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Weather: Partly sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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.
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released: The state’s Commerce Department released the previous month’s preliminary unemployment numbers for Florida and its 67 counties, at 10 a.m. See the data releases page here.
‘The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals’ at City Repertory Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday July 18, Friday July 19, Saturday July 20 and Monday July 22. A matinee performance will be at 3 p.m. Sunday July 21. In CRT’s black box theater at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B207, Palm Coast. Tickets are $30 adults and $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com or by calling 386-585-9415. Tickets also will be available at the venue just before curtain time. See Rick de Yampert’s preview: “Alien Menace and Combustible Dancing Shake Up City Repertory Theatre with “The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals.”
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Diary: This then is my big day, when I can get a little more personal than I should, the day when the stars aligned so coincidentally, so terribly and so fortuitously. It is the anniversary of my dear father’s death in 1976, of my departure from Lebanon two years later on the same day, in sight and in fear of Syrian guns (a friend of my mother’s had hired a Muslim taxi driver who knew the ins and outs of Muslim West Beiru to ferry us out of East Beirut, through the other zone, and to the airport, in what was not just yet, but would soon become, Hezbollah country: my last hour or two in Beirut, before reaching the airport, was a ride of fear, after a childhood of wonders: see the Lebanon of my 1970s below). In 1979 on that day I landed at JFK Airport as a permanent American resident, Green Card in hand. (The country was still trying to figure out what went wrong at Three Mile Island and Jimmy Carter, getting nervous about the election, was firing half his cabinet). I can’t say that I was naturalized on July 19. That would happen on Dec. 13, 1986, right around the time when Iran-Contra was exploding around Ronald Reagan’s senilities. But there was to be one more coincidental date, this one a bit intentional: proposing to Cheryl on the deck of th Grand Hotel on Mackinac on that day in 2001, a few weeks before that terrible day that year that seemed to make the whirlwinds of Lebanon inescapable–the fanaticism, the terrorism, the blowbacks. Rome was on fire on that day, too–the day Nero was said to have looked on indifferently, playing his lyre, though there may be more myth than truth to it. Manhattan’s last great fire was on this day too, in 1845. This year, only Washington is burning. I have not regretted my citizenship. I still love this country more than, at times, I thought I could, though the heartbreaks