Daily Briefing

Drug court, a new Caglecast: Flushing Fox News, Clarence Darrow’s anniversary, story time for preschoolers, William Manchester’s disillusion with himself.

Trial notes: a few thoughts about jury selection, Separation Chat, the open discussion, the Technical Review Committee and the county’s Tourist Council meet, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library.

The Palm Coast City Council holds a morning meeting, the Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets, Erwin Rommel’s end, the unfortunate immortalizing of assassins’ names.

Closing arguments in Marcus Chamblin trial, tax-filing deadline, the Flagler County Commission meets, America’s disturbing taste for bad beer, a history of the drink of the gods, and John Updike’s bar.

Whitney Lab 5K in Marineland, Daytona State College Orchestra in concert, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” and a trip to his Key West home and cats.

Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, Palm Coast United Methodist Church Ribbon-Cutting, Easterseals Autism Awareness Event, Lebanon 49 years after.

LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing, Seawolf Privateers present “Mutiny on the High Seas” at the Palm Coast Community Center, Voter Registration Drives at Matanzas and FPC, more thoughts on the afterlife.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: “Sea Turtle And Marine Mammal Health Assessments.” The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Democratic Club meets, on eternity and the afterlife.

Paul Peterson at Flagler Tiger Bay Club, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Jon Stewart on Israel, on the trouble with intermittent fasting since the days of Herman Melville.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, mind not quite over matter, Christopher Hitchens on Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.

The eclipse starts in Palm Coast and Flagler at 1:47 p.m., peaking at 61 percent of sun cover at 3:04 p.m. The Marcus Chamblin trial on murder charges begins, The Bunnell City Commission meets and likely celebrates its groundbreakings, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets and likely dreams of its coming groundbreaking, recalling Covid, Calvino’s cities.

AAUW 40th Anniversary Celebration: 3 to 6 p.m. at Uncork’d in Flagler Beach, Live Jazz Concert to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, Bartolomé de las Casas and the conscience of colonialism.

Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series: Vincent Adejumo on the Ocoee Massacre, Scott Spradley on Lauren Johnston, Featured Artist Rick de Yampert at Ormond Art Walk, Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

The Blue 24 Forum, Free Family Art Night: “Textured Turtles”, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Louis C.K. on the French, and on that French expression about whipping cats.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, why the CDC is not allowed to research gun violence as gun violence continues to ravage the country.

Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night at its City Marketplace location from 3 to 7 p.m., Separation Chat, Open Discussion, eekly Chess Club for Teens the Flagler County Republican Club meets, an exploration of denialism.

Donald Andrew Sharp sentencing, the Flagler County School Board meets, Donna Tartt speaks to Charlie Rose, taking the old riddle of a tree falling in the forest a step further.

Bunnell City Hall and Police Department groundbreaking, Commerce Parkway groundbreaking, the Flagler County Commission meets, a judge specifies that Donald Trump is a rapist, Cato’s fawning and flatteries.

It’s Easter, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Richard Hofstadter and Warren Burger on America’s gun culture and the fraudulent interpretations of the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms.

Cracker Day at County Fairgrounds, Annual Spoonbills and Sprockets Cycling Tour, Peps Art Walk near JT’s Seafood Shack, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, the paranoid style of American politics strikes again in the Baltimore bridge collapse.

“Wait Until Dark,” at Limelight Theater in St. Augustine, “Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,” at Daytona Playhouse, the recall of two censoring school board members in California, John McEnroe.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Beautification advisory committee meets, where people are happiest in the world and what Edward Abbey has to say about the morose.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion, the weekly chess club for teens at the public library, India takes a page out of Trump’s book on Muslim bans.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop for the first time since firing its city manager, the School Board, alas, holds a pair of meetings, and a few thoughts about libraries loved and lost.

The Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Randy Newman on Louisiana in 1927, and what it’s like to wake up to a minor flood and falling ceilings in one’s own home.

Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In at County Airport, the 2024 Flagler Wellness Expo, Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, the DeLand Outdoor Art Festival, a few words about Glenn Gould.

Free Youth NCCAA Sports Clinic at Holland Park, Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In at Flagler County Airport, Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Akira Kurosawa, “Dersu Uzala” and Siberia.

Unemployment numbers are released, groundbreakings for the future Bunnell City Hall and Police Department and for the future Commerce Parkway, Anna Magdalena Bach and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre.

Blessedly, one of the shortest Briefings in memory, with happy birthday wishes to Alvin Jackson, Story Time for Preschoolers at the Flagler Beach library, and a little advice from Gloria Gaynor and John McEnroe.

Joint Workshop on 5-Year Public Safety Plan, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, an evidentiary hearing in the case of George Proulx, who argues his four-year prison sentence for molesting girls was too harsh, “Drug Thugs and Rambo Guns.”

Food Truck Tuesday returns in Central Park, the Flagler County canvassing board meets three times to go over ballots in the least consequential election of the year, inflation progress stalls, the Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets.

The Flagler County Commission meets, Charles-Valentin Alkan moves us with his vision esquisse, Rabbit resents being made to realize that the songs of his life were not what he thought.

Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, the farmer’s market at European Village, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and not just “The Yellow Wall-Paper.”

Food Truck Palooza, Kick-off for the annual Food-A-Thon at FPC, Caryl Churchill’s ‘Vinegar Tom,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Live From the Waterworks, and You’ve Got Mail: how long it took letters to travel 500 years ago.

“Vinegar Tom,” at City Repertory Theatre, The Blue 24 Forum, still-going early voting for the non-election, how Disney priced out Floridians, and how Saddam Hussein rebuilt Babylon.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: “Fish Ecology in a Rapidly Changing World,” the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, George Templeton Strong exults about the 1864 election, who is really voting in this early voting window and why is anyone bothering?

Early voting, but who really cares, the 2024 Health and Human Services Summit at the Ocean Center, Separation Chat, drilling down into the intellectual dishonesty of claims of double standards in reporting about Israel.

Early voting continues, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, Al Green sings, a few Plutarch words about Solon.

Early voting, unemployment numbers released, the library board and the Bunnell City Commission meet (separately), and a few questions about conspiracy theories’ pious believers.

Strawberry Festival in Central Park, St. Augustine Celtic Music and Heritage Festival, early voting, a voyage to Alderney, the British island you’ve never heard of.

Rick de Yampert’s book-signing at Vedic Moons this afternoon, early voting for the useless primary begins today, Strawberry Festival in Central Park, AAUW meeting, St. Augustine Celtic Music and Heritage Festival, return to Byzantium.

Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Council Member Nick Klufas, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, the death toll surpassed 30,000 in Gaza, and Dareen wonders why her family was wiped out, Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony at the Jacksonville Symphony.

Read Across Flagler Literacy Night in Town Center’s Central Park, Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, a trip back down Bernie Sanders’ way, and whose side are you on.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State meets, reflections on January 6, and where we went, and are going, from there.

The Flagler County School Board meets in workshop, the Palm Coast City Council holds its monthly evening meeting, Joe Biden on the talk show circuit, Robert Fisk on the drug of hope.

The Flagler County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, why Nietzsche hated Socrates, and why it’s probably better for your health not to like Socrates too much.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, “Tuck Everlasting” is still going strong at Limelight Theatre, a trip through Jean Stafford’s “The Children’s Game” and Knokke le Zoute.

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, Will Durant, national character, and when stereotype slips into bigotry.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the Blue 24 Forum, George Carlin on wanting to engage in an involuntary protein spill, and on getting old in a world of illusions.

Drug court, Clay Jones draws about and writes on Trump’s racism, “Tuck Everlasting” at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, a history of leap years and what it looked like from the vantage point of 1960.