Daily Briefing

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.

The St. Augustine Music Festival, all free concerts, Farmer’s Market at European Village, what Donald Trump, Pope Boniface and King Philip IV have in common, and how the Federalist Society corrupts justice.

“Crows and Ravens: Birds of Myth and Magic,” a workshop by author and FlaglerLive culture writer Rick de Yampert, Local Ham Radio Clubs Test Emergency Capabilities, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley.

Flagler and Florida unemployment numbers are released, the Blue 24 Forum, the facts, inch by inch, about sea levels rising, a few words from Rachel Carson.

Not much going on locally other than Story Time for preschoolers at the Flagler Beach Public Library. A few words from Bob Cuff, a new Caglecast, and Steven Hahn on Illiberal America. Remember: a burn ban remains in effect.

Juneteenth observance closes some government offices, Separation Chat’s open discussion, the cautionary story of Franck Brinsolaro, the armed bodyguard who could not stop mass shooters at Charlie Hebdo.

Clay Jones takes on Trump’s electric boat orchestra, the Palm Coast City Council meets, the Flagler school board meets twice, Food Truck Tuesday, Rushdie’s knife.

Beach Renourishment Project groundbreaking in Flagler Beach, Elizabeth Tremoglie sentencing, the Flagler County Commission holds a pair of meetings, Ilan Pape’s detention by Homeland Security goons in Detroit.

Father’s Day Barbecue Bash at First United Methodist Church in Palm Coast, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, how the press reflected the Israeli rescue of hostages in Gaza and the massacre of over 200 Palestinians.

Juneteenth Freedom Day at AACS, developers’ choice seats, Live From the Waterworks: Gamble Rogers Folk Festival’s Monthly Concert Series , Johnny Cash’s “Delia,” James Jones.

The disastrous message of an empty bookshelf in a Government Services Building bathroom, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, the Blue 24 forum.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, drug court convenes, on heaven, the Palm Coast Democratic Club’s guest is US Congressional Candidate James Stockton.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State’s discussion, a Charlie Hebdo cover on God and mullahs, a few words from Philippe Lançon’s Disturbance.

Veteran’s Suicide Prevention Training at the county library, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion, Jacques Cousteau’s birthday and his evanescent memorials.

Heat index values up to 105. Trial week, but nothing high profile. The library board meets. Clay Jones turns the tables on those countries. The Bunnell City Commission meets, and living in a city of 100,000 without a museum or a bookstore. That’s Palm Coast.

9th Annual FUN-Raiser Festival at the Florida Agricultural Museum, Donald Duck’s birthday, an FDR Fireside Chat from 1934 on the legitimate object of government.

The third annual Hang 8 Dog Surfing Competition in Flagler Beach, Juneteenth Community Festival at Carver Center, AAUW’s monthly meeting, Mia Bella Academy of Dance Spring Recital, a stroll down the WPA Guides to America.

Elizabeth Tremoglie’s sentencing, First Friday in Flagler Beach, “Textured Turtles”, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Updike’s and other telephone poles.

A rally for Women’s Reproductive Rights is scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. at the northwest corner of Belle Terre and Pine Lake Parkways in Palm Coast, the Bible’s bestselling 1950s.

A special magistrate hears Flagler County Code Enforcement’s case for demolishing the Old Dixe motel, The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion, remembering the September 1938 New England hurricane.