.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 30, 2026
Satchel Walton, an imminent graduate in journalism from UNC, worries about his industry and the truth, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, John Oliver on journalism.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Clay Jones on Kash Patel’s frat boy acts, Conversations in Democracy, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse, 10 of Blaise Pascal’s Pensées if Trump were tweeting them.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
It’s school board day, with the 1 p.m. workshop and 6 p.m. meeting, the Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee, the Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Group meets, a few thoughts about Pascal.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 27, 2026
The Bunnell City Commission meets, John Darkow’s take on artificial intelligence, that creepy half-marathon with robots in Beijing, when Gary Kasparov won and lost to Deep Blue.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 26, 2026
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre, Dead Men Tell No Tales at the Palm Coast Community Center, deporting Afghan collaborators to Congo, David Ignatius on the Iran war.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 25, 2026
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre, Gamble Jam, Dead Men Tell No Tales…. Or Do They? Murder Mystery Dinner Show at the Palm Coast Community Center, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 24, 2026
‘Line’ and ‘All In the Timing’ At City Rep Theatre, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, Dead Men Tell No Tales…. Or Do They? Murder Mystery Dinner Show, at Palm Coast Community Center, bulldozing Walden Pond.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 23, 2026
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, FPCHS Starlets Spring Dance at the Fitz, model yacht club races in Town Center, the dangerous, authoritarian slide of the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Developer’s public meeting on western expansion, 6 p.m. at Palm Coast Community Center, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, Conversations in Democracy, three arches to remind us that the triumphal kind are usually the ugliest, least necessary, and nowhere near the majesty of the real thing.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The Palm Coast City Council meets, Echoes of Earth: Flutes in Concert, a performance by the Daytona State College music program students, Community Preparedness Workshop, Chicago’s message to ICE.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 20, 2026
The Flagler County Commission meets, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, reading Red Smith in a one-armed hash house, calming down with the Persian Santur.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 19, 2026
The Gallery of Local Art’s Bloom and Sip English Tea Party, remembering Jon Netts, “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, “Godspell,” Limelight Theatre.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 18, 2026
Job fair for prospective teachers at the GSB, Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, a maga version of the Beatitudes, a few words from Camus.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 17, 2026
The Flagler County Cultural Council meets, “Godspell” at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, confusing Fox News and the Washington Times with The Onion.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Clay Jones on Trump’s surrender, the Marineland Town Commission meets, Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library, why the average Flagler County fourth grader writes better English than the president.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The Flagler County Tourist Development Council meets, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Henriqson trial day 3, Eternal Darkness in Lebanon and the faces and lives obliterated by Israel’s war crimes.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the school board meets, Tuesday Book Talk at the Flagler Beach Public Library, Trump thinks he’s God, the pope thinks he’s a bully, Florida to Russia.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 13, 2026
The Kristopher Henriqson trail begins with jury selection, the Bunnell City Commission meets, when Ronald Reagan could order Israel to a ceasefire, and memories of April 13, 1975.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 12, 2026
Get theatrical: “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, “Godspell,” Limelight Theatre, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, and when “normal people don’t know that everything is possible.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 11, 2026
The 18th annual Turtle Fest is all day today at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks, Gamble Jam, “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, a few words from Brune Bettelheim on disbelief of and disassociation from horrors we experience.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 10, 2026
How Trump allowed himself to be led by the nose by Israel’s Netanyahu into a war on Iran, Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin, “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, “The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 9, 2026
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, “Godspell,” Limelight Theatre, when Trump demolished the Bonwit-Teller tower to build his own.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Kristopher Henriqson and Gary Durso in court, the Public Safety Coordinating Council has its quarterly meeting, Conversations in Democracy, juxtaposing Rubio and Trump on military spending, Hannah Arendt on the gullibility of the masses.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
The Palm Coast City Council meets this evening for the first time in three weeks, Flagler Beach’s and Bunnell’s planning boards meet, the Hammock Community Association Meeting with Jen Lomberk, Executive Director of Matanzas Riverkeeper, the Iran war in three covers.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 6, 2026
The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, including an afternoon workshop to discuss its search for a new administrator, the Beverly Beach Commission meets, a few words about the garish Trump library in Miami, and its kinship with Mao.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 5, 2026
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 4, 2026
The Second Annual Italian Festival at the county fairgrounds, Celebrating Celine! with Jenene Caramielo at the Fitz, “Godspell” at the Limelight Theatre, ruining the World Cup.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 3, 2026
Commissioner Andy Dance Free For All Friday, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Artemis goes Old Lace.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 2, 2026
“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park and Doug Stanhope on nationalism.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 1, 2026
The Artemis launch this evening, Palm Coast’s Code Enforcement Board meets, Conversations in Democracy at Pine Lakes Golf Club, Bingo Night at Palm Coast Elks Lodge.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, Free Tax Preparation Services for a few more days, maga über alles.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, March 30, 2026
Clay Jones on King Trump, the Bunnell Police Department’s seminar on “Fraud Fighters,” postcard from Beirut under the bombs, a stroll through the city.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, March 29, 2026
The Flagler Home and Lifestyle Show has its second and final day, Yasmina Reza’s “Art,” at City Repertory Theatre, “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Richard Ford reminds us to stop blaming baseball.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 28, 2026
No Kings rallies and protests in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach, 9:30 to 1 p.m., Flagler Home and Lifestyle Show at FPC, The Jungle Book at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, Yasmina Reza’s “Art,” at City Repertory Theatre, “My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, Gamble Jam, reflections on the shattering of an apartment building in Tehran.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 27, 2026
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, Yasmina Reza’s “Art,” at City Repertory Theatre, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Israel’s long history of funding Hamas.













