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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 focuses on culture and the arts and their importance to the local economy. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
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.
Food Truck Friday at the Farm, Florida Agriculture Museum, 7900 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast, 5 to 9 p.m. A variety of food trucks serving up crowd favorites, 50/50 raffle, Absolute Beginner Line Dancing, 7 to 8 p.m., then live music. Local vendors and shopping, family-friendly atmosphere, pets welcome. More Info: Click Here
The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sunday, 2 p.m. Buy tickets here (generally $37.60 for adults). The play centers around the dramatic events that unfold when the residents tune into Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. The locals, who rely on the radio for news and entertainment, are thrown into a frenzy when they believe an actual Martian invasion is taking place in their own town.
World Cup: Canada v. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 3 p.m. FOX/Telemundo from BMO Field in Toronto. United States v. Paraguay, 9 p.m. Fox/Telemundo, from SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, Calif.
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Notably: Paraguay and the United States, facing off today on the football pitch in California, have more in common than not, down to the Alfredo Stroessner posing as the current American president. Amnesty International reports–from Paraguay, not Florida–: “Law 7363 of 2024, establishing disproportionate restrictions on the right to freedom of association, came into force in October following approval of its corresponding regulations. … Death threats and harassment of journalists continued. Paraguay’s Bureau for the Protection of Journalists registered 20 attacks and acts of harassment. […] Trans people continued to face obstacles in obtaining legal recognition of their gender identity. Two trans migrants were denied the issuance of documents reflecting their gender identity. The city council of the capital, Asunción, banned an event to honour a transgender human rights defender who died in March. […] The Ministry of Women registered 37 feminicides and 55 attempted feminicides in 2025.” Pete Hegseth to the rescue. But Paraguay has (or had) Augustin Barrios Mangore, one of the great improvisational composers for the guitar, and with him, there is no equal anywhere in the world. From the liner notes to a Naxos recording: “Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré was born in southern Agustn 1lo Barfios Mango sonem Paraguay on 5th May, 1885, and died on 7th August, 1944, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Many consider Barrios to be the greatest guitarist composer of all time. In view of this fact, it is curious that his music lay undiscovered and unappreciated for over three decades after his death. In the mid-1970s comprehensive after is death. in the mid-1970s comprehensive editions of his music appeared, making it possible for guitarists of Antigoni Goni’s generation to include in
their study the music of Barrios, augmenting and complementing more traditional repertoire by Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi, Tarrega and Villa-Lobos. The revival began in 1977 when John Williams released an entire recording of music by Barrios which focused a long overdue due recognition on this forgotten Latin American guitarist. Today Barrios’ music is frequently
performed by major concert artists and is appreciated by audiences world wide.”
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June 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Coffee and Conversation with Palm Coast City Manager Michael McGlothlin
Friday Blue Forum
Food Truck Friday on the Farm: At the Ag Museum
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
Phoenix Crossings Charity Golf Tournament
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
‘The Battle of Shallowford,’ at Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
“You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive.”
–From Augusto Roa Bastos’s I the Supreme (1974).
Pogo says
Dennis C Rathsam says
ICE, is well funded & ready for whatever George Soros has in mind. He wants to pay morons, make new signs,& buss in protesters and watch get hurt. While he sits back in his leather recliner & laughs. Some of these sic bastards will do anything for a $100.00!
Ray W. says
Per a story by The Cool Down, Chinese domestic sales of ICE-powered cars, year-over-year, dropped 39% in May. New Electric Vehicle (NEV) sales leapt to a 62.9% market share in May. A BYD executive vice president announced that current demand for BYD NEV products has now become double the company’s production capacity; she offered her prediction that overall NEV sales penetration of the domestic market will soon reach 80%.
Make of this what you will.
I have long argued that long-term economic figures of whatever type offer greater clarity about what is happening, but these figures startle. Are these figures evidence of permanent demand destruction or are they an economic blip that will reverse when and if the Strait of Hormuz reopens?