When Florida Man was born, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Pennington and Furry on Free For All, a few words from Jonathan Schell.
Daily Briefing
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Drug court, the Young Turks on the catastrophe of Scott Adams, drug court, the rise in internet shutdowns around the world.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board, Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles at the Auditorium, Patricia McCormick on “Sold,” Bill Bryson on French.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 28, 2023
The Freedom Readers Club at the Flagler County Public Library takes on For Whom The Bells Toll, The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting, droning over America, the diversity of Congress, Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 27, 2023
Mosquito control, Life Skills program, Chinese Auction by the Ladies Auxiliary of Palm Coast, how NYPD Blue can teach the governor a lesson, Joan Didion’s Salvador, Hugo Black’s birthday.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 26, 2023
The 8th Annual Princess Place Preserve Pow Wow, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, The Hit men, at Flagler Auditorium, a Johnny Cash trio, and from the Journals of John Cheever.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 25, 2023
The Flagler Woman’s Club’s Casino Night at the Italian American Social Club, Friends of the Library book sale, remembering Anthony Burgess on his birthday.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 24, 2023
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, the killing of Orlando journalists, the essential work of journalists and other media workers, Ernie Pyle on war’s peculiar sounds.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 23, 2023
The Flagler Beach City Commission decides on an interim manager, drug court, Anne Applebaum on the war in Ukraine, a poem by Taras Shevchenko.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 22, 2023
The school board meets today (not yesterday), the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has its weekly chat group, a little Astor Piazzolla, a little Didion.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The Palm Coast City Council meets, the Flagler County School Board yet again talks about arming staffers, a few words from Malcolm X.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 20, 2023
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 19, 2023
Final day for the Near Disaster of Jasper and Casper at CRT, Thibault Cauvin and Bach’s great prelude in C major, Joan Didion’s multiple sclerosis.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 18, 2023
Farmer’s market in Flagler Beach, Jasper and Casper at City Repertory Theatre, Nat Hentoff and Judge Stephen Reinhardt on a seminal court decision against book-banning.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 17, 2023
Gabriella Alo is again before a judge this morning, this time on a state motion to have her bond revoked, The Near Disaster of Jasper and Casper, at City Repertory Theatre, John McWhorter gives DeSantis some credit.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 16, 2023
The Flagler Youth Orchestra Winter Concert celebrates Black composers, at the Auditorium, high school committee review “The Black Flamingo,” Jeff Terrell at Tiger Bay, The Near Disaster of Jasper and Casper, at CRT.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Brennan Hill in court, the Palm Coast Planning talks about a new 110-home subdivision, Armenian composer Stephan Elmas, another excerpt from From Dean Atta’s Black Flamingo.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The annual Valentine’s Day mass wedding at the Flagler County courthouse, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, a poem from The Black Flamingo.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 13, 2023
The Flagler County Library Board discusses sending a member to the district’s book-ban committees, the Macon dirigible disaster, Bill McKibben on the national culture’s small minds.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 12, 2023
The final of Palm Coast’s tennis open, the Farmers’ Market at European Village, Super Bowl versus World Cup, Robert E. Lee’s worry about Yankees’ effects on Southern women.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 11, 2023
The Annual Jazz Brunch and fund-raiser at AACS, Unique Boutique Event at Santa Maria del Mar Church, Palm Coast Tennis Open, the first robots, Mohsin Hamid.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 10, 2023
The Flagler Woman’s Club’s Annual Rummage Sale, tennis in Palm Coast, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, the day Nelson Mendela was released.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 9, 2023
A panel discussion on book-banning at AACS, State of the City in Palm Coast this evening, The Flagler Beach City Commission once again takes up the fate of City Manager William Whitson, Ludovico Einaudi and Don DeLillo.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Weekly Chess Club for teens at the Public Library, how Jules Verne saved a childhood, James Spader, Taiwan’s inevitable rendez-vous with China.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
The school board holds a “retreat” so its new and old members can get to know each other better, Palm Coast Council takes up Harborside again, Vermeer and Hopper, Bill Maher on cancel culture, Don DeLillo on Fox News before Fox News.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 6, 2023
The county commission ratifies the agreement that opens the way to beach renourishment, a school district information session on book-banning committees, Philip Roth on Ronald Reagan’s senescence, George Carlin Reagan’s corruption.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 5, 2023
