Daily Briefing

Belle Terre Swim & Racquet Club Summer Open House Weekend continues, is the word “cracker” derogatory? Bach’s Partita No. 6, Ulysses Grant writes his father.

Reflections on Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague,” and more Pamuk, Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market.

Incoming Superintendent LaShakia Moore on Free For All, John Updike on his dancing days, going Kwak, John Mulaney on his addiction, Scenic A1A Pride.

The Flagler Beach City Commission holds a pair of meetings, one of them in the “shade,” to discuss legal strategy, history of the Pledge, Cormac McCarthy.

Flagler Beach’s joint-government meeting on the future of the city’s tourism management, Florida Speaker of the House Paul Renner at Flagler Tiger Bay, St. Augustine’s inglorious racial history.

The school board and the Palm Coast City Council have meetings, Career Shadowing for Flagler County students at FPC, debating the spread of tipping, Food Truck Tuesday.

The Flagler County Commission meets, the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s salvo against zealotry in our governments, an opening shot from Charles Portis.

Suicide and homicide rates among young Americans at decade high, Gavin Newsom on Hannity, more guns means more violence.

Rat Pack Universe, a fund-raising concert for arts in education at the Flagler Auditorium, John Wayne speaks to Americans of tomorrow, Francis Parkman speaks of pre-Americans of yesteryear.

Brendan Depa in court for a competency hearing, David Ayres discusses growth in Flagler, Rebuke to a Dog Poisoner, Ferris Bueller’s day at the museum.

Drug court, Magna Carta’s anniversary, Franz Liszt’s Consolations, Matthew Yglesias on how politics at its best just isn’t necessarily all that entertaining.

Marc C. Gordon in court, Separation Chat’s open discussion, weekly chess club, a farewell to Cormac McCarthy, with a few dissenting words.

Nysean Giddens in court, the Palm Coast City Council talks referendum and recall procedures, St. Mary’s Missionary Baptist Church in St. Augustine, Bruce Catton’s Civil War.

The county commission holds a budget workshop, what if the moms for bigotry held a “festival” of their own, the Bunnell City Commission meets.

Pride Fest’s Vigil for Pulse Victims, Wanda Sykes’s crush, Al-Anon Family Groups, Joseph Epstein on Donald Trump’s bug.

Flagler Pride Fest, celebrating National pride Month, at Palm Coast’s Central Park in Town Center, celebrating Saul Bellow’s birthday, Gamble Jam.

Burlesque and drag night at Coquina Brewery in Flagler Beach, Christian Boyd, is sentenced, Flagler Pride’s Erica Rivera on Free for All Fridays, the surprising Justice Roberts.

Drug Court, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Library Director Holly Albanese speaks to the The Palm Coast Democratic Club on the ongoing assaults against the freedom to read, Canada’s horrific C-18 bill.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Separation Chat, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Schubert’s 13th piano sonata, Henry Adams has contempt.

The Palm Coast City Council, the Bunnell Planning Board and the school board all meet, the Boys of Pointe du Hoc on the commemoration of the Normandy invasion.

The County Commission starts its budget discussions, The Astronomy Club of Palm Coast meets, Ron DeSantis is all in on creating an autocracy, Roth’s “Dying Animal” on film.

Cecile Robilliard on flute, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market, what makes you a conspiracy theorist, and 2023 on pace for a record-breaking year of mass killings in the United States.

Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, Nate Persily on Alex Jones type conspiracists.

Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord on Free For All Fridays, First Friday in Flagler Beach, the irony of Student Safety Month, Edward Gibbon on Christianity’s effect on progress.

Two Florida medical boards look to curtail transgender treatment, the New College of Florida board meets, on the verb “rootle,” a Knausgaard bit.

Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the county library, Separation Chat by the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, where has Clint Eastwood been, when Keith Jarrett trashed Wynton Marsalis.

Flagler Palm Coast High and Matanzas High School graduations, docket sounding in court, the Newseum’s demise and its last exhibit, on LGBTQ rights, as Target caves to the fanatics, the poisons of Alex Jones’s algorithms.

Palm Coast and county government hold Memorial Day ceremonies at 8 and 10 a.m., Walt Whitman on soldiers in battle, looking at Vermeer anew.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the Ron DeSantis legislative scorecard, “Shenandoah,” the anonymous traditional, for brass, Willa Cather’s “Double Birthday.”

The City of Palm Coast Public Works Department hosts its Touch-a-Truck event, Gamble Jam, Rachel Carson and the sense of childhood wonder.

The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, the Blue 22 Forum meets, The Economist asks whether DeSantis can beat Trump, book-banners’ deepest fears.

The Monserrate Teron trial enters its fourth day, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Tina Turner, loving the internet.

The Monserrate Teron trial enters its third day, Separation Chat, Veterans Creative Expression Workshop, Open Discussion Neil Gorsuch’s skewed perspective on civil liberties.

The Teron trial enters its second day, the Palm Coast City Council begins its budget overviews, Robert Caro on the New York Public Library, Alberto Manguel on the library of Alexandria.

Monserrate Teron goes on trial on capital charges, the Bunnell City Commission makes several appointments to its planning board, the death of Martin Amis.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, conversion therapy is still legal in parts of the United States like Florida, Is the Establishment Clause Unconstitutional? Al Franken in a 1996 performance.

The second annual Hang 8 Dog Surfing Competition in Flagler Beach, Courtney VandeBunte at the Community Center, Jews of Florida, Miller Lite’s salute to women, Trump against America.

Remembering Malcolm X on his 98th birthday, unemployment figures are released, a federal judge hears the request for an injunction against state bans on doctors providing trans care.

The Census Bureau releases Vintage 2022 population estimates today, drug court convenes, Bertrand Russell, at 151, wonders why God hasn’t made a better world.

A judge hears motions in the case against Monserrate Teron, the Palm Coast planning board meets, Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, Kissinger at 100.

The Palm Coast City Council and the school board have long meetings, hitchhiking, from Neil King’s American Ramble, Semyon Barmotin.

The Flagler County Commission has a busy meeting, Vidya Herbs USA and Metronet launch their local operations in separate events, Loreen of Sweden’s win, Turkey’s election, suburban homes.

It’s Mother’s Day, Maya Angelou’s love or her mother, Toni Morrison on motherhood, Shine Mindfulness Group, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village.

The American Association of University Women scholarship awards and installation banquet, Palm Coast Spring Makers Market, discussing artificial intelligence with ChatGPT, and HAL.

LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, the Blue 22 Forum, Yogi Berra sayings on his birthday, the green light Gatsby sees on the distant dock.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, and will consider paying $83,000 for another year of insurance on the condemned pier, the Palm Coast Democratic Club meets, Neil King’s American Ramble.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State’s Separation Chat at Pine Lakes Golf Club, Elana K. Arnold on the misuses of girls.

Lag Ba’omer Community Bbq at Bing’s Landing, Community Traffic Safety Team, The Flagler County Planning Board, origins of the word paradise.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, a mother who abused her 12-year-old daughter pleads out, Louise McNeill’s Gauley Mountain, Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s birthday and last hope.

Last of Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at City Repertory Theatre and the songwriters’ festival, record oil profits at your expense, Couperin’s mysterious barricades again, Eric Newby down the Ganges.