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Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s show: Tom Wright and and Sean Murphy, executive director of Beyond Brotherhood, a non-profit that helps Navy Seals transition. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month.
‘Hysteria,’ At Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, at 3 p.m. In this surprisingly touching and hilarious farce, step into the wild world of “Hysteria,” Terry Johnson’s clever and funny play that blends fact and fantasy through the uproarious collision of Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud’s brilliant minds. Prepare for unexpected twists, outrageous situations, and a rollercoaster of emotions in this riotous farce set in 1938 London.
‘First Date,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m., except on Sundays, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $32.50, including fees. Book tickets here. The 2012 musical takes the audience through the first meeting of Casey and Aaron, two 30-ish New York City singles set up by friends and family. The two have nothing in common: Aaron is a conservative banker, Jewish, and looking for a meaningful relationship, while Casey is an artist and a little too funky for Wall Street. With the influences of their friends and family (played out in their imaginations) as well as the effects of social media (Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube personified), this first date seems to be doomed. But with the help of a meddling but well-meaning waiter, Casey and Aaron might make a connection after all. With a contemporary rock score, FIRST DATE gleefully pokes fun at the mishaps and mistakes of blind dates and gives hope that there could be that one perfect moment.
Notably: You read the headline right. It appears on Page 1 of the New York Times on this day in 1920, a day that featured a straight-faced, four-column headline predicting all you need to know about the way the West fucked up the Middle East for the next hundred years (“Allies Divide Asia Minor Control–Palestine Under Britain”). But of that, maybe tomorrow. The page from top to bottom bracketed the precise character of an imperial, imperious West, with that two-paragraph story about the cost of wives a crude reflection of the Times’ editors’ racism and attempt at humor. Why else place that story on page 1, or run the story at all? The story is datelined London and refers to “Lord” Arthur Dewar (I can never take these lordly titles seriously), a liberal member of parliament from Edinburgh at the time, the very same distiller whose spirits we still imbibe to this day (Dewar’s Whiskey). He was big into marketing, traveling all over the world to sell his booze and, clearly, to spice up his travel tales with Union Jackassery: “Lord Dewar, who has just returned from Central Africa, in giving an account of his travels there, said that the increased cost of living in the district he visited was reflected in the higher price for wives paid by the natives. Whereas a fine, sixteen hands high wife cost four spearheads in pre-war days, she now costs eight spearheads, Lord Dewar said, and in the cattle districts the price of a wife at present is eight cows instead of four.” Dewar mujst have drank too much to remember his own fellow lords’ Marriage Act of 1753. Just below the article appears one of those tiny ads the Times was famous for on its front page: “‘Adam and Eva,” Biggest Comedy Hit in New York. Longacre Theatre.–Advt.” No mention of Lord Dewar’s vaudeville acts in whorehouses off-off-Broadway.
—P.T.
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May 2025
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
For the full calendar, go here.
“It isn’t easy to be a brilliant, successful woman in a city where the gods are female but the females are merely goods.”
–From Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988).
Pogo says
@FWIW Department, April 26, 1336, in history
Petrarch climbs Mont Ventoux on cusp of the Renaissance
An Italian poet and scholar ascends more than 6,000 feet to the summit of France’s Mont Ventoux and experiences an epiphany that inspires him to examine the life of the soul. Petrarch will go on to write works that usher in a more modern age, and be called “the father of humanism.”
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Petrarch&filters=tnTID%3a%22FF75EBE8-339A-4164-8F32-896B52F1D3EF%22+tnVersion%3a%225601797%22+Segment%3a%22popularnow.carousel%22+tnCol%3a%227%22+tnOrder%3a%2288bd0daa-f2e0-4842-90e6-8a2d595ba589%22&FORM=BSPN01&ecount=50&crslsl=1321&vfirst=7
And now, back to the utter squalor of Trump v. The Human Race
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squalor
ASF says
A quote (noted in an article from The Hill, dated 2-22024) from Khymani Jones, the leader of the Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia: “Be grateful that I’m not not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
No worries–He’s issued a #sorrynotsorry statement that the President Of Columbia was so grateful for that she’s cancelled her decision to immediately disband one of the largest encampments on campus.
Pierre Tristam says
Congrats. You nailed one outrageous bigot. Might you say the same of the murderers of over 30,000 Palestinians? Or maybe just one? We could start with the prime minister perhaps, who’s made it policy to obliterate a people. Of course, only Israeli lives matter in your bleak and astoundingly bigoted calculus.
ASF says
He’s one of the official LEADERS of those protests on campus. That matters.