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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs around 80. Lows in the upper 50s.
- 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:
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. Today: Local media editors wrap up 2025. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,’ the Billie Holiday Story, at City Rep Theatre: 7:30 p.m. in CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets: $30 adults, $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com, by calling 386-585-9415, or at the venue one-half hour before showtime. The play contains mature language. Set in 1959 a few months before Holiday’s death, Robertson’s semi-fictionalized work imagines one of Lady Day’s last performances, in a seedy South Philadelphia bar, as she’s accompanied by her pianist. With both body and psyche bruised by her tortured, drug-addled life, Lady Day – a nickname given her by her saxophonist friend Lester Young – delivers lengthy, revelatory monologues between performing such songs as “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer),” “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” and the classics “God Bless the Child” and the chilling “Strange Fruit,” about the lynching of Black people in the American South. See FlaglerLive’s preview, “Capturing the Essence: Laniece Fagundes Returns as Billie Holiday at City Rep’s ‘Lady Day’.”
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.
Notably: I found the moon shot below, by Rick Belhumeur, the Flagler Beach city commissioner, particularly good for its evocative lugubriousness, the faint moonshine on the water’s surface, and that brighter spot beamed as if the cloud were masking a UFO. Even though there’s no snow nor breast to speak of–we can always dream–it made me think of this line from a Clement Moore poem from a couple of hundred years ago, “The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow…”
Now this: Sasha Baron Cohen in 2012:
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January 2026
East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board Meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
In Court: Angel Marie Sexton Sentencing
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
In Court: Kristopher Henriqson
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Jeff Brandes
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
For the full calendar, go here.
Until the twentieth century, poetry performed in American culture an important social function: as a public event it gave expression to the values, the aspirations, and the pride of the community; as ritual it dignified the proceedings occasioning the poem; as language it had the power to inspire and entertain. Attempts to revivify this ancient tradition have been unsuccessful, and it is difficult for modern readers even to appreciate its values. The poet spoke from the public sector of his mind to the public sector of the reader’s mind. His faith assured himself and others that the particular was typical, that the common was universal. If he wrote of his own interests, Holmes observed, it was ” not because [ those interests ] are personal, but because they are human, and born of just such experiences as those who hear or read what I say are like to have had in greater or less measure. I find myself so much like other people that I often wonder at the coincidence.
–From The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988).
Pogo says
Amen.
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis
Pogo says
@Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T__1QViXUxk
… speaks.
Listen, or don’t.
United oil says
Fight for Exxon mobile, they need more money. Selling representation has consequences.
Sherry says
So Maga, you say trump is not a dictator. Megalomaniac trump actually sees himself “above the law”! Here are his words during a NY Times interview:
President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in a interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas.
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told the The New York Times Wednesday night when asked if there were any limits on his international power.
“I don’t need international law,” he said. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
Is that what you voted for Maga?
Laurel says
Trump’s morality guide is Steven Miller.
Personally, I always thought that Miller was a little Nazi. I never dreamed he would have an ounce of power here in the USA. Now look where we are.
Laurel says
Is Miller’s lack of expression due to lack of humanity, humility, empathy, humor, conscience, intelligence, or due to Botox? Whatever it is, it’s a bad look for him.
Sherry says
@ Laurel. . . It’s a bad look for Miller only for those still connected to “humanity”. . . unfortunately, in our current culture, so many are not.
Sherry says
Yet another way to make money from trump’s fascist actions:
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Updated 2:06 PM PST, January 11, 2026
Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The latter is drawing renewed scrutiny into this murky world of speculative, 24/7 transactions. Last week, an anonymous trader pocketed more than $400,000 after betting that Maduro would soon be out of office.
The bulk of the trader’s bids on the platform Polymarket were made mere hours before President Donald Trump announced the surprise nighttime raid that led to Maduro’s capture, fueling online suspicions of potential insider trading because of the timing of the wagers and the trader’s narrow activity on the platform.