Daily Briefing

Jamal “Jamie” Nejame, the former candidate for mayor in Flagler Beach, pleads out, it’s First Friday in Flagler Beach, don’t believe what you read in the Observer today, and it’s Autism Acceptance Month.

Charles Swindell, one of the more sadistic defendants on the year’s docket, is scheduled for a sentencing by Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, Cesar Chavez Day, Turgenev on Belinsky and art for art’s sake, and Oklahoma’s opening.

The Department of Children and Families holds a job fair in Daytona Beach, with many openings. Manatee Appreciation Day, witness a barn-raising, and the idea of American origins.

The Canadian Brass brings at the Flagler Auditorium, a status hearing in the case of Larry Caravallo, when Jupiter drowned the world in a nuclear holocaust, Pearl Bailey’s anniversary.

Darius Watts pleads out for a home-invasion robbery in the P Section two years ago, the Bunnell City Commission meets for a brief agenda, Maureen Dowd tells us the definition of a woman.

“The Revolutionists” has its last performance at City Repertory Theatre this afternoon, celebrating Mstislav Rostopovich, one of the great cellists of the last century, the unsurprising truth about being born twice.

Tom Gargiulo memorial, QAnon convention, “The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, John McWhorter on why ‘wokeness’ hurts Black communities.

“The Revolutionists” begins its final weekend at City Repertory Theatre, Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan talks to Scenic A1A Pride, Bartok’s birthday, Mount Rushmore and a few words about till death do us part.

Flagler Beach commissioners at their meetings today will consider approving the site plan for the hotel planned in place of the Farmers’ Market, where a hotel used to rise until the 1970s,and they’ll discuss impact fees.

Paul Renner is at Hammock Dunes in the monthly Tiger Bay lunch, but the event is sold out, Flagler Reads Together has its discussion on “The Personal Librarian,” on the extraordinary life of Belle da Costa Greene, Remembering Akira Kurosawa and his “Dersu Uzala.”

The Palm Coast City Council approves a $175,000-a-year contract with City Manager Denise Bevan and appoints a new councilman to the seat vacated by Victor Barbosa. The school board meets and discusses its library policy and the district’s dress code.

The Flagler County Commission has an overflowing agenda–school impact fees, Eagle Lakes development, a comprehensive plan update. Twitter is 16 years old but still acting 7, Matthew Broderick at 60.

“The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, Francois Couperin’s “Mysterious Barricades,” and winter’s last cool blast.

Flagler Reads Together’s “Hidden Figures” Movie Matinee, CRT’s “The Revolutionists,” Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series, Philip Roth, William Jennings Bryan.

Cornelius Baker’s likely final and most fateful sentencing, “The Revolutionists,” at City Repertory Theatre, John Calhoun, and a few reflections on John Updike on his 90th birth anniversary.

The Garden Club at Palm Coast’s Treasures in the Attic Rummage Sale, Nat King Cole, Bayard Rustin, Bret Stephens on how World War III begins.

Palm Coast’s Reilly Opelka goes up against Nadal at Indian Wells today, the Palm Coast Planning Board and Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee handle new, big developments, today is Black Press Day.

The Palm Coast City Council meets and will hear about its financial health, it’s Food Truck Tuesday in Palm Coast’s Central Park, and if you’re into oxymorons, it is Belarus Constitution Day.

The Bunnell City Commission sets up a charter review commission and considers handing over major crime investigations to the Sheriff’s Office for $120,000 a year, An NBC radio interview with Albert Einstein upon his naturalization as an American.

The Flagler Playhouse’s last performance of “Company,” a Clarence Darrow special, including Henry Fonda in the one-man performance of the David Rintels play directed by John Houseman.

The Strawberry Festival in Town Center is cancelled, weather will be an issue today ahead of a freezing front, remembering Mustafa Kamal Aataturk’s role in the Armenian genocide, DeSantis as Cesar, FRD’s first Fireside Chat.

The mercurial Joseph Bova is again in court on a hoped-for plea, ending his nearly decade-long murder case, Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, Christopher Hitchens.

Ex-Deputy Dedorius Varnes’s sentencing, Jane Mealy and James Sherman take the oath on the Flagler Beach City Commission, which then hears decides whether to keep its lease going with Ocean Palms Golf Club, “Osborne’s Revenge.”

La Darrien McCaskill’s sentencing in the 2018 and 2019 Palm Coast robberies involving six assailants, the Northeast Florida Regional Council’s Affordable Housing Workshop for Flagler County, Schubert’s 13th sonata.

Election Day in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, the Palm Coast City Council reckons with a grim evaluation from residents about its own behavior, the St. Johns River Water Management District board meets, as does the Flagler County Planning Board, with a look at Russian oil exports and know-nothings who think they know it all.

