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.”
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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 16, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 15, 2024
“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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 14, 2024
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?
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, March 11, 2024
Early voting, unemployment numbers released, the library board and the Bunnell City Commission meet (separately), and a few questions about conspiracy theories’ pious believers.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday March 10, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 9, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 8, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, March 7, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, March 4, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, March 3, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, March 2, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, March 1, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday February 29, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Ralph Carter Park Community Update and meeting, Separation Chat, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” 41 years ago, E.B. Sledge discharged from active duty at Pensacola.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 27, 2024
A Palm Coast City Council workshop, the Book Dragons meet at the Flagler Beach Public Library, the Carnival of Binches and its extravagant street parties, a few lines from Gibbon.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 26, 2024
The Flagler County Beekeepers Association meets, the Bunnell City Commission meets, not much concern for civil rights among Americans, Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 25, 2024
The cold-weather shelter opens tonight, the Native-American Festival at Princess Place, ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theater, Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Drink the Water,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Rick Perlstein on Donald Trump and a new Caglecast.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Race of the Runways for Rotary, The Flagler Historical Society Annual Meeting at the Community Center, Gamble Jam, Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Drink the Water,’ revisiting Edith Wharton’s “Bewitched” and looking for help to understand it.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 23, 2024
Jerome Byron Malereba is sentenced this morning, the Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets, “Don’t Drink the Water” and “Tuck Everlasting” on local stages north and south, the awfulness of Thomas Friedman.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Daniel Wagner at Tiger Bay, Forever Fab and Sixtiesmania at the Auditorium, Sadie turns 30, The New Sigmund Romberg Orchestra’s Musical Journey to Broadway, and It Happened One Night, in full.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Palm Coast Planning Board meets, chess club at the public library, correcting an Economist editorial on Palestinians and Israelis, Jeff Sharlet reflects on the routine betrayals of journalists, Jon Stewart’s return.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The cold-weather shelter opens again tonight, the School Board has a trio of meetings, starting with one it would rather you did not attend, the Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets, Thomas Mann’s Dilettante, electric vehicles.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 19, 2024
The cold-weather shelter opens tonight. The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop to discuss the county’s feral hog problem, and meets again in a regularly scheduled business session, a new Bach French Suite recording, an excerpt from Darin Strauss’s “Half a Life.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 18, 2024
The Palm Coast Open final, ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at Limelight Theater in St. Augustine, Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Dring the Water,’ at Daytona Playhouse, and the pleasures and long history of the word “irregardless.”
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 17, 2024
The Palm Coast Open nears its culmination, Live From the Waterworks, Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, at the Jacksonville Symphony, the Library of America announces its forthcoming 2024 titles.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 16, 2024
The Palm Coast Open continues, Annual Health and Fitness Fair at the Palm Coast Community Center, Darryl Worley and Anthony Smith, at Flagler Auditorium, Woody Allen’s ‘Don’t Dring the Water,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, at Jacksonville Symphony, a detour to Nigeria.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 15, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 12, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 11, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 10, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 9, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 8, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, February 5, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, February 4, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, February 3, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, February 2, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, February 1, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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 Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, January 29, 2024
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.
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, January 28, 2024
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.