Daily Briefing

Gamble Jam, Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden walks of the last 11 years, Ian Frazier takes te F and reflects on Brooklyn and its smells from coffee to fingernail polish to eucalyptus.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival, recalling Apollo’s orbits around the Moon at Christmas 1968, and Time Magazine’s year of culture.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival continues for a few more days in Palm Coast’s Town Center, Bachfest, a few reflections on Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs and the 100 best books of the 21st century.

Nothing doing today, and beside the chestnuts roasting on a natural gas fire and the remains of yesterday’s fog, it’s time for Bachfest and the smell of Christmas in “The Plot Against America.”

Clay Jones is rightfully upset that Disney kissed Donald Trump’s ring with that settlement, on the origin of St. Nick, Nicholas of Myra, and a spin around the world with Satchmo.

The Bunnell City Commission hears an appeal from a developer who thinks less open space should be fine, a few thoughts about harsh parents, and the Little Prince.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, remembering Eleanor Roosevelt’s utopian Arthurdale.

Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse, the Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meets, Syria’s refugees and their mistreatment, school shootings and Clay Jones.

Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers are released,Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse, a 21st birthday celebration, trillions upon trillions of tiny marine organisms.

Marineland talks about Ragga Surf Cafe’s pending eviction, Model Yacht Club Races at the pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, Drug Court’s last session of the year, the American judiciary’s reputation falls to historically low levels.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club features Jeff Hoffman, the global entrepreneur, the Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board meets, Buc-ee’s happy place, a few thoughts from Casanova.

The Palm Coast City Council and the School Board hold their last meetings of the year, taking a dive into Country Highway, America’s best new newspaper, a few words from Walter Kirn.

A pair of meetings of the Flagler County Commission, including an earful on the Ragga Surf Cafe mess, Holly Albanese on the Nexus Center, Bach’s Fifth French Suite gives Chuck Berry a run for his trills, Rabih Alamadeddine on memory.

The Palm Coast Holiday Boat Parade is scheduled for 6 p.m., Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Rad Assal corrects New York Times headline writers, Riadh Alamadeddine with a key bartending observation, Bach’s sublime English Suite in A minor.

Palm Coast’s Starlight Parade in Town Center, American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, Gamble Jam, dreaming of Las Vegas, Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.

Christmas in Bunnell, Shop with a Cop, Sen. Tom Leek on Free For All, a new Chopin waltz is discovered, Chechnya banning music considered too fast or too slow.

The Flagler Beach City Commission holds its last meeting of the year and votes on annexing Veranda Bay, “From Jellyfish to Sharks,” the Evening at the Whitney lecture, Gore Vidal on Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s reviewing.

The Cold-Weather Shelter opens again tonight, a few thoughts on a passage from Katherine Ann Porter’s “Leaning Tower,” Weekly Chess Club for Teens.

The Palm Coast City Council will discuss its procedures, accused wife-murderer Jermaine Williams is in court, the school board holds a workshop, the end of Hafez and Bashar el Assad and a remembrance of Hama Rules.

Lyonel Jeune, is sentenced for a hit-and-run death, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the library board of trustees meets, Fantasy Lights in Town Center, Pablo Neruda and metaphors, an excerpt from Wendell Berry’s “The Rise.”

‘The Country Girl’ at City Repertory Theatre, Handel’s Messiah at United Methodist Church, a Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, a response to December 7, Michael Sandel on Trump’s America, an excerpt from Orbital.

The Flagler Beach Holiday Parade, “The Country Girl’ at City Repertory Theatre, the Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley, Trump’s 49 percent and Pearl Harbor.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, Free Clinic Open House in Bunnell, Free Family Art Night at OMAM, First Friday Garden Walks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, the death penalty conveyor belt and John Oliver’s take.

John Garrison Sentencing, Ashley Estevez at The Stage in Palm Coast’s Town Center, A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, the demolition of a Palestinian student’s life.

The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, weekly Chess Club for Teens, Maupassant’s “On the water,” and a brief history of the Seine.

The Palm Coast City Council holds its second business meeting since the election, Flagler Beach’s Planning and Architectural Review Board meets, on Joe Biden’s reprehensible Beau pardon.

The Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, including its reorganization, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the origins of Burgess’s “A Clockwork Orange.”

A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre, Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center, The Sarcoi, the Last Resort, and Dr Florian Willet’s imprisonment, plus that scene from MASH.

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.