The Flagler County Commission talks federal stimulus dollars without giving credit to the source, the Beverly Beach commission meets, Piet Mondrian’s 150th birth anniversary, Princeton’s dullness.

Remembering the Dred Scott decision’s atrocity, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse, Poe’s macabre toothy grin in “Berenice,” the so-called “Fall of the Alamo.”

A closer look at DeSantis bullying students for wearing masks, Stephen Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Dostoevsky on brutifying human beings.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Stephen Sondheim at the Flagler Playhouse, The 13th Paralympics Games open in (sigh) Beijing, a few bad memories of Grover Cleveland, the chauvinism behind the Russia-Ukraine war.

Jack Petocz, a junior and student leader at Flagler Palm Coast High School, speaks at the Palm Coast Democratic Club, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, opens at the Flagler Playhouse, discriminating among refugees from Ukraine.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, “Company,” the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim, is staged by Flagler Playhouse starting with a Community Night tonight, Colin Thubron on the fabrication of Uzbekistan.

A status hearing is scheduled in the case of Cornelius Baker, whose death sentence has been in a legal twilight zone for a few years, the School Board holds a workshop, the Palm Coast City Council discusses apartments, Russian writers assess the Russian character.

Six Appeal Vocal Band at the Flagler Auditorium, the Bunnell City Commission bids farewell to one police chief and welcomes the next, and talks of $1-an-hour raise to all employees, Montaigne, M*A*S*H and Barnes.

The Native American Festival at Princess Place, the Academy Awards, Ralph Nader’s birthday (George Bush’s happiest day), Steinbeck, mobs and oil prices.

The 7th Annual Native American Festival is at Princess Place Preserve, the assassination of Trayvon Martin 10 years later, Michael Cavanaugh at the Jacksonville Symphony, Victor Hugo.

Donald Trump is apparently siding with Vladimir Putin, Free For All Fridays on the invasion of Ukraine and what it may mean to Flagler, Anthony Burgess, and Voltaire on arbitrary justice.

The Flagler Beach City Commission considers permitting a neighboring tattoo business, the Philip Martin trial enters its final day, Wendell Berry on the making of morons, Rodney Dangerfield, and Estonians.

The trial of Philip Martin enters its third day, the county parks and rec committee meets, genocide in Ukraine, Brunei’s stoning-free National Day, “Defender of the Fatherland Day” in Russia.

The East Flagler Mosquito Control District talks slightly larger boundaries, the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals takes up a high-profile transgender bathroom case from St. Johns County schools, English as a Second Language class, John Quincy Adams buys Florida from the Spanish. John McGahern reflects on the existence of God.

The Flagler County Commission considers finalizing its agreement with Whispering meadows Ranch and approving the school district’s revised, scaled back impact fee schedule. Sebastian Maniscalco, trial week in Flagler court. Commemorating Nina Simone, W.H. Auden, Malxolm X.

The United Nations’ World Day of Social Justice and Frederick Douglass’ death anniversary, “The Mountaintop,” at City Repertory Theatre, waning civil rights concerns in the United States.

St. Mark by the Sea Bazaar and Sale, Vincent Adejumo on the Destruction of Rosewood, “The Mountaintop,” at City Repertory Theatre, the 80th anniversary of the order to intern Japanese Americans in concentration camps in the West.

“The Mountaintop,” at City Repertory Theatre, reimagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night, dying languages, Bach’s “Here, in My Father’s place” from a cantata, reason’s salvation from extremism.

Another round of listening in a town hall about Flagler Schools’ dress code, but no one showed up at the first one; Blame Biden? UK inflation hits 30-year high, how Republicans exploit the word “freedom.”

The Palm Coast Planning Board hears a site plan application for a 36-acre self-storage facility off Old Kings Road North, a school board committee hosts a “listening session” about the district’s dress code, John Cleese on extremism, Herbert Hoover on poverty’s eradication.

The Palm Coast City Council will hear from the Green Lion restaurant’s owners and supporters, the Flagler County School Board hears another update on library books and Susan Anthony is not happy with Florida.

The Bunnell City Commission hears a strategic plan for its police department, Mamie Smith’s “This Thing Called Love,” the end is near, democracy’s sorry state, Peter Taylor’s “Demons.”

American Association of University Women hears about “The Contextualization of Confederate Iconography,” Daytona Playhouse stages “Calendar Girls.” the Jacksonville Symphony is all brass and organ, big days for Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton.

Flagler Technical College Director Renee Stauffacher and Sheriff Rick Staly talk about giving convicted criminals a second chance on the job, Meowy Hour at Sea Casas Boutique and Uncork’d, Lincoln on xenophobia.