Daily Briefing

The Flagler Beach City Commission talks communications, the Gerard Abate hearing is cancelled, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, a Bauhaus World Heritage site, Letterman v. Carson.

Chess at the library, a night in the 40s, plate tectonics, volunteers needed for a clean-up in Flagler Beach Saturday.

The Palm Coast City Council, the Flagler County Planning Board and the Community Traffic Safety Team all meet, end of the Arab Spring, Richard Ford.

Library board meets, Bunnell City Commission meets, waiting for Matlock’s noise to subside, a few words from the now late Russell Banks.

A smidgen of good news on the death penalty front, Greta Thunberg v. Andrew Tate, and in an unrelated query, Don DeLillo asks: Who will die first?

Enrollment Day at Daytona State College, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, the first commercial phone service between New York City and London, Karl Ove Knausgaard.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Always, Patsy Cline, at the Flagler Auditorium, the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and democracy.

Somnolence in Flagler, the marathoner who finished the race with a bullet in the head, how writers draw empty houses at book-signings, Don DeLillo’s Somnolence in Flagler, White Noise.

Sleeping Beauty, Performed by the State Ballet of Ukraine at Flagler Auditorium, the Flagler County School Board meets, President Benjamin Harrison pardons Mormon’s polygamy, Jim Belushi, high school chess coach.

Courts back in session, rediscovering The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, by Franz Werfel, on the Armenian genocide, WEB Dubois on the campaign of slander against “carpetbaggers.”

New Year’s Day extra, James K. Galbraith on American Capitalism, the day Richard Nixon forced America to slow down to 55.

Happy new Year. America’s Top New Year’s Resolutions for 2023, why we want the extraordinary in all things, including the impossible.

Reflections on ruins on the last day of the year, Loren Eiseley’s Autumn memory, Bach’s Violin Partita.

Black Elk recalls the massacre at Wounded Knee, and how the New York Times reported it, a reminder on FEMA benefits for Hurricane Ian survivors, the Bach Festival.

Flagler Beach pier pass refunds, H.G. Wells on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the waning days of Fantasy of Lights in Town Center.

Kwanzaa Celebration at the African American Cultural Center, What the Black Man Wants, Woodrow Wilson, anti-hero.

Have you been to the Fantasy of Lights show in Town Center yet? The cold-weather shelter opens yet again, Anne Frank’s Christmas, Stone Mountain’s bland of inoffensive consumables.

More cold weather, if geologic time could somehow be seen in the perspective of human time, Bach’s Magnificat.

The cold weather shelter is open again tonight, Omar Thomas’s “Of Our New Day Begun,” from the Narrative of James Albert Ukawsaw.

The cold weather shelter is open tonight, WKCR’s Bach Festival, speed limits and the holidays, On the pleasure and necessity of digressions.

The cold-weather shelter opens in Flagler tonight, State Attorney R.J. Larizza and Sheriff Rick Staly on Free For All, Maurice Sendak, Jane Austen and “women’s fiction.”

Preparing for the coldest spell of the year, a look back at the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, the St. Matthew Passion in full, and Grand Guignol.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State’s open discussion, chess club at the library, Heinrich Boll, Lewis Mumford’s Roaring Traffic’s Boom.

The school board talks about the potential availability of Narcan in schools, the future of the Belle Terre Swim and Racquet Club and the possibility of arming civilian staffers, and how the American really loves nothing but his automobile.

The dedication of the new Sheriff’s Operations Center, the Legislative Delegation meeting, the County Commission meets, Larry David may or may not have a fetish, Donald Trump’s trading cards, Leonid Brezhnev’s birthday.

Today it’s all about France and Argentina, plus Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, and how U.S. House members in 1983 tried to bring the World Cup to the United States.

An artificial intelligence special, Florida Democrats ask themselves: Where do we go from here? at the Palm Coast Community Center, the World Cup’s useless third-place game.

