Daily Briefing

Early voting continues, the different reaction to the boy who threatened to blow up Orlando with nukes and the one who placed bogus swatting calls to Flagler schools, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets.

Tabasco Brothers at the Golden Lion Cafe, farmer’s market, taking the measure of Parisian distances against Palm Coast sprawl, Sharath Mahendran’s “Building Beautifully” and a few words from Redburn.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Gamble Jam, dueling banjos revisited.

Terrell Sampson sentencing, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, relics from the east, remembering the Beirut port blast four years later.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting, the routine of Israel settlers’ Jim Crow violence against Palestinians of the West Bank.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz, a look back at the Palmer raids.

The Flagler Beach Planning Board takes on a revised height ordinance, the Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, Nukemaps and the simulated results of nuclear bombings.

The groundbreaking for the southern branch library known as the Nexus Center is at 1 p.m., the County Commission has a pair of meetings, the Canvassing Board meets, Bernard Malamud delights us with his metaphors.

Unlimited Devotion performs in St. Augustine, the Magic of Motown at the Peabody, the LOL Jax Film Festival, the chauvinism of some American media’s medal-table standings.

Back to school jam at FPC, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, further thoughts on the Olympics’ opening ceremonies and arts’ controversies, a pop-up exhibit of paintings by Kiersten Hawkins.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Family Art Night at OMAM, the cost of the Olympics, if economics were an Olympic sport.

Clay Jones, Charlie Hebdo, Trump and voting for the last time, health care provider scoring meeting at the GSB, Lawrence Wright on a pledge of allegiance to the future of the country.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, Flagler Parent hosts a one-hour live-streamed forum with school board candidates, Elvis’s very first concert at Overton Park Orchestra Shell in Memphis.

The Flagler Branch of the NAACP hosts a candidate forum at 6 p.m. at AACS, Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, where Jimmy Carter went wrong on Salman Rushdie.

Eisenhower’s convertible trip to Karachi, Pakistan, in 1960, America’s dwindling reputation abroad, Springsteen’s, “This Land is Your Land,” a few words from James MacGregor Burns.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, V.S. Naipaul’s odd turn in the South and a couple of seemingly nonexistent towns, Naipaul at Colgate university.

Peps Art Walk next to JT’s Seafood Shack, Gamble Jam, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, with City Attorney Drew Smith, A Tribute to Queen at the Bandshell.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the Paris Olympics open on the Seine, remembering Red Smith.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Palm Coast’s forgotten Beautification Committee meets, Bob Newhart on Carson, a few thoughts on the GOP Convention.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club takes on Michael Morpurgo’s “Elephant in the Garden,” Separation Chat, Open Discussion, a few sights and thoughts on the reborn beach at the south end of Flagler Beach.

The school board holds its pair of meetings–afternoon workshop, evening meeting–the Palm Coast council meets, Book Dragons at the Flagler Beach Public Library, the sprawls of Palm Coast.

“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” in its final performance at City Repertory Theatre, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, Hemingway’s recollection of Paris.

Iration and Pepper at the St. Augustine Amphitheater, Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar’s “Lords of the Land,” Ilan Pappé and the biggest prison on earth in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting, Buddy Guy performs a rescheduled show in St. Augustine, and on casuistry.

“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals,” at City Repertory Theatre, Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers released at 10 a.m., the Blue 24 Forum, the many meanings of July 19, rocking the kasbah in Beirut.

Story Time at the Flagler Beach Public Library, getting ticketed in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Dale Earnhardt, a few lines from Jeanne Stafford’s “Reluctant Gambler.”

Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee meets, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Bridge and Games at Flagler Woman’s Club, doping and the Tour de France, on the rapidity of change.

Identity Theft/Scams/Fraud Workshop at Flagler Woman’s Club, Food Truck Tuesdays in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Hammock Harbour public hearing before a special magistrate, tales of Scheherazade.

Tyrese Patterson goes on trial on a first-degree murder charge, the Mosquito Control Board meets, the county Canvassing Board meets, Frank Stella in Jacksonville, Mark Twain in Egypt.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, nostalgic memories of Paris in August 1982, Emmanuelle, Francis Lai and Pierre Bachelet, and a few words from Voltaire on Bastille Day.

Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Gamble Jam, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting.

Comedy Dinner Show With Johnny Mac and local comedian Doug Canney, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, when Jimmy Carter got Salman Rushdie wrong.

A hearing is scheduled before Circuit Judge Chris France in the Holland Park splash pad case, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, when bestsellers become the talk of the country.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, the Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts its weekly discussion group, Joan Didion’s abortion in Play It As It Lays.

The Flagler County School Board holds its agenda meeting, the Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, Michel Houellebecq on two-car garages and The Elementary Particles.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, taking stock of the French electorate’s rejection of the neo-fascist Rassemblement National and Marine LePen, a few words on FRance from Mark Twain.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the Guttmacher Institute tracks an increase in abortions since the Dobbs ruling, Margaret Atwood, Aunt Lydia on freedom.

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up , big dumb cups, a space odyssey and Greg Crister’s Fat Land, Bandshell Sounds of the Summer Concert Series.

First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, First Friday in Flagler Beach, Joe Biden’s completely irrevocable need to pull an LBJ and withdraw.

The July 4 parade in Flagler Beach, the fireworks at the airport, Choral Arts Society Presents “Celebrate America,” Peter Boyer’s “Fanfare for Tomorrow.”

Quite a busy day for the eve of July 4, with a special magistrate meeting at the county, a Rally for Reproductive Rights, The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meeting, and the the 2024 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art.

The Palm Coast City Council considers placing a charter amendment on the November ballot that would remove the charter’s limitation of the city’s borrowing authority, A few moments with Michel Houellebecq.

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets in workshop at 5 p.m. with Surfside Estates to discuss revisions to the mobile home code, felony court is off the rest of the week, the nuclear march of folly.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the free St. Augustine Music Festival in its last day, V.S. Naipaul among the believers, Philip Roth’s Sabbath on the news.

Peps Art Walk in the Hammock, coffee with Flagler Beach Commissioner Scott Spradley, how American comedy has become too safe on TV, the menace of George Wallace type politics.

Talking July 4 festivities on Free For All Fridays, an update in pictures from the renourishment project, Acoustic Jam Circle at the Community Center In The Hammock.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club Candidate Meet and Greet at the Palm Coast Community Center, with a straw poll, the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, Calvin Coolidge on the kind of America he saw.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club discusses W. Bruce Cameron’s “A Dog’s Purpose,” Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Local Mitigation Strategy Meeting, what St. Paul got wrong about childhood.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in a budget workshop, the NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meeting is tonight, on inflation in tipping, and a few thoughts on nationalism from Benedict Anderson.

The Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting, on Margaret Sanger, the eugenics movement, and some of liberal America’s darker moments.