Daily Briefing

The Palm Coast City Council’s busy workshop, including the latest on the search for a permanent city manager, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, the Flagler County Planning Board meets, how to cope with a second Trump term, Biden’s no-win situation in Rafah.

The Bunnell City Commission recognizes several of its law enforcement officers for various achievements, the library board meets, recalling the other “It Can’t Happen Here”: Nathanael West’s “A Cool Million.”

‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Shine Mindfulness for Kids Group, Israel’s growing censorship regime and American bombings of al-Jazeeras past.

LGBTea Social at Flagler Tea Company, Bartram Living History Fest, The City of Palm Coast Public Works Department hosts its Touch-a-Truck event, the lowdown on Stormy Daniels and her full disclosures.

Church Folks Ain’t Laughing Enough variety show at AACS, LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company, “The Color Purple” Movie Matinee 1 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: Novel Approaches to Control Mosquito-Borne Diseases, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Democratic Club, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office hosts the annual Law Enforcement Memorial Service at 7:45 p.m. at the Sheriff’s Operations Center, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, when Britney Spears’ midriff buckled to “Hit me, baby, one more time.”

The Palm Coast City Council meets and approves a state grand enabling the city to design the four-laning of Old Kings Road south of Palm Coast Parkway, the school board meets, and Bill Maher sacrifices intellectual honesty for a laugh.

Hammock Community Association Meeting with Sheriff Staly and Cmdr. Ryan Emry, the Flagler County Commission meets, the Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, The Onion explains passive sentences.

The Palm Coast Songwriters Festival wraps up, ‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Ronald Reagan’s ill-advised visit to Bitburg cemetery and its SS in 1985.

Arbor Day in Palm Coast’s Central Park at Town Center, The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up, Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series: Bob Kealing On How the Beatles Rocked Florida, ‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, math as god.

First Friday in Flagler Beach, ‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Free Family Art Night at Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, the serendipity of afterlives.

National Day of Prayer, National Day of Prayer Protest, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, paint-names by numbers, what we can learn from whales’ very small eyes.

The Brendan Depa sentencing is scheduled, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, the Flagler County Republican Club, are Americans moving from blue to red states, Harry James, Frederick Douglass.

Docket sounding in court with the cases of Kim Zaheer, Qwinntavus Kwame Jordan, Marcus Chamblin, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, the Library of America’s final volume in the Updike novel collection.

Coffee Chat and Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin, Cynthia Ozick at 96 and what she looked like when she was 64, Duke Ellington and the fates.

‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Cabbage, Potato and Bacon Festival, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, meanwhile, back in the West Bank.

Peps Art Walk near JT’s Seafood Shack, ‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, Cabbage, Potato and Bacon Festival in Hastings, how Britain, France and the United States set the template for a century of war in the Middle East.

‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, ‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, The Blue 24 Forum, Lord Dewar of the Whiskey Dewar’s returns from Central Africa with imperious tales of wife-buying.

Drug Court, Beautification committee, the Flagler Beach City Commission meets, understanding the Social Security Trust Fund and its perpetual near-insolvency over the years.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts its open discussion, the navel-gazing at the New York Times, Russell Baker on objectivity.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in a special budget workshop, the NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership meets, the hilarity of Uri Berliner’s critique of NPR and what we may learn from it.

The Flagler County Beekeepers Association and the Bunnell City Commission meet, Israel makes a desert in Gaza and calls it peace as it somewhat withdraws, though the killing continues.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Ormond Beach Celtic Festival, Billy Strings at St. Augustine Amphitheater, Policeman ‘Mackerel’ meets Miss Herring on a New York corner.

Flagler VegFest at Flagler County Fairgrounds, Live From the Waterworks: Gamble Rogers Folk Festival’s Monthly Concert Series, Michelangelo meets AK-47.

Flagler and Florida’s unemployment numbers for March are released, the Supervisor of Elections holds a voter registration drive at Matanzas and FPC, Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Council Member Cathy Heighter, the 10th hottest month in a row, ever.

