Daily Briefing

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.

Flagler Beach All Stars’ beach clean-up, how the Intracoastal Waterway was built, Sunshine and Sandals, Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons,’ the beauty in the ordinary, Roxane Gay on this moment of danger.

Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at City Repertory Theatre, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Flagler Memorial Gardens, Israel, at 75, a shtetl with nukes, ‘Barnum,’ at Flagler Playhouse, the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival.

May the 4th Storytime with Flagler Beach Police Captain Lance Blanchette, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, Market Street Palm Coast Senior Living Job Fair, more book-banning tactics.

The Flagler County Association of Realtors hosts its 15th annual Meet the Mayors, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, video of a main street in San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake, Danny Laferiere.

The school board meets, the Palm Coast City Council considers raising stormwater fees considerably, the difference between conspiracy theories and academic freedom. a video memo to DeSantis from Disney’s marvels.

Flagler Beach Flood Outreach meeting, a dog-shooter pleads out, the Flagler County Commission and Beverly Beach Commission meet, as does the Astronomy Club of Palm Coast, Amtrack at 52.

Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at City Repertory Theatre, Spanky and Our Gang’s “Give a Damn,” when Muhammad Ali lost his heavyweight title, ‘Barnum,’ at Flagler Playhouse.

Friends of the Library Book sale, Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at City Repertory Theatre, ‘Barnum,’ at Flagler Playhouse, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s thoughts on alleged failure, David Shipler’s thoughts on abrogating liberties in the name of safety.

Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ at City Repertory Theatre, ‘Barnum,’ at Flagler Playhouse, National day of Mourning for workers in Canada, a dinosaur at the Flagler Youth Orchestra concert, Harper Lee’s birthday.

The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee considers renaming the Community Center in Jon Netts’s honor, Open Auditions for Spotlight on Flagler Youth Talent Show, the meaning of conservatism is liberalism.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra performs its third and final concert of the 2022-23 season at the Flagler Auditorium, open auditions for Spotlight on Flagler Youth Talent Show, Flagler Tiger Bay After Dark, Vinyl’s comeback, Sullivan’s moment of silence.

The Palm Coast City Council talks goals and firehouse, the NAACP Flagler Branch’s general membership meeting, taking stock of the wreckage Tucker Carlson leaves behind, and that continues at Fox News.

The Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Remembering the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turks, Steele on DeSantis.

For the Love of Singing: A Community Chorus of Palm Coast Concert, “Barnum” at the Flagler Playhouse, the heady days of gay marriage adoption may prove to be a Prague Spring.