The 2023 economic outlook, Florida-friendly landscaping, Honky Tonk Angel, at City Repertory Theatre, chess as a boxing match, put down that burger, or else watch your world disappear.

Press freedom and a dismal 2022, the ILA Working Group that handles the joint agreement between the school board, the county and Flagler’s municipalities regarding school concurrency, meets, storytime at the Flagler Beach Public Library.

Hurricane Nicole Information Forum in Flagler Beach, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the Flagler County Public Library, Jimmy Kimmel’s answer to Elon Musk.

The Palm Coast City Council votes on a new restaurant tenant at Palm Harbor Golf Club, Planation bay rezoning, Clair Metz at Tiger Bay, a day for fusion, Scott McClanahan’s Crapalachia.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, the World Cup is off, the Library of America’s W.E.B. DuBois volume, its editors, and Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Equality.

Tree of Lights at the Flagler Playhouse, Fantasy of Lights continues, the Kyoto Protocols and other climate change failures, the possibilities of overcoming racism through soccer.

France and England and Portugal and Morocco go at it, Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area, The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Nell Scovell, James Reston on a new dawn, but that was in 1960.

The Sound of Christmas, a free concert at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Brittney Griner, Oliver North’s arms-dealing with Iranian terrorists, Tree of Lights at the Playhouse.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Steve Solomon’s Home for the Holidays at the Auditorium, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series, philosophy in one lecture.

Code enforcement, Flagler County Republican Club’s Christmas Dance Party, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State’s discussion group, adding more faces to Rushmore.

Medical examiner interviews in St. Augustine, the Palm Coast City Council and the School Board meet, the death of Kirstie Alley, John Wayne rails against everything.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, at 9 and 1, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets in the evening, felony court is off, Brazil tries to rival France for World Cup entertainment as we do not dream of Jeannie and Tony Hurwitz pays Stone Mountain a visit.

Community Chorus of Palm Coast, Handel’s Messiah Performed by the Festival Chorus and the Chamber Players of Palm Coast, City Repertory Theatre’s “Holiday Treat,” Terry Anderson, Kalinka.

USA v. Netherlands, the Christmas parade in Flagler Beach, the boat parade in Palm Coast, Flagler Schools’ Winter Job Fair, Friends of the Library Holiday Book Sale, Amos Oz on the ecstasy of 1967.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Community Chorus of Palm Coast’s holiday concert, City Repertory Theatre’s Holiday Treat, John McPhee’s geology, when the Senate could find a pair.

City Repertory Theatre’s “A Holiday Treat: A Special Night of Story and Song,” the doomsday glacier the size of Florida, Jay London returns, Bill Bryson on the horror of RVs.

A banned books talk at the public library, One Night of Queen at the Auditorium, more elimination rounds at the World Cup, Mark Twain on Power, H.L. Mencken on Mark Twain.

Tyler Adams was all class responding to an Iranian reporter ahead of today’s USA-Iran match, a must-win for the U.S. to avoid elimination. The Freedom Readers Club at the library takes on Eli Wiesel’s “Night.”

A possible plea and disposition in the case of Robert Batie, the psychologist accused of abusing an underage patient, the Bunnell City Commission meets, a contrast with the Artemis mission.

The Washington Post reports on Flagler and Florida’s eroding beaches, Spain and Germany in a preview of a cup final, tundra and John McPhee coming into the country.

Tree-lighting ceremony in Palm Coast’s Central park, the Gamble Jam, Casablanca at 80, Saudi Arabia gets to show us whether they’re for real, Michael Kazin asks: where’s the outrage?

The Celtic Angels Christmas at Flagler Auditorium, the United States and England from Qatar at 2 p.m, Simone de Beauvoir on American shopping, Jay London returns, America’s lethal gun culture.

Can we avoid another mass shooting today? A World Cup of upsets continues today with Brazil and Portugal on the potential chopping block, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral Thanksgiving.