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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s. Friday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
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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. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Crystal Gayle at the Fitz, Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. 7 p.m. Tickets, $64-$74. Book here. Crystal Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, KY, on January 9. Her older sister was future superstar and Grand Ole Opry member Loretta Lynn, though Loretta had already left home by the time Brenda was born. To escape constant comparison to her sister, Crystal wisely developed her own vocal and musical style. She had 20 No. 1 country singles, beginning with “I’ll Get Over You” and including her signature song, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” That song earned Crystal a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and also made her album We Must Believe In Magic the first by a female country artist to go platinum. Pretty soon, Crystal was topping the charts and getting her own invitations to play the Opry. Crystal was awarded Female Vocalist of the Year in 1977 and 1978 by the Country Music Association Awards. The Academy of Country Music gave her the same award in 1976, 1977 and 1979.
‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre , 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan is a heart-wrenching yet hilarious story about a young child who creates a list of all the brilliant things in the world to help their struggling mother. From ice cream to construction cranes, this life-affirming play celebrates the beauty in everyday moments. Both touching and funny, it explores themes of hope, love, and resilience, making it an unforgettable theatrical experience.
‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431., 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets: $25, Seniors $24, Youth $15. Three southern ladies “borrow” the ashes of their beloved bridge partner from the funeral home for one of the wildest nights with a police raid and a male stripper, discovering all the fun life can bring.
‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $25. Book here. The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst for the first time in a decade. Under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must come to terms with the consequences of her own “crimes of the heart.”
Sermon: “Alas,” Chekhov wrote in his notebooks in an undated entry, as most were in that too-slim volume from an equally slim life (he died at 44), “what is terrible is not the skeletons, but the fact that I am no longer terrified by them.” It’s impossible to know if Chekhov, a physician, was referring to the brittles of his trade or to something more metaphorical, in his stories, say (and therefore maybe more real to him, if not to us: his stories certainly are more real than anything we read about Putin’s Russia). He was funny and morose, he was a fatalist (what Russian wasn’t?), he was beyond illusions, when, clearly, he wishes he’d had a few. He reached early in life that station most of us (thankfully though pitifully) never reach, that station where all veils, all pretenses, all hopes have been dropped. When was the X-ray invented? The National Library of Medicine tells us that “W.C. Röntgen reported the discovery of X-rays in December 1895 after seven weeks of assiduous work during which he had studied the properties of this new type of radiation able to go through screens of notable thickness. He named them X-rays to underline the fact that their nature was unknown.” By then Chekhov was at the height of his powers, nearing their and his end, a practitioner of X-ray technology since his early stories in the 1870s, his sentences cutting to as much as seeing through the bone. You can pick stories at random. Toward the end of “In the Graveyard,” the motley two or three people who find themselves by the grave of a man they knew read on his tombstone: “… forgettable friend Moushkine.” “Erasing the un,” writes Chekhov, “time had corrected the lies we tell ourselves.”
—P.T.
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Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Flagler County Commission Workshop
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Municipal Elections in Flagler Beach and Bunnell
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
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A silence followed. Kirilov turned his back on Abogin, stood still a moment, and slowly walked into the drawing-room. Judging from his unsteady, mechanical step, from the attention with which he set straight the fluffy shade on the unlighted lamp in the drawing-room and glanced into a thick book lying on the table, at that instant he had no intention, no desire, was thinking of nothing and most likely did not remember that there was a stranger in the entry. The twilight and stillness of the drawing-room seemed to increase his numbness. Going out of the drawing-room into his study he raised his right foot higher than was necessary, and felt for the doorposts with his hands, and as he did so there was an air of perplexity about his whole figure as though he were in somebody else’s house, or were drunk for the first time in his life and were now abandoning himself with surprise to the new sensation. A broad streak of light stretched across the bookcase on one wall of the study; this light came together with the close, heavy smell of carbolic and ether from the door into the bedroom, which stood a little way open. . . . The doctor sank into a low chair in front of the table; for a minute he stared drowsily at his books, which lay with the light on them, then got up and went into the bedroom.
–From Chekhov’s “Enemies,” in The School-Master and Other Stories, vol. 11 of the Complete Stories (Garnett translation), 1887.
Ed P says
Instinctually, Trump is right. A future where Canada aligns with the EU, Russia rules the Arctic, and China controls South America is probable with non-action.
Trump is pointing us in the right direction. His seemingly absurd offers to Greenland, Canada, and Panama are spot on. This grand strategy, along with Climate change is exactly what the United State needs to dominate world globalization via economics.
It is also necessary for a militaristic defensive strategy for our country.
Love him or hate him. Shout he’s a clown. He is the greatest deal maker we have had for a president.
