Daily Briefing

The Ultimate Mermen, The Ultimate Disney Tribute Band, 7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, the Cold Weather Shelter opens tonight, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, County Commission Chair Andy Dance and Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson look to 2024 on Free For All Fridays, Frederick Douglass as never before published.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, but with a reminder of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction, the Bach Festival continues, and the workweek remains at low simmer.

Catch the final days of the Fantasy Lights in Town Center, the 10 days of Bach continue with the Magnificat, the history and ideological uses of Hagia Sophia, and a few words from Orhan Pamuk.

A day for gold bricking and Bach, a few words on love, kindness, greed and rapine from John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, and a few sharply drawn lines rom Clay Jones.

More Bach for the day, Christmas day coronations, when the arrogance of power married messianic presumption, John McGahern’s attempt to shine a few fantasy lights.

The perfect night for Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, the Bach Festival returns, John Eliot Gardiner on the creator of Music in the Castle of Heaven.

The toy drive for Toys for Tots culminates today at European Village, the Saturday Flagler Beach market, an analysis of the massacre of civilians in Gaza and Robert Fisk on the siege of Beirut.

A special call-in Christmas show on Free For All Friday, the competency and a bond hearing in the case of Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, the Blue 24 Forum, loneliness in its many forms on the approach of Christmas.

Drug Court convenes for the last time this year, the Democratic Women’s Club meets, remembering Edward Said at the Lebanon-Israel border, and the time he put “the Rumsfelds, Bin Ladens, Sharons, and Bushes” in one breath.

The Palm Coast Planning Board meets, Kerri Huckabee is in court for a pre-trial, Stevie Wonder sings, Joe Biden’s poll numbers continue to sink, in no small part due to Gaza.