Daily Briefing

The Palm Coast Open, ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at Limelight Theater in St. Augustine, the day the world almost ended in 2013, an Abba tribute at the Peabody Auditorium, a few lines from Salman Rushdie.

Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Stayin’ Alive: One Night of the Bee Gees, at Flagler Auditorium, a Gazan writes, the impossibilities of a peace settlement as Marwan Barghouti rots in an Israeli prison.

The Community Traffic Safety Team meets, it’s Palm Coast City Council workshop day, the Palm Coast Open is ongoing, Cameron Driggers’s Youth Action Fund leads an anti-book-banning rally in Brevard County, only for a Sarah J. Maas book to be banned.

Trial week in felony court, with some right or nine potential trials, the Palm Coast Open, the Garden Club meets at the Palm Coast Social Club, the Bunnell City Commission meets, CNN’s Israel bias.

The Palm Coast Open at the Tennis Center, Farmers’ Market at European Village, St. Augustine Music Festival: Bach to Blacknotes, Lindsay Zoladz on Tracy Chapman, H.L. Mencken’s Happy Days.

American Association of University Women feature speaker Lenny Foster, Brass, Organ and Percussion at Jacksonville Symphony, Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area, Rummage sale at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Palm Coast Open, Jeff Sharlet.

Rummage Sale at St. Thomas Episcopal, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, revisiting the Pillars of Creation, Knausgaard and “this ability, to give life to the lifeless.”

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series–on tape worms, the Palm Coast Democratic Club, a lady’s hat catching fire at a theater has precedence over news of Jules Verne’s death.

Christopher Lemke, who pulled a gun on neighbors setting off fireworks, is sentenced, the Flagler County Republican Club meets, choosing Eubie Blake over Charles Dickens.

Brenan Hill’s sentencing is scheduled for today, the Flagler County School Board holds a workshop, dubbed a “retreat,” before meeting for another workshop at 3 p.m., the Palm Coast City Council meets in the evening.

The Flagler County Commission meets and says farewell to the Baptist school in the old courthouse, remembering the joys and insults of Pat Buchanan, James Bennet.

Facebook at 20, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, a few lines from From Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge at San Luis Rey, Grace Community Food Pantry.

Palm Coast hosts the 3rd Annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Run/Walk, Invincible: A Glorious Tribute to Michael Jackson, at Flagler Auditorium, Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series, Flannery O’Connor.

The Blue 24 Forum, First Friday in Flagler Beach, descending the Flagler Beach Bridge into the sight of the rising Margaritaville Hotel, a few words from Walter Kerr on ice cream.

Palm Coast State of the City address at the Community Center, Flagler Schools FAFSA/Financial Aid Night, Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes, the Upanishads on the human condition.

The Bronx Wanderers, at Flagler Auditorium, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library, Alabama proudly revives the gas chamber.

Docket sounding is scheduled in a series of cases including that of Marcus Chamblin, one of two defendants facing a first degree murder charge in the Circle K shooting, Trump owes the New York Times $400,000.

The cold weather shelter opens tonight as temperatures again fall below 40, No government meetings in the county today, Chekhov’s birthday and how he revolutionized storytelling.

EDGES: A Song Cycle, at City Repertory Theatre, Blue Spring Manatee Festival, Jackson Pollock’s birthday and how paintings have a life of their own.

Flagler Woman’s Club 1st Responders Chili Challenge at Veterans Park, EDGES: A Song Cycle, at City Repertory Theatre, Blue Spring Manatee Festival, consumer confidence, Fran Lebowitz, Art Buchwald on Ronald Reagan.

Gladys Knight in concert at Flagler Auditorium, Edges: A Song Cycle, at City Repertory Theatre, Mozart, Vivaldi and Handel at Jacksonville Symphony, the resurgence against DEI.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Neil Simon’s ‘The Sunshine Boys,’ at Daytona Playhouse, oranges from Florida to Arizona, The Simpsons’ Prediction for 2024.

One-Stop Help Night at Flagler Cares, Flagler Village, Flagler Tiger Bay hosts Gloria Herndon, Joint workshop of local governments, Harry Belafonte and Norman Jewison and the art of cultural appropriation.

The school board has a trio of meetings, first to talk about its next attorney, but with a good deal of secrecy, “The Kitchen Witches” at Limelight Theatre, Rabelais’ great perhaps.

The Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, Clay Jones on DeSantis’s and Haley’s wishy-washiness, the Cedars of Lebanon through the ages and by drone.