Drug court, a new Caglecast: Flushing Fox News, Clarence Darrow’s anniversary, story time for preschoolers, William Manchester’s disillusion with himself.

Trial notes: a few thoughts about jury selection, Separation Chat, the open discussion, the Technical Review Committee and the county’s Tourist Council meet, Weekly Chess Club for Teens at the public library.

The Palm Coast City Council holds a morning meeting, the Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club meets, Erwin Rommel’s end, the unfortunate immortalizing of assassins’ names.

Closing arguments in Marcus Chamblin trial, tax-filing deadline, the Flagler County Commission meets, America’s disturbing taste for bad beer, a history of the drink of the gods, and John Updike’s bar.

Whitney Lab 5K in Marineland, Daytona State College Orchestra in concert, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” and a trip to his Key West home and cats.

Town Hall Meeting with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, Palm Coast United Methodist Church Ribbon-Cutting, Easterseals Autism Awareness Event, Lebanon 49 years after.

LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing, Seawolf Privateers present “Mutiny on the High Seas” at the Palm Coast Community Center, Voter Registration Drives at Matanzas and FPC, more thoughts on the afterlife.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series: “Sea Turtle And Marine Mammal Health Assessments.” The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Democratic Club meets, on eternity and the afterlife.

Paul Peterson at Flagler Tiger Bay Club, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, Jon Stewart on Israel, on the trouble with intermittent fasting since the days of Herman Melville.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop, the Community Traffic Safety Team meets, mind not quite over matter, Christopher Hitchens on Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.

The eclipse starts in Palm Coast and Flagler at 1:47 p.m., peaking at 61 percent of sun cover at 3:04 p.m. The Marcus Chamblin trial on murder charges begins, The Bunnell City Commission meets and likely celebrates its groundbreakings, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets and likely dreams of its coming groundbreaking, recalling Covid, Calvino’s cities.

AAUW 40th Anniversary Celebration: 3 to 6 p.m. at Uncork’d in Flagler Beach, Live Jazz Concert to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, Bartolomé de las Casas and the conscience of colonialism.

Palm Coast Historical Society Speaker Series: Vincent Adejumo on the Ocoee Massacre, Scott Spradley on Lauren Johnston, Featured Artist Rick de Yampert at Ormond Art Walk, Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

The Blue 24 Forum, Free Family Art Night: “Textured Turtles”, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, Louis C.K. on the French, and on that French expression about whipping cats.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, why the CDC is not allowed to research gun violence as gun violence continues to ravage the country.

Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night at its City Marketplace location from 3 to 7 p.m., Separation Chat, Open Discussion, eekly Chess Club for Teens the Flagler County Republican Club meets, an exploration of denialism.

Donald Andrew Sharp sentencing, the Flagler County School Board meets, Donna Tartt speaks to Charlie Rose, taking the old riddle of a tree falling in the forest a step further.

Bunnell City Hall and Police Department groundbreaking, Commerce Parkway groundbreaking, the Flagler County Commission meets, a judge specifies that Donald Trump is a rapist, Cato’s fawning and flatteries.

It’s Easter, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, Richard Hofstadter and Warren Burger on America’s gun culture and the fraudulent interpretations of the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms.

Cracker Day at County Fairgrounds, Annual Spoonbills and Sprockets Cycling Tour, Peps Art Walk near JT’s Seafood Shack, ‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse, the paranoid style of American politics strikes again in the Baltimore bridge collapse.

“Wait Until Dark,” at Limelight Theater in St. Augustine, “Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,” at Daytona Playhouse, the recall of two censoring school board members in California, John McEnroe.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, the Palm Coast Beautification advisory committee meets, where people are happiest in the world and what Edward Abbey has to say about the morose.

The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion, the weekly chess club for teens at the public library, India takes a page out of Trump’s book on Muslim bans.

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop for the first time since firing its city manager, the School Board, alas, holds a pair of meetings, and a few thoughts about libraries loved and lost.