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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 79. Light east wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64. East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
City Repertory Theatre Retrospective Concert, 7:30 p.m. at City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, B-207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $25 adults and $15 students, available at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling the box office at 386-585-9415, or at the door. It is the the first of three “Evening With . . .” concerts, which will feature songs from the musicals CRT has staged over the past 14 years. City Rep veterans Laniece Rose (Fagundes), Benjamin Beck and Denise Elisha will perform songs from “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,” “Cabaret,” “I Do! I Do!,” “Avenue Q,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and other musicals.
Motown & Mo’s Production — Rocking Around the Clock, 5 p.m. at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center/Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. A community show. Tickets: $30.
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
No Kings Rallies in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach: Two rallies are scheduled in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach today to protest the president’s authoritarianism, in conjunction with hundreds of rallies taking place across the country. The first rally, at 10 a.m., is at at State Road A1A and State Road 100 in Flagler Beach, the second rally is at 11 a.m. along State Road 100 east of Belle Terre Parkway, by the Target shopping center. In organizers’ words: “Bring your signs, your voices, and your determination to stand up for democracy. Invite friends & family — the more of us, the louder we’ll be. Let’s send a clear message: We will not bow to authoritarianism.”
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 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.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
Notably: The photograph above, by Flagler Palm Coast High School sophomore Jordyn Carnelli, won second place and $200 in the annual photo contest that the Flagler County Cultural Council judges. In this case, anyone who turned up to its annual meeting on Oct. 1 got to vote; since I was reporting on the event, I did not, though I’d have voted Carnelli’s work in first. I like its hint of abstraction, its play with colors and darkness (one of these days walking the halls of FPC or Matanzas I’d like to see those god-awful “character” words like “self-control,” “collaboration,” “courage” and “responsibility” replaced by chiaroscuro (clearly, Carnelli’s favorite), impasto, scumble and sfumato). There’s something else I like about this picture: the homage, conscious or not, to Georgia O’Keeffe, “this astonishingly aggressive woman,” Joan Didion called her, I’m not sure why, “her astonishingly aggressive paintings.” I’ll have to look again. Anyway, nice to see Carnelli’s work survived our school censors. The more I look at the piece, the more I like it.
—P.T.
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January 2026
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler County Commission Evening Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Public Safety Coordinating Council Meeting
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
For the full calendar, go here.
It was those city men who stood accused of sentimentalizing her flowers: “I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see–and I don’t.” And I don’t. Imagine those words spoken, and the sound you hear is don’t tread on me. “The men” believed it impossible to paint New York, so Georgia O’Keeffe painted New York. “The men” didn’t think much of her bright color, so she made it brighter. The men yearned toward Europe so she went to Texas, and then New Mexico.
–From “Georgia O’Keeffe,” in Joan Didion’s White Album (1970).
Pogo says
P.T.
As I scrolled (a tap of the space bar and pause) only the prize winner was in sight; and O’Keeffe immediately came to mind — I swear. Today’s cartoon, and subsequent continuity: indispensable, unknowable, our actual origin story, wellspring of hope — and eternal mystery…
And, of course, Trump claims a hand on it.
Laurel says
No, cats don’t put up with bullshit.
If this cartoon is in reference to female anatomy, then the cartoonist forgets where he came from, and what his mother went through to produce him.
Nephew Of Uncle Sam says
” in conjunction with hundreds of rallies taking place across the country.” That would be 2700+ rallies according to reports.
Since 1776, no kings, dictators nor emperors.
Digging the Bird of Paradise photo, very good.
Laurel says
Georgia O’Keeffe related orchids to beauty, whereas today’s references, in general, are insulting.
Almost no man would willfully attempt to survive childbirth if given the possibility. We are much, much stronger than given credit.