Daily Briefing

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Harley Schwadron on the Lunatic Fringe, lying about reading Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and whether that’s such a bad thing.

The annual Back to School Jam is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Flagler Palm Coast High School 800 gym, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, when Daniel Boorstin turned repulsive.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, confusing ethics and aesthetics, Walker Percy and Consumer Reports.

Palm Coast Concert Series featuring Landfall, 6 to 8 p.m. at the Stage at Town Center, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, reading the perplexing and sublime Andre Gide.

Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night, Separation Chat, Christopher Weyant on Netanyahu, John Oliver on the Big Beautiful Bill, the decline and fall of X, Jeff Sharlet on the F word.

Food Truck Tuesday this evening in Palm Coast’s Town Center at Central Park, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique, the Yankees’ Ryan McMahon meets Bruce Dern of “The Cowboys.”

The Bunnell City Commission meets, learning all about Earth Overshoot Day, or how natural resources are eroding faster than they can be restored, an echo of the same from 10,000 years ago.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Richard Beck’s new book on the war on terror at home.

Peps Art Walk at  Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, John Updike’s sexism and the trappings of ugliness, Bach and Francis Parkman on the Oregon Trail.

The Florida Ethics Commission meets, Palm Coast Council member Ty Miller on Free For All, Acoustic Jam Circle at the Community Center In The Hammock, Ian Frazier, Casanova, Yussuf and the Great Plains.

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Member Ty Miller, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club Races in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Israel’s genocide and its apologists.

The Flagler County Industrial Development Authority holds its inaugural meeting, weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, memories of the Iran-Contra affair and Gibbon’s take.

A Celebration of the life of Jim Guines, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Flagler County School Board holds a trio of meetings, a text exchange with a friend, Mortimer Adler’s seminar on Justice with Bill Moyers, Vernon Louis Parrington on the Mathers of New England.

Mosquito control meeting, a slip-and-fall trial involving Publix, Fintan O’Toole on the show of force in Los Angeles, Israeli atrocities and war crimes continue at food-distribution sites.

Clay Jones on the Epstein files, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, getting to know Nicolas Edme Retif de la Bretonne, Edith Piaf in Saving Private Ryan, Isaiah Berlin’s Freedom and Its Betrayals.

The Flagler Beach Farmers’ Market at its new location on South 2nd Street, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin get into it.

Superintendent LaShakia Moore discusses the costly loopholes of the state’s school voucher system on Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, when Churchill smoked cigars in the Saudi King’s face, Salman Rushdie’s Knife.

Flagler County attorney candidate interviews this afternoon, Marineland Town Commission meeting, the ironies of a slow trek back to the 1900, Paul Krugman on the radical changes ahead, Steinbeck’s bad day.

Trial week continues, the Tourist Development Council meets, so does the Palm Coast Planning Board, recalling the Trinity Test nuclear explosion in New Mexico and the meaning of the word.

trial of Quinntavus Kwame Jordan and Joao Paulo Fernandes, the Palm Coast City Council meets, Food on pickleball’s rise and war with tennis, cheating in chess and in Steinbeck’s “Sweet Thursday.”

The Flagler County Commission holds a 1 p.m. workshop to discuss the potential leasing of Bull Creek, and to discuss next year’s budget. It meets again at 5 p.m. The Bunnell City Commission meets. The menhirs of Carnac in Brittany, and the magnificence of a scene from Casablanca on Bastille Day.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam: in Flagler Beach’s Roger Gamble Recreation Area, Edouard Riou’s illustrations for Jules Verne’s extraordinary journeys, and the Florida shipwreck.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk at Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, re-reading Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the earliest origins of the Nautilus.

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres features Palm Coast Council member Charles Gambaro on the latest Norris follies, the very good and the very bad of Harry Elmer Barnes, and a sum-up of the mostly very bad Supreme Court term.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club races in Central park in Town Center, a text exchange on the next Nobel Peace Prize, remembrances of Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.

Heat index values up to 105, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Separation Chat, reflections on Mike’s Watch Repair at the Volusia Mall and Matthew Desmond on American inequalities.

The Palm Coast City Council, meeting under Mike Norris for the first time since he lost his court case to get Charles Gabaro off the council, meets to discuss its budget, the Flagler School Board holds a pair of meetings, Clay Jones on funding Florida’s concentration camp with FEMA money, the Library of America publishes a two-set anthology of the Jim Crow era.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the bill the Senate just passed adds 3.25 trillion to the national debt, John Oliver on the bill, Amin Maalouf on not getting do-overs in history.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when personal libraries risk becoming a liability, Peter Arnett remembers interviewing Osama bin Laden, Dred Scott is making a comeback.

Clay Jones on the degenerate merchandizing of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Georges Simenon’s Lock 14, or what’s behind the name of a book title.

Independence Day Events in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast and Evening Fireworks, with midday First Friday in Flagler Beach, when Harvard chose to celebrate its anniversary as Emerson would have disapproved, with a few reminders from his “American Scholar.”

Mayor Mike Norris’s lawsuit against the city and Charles Gambaro goes before Judge France, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the Australian cat-kidnappers of “Lebanon Days.”

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, the Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Jay Gardner’s birthday, John McEnroe at his tennis academy, Casanova on love.

The Bunnell Planning Board discusses a retail project on the west side, The Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, a few more thoughts on the Schbertian “Memory of Old Jack,” and some late Schubert.

The total obliteration of truth, so naturally nobody wants to do anything today, how housing assistance falls short, how architecture shapes humanity, Dickens’s Bleak House.

On the pleasures of smoking a pipe from Casanova to Flaubert to Yusuff Ali to John Updike to Simenon, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Pat Bagley on the bombing of the Constitution.

Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. eat Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Bruce Springsteen Hometown, Wendell Berry and Old Jack’s memories.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, the Friday Blue Forum, Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, and that bogus assassination attempt on 18 Brumaire.

Palm Coast Concert Series at the Stage at Town Center with Half Step Down FLA, The Flagler Beach City Commission talks Beachwalk/Boardwalk redesign, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, J.M. Coetzee on the barbarians.

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Hall with Council Member Theresa Pontieri, The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meeting, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, the erasure of transgender people.

The Palm Coast City Council talks property taxes and the potential sale of the Palm Harbor Golf Club, the LAPD’s shameful apology for a humanist tweet, Budgeting by Values: a free virtual class to learn budgeting skills at Flagler Cares.

The Bunnell City Commission takes on the rezoning of nearly 1,900 acres to industrial, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, visiting the caves of Altamira and Lascaux, and that first moment when Maria Justina encountered the bull.

Gamble Jam for musicians of all ages and just about all instruments, at Gamble Rogers Recreation Area, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, David Foster Wallace’s commencement and Kenneth Fearing’s Big Clock.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meets, what Hallmark birthday wishes sound like in China, a few words about the Chinese Exclusion Act now that these laws are back in vogue.

The Friday Blue Forum, Michael Martin’s Ellis Island ancestry, the opening Genesis-like lines of “The Columbia History of Literature.”

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the Library of America delivers a new Wendell Berry, who speaks with Bill Moyers and gives us a few lines about Old Jack.

Paul Peterson at Flagler Tiger Bay Club, the Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, Margolis & Cox’s dishonest cherry-picking quote from Martin Luther King’s “The Other America.”

Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Town Center, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the indifference of Americans as Israel bombs Iran, as John McCain sang about it, Andre Gide gliding on ice.

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 9 a.m. to discuss the beach management plan, what may be a do-or-die meeting, Charles Van Doren and the great game-show fraud.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, memories of Louis Robilliard’s musician family, a few words from Solzhenitsyn.