Daily Briefing

Brandon Washington, the notorious gang leader sentenced to several life terms a decade ago, is back in court, the Blue Forum 24 meets, a look at the construction of the Margaritaville hotel construction site in Flagler Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Christ the King Lutheran Church hosts its Meals of Hope (and can use your help), the United States accounts for one of the highest proportion of trans individuals murdered in the world, Dr. Phil on trans rights.

The Palm Coast Planning Board meets, the Flagler County Public Library Book Club talks John Grisham, a few words about Frederick II, Renaissance Man of the Crusades, Rabbit Angstrom on anger.

The Palm Coast City Council will hear the latest utility rate study–usually the precursor to rate hikes, and hear about Community Cats. A few words about the two-state solutions, and a few thoughts from Raja Shehadeh.

The Bunnell City Commission discusses an Italian Festival in the city, Brendan Depa and school violence make it onto Bill Maher, it’s trial week, and the Flagler Cares Coalition’s general membership meets.

The Palm Coast Fall Arts Festival in Central Park, the Farmers’ Market at European Village, Donnie Brook’s underwater UFO base near Deerfield Beach, Rachel Carson on the Sea Around Us.

Veterans Day Parade in Bunnell and subsequent ceremony at the GSB, celebrating the skies in Flagler Beach with the photography of Scott Spradley and Rick Belhumeur, on the magic of books according to Amos Oz.

Free For All Fridays tries to make sense of the art scene in Flagler County, the Blue 24 Forum, celebrating Ennio Morricone, Rachel Carson on the Sea Around Us.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Chris Lowe of Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University is the speaker at Whitney’s Lecture Series, a stream of consciousness from Brown Dog, plus Jack London.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts its weekly chat, the office as we knew it is over, the soul of computers.

The Flagler County School Board’s firing squad meets again to discuss its attorney’s fate, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Central Amazon Conservation Complex, Frederick Douglass on “the dark outlines of approaching disasters.”

Alleged murderer Charles Kidd Jr.’s competence is decided in court, the County Commission decides whether to approve a settlement with Captain’s BBQ, from Obama to Double Trump.

“Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Cliché Day, Hanan Ashrawi back in 2000.

The Gammon Ruck Relay across fire stations, Clean-Up Day at the Florida Agriculture Museum, Flagler Woman’s Club’s Craft Extravaganza, “Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, Laika the poor Russian dog sacrificed to Sputnik.

Central Park Bike Rodeo & Ride, Flagler Woman’s Club’s Craft Extravaganza, “Educating Rita” at City Rep Theatre, First Friday in Flagler Beach, euphemizing Israeli terrorism as “settler extremism.”

The 21st turtle in the trail of sculpted turtles, Renny, is unveiled at Intracoastal Bank, “Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Hawthorne’s American eagle.

Brandon Washington, the former gang leader, is back in court contesting his life terms, Separation Chat, Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, the Disney version, Updike on smoking a pipe, Clay Jones on Republicans’ hypocrisy when they make accusations of anti-Semitism.

The Flagler Woman’s Club’s Pink Pearl Workshop, the Halloween Hall of Terror, John Oliver on the exploitation behind chocolate harvesting, Jarvis Jay Masters’s foster brothers.

Brendan Depa pleads, Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Presbyterian, The Halloween Hall of Terror at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, mis-reporting Gaza, Neil Postman and amusing ourselves to death.

Nat Adderley Jr Performs for NEFJA, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic winds down, Remembering Heroes Fall Festival, “Menopause, the Musical 2″ at the Auditorium, the ongoing atrocities in gaza and how “It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize With Innocent Gazans.”

Palm Coast Founders’ Day Food Truck Festival, Witches of Flagler Beach Bike Ride, John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach, Tides of Hope benefit for breast cancer research, Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic, Sheriff’s trunk-or-treat, Pianist  Paolo André Gualdi at Stetson.

Othal Wallace sentencing this morning, the 22nd Annual Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic kicks off, Stetson University Symphony Orchestra in concert, we welcome Clay Jones to our stable of cartoonists, and puzzle as always over the contradictions of Nietzsche.