EDGES at City Repertory Theatre, Great Organists at Stetson, Mid-Century Modern Combo at Jacksonville Symphony, Jo Koy laughs it up at the Peabody, the little libraries of Mesa and Saul Bellow’s Clara.

EDGES: A Song Cycle, at City Repertory Theatre, Whitney Houston Tribute at Flagler Auditorium, Neil Simon’s ‘The Sunshine Boys,’ at Daytona Playhouse, the poetry of Gary Snyder, and the cold-weather shelter opens again tonight.

A Free Bobby Jo Valentine Community Concert at St. Thomas Episcopal, how Americans view race, how Shelby Steele viewed Obama and defined the age of white guilt.

Nature Walks with Urban Forester Carol, Clay Jones on the Yemen attacks, a warmer day than the last two days’ freeze, Neolithic Orkney, Carhenge in Nebraska, Benjamin Constant on liberty.

The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight. The Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board and the Contractor Review Board meet, Separation Chat, coffee culture from Yemen to the Enlightenment to Starbucks.

The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, the Palm Coast City Council takes up the revised technical manual for builders, revisions designed to minimize flooding problems, the age of self-promotion, a few lines from Saul Bellow’s “The Old System.”

Courts, schools and most government offices are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day, a few thoughts about the American sermon, and Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s idea of hell.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, the 37th Annual Manatee Festival in Crystal River (it’s just a drive across the state), Aaron Copland’s “Billy the Kid” and those album covers.

Keep Palm Coast Clean: a Litter-all, all-volunteer effort to clean up the city, Gamble Jam, the American Association of University Women’s monthly meeting, Malamud’s “Angel Levine” in the Briefing’s periodic Storytime.

Qualifying period for Flagler Beach and Bunnell municipal elections end today, Indiana Jones at the public library, LGBTQ+ Night, what Voltaire had to say about the murders of OxyContin pills.

The Flagler Beach City Commission takes up a significant annexation proposal, all about bats at the Whitney Lecture Series, the baguette through the ages.

The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets, qualifying for the municipal elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell continues, Separation Chat, Happy Birthday, Brian McMillan, in praise of Jimmy Carter, but not Woodrow Wilson.

The Palm Coast City Council talks roads, food and Florida Park Drive, the Flagler County School Board, unfortunately, meets, as does the county’s planning board, assuming it can muster a quorum, on gas giants.

Trial week, the County Commission takes on the evictions at Bulow RV park, qualifying week for the elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell, lack of trust in institutions, why democracies need an unlovable press.

Florida Winter Volleyball Festival in Daytona Beach, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Israel’s expulsion end game in Gaza, Benny Morris on the expulsions of 1947.

The Volusia Latin Festival and Three Kings Festival in Deltona all day, Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, catching up with Robert Caro at 88, and his LBJ biography still in the works.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, the great divide in the United States (and Afghanistan), a recap of 2023’s biggest news stories on WNZF’s Free For All Fridays, Robert Goldstein in court.

On the birth of Baby Felix and the meaning of life, scientists in 1967 predict the 21st century to Walter Cronkite, Nathaniel Hawthorne on “the infant was worthy to have been brought forth in Eden.”

Damari Barnes in court, Waste Pro changes its pick-up schedule this week in unincorporated Flagler, the Code Enforcement Board flexes its muscles, The Flagler County Republican Club meets, on the word cachinnate, and on doubt.

The Palm Coast City Council takes on controversial items, including Old Kings Village near Polo Club West and the Cascades development in Seminole Woods. Ted Koppel on journalism, Robert Fisk on terrorism.

Americans’ top 10 New Year resolutions (exercising is at #2), Jimmy Stewart on Carson, how the Romans gave us January 1, and Clay Jones opens 2024.

New Year’s Eve in Flagler Beach beginning at 8 p.m. and culminating with fireworks, The Cold-Weather Shelter opens, The Bach Festival draws to its close soon, between Zionism and anti-Semitism.

TJ Schultz memorial at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Palm Coast, the Cold Weather Shelter opens, ice harvesting and trading from the middle ages to 19th century Boston and Calcutta, trap, neuter and release’s controversies.

The Ultimate Mermen, The Ultimate Disney Tribute Band, 7 p.m. at Flagler Auditorium, the Cold Weather Shelter opens tonight, Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, County Commission Chair Andy Dance and Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson look to 2024 on Free For All Fridays, Frederick Douglass as never before published.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, but with a reminder of Elizabeth Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction, the Bach Festival continues, and the workweek remains at low simmer.