Daily Briefing

Peps Art Walk, holiday shopping edition, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, memories of Madison Square Garden.

Ted Torres Martin as Elvis The Show at Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center (Flagler Auditorium), A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Wendell Berry’s “The Long-Legged House,” Wim Statius Muller and Curacao.

A warmish day for Thanksgiving, with all government offices and most businesses closed, no trash pickup anywhere but in Flagler Beach, the thankful exception, Piazzolla’s Oblivion, Samantha Harvey’s Orbital.

Flagler County gradually shuts down for Thanksgiving, the Naxos label tries to sell “Classical for Cats,” Nicholson Baker’s “Books as Furniture.”

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting, Clay Jones on Pete Hegseth’s women problem, the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day late.

The Bunnell City Commission discusses and approves various annexations, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, an explanation of the 2024 election from a 1915 Willa Cather novel, Hillary Hahn performs Vaughan-Williams’s ascending lark.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, light up a house for the holidays, the United States aligns with the grimmer side of the world on anti-personnel mines.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley and Acting Police Chief Lance Blanchette, Gamble Jam, reflections on parking lots, Elizabeth Kolbert, Earth’s genetically modified environment.

Flagler County’s cold-weather shelter opens tonight, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the JFK assassination.

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to discuss its beach management plan, Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Carlos M. Cruz, Voltaire’s daddy issues on his 330th birthday.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club takes on David Von Drehle, Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, the United Nation’s report on genocide in Gaza and apartheid in Jerusalem and the West Bank, which most media in the United States have not reported.

A day of swearings-in at the Palm Coast City Council, the County Commission and the School Board, a Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, Colleen Conklin’s last interview, Geoffrey Ward’s “Tiger in the Road.”

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to discuss the case of developer Mark Langello’s impact fees, the Land Acquisition Committee meets, ghost guns and an epidemic of violence.

Jake’s Women at City Repertory Theatre, a final matinee, the Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, John Oliver on the West Bank, and a look at “Welcome To Hell,” a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, “Jake’s Women,” the Neil Simon play, at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Celine Dion singing Piaf at the Olympics: a rewind.

David Alfin on Free For All, unemployment numbers are released, “Jake’s Women” at City Rep Theatre, Keep the Holiday Lights On fund-raiser, 988 Suicide Prevention Walk, and where Trump meets Mickey Sabbath.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: Steven Noll on the relationship of Floridians and manatees in historical perspective, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, reflections on not reading the press.

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Separation Chat, Remembering Frederic Jameson and a few difficult memories about The Political Unconscious.

Veteran Resource Fair at the Flagler County Public Library, Tyrese Patterson in court (sort of), the pre-election Palm Coast City Council’s last meeting, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Google’s fabulous translation app.

Joint Veterans Day Ceremony and Parade in Bunnell, the reading habits of Americans, Michel Houellebecq on literature, a Latvian cartoonist heads for the American cloud.

Clay Jones on knowing her place, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market, Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, ‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, the Sursock Museum in Beirut.

Palm Coast Fall Arts Festival in Central Park, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens, Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, the Gamble Jam is back, a few good post-election covers, Johnny Cash and Gore Vidal on fascism.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, ‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, welcoming Colleen Conklin on 24 years as a school board member, plus and Carrie Baird and Cheryl Tristam on a special program at Flagler Cares.

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, drug court, a lecture by Kurt Vonnegut, a few words from Ta-Nehisi Coates, the sheriff’s bobblehead and Trump’s grenade.

The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets, the Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the library, Jacques Brel’s bridge-jumpers.

Election Day, finally, endless Flagler County Canvassing Board meetings, thinking with George Orwell and Billy Currington (beer is good and people are crazy) and thinking of Iowa.

The Flagler County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the sense of curfew before Election Day, an excerpt from Robert Graves’s Goodbye To All That.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when an obscure Beirut paper broke the Iran-Contra affair.

Last day for early voting, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Jake’s Women at City Rep Theatre, Charlie Hebdo’s latest cover and Jacques Derrida’s hospitality.

Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre, the Flagler County Sheriff’s National Night Out at FPC, the lawsuit over Palm Coast’s debt referendum is in court, Daisy Henry Street Renaming, Google’s concerns.

The Halloween Hall of Terror is back at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Wendell Berry and critical race theory before its day.

Future of Flagler Forum 2024, The Halloween Hall of Terror is back at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, early voting, blind soccer and DEI, and the divine and felonious nature of the human being.

Early voting continues at five sites in Palm Coast and Flagler County, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy at Cinematique Theater in Daytona, a wise and benevolent maxim.

Early voting enters its second week, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Washington Post’s decision not to endorse, and whether newspapers should ne endorsing to start with.

The St. Augustine Orchestra is in Concert at Flagler Auditorium, how unaffordable homes have become, Peter Viereck’s review of William Buckley’s God and Man at Yale.

Peps Art Walk, noon to 5 p.m. next to JT’s Seafood Shack, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, an enraged elephant hits a woman at the zoo.

Flagler Outreach Brings Social Service Providers to Cattleman’s Hall, Collective Bargaining session in Palm Coast, Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, reflections on raising a new roof.

Early voting continues, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Model Yacht Club races at the pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, and could a letter to the editor have provided the idea for the first-ever beach renourishment, at Coney Island?

Early voting, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, a Palm Coast Parkway flash mob of one, Beirut Airport flash mob, metropolitan diaries.

Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, Palm Coast’s bedraggled Residential Drainage Citizens Advisory Committee meets, Willie Nelson, the Red-Headed Stranger and “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”

The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to talk beach management and other matters, then in a voting evening meeting, the canvassing board meets, reading crime novels, Celine on fearing human beings.

Bunnell’s Italian Festival at the county fairgrounds, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Grace Community Food Pantry is back, David Brooks on why Harris isn’t running away with this, John Travolta’s famous opening.

Bunnell’s Italian Festival  at the county fairgrounds today and tomorrow, Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley and City Manager Dale Martin, on the killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, and the surviving Benjamin Netanyahu.

A face-off between Palm Coast mayoral candidates Cornelia Manfre and Mike Norris on WNZF’s Free For All, unemployment numbers are released, The music duo Wandering Spiral, featuring Michelle Davidson and Rick de Yampert at Flagler Beach’s Gathering Place, and in praise of Robert Caro and “The Power Broker.”

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols’s first Drug Court session, Election turnout and interest in politics in the United States compared to other countries, and “The Big Money Behind the Big Lie.”

Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m., the Flagler County Tourist Development Council meets, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, remembering Lebanon’s Elias Khoury.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall for a marathon meeting, A Community Presentation on Sand Dunes By Florida Sea Grant and UF/IFAS Extension Flagler, Food Truck Tuesdays, campaign ads, the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960, Machiavelli’s refuge.

The Flagler County School Board holds a trip of meetings, including orientation meetings for incoming board members, the Bunnell City Commission meets, tales of the Nonna Tree and olive trees, and a poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Grace Community Food Pantry distribution is cancelled today, a few lines from the early essays of Montaigne, Liszt’s Consolation, Vidal on Norman Mailer.

11th annual iFish Flagler In-Shore Tournament, yes, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is open today but Grace Community Food Pantry’s food distribution is cancelled, on Lebanon’s St. Charbel and the canonization of 1977.