His willingness to do what is right for American is rarely seen in American politics today. Most politicians worry about the next election cycle.
In general, people have lost the ability to think big enough or to formulate an original thought. The naysayers are myopic and unable to understand the globalization issues at our door step. One article, or one book never provides enough insight, one has to study the possibilities.
joe says
Monday will be a truly sad day for our country….this corrupt and vile traitor – a life-long con man and fraudster – will put his hand on a Bible and again swear to “preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”, an oath violated the entirety of his first term and promises to violate it even more this time around.
One of the foremost beliefs of our founders was that government required men of good character. Sadly, almost half our country prefers this cretin.
Laurel says
Trump will see to it that our allies will not be there for us, to “help” us. He is already busy offending our best allies.
Randy Clark says
Sad to see so many with TDS. Trump was a great President & will be again.
Mike says
The Trump Derangement Syndrome demonstrated in this paper is pathetic and should be embarrassing to the authors, but most likely it probably is not. I read a lot of talking points, with not a scintilla of evidence to back any of them up. It’s unfortunate these people have accepted the lies that have been promulgated by the mass media since 2016.
He may not be perfect, but he sure as hell beats the alternative.
Tony Mack says
Face the facts Mike — you voted to install a criminal in the White House, plain and simple. All the praise heaped upon Trump ignores that facts about his previous tenure and highlights the hate for anyone with a “D” behind their name. In his first term, Trump did absolutely nothing to help the average American…nothing.
Trump and his co-conspirators have been successful in using every tool in the Justice system to delay any consequences for his crimes. Ironically, one of the first things Trump will do is dismantle the Justice system — with immunity granted by the Supreme Court, he will never face accountability for his crimes.
America once claimed to have a legal system wherein all citizens were equal in the eyes of the law; but America no longer has a “Justice” system where Trump and his crime syndicate are concerned.
America will be governed by Project 2025 and the shot callers at the Heritage Foundation and the billionaires who supported this travesty. In Germany, in 1933, they had the Nuremburg Laws…American will have the 2025 Laws with which to deal. Last one to leave, turn out the lights…
Are these the “great things” you proclaim Trump accomplished?
DONALD TRUMP
He promised to cut the debt. He added $8T to it.
He promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most was repair / replacement, not new and Trump ended a GOP immigration reform bill.
He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn’t exist, our for profit healthcare is #1 reason for personal bankruptcy .
He promised a middle-class tax cut. 83% of tax cuts went to the wealthy.
He said he wouldn’t play golf. He made 250 visits way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million.
He said he’d increase economic growth by 4%. He didn’t. President Biden did.
He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one.
He promised to hire “the best people.” He fired 3/4 of them and said they were the worst ever. Many are now convicted criminals.
A majority of his cabinet said they won’t vote for Trump again. He is a “clear and present danger”.
He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn’t: President Biden did.
Promised he would win China trade war. It cost a quarter million jobs and billions in farm aid from taxpayers — $34 billion.
He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit worker and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn’t, stock buy backs instead.
He promised to bring back the coal industry. Never happened.
He promised to drain the swamp. He didn’t: He WAS the swamp w/30,000+ WH lies to the American people.
AND now, his Project 2025 is a roadmap to Fascism for AMERICA.
The four-time indicted, twice impeached, insurrection inciter and now convicted felon, former President Donald Trump.
I doubt there will be elections in 2026…once they’ve gained the ultimate powers — the White House, The Congress, the Supreme Court and the Federal judiciary…they will not surrender it easily to an enlightened voting population. And perhaps, certain folks might think that’s the way America should be governed…we shall see.
End of story…end of democracy…
Sherry says
@ Tony Mac . . . again and again thank you so much for taking treasured time from your life to present “credible facts”. It is sadly very unfortunate that those that could be educated and therefore benefit the most from your presentation are so deeply radicalized into the Maga cult mentality that they will not even bother to read the “facts”, much less heed them.
Fox has told them that 50% + of the US citizens who still live in a “fact based” reality, and those who do not want a “convicted felon, lier, adulterer, and sexual abuser” as President all have TDS. Fox has convinced them that there is some kind of “massive conspiracy” that included all the jury members in trump’s trails. The Maga “cult” members who comment here have given up their reasoning ability. Trying to educate them is like feeding medicine to the dead. . . but, thanks so much for your valiant efforts! Maybe some day something will awaken them from their tortured stupor.
joe says
“…not a scintilla of evidence to back them up.”
I could start with the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the intelligence threat Trump posed – but since you are clearly ignorant of that, maybe the Mueller Report, or the multiple court filings in his many trials, or the January 6 Committee report…..but no, you cultists claim there is no evidence….it’s because you are willfully ignorant of the evidence and blindly follow this con man.