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Weather: Cloudy. Areas of fog in the morning. A chance of showers and drizzle in the morning, then a slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph.Check tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
It’s a workday, but not really. Courts and schools are not in session and most businesses that don;t enslave their workers, like retail’s rapine, are either at a simmer or closed.
The Bach Festival Continues: The annual Bach Festival on WKCR runs uninterrupted, commercial free, 24 hours a day, until Dec. 31 at 11:59 p.m. It is accessible online here. No app, no hassles. Just click on “Listen.” WKCR is the radio station of Columbia University. It has been producing the Bach festival since 1980, with students and guests hosting. And if 170 hours aren’t enough, the 89th Annual Bach Festival at Rollins College (it’s been going strong since 1935) begins February 2 and runs through March 3, under the artistic direction of John V. Sinclair. Concerts will include performances by the 160-voice Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra, and guest soloists. It’s presented by the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. See every concert here, with some of them free and open to the public, but you must reserve ahead of time. See: “Putting Bach Back in Christmas.”
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
In Coming Days:
Notably: This is the week when if you’re at work and you’re not resecting a bowel or landing a 777 or barreling a semi on the Interstate you should get to loaf around a little, and if you’re not, then loaf around a lot, especially amid the devastation of the day after. The proof is in the beer: Brown Dog is closed until Wednesday. And because of a quirk in my son’s work calendar, we have delayed our own celebration of Christmas to Boxer Day. Which explains the brevity of this entry. We’ll try to repeat the same loafing when Orthodox Christmas rolls around on an. 7, when we’ll pretend to be in Constantinople Istanbul.
—P.T.
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
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“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.”
–From John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row (1945).
Pogo says
@FWIW
A toast to John Steinbeck, and all who read, remember, and share him.
https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Steinbeck
Directly related
https://www.ala.org/
Pogo says
@FlaglerLive
Today’s sites for a number of distinguished newspapers (in Florida, and elsewhere) are reporting on another Florida Republican Party man who spent most of his life somewhere else story — David Stuckenberg, aka, in his own words,”PURE SOLUTIONS FOR A STRONG AMERICA”.
https://www.alpf.org/about
And more
https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AUPress/Display/Article/2905307/maj-david-j-stuckenberg/
Wow, this guy makes the Flash look leisurely, but not 10 seconds experience in elected office. What could possibly go wrong?
A sample from a Gannett Co. property:
“…Who is David J. Stuckenberg?
Stuckenberg was born in California, grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri and lives in Tampa. During his time in the Air Force, Stuckenberg flew more than 150 combat missions, according to a news release.
He is the founder and chairman of the American Leadership and Policy Foundation, a nonprofit think tank based in Kansas City…”
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2023/11/24/who-is-republican-presidential-candidate-david-j-stuckenberg/71678610007/
Bearing in mind that every Republican Party campaign started, at the latest, the day after the most recent election, but usually, years before then — who really brought Stuckenberg to the dance? And what office is he really running for? Follow the dark money, someone, please.