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Today at a Glance:
‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, 3 p.m., 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Celebrate CRT’s 15th season with the Tony Award-winning hit Avenue Q! This laugh-out-loud musical blends puppetry, pop culture, and catchy songs to explore adulthood, love, and finding purpose. Don’t miss this unforgettable, irreverent journey through the ups and downs of post-college life—CRT-style. Tickets are $32.70 for adults, $17.17 for students (including ticketing fees). Book here.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, 2 p.m. Tickets are $37.55 per person. Book here. Definitely “habit-forming”, this riotous show takes us through a fundraiser organized by the Little Sisters of Hoboken. They are trying to raise money to bury one of their sisters who was accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a full musical that became the second-longest off-Broadway run in history.
‘All Shook Up,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431. Sept. 13, 19, 20, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for youth, $30 for adults. Book here. It’s 1955, and into a square little town rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notebook: On Jan. 7, 2015, a pair of Algerian brothers pledging allegiance to an al-Qaeda offshoot found the secret offices of Charlie Hebdo, shot a policeman and office workers, entered an editorial meeting taking place that morning, and shot everyone inside, killing 12 and wounding 15. Philippe Lançon was among the writers in the editorial meeting. He survived, barely. He spent the next nine months in hospital, then he wrote a book. Lançon and his French publisher Gallimard called his 2018 memoir Le Lambeau, which translates to The Shred. It could also translate to The Flap, or The Rag, all of which describe what was left of him after the shooting and what saved him: a flap of skin and shred of bone grafted onto his jaw. The title had no subtitle. Not even the word “memoir.” It needed neither. A lambeau is by definition detached, hanging, torn from what it had been, in this case from all that had been. When New York-based Europa Editions published the American translation by Steven Rendall in 2019, it titled the book Disturbance and, as if condescending to American audiences who need to be led by the hand, gave it a subtitle: Surviving Charlie Hebdo. Both are inaccurate. “Disturbance” has nothing to do with much of anything in the book, and certainly not with the mass murder itself, which was–need it be said?–not a mere “disturbance.” Surviving Charlie Hebdo is factually, almost offensively false: Lançon did not survive Charlie Hebdo. Charlie Hebdo was not the assailant. He survived the massacre, and continues to write for Charlie Hebdo, which carries on its weekly assaults of satire to this day. Surviving Charlie Hebdo suggests a boast that sidelines the memory of the 12 who were killed. It mischaracterizes Lançon’s painfully conflicted–shredded–sense of survival, to the point of having always felt ambivalent about the “Je Suis Charlie” movemen even as he recognized, lying in his hospital bed, that “how the attack created a chain of abrupt suffering, shared or individual, in which each friend of the victim seems to have been suddenly branded, like livestock, with a red-hot iron: rape is collective. That’s why, starting on January 7, my life no longer belonged to me. I became responsible for all those who, in one way or another, loved me. My wounds were also theirs. My ordeal was joint property.” Sadly, terribly familiar words, at times so tragically misapplied and abused to our shame.
—P.T.
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
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
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
The Rainbow Bridge Dedication at Holland Park
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
For the full calendar, go here.
… and I felt once again, but with unprecedented force, that we die countless times in the course of a life, little deaths that leave us standing there, petrified, surviving, like Robinson Crusoe on the island he didn’t choose, with only our memories to improvise what comes next and no Friday to help us cultivate it.
–From Philippe Lançon’s Le Lambeau (2018).
Laurel says
Donald J Bonespurs didn’t like a real hero, John McCain, because “I don’t like people who get caught.” So don’t bother to put up your Trump flag, and the POW flag right under it. You’re fooling no one other than yourself.
Bo Peep says
Libby dork cartoon again today?
Sherry says
Another great cartoon Clay. . . keep up your amazing work! You are having an impact because you are making people uncomfortable and that’s a very good thing! Well Done!
Steve says
Not too happy with your daily cartoon, Politics are not always funny they are bias. Try something funny.
Pierre Tristam says
Steve, Not sure the smell of fascism is intended to have us rolling on the floor laughing. Maybe the beheading of the press is more to your taste, like today’s cartoon?
BUNG says
YOUR CARTOONIST IS A DEMOCRAT REGIME STOOGE THAT IS FOR SURE BECAUSE THE ONLY PARTY THAT IS FASTEST IS THE DEMOCRAT NAZI REGIME AND IT HAS ONE GOAL AND THAT IS THE DESTRUCTION OF OR COUNTRY IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE GALLOWS GRATE AGAIN AND PUNISH THE DEMOCRAT NAZI REGIME TRAITORS BY LEADING THEM TO THE ROPE OF THE GALLOWS.
Sherry says
Here you go steve. . . Here’s something really funny from our friends in the Netherlands:
https://dutchreview.com/news/disney-satire-at-trump/
Pierre Tristam says
Thank you for that future Briefing feature Sherry.
Laurel says
Woah, “BUNG” (sounds appropriate) The far right are always claiming the hate comes from the left! You’re making it awfully hard for anyone to believe them!
Geez, take your meds and grab a dictionary.
Sherry says
@ bung. . . LOL! So funny that you think the Democratic party is the “fastest”. . . I’m just wishing that were so. At this point, the democrats can’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
BTW. . . your uneducated ignorance is really showing. I certainly agree with Laurel. . . please take whatever meds or counseling needed to remove that anger, fear and hate that is destroying you from the inside. Also some night classes couldn’t hurt. . . you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Good Luck!
Sherry says
Sure Pierre. . . It’s always interesting to see how people in other countries are reacting to trump’s asinine atrocities.
Laurel says
Look, as an Independent, it is very clear to me that the violence is predominantly on the right. “Bung” has made that abundantly clear, yet I hear no Trump supporters condemning what he wrote. Flagler County is full of this stuff.