Daily Briefing

Marco Rubio’s fount of distractions, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, ‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy, Daytona Playhouse, Phillis Wheatley and the risks of presentism.

Santa in Bunnell, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, American Association of University Women meeting, ‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre, Gamble Jam, the Scissors Silhouette.

The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, Paul Renner on Free for All Fridays, the imagined Byzantine genesis of Alexander Calder’s sculptures.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, ‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy at Daytona Playhouse, chorales and Van Loon on the human voice.

Clay Jones on the latest Kennedy Center medal recipients, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, Tig Notaro, a pair of opera glasses tumble, journalists’ arrogance.

The Flagler County School Board, with newly selected Chair Christy Chong and Supreme Vice Chair Will Furry, meets, the Flagler County Planning Board meets, Ex-Firefighter James Melady in the second day of trial, David Rousset.

The Bunnell commission is set to approve, on second reading, one of the largest-ever rezoning of agricultural land to industrial in Florida–a 1,259-acre switch, the groundbreaking for Flagler County Fire Station 51, a message to Augie March.

Handel’s Messiah at Palm Coast United Methodist Church, ‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy, Daytona Playhouse, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, Sophocles’s Ajax and Andrew Dice Clay.

Flagler Beach’s Holiday at the Beach Parade, Palm Coast’s Starlight Parade in Town Center, John’s Towing Celebrates 35 Years in Bunnell, ‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre, Holiday Sale to Benefit Area Homeless, Roger’s Version and AI.

Incoming Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin on Free For All, Santa in Bunnel, the Florida Ethics Commission meets, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, “Alice Doane’s Appeal.”

Nexus Center Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting and Gala, Model Yacht Club Races, ‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, the similarities between a Trump cabinet meeting and an SS’s self-esteem.

Ex-Firefighter James Melady is scheduled for docket sounding, so is Kristopher Henriqson, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Elio Vittorini and Robert Antelme on the human race, Lee Greenwood.

The Palm Coast City Council meets this evening, the Bunnell Planning board meets, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry holds evening hours, Nixon, Kissinger, Trump, Cambodia and Venezuela.

The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the Flagler County Commission meets, Holiday Plant Class Series at UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County at the county fairgrounds, Peter Taylor’s “Allegiance.”

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, books that try to predict the future, Philip Roth’s “Plot Against America,” the Knights of Liberty vigilantes.

Tree-lighting ceremony in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, artificial intelligence in a 1940 tank, Richard Powers, Don DeLillo.

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, at Athens Theatre, finishing up with Henry James’s “Traveling Companions” and its calvary through museums as Traveling Willburys go to the end of the line. ,

Are you kidding? Nothing’s going on today! Happy Thanksgiving. Packers and Lions at 1 p.m., Cowboys and Chiefs at 4:30, Bengals and Ravens at 8:20, and right now, a little traveling companionship with Henry James.  

Not much happening today as the country shuts down for Thanksgiving. A look at Kingsport, Tennessee, and the old Kingsport Press, which used to bound and print some of the country’s leading authors’ works.

Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Keep the Holiday Lights On, a fond look back at City Repertory Theatre’s “Around the World in 80 Days,” and a full-length look at the miniseries.

The Bunnell City Commission meets at its new City Hall on Commerce Parkway, Donors Wanted to ‘Keep the Holiday Lights On’, a man’s message to ICE, Dostoevsky at 59, explaining the Cloudflare outage.

Clay Jones returns, “Around the World in 80 Days” at City Rep Theatre, Gamble Jam, Patrick Chappatte reports on the American resistance.

‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre in Palm Coast, City Manager Dale Martin is the special guest at Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Peps Art Walk, the selected letters of John Updike.

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres talks Keep the Holidays Lights on with Flagler Cares, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, Voltaire’s birthday and night thoughts.

Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond, Scott DuPont at the Flagler County courthouse, Al Pacino at the Criminal Courts Building in Baltimore Bertrand Russell on human impulses.

Leigha Mumby in court, Jean Stafford’s “The Echo and the Nemesis,” Flagler Tiger Bay’s monthly lunch, The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, a 1969 Dick Cavett monologue.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. It is voting on a new city manager, groundbreaking for SMA Healthcare’s new facility on Justice Lane in Bunnell, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Elsa Morante on Mussolini, and ICE.

Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets, the Mosquito Control Board meets, the Flagler County Commission meets, Voltaire and Casanova meet and talk Trump, Christopher Weyant on a distant return to normal.

‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, 3 p.m., Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, Grace Community Food Pantry from noon to 3 p.m., John Cheever’s first story in The New Yorker.

‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Democratic Women’s Club meeting, a confederacy of crocodile tears, Casanova on what to keep private.

‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at City Rep Theatre, Flagler Schools College and Career Fair, Flagler Outreach Brings Social Service Providers to Cattleman’s Hall, Long Island City then and now.

The Flagler Beach City Commission considers the annexation of Veranda Bay and Summertown, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, rich and miserable, a snapshot of SNAP.

A hearing in the bankruptcy sale of Marineland Dolphin Adventure is scheduled for 10 a.m. in Delaware federal bankruptcy court, TPO committee meeting, on matters of Augustine and the soul, a Schubert Impromptu.

Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade, 10 a.m. in Bunnell, Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Democrats cave, Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn, Balzac on cowardice.

The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree, opens tonight, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, when the Lutetia Hotel in Paris was a reception center for concentration and death camp survivors.

Grace Community Food Pantry, noon to 3 p.m., Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine how the Swiss see Zohran Mamdani, and how he interviewed with the New Yorker, an excerpt from Aeschylus’s Persians.

Grace Community Food Pantry, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Peps Art Walk in Flagler Beach, how François Le Lionnais survived Dora-Mittelbau, the Nazi subcamp of the Buchenwald.

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres is all about today’s Food-A-Thon on Flagler Broadcasting radio stations, Sealing and Expungement Clinic for Flagler and Volusia Residents, a French magazine cuts to the chase on American tyranny.

Visiting old Moody Homestead Park again in unsung Bunnell, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, “Stand By Me” in the treehouse.

Women United Flagler Grant Awards, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the way President Millard Fillmore improved the White House.

The Palm Coast City Council meets, a celebration marks Sheriff Rick Staly’s 50 years in law enforcement, The Bunnell zoning board meets, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, how data centers are raising your electric bill, whether they’re in your town or not.

The Palm Coast Charter Review Committee meets, the Flagler County Commission holds a morning meeting, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, Joan Didion’s later writings, the Library of America edition.

Jon Stewart on the ballroom for Trump’s third term, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, a few lines from “The Autobiography of Jane Pittman.”

J.D. Vance’s food stamps cruelty, Grace Community Food Pantry hours, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, ‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine.

Rocky Horror Picture Show at Athens Theatre, Free For All Fridays on the pending food crisis if food stamps are cut off, on life sentences, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine.

Rocky Horror Picture Show at Athens Theatre, Randy Fine’s “America for Americans” muse, Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town,’ at Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine, A Forum on the Future of Volusia County’s Beaches.

Another Clay Jones special on his recovery and a rewind to those Obama years, weekly chess club for teens at the county library, Frances Fitzgerald on a 2008 letter imagining Obama’s America in 2012.

The Palm Coast City Council and the School Board hold meetings, the latest Israeli theft of Gaza, the Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee, Budgeting by Values: A Free, Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills at Flagler Cares.

The Bunnell City Commission meets and will discuss the possibility of having voting districts in the city, Pasco County library director Sean McGharvey reminds us of library’s jazziness, a few words from Bertrand Russell.

‘The 39 Steps,’ at the Daytona Playhouse, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam, Hendrik Willem van Loon’s prejudices, Sam Cook’s Wonderful World, bubl-shaped church spires’ history.