Daily Briefing

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.

Book censorship’s ravages in Florida schools, the Bunnell City Commission and the county’s Land Acquisition Committee meet.

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 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.

‘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.

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 Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board considers yet another self-storage facility, Jack Lemmon at length, George Wallace.

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.

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 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.

‘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 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.

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.