The Flagler Home and Lifestyle Show’s final day, “Rent” at the Playhouse, a look at the United States’ dismal family leave, Don DeLillo on Athens, David Brooks on a more perfect union.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 4, 2023
Annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Run/Walk in Town Center, the 2023 Flagler Home and Lifestyle Show at FPC, Love is Love Pridefest, when Bayard Rustin refused to give up his seat on the bus long before Rosa Parks.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 3, 2023
Berdella ‘Birdie’ Gibbs’s Photography Show, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Rumors: A Fleetwood Mac Tribute at the Auditorium, a lost Canadian passport is found, Billy Currington.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 2, 2023
A probation termination hearing, oil companies’ profits and inflation, Abraham Lincoln on capitalism, looking ahead to Love is Love Pridefest.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 1, 2023
The Flagler Schools Citizens’ Advisory Group meets, Theresa Carli Pontieri at the Republican Club, Massaro and Chong on vouchers, the DeSantis assault on Black and minority history.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 31, 2023
The Palm Coast City Council looks at its own procedures, Jevante Hamilton Sentencing, a first look at the proposed designs of the new Flagler Beach pier, A preliminary hearing in in the D’Angionlini dunes/bankruptcy case, William Byrd, Al Stewart and the Palace of Versailles.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 30, 2023
How New Smyrna Beach keeps getting it right on development, bombing in the Ocala forest, a lost Carl Sagan lecture, Mark Twain on rascals.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 29, 2023
The Rickman-Acree-Corporon Piano Trio performs Clara Schumann and Schubert, “Rent” at the Flagler Playhouse, police killings over the years.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Free Narcan application training, Keep Palm Coast Clean event, Flagler Woman’s Club 1st Responders Chili Challenge, “Rent” at the Flagler Playhouse, DeLillo on nostalgia.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 27, 2023
Allyson Dawn Bennett and Edgar Alloway Jr. are sentenced, “Rent” at the Flagler Playhouse, the death of The Nation’s Victor Navasky.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 25, 2023
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets for what may be yet another epic, John Driggers, recently evicted, asks for a bond, Edward Hopper at the Whitney.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
The case of Darlene May Clifton and the sentencing of Kwentel Moultrie, The World of Musicals at Flagler Auditorium, the Library of America’s 2023 offerings, Don DeLillo on the power of the dead.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A cool day with highs in the 60s, Joseph Carroll pleads out a murder charge, the mosquito control board meets, those bland new apartment blocks and William Maxwell’s memory of a brownstone on Murray Hill.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 23, 2023
Book censorship’s ravages in Florida schools, the Bunnell City Commission and the county’s Land Acquisition Committee meet.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 22, 2023
The Flagler Film Festival wraps up, Honky Tonk Angel at CRT, Valerie Snead-Roy & Jim Rice concert at the Methodist church, Rent at the Playhouse, art for life’s sake, a Bach fugue.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, January 21, 2023
The Flagler Film Festival returns, Golf Cart Inspection Saturday in Flagler Beach, ‘Unbossed and Unbowed,’ at AACS, “Rent” at Flagler Playhouse, ‘Honky Tonk Angels’ at City Repertory Theatre, the Concorde’s first and last flights.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 20, 2023
‘Unbossed and Unbowed,’ a One-Woman Show About Shirley Chisholm at AACS, ‘Honky Tonk Angels’ at City Repertory Theatre, The Bronx Wanderers, at Flagler Auditorium, “Rent” at Flagler Playhouse, Mario Vargas Llosa on books.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, January 19, 2023
A patchy, foggy morning, Drug court, Albert W. Ketèlbey’s “In a Persian Market,” threatened species on the rise, Don DeLillo on being a tourist.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board considers yet another self-storage facility, Jack Lemmon at length, George Wallace.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
The Flagler County School Board talks Narcan, social studies and arming civilians, the Flagler County Commission talks ambulance costs, the Palm Coast City Council takes on the proposed and controversial Harborside development, Muhammad Ali on drawing a crowd, Patrick Modiano on the moral function of books.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 16, 2023
County Judge Joan Anthony is the keynote speaker at a celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., declawing cats, Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 15, 2023
The Sounds of Soul at Flagler Auditorium, ‘Honky Tonk Angels’ at City Repertory Theatre, Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter opens tonight, the fragility of democracies.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, January 14, 2023
‘Honky Tonk Angels’ at City Repertory Theatre, The Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine in Daytona Beach, Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens, Silver Lake Park Clean-Up, in your elements.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, January 13, 2023
The year in review on WNZF, “Honky Tonk Angels” at City Repertory Theatre, Stormy Daniels and the second anniversary of Trump’s impeachment, Anthony Burgess on Americans.