Daily Briefing

The Flagler Youth Orchestra is in performance for its season-ending concert tonight, the Bunnell State of the City address by the mayor, a potential animal cruelty trial on circuit court’s docket, Kafka’s Great Wall of China.

Splish Splash: A Bobby Darrin Tribute, at te Flagler Auditorium, two well-known guest preachers at First Church of Palm Coast, including Rev. Dr. Clifton Davis, who played Rueben Gregory on the popular NBC TV series, “Amen,” and a few words about Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach.

The Hispanic American Club of Palm Coast Hosts its 35th Anniversary Dance, Victoria Machado at the Palm Coast Historical Society, a Dave Bowers Photography Exhibit, Federico Pulina’s Chopin etudes, Orwell deals with the police rounding up his books.

Violectric: Classical Musicians Who Rock, at Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Big Tent tonight, Community Cats of Palm Coast’s Meowy Hour BBQ, reopening “Fawlty Towers,” the arrogance of adults.

The Flagler Beach city administration shows off its new glass-crushing recycler, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin delivers the State of the City address, Dostoevsky on laughter and character.

The Tourist Development Council, the Flagler County Technical Review Committee, the Contractor Review Board and the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board all meet today, and Kwentel Moultrie’s trial will head for jury deliberations.

The Palm Coast City Council takes up its gargantuan self-raise again, Day Two of Kwentel Moultrie’s trial, Food Truck Tuesday, Thomas Mann’s Dilettante, Bach’s great English Suite.

Kwentel Moultrie goes on trial on a first degree felony charge of sexual battery, the Flagler County Commission considers a noise ordinance and a $6.2 million hangar project at the airport, Dostoevsky’s Raw Youth, and it is also World Heritage Day.

An Easter Egg Hunt at St Thomas Episcopal, Easter Sunday services at Santa Maria del Mar and Mother Seton, the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmers, John McWhorter on the “Elect.”

Egg hunts for adults and children in Bunnell and Palm Coast, easter services at the local Catholic churches, the Invictus Games for recovering servicemen and women begin today at The Hague in the Netherlands, today begins National Park Week, remembering Henry Mancini and a few words from Barry Lopez.

Good Friday has courts, schools (for students, not teachers, who have a workday), county, city and law enforcement offices closed. Time to use the day to make good on your Carver Center auction bids.

Sheriff Rick Staly holds the fifth annual public Addressing Crime Together meeting this evening, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, remembering Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and Eugene Debs’s famous speech on justice.

The quarterly Public Safety Coordinating Council is today, the annual George Washington Carver Foundation Auction, pre-trials in circuit court, Eudora Welty on Dick Cavett.

The Palm Coast City Council talks unsplashing splash pad, the Flagler County Planning Board has a long agenda, voter turnout in other countries, John McWhorter’s “Woke Racism.”

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins hears a plea from Aaron Thayer, who faces an attempted first degree murder charge, the Bunnell City Commission meets, why some Americans have always fiercely resisted the truth.

Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, is staged at 3 p.m. at Stetson University’s Second Stage Theatre, the French go to the polls today in the first round of their unpresidential election, a reminder about Boulanger and Dreyfuss.

Sustainable Flagler’s second Electric Vehicle Showcase at Palm Coast City Hall, Family Builder Lab at the public library, 9th Annual spring Festival and Plant Sale at FPC, WEB DuBois on Dayton, Ohio.

Richard Dunn’s attorney argues his client should be released from jail, One Night in Memphis at the Flagler Auditorium, Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show, Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, a few words from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, at Stetson University’s Second Stage Theatre, 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale, Randy Jaye, a writer and historian, discusses his book “Perseverance” at the Democratic Club.

Judges election forum at the Hilton Garden Inn, Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show, George Washington Carver Foundation Auction, Woodrow Wilson on entering World War I and the stupidity of applauding warfare.

The Palm Coast City Council takes up Mayor David Alfin’s proposal to quadruple council members’ salaries and considers an $8 million bank loan to pay for swales and other stormwater improvements, the school board meets, where the barbaric death penalty still prevails, Vonnegut on mother tongues.

The Flagler County Commission talks 911, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the Flagler County Fair’s 4H and FFA Youth Livestock Show and Sale, racist responses to the war in Ukraine, Elisabeth Leonskaja’s complete Mozart sonatas.

Get set for the Carver Center auction starting tomorrow, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, the most expensive beer cities.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra’s top ensemble is in concert, First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Palm Coast’s traditional Blessing of the Fleet returns, the Malvinas-Falklands war, Ramadan begins.

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.