The Flagler County School Board decides whether to fire its attorney, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Annual Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Presbyterian Church, trust in media reaches a new low, the dismal coverage of the Gaza-Israel war.

Al Krier Trail dedication this morning, the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, Halloween Trick or Treating and Costume Contest With Prizes at City Market Place, Raymond Reddington meets Schopenhauer.

The Palm Coast City Council talks about its own rules of behavior, the NAACP’s general membership meets, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy in Daytona, Henri Bergson in retrospect.

It’s trial week in felony court, including potentially the trial of Damari Barnes, the Bunnell City Commission and the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meet, deconstructing Fox News’s anti-Gaza biases.

Boo-Ling For Wishes fundraiser, St Elizabeth Ann Seton Community Fall Festival, the sad part of clearing the grounds for the Margaritaville Hotel in Flagler Beach, St. Augustine Music Festival, when the Democratic Party was the pits, circa 1866.

Ground Up Motors’s Cars and Coffee, Boo-Ling For Wishe, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the pine barrens of Thunder Gulch and New Jersey.

The Flagler County Cultural Council’s annual meeting, Palm Coast officials talk comprehensive plan on WNZF, when Reagan’s chief speech writer compared Reagan to Jay Gatsby.

The sentencing of Tina Marie Teixeira, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, the beauty of wind-assisted shipping, Bill McKibben’s age of missing information.

Public Meeting on Flagler Beach Project Updates at Santa Maria del Mar, plus the Tourist Development Council and the Contractor Review Board meet, so does the Palm Coast Planning Board, and Víkingur Ólafsson has a new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

The school board holds a pair of meetings and will consider firing or reassigning its attorney and awarding a contract to its new superintendent, the Palm Coast City Council meets, it’s Food Truck Tuesday, more trains and deep-sea peeking.

The Flagler County Commission considers a car wash on A1A, “The Zoo Story” and “White Rabbit Red Rabbit,” Bundling in Puritan New England–and in book-banning.

“The Zoo Story” and “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” at City Repertory Theatre, Wyoming’s Snow Chi Minh Trail, John McPhee on John McPhee, and the Grand Tetons.

Smokin’ at the House at the Flagler Woman’s Club, Selina Hernandez of the Flagler Education Foundation at the AAUW lunch, the Economist on Hamas, Herbert Spencer on the evolution of societies away from war.

Two sentencings in felony court, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast, the “ReAwaken America Tour brings us back to Richard Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style in American Politics, Friday the 13th.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Luíseach Nic Eoin, Senior Editor at Nature Ecology and Evolution, is the featured speaker at Whitney’s lecture series, innocent lives lost.

Palm Coast’s Imagine 2050 Community Engagement Session at the Community Center, Monserrate Teron, found guilty of abusing his niece, is sentenced, Brendan Depa is in court for a pre-trial, Salman Rushdie on Prozac Nation.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, then again in a special workshop with its planning board to talk about Imagine 2050, the next comprehensive plan, Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch, swimming in the Seine.

The Flagler County Commission meets behind closed doors to talk litigation, the Bunnell City Commission meets, debating Columbus.

Palm Coast’s and AdventHealth’s Pink on Parade 5k Run/Walk in Town Center, Creekside Music and Arts Festival, the determinism of 2+2=4, Daniel Boorstin on Charlie Rose and pseudo-events.

Creekside Music and Arts Festival today and tomorrow, Monthly Volunteer Clean-Up Day at the Florida Agriculture Museum, Maze Dayz Fall Festival, Stetson Choral Festival, housing prices, Víkingur Ólafsson’s new Goldberg Variations.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, Stetson Choral Festival, the John Marchi-John Lindsey mayoral race and that Lloyd Bentsen-Dan Quayle moment.

The Nobel Prize for Literature is announced this morning, making this the most important day of the year. No drug court today. Bach’s Toccata in C Minor, and a few words from the late Alan Siegal on good writing.

Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, James Taylor is back in court, battling his life term, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, Weekly Chess Club for teens, more Gatsby and the 7 Train in snow.

The school board meets in secret and meets again in the open, the Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, the Nobel Prize in Physics is announced, Adam Nagourney on the New York Times.

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.