Daily Briefing

Nysean Giddens is sentenced, the Beverly Beach Town Commission and the Astronomy Club meet (separately), the U.S. Supreme Court begins its 2023-24 term, and what are we to make of the Sphere in Vegas?

St. Augustine Songwriters Festival, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, a celebration of Amin Maalouf.

A themed 60s/70s Dance Party at African American Cultural Society, Remembering Heroes Fall Festival in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Jamil Jan Kochai’s great story, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak.”

Michael Bowling is back in court, “The Tin Drum” at the Carver Center, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at CRT, a brief review of the GOP debate.

Chad Cordoma faces up to 15 years in prison for making written threats against a family member, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, time to give Scott Fitzgerald a fresh look.

Claude Sisco Deen Services services at Cattleman’s Hall at 2 p.m., Reba Johnson status in court, the Flagler County Public Library Book Club meets, a new book on The New York Times.

Taylor Manjarres is sentenced for her role in the December 2021 home invasion robbery and death of Zaire Roberts, Brightline’s launch and the cost of driving cars, the evanescence of health.

The Bunnell City Commission adopts its 2023-34 budget and tax rate, the mosquito board and the Beekeepers Association meet (separately), hopefully without fumigation, Robert Reich on socialism.

Matinee of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, your car is to blame for the largest share of greenhouse gases, Purdue Pharma’s guilt.

Another homage to Krys Fluker, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at CRT, Gamble Jam, a few words about the heart-rending Domenico Scarlatti, the pain of the elderly.

The mania to destroy nature to appreciate it, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at CRT, asking a salient question about Trump.

Drug Court meets, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, the decade we lost Earth to global warming, the etymology of “divine wind,” otherwise known as kamikaze.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Separation Chat, the horrors of flying according to Robert Reich and Henry David Thoreau.

The Palm Coast City Council takes up land use matters, the School Board takes up Board Attorney Kristy Gavin’s contract, the great crash of democracies around the world.

The Flagler County Commission meets, it’s another trial week in felony court, but nothing high-profile, Paul Renner’s successor is crowned, reflections at a bus stop on love and fallen humanities, Chris Abani on our shared humanity.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” 3 p.m. at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, what Tchaikovsky looks like from I-95, and what he sounds like from Royal Festival Hall.

Flagler OARS’ 3rd Annual Recovery Festival, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, US News judges the best countries in the world a bit tendentiously, a tipping point in Antarctica, Saul Bellow.

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” at City Repertory Theatre, Kant’s Notebook at a perfume counter at Dillards, Conan O’Brien’s Dartmouth Commencement Speech, more Didion from Miami.

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes on higher and new impact fees, the Brennan Hill trial on a murder charge is in its third day, Brancusi’s Bird in Space, Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country.

Brenan Hill’s trial on a second degree murder charge enters its third day, cities and the county’s representatives meet in a joint committee, a yoga class mistaken for a mass murder, Alvin Kernan on death, atheists and foxholes.

The Palm Coast City Council discusses cell phone coverage in the city and its electric vehicle and EV charging station infrastructure, a Bach partita, Bobby Ann Mason’s In Country and Florida.

September 11 commemoration at heroes Park in Palm Coast, the Bunnell City Commission approves its budget and tax rates for next year, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Samuel Hynes.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market, Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish or rather Kurdish immigrant sheep herder who became Chobani billionaire, Colin Thubron on the Hills of Adonis and Jabal Sannin.

Gamble Jam at Gamble Recreation Area in Flagler Beach, keeping an eye on the tropics, Philip Roth and Michiko Kakutani on on Saul Bellow, reading the Bellarosa Connection.

The Blue 24 Forum, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, Jane Addams’s birthday, Christopher Hitchens v. Dinesh D’Souza.

Brendan Depa has a pre-trial hearing before Judge Perkins, drug court meets, a few thoughts on Plato’s “Gorgias” and Samuel Hynes’s experience with death, Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debate on God.

Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, mapping where journalists disappear.

It’s back to work with–amazingly–three open meetings of the Flagler County School Board, a meeting of the Palm Coast City Council, Beth Macy on “Dopesick,” a few more words on the American worker.

A remembrance of Labor Day’s origins, history and misuses, a look back at the Florida labor department’s understanding of workers’ rights, Robert Reich on Labor Day.

Sunday Chess Club at Chabad of Palm Coast, the Farmer’s Market, Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major, John Pekkanen on the whole drug industry campaign for mood drugs in the 1960s.

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Henry James’s “A Light Man.”

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Remembering U.S. District Court Judge James C. Turk, Catherine Edmondston discovers that there’s nothing ever new under the sun, missing David Letterman.

Flagler County Comprehensive Plan update at Hammock Community Center, “digging out” from Idalia, the Charleston earthquake of 1886 and Edward Gibbon’s reflections on natural disasters.

Absent scheduling changes due to the storm, Michael Bowling, the former Mondex man serving 20 years in prison for molesting a girl at his stepdaughter’s sleepover, is in court arguing for a lesser sentence.

The Palm Coast City Council goes over its final budget for next year, A celebration of the life of the late Charlie Ericksen, keeping score on Donald Trump’s indictments and civil lawsuits.

The Flagler County Commission holds a 2:30 p.m. workshop to discuss its beach management plan, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, a cop beats a man with a tennis racket as the man is being attacked by a police dog.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, how the FBI, not the Washington Post, brought down Richard Nixon, and once again, Pacho Flores’s performance, on the trumpet, of Arturo Marquez’s superb “Autumn Concerto.”

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, “Jerry and Moly and Sam,” a story by Raymond Carver, the Commitments at the dark end of the street.

The Blue 24 Forum, the A1A Pride Committee meets, the death of Lolita, the The 57-year-old whale at the Miami aquarium, Susan Orlean on Willie.

School Board workshop on the hiring of LaShakia Moore as superintendent, Florida Humanities Speakers Series:  “Respect: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement” at AACS, Yasser Arafat and Jorge Luis Borges.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club takes on “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” Separation Chat, Open Discussion, memories of Baalbek and the Temple of Jupiter.

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting this evening, cry the oil companies a river of oil, H.L. Mencken on the American press, the Cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Brian William.

The Flagler County Commission takes on the final plat approval for Veranda Bay, the Mosquito Control District Board meets, the day the Mona Lisa was stolen for the second time.

Sunday Chess Club at Chabad of Palm Coast, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, William Maxwell’s “Over By the River,” Charles Portis on taking in an intellectual woman.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Grace Community Food Pantry, Bill Clinton’s 77th, with rewinds to Clinton on Letterman and Michiko Kakutani on Clinton.

Waterfront Park Ribbon Cutting, Pete Davidson and Friends in Ponte Vedra Beach, Midnight Mayhem at One Daytona, E.B. Sledge and With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club’s fifth annual Wine Tasting Meet and big reveal, Creative Writing for Adults at the Public Library, Democratic Women’s Club meeting, “Florida Soul” at the African American Cultural Society, the futility of beach renourishment.

The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board takes on the Cascades development in Seminole Woods, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, George Carlin at the National Press Club, E.B. Sledge’s portrait of Sgt. Haney.

Food Truck Tuesdays, The Flagler County School Board has its monthly pair of meetings, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Barbie movie is banned in Lebanon and is celebrated on SNL.

“Summer of Soul,” part of AACS’s film presentations of classic Black cinema, this afternoon, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Ian McEwan on civilization, on Bach, and on Ian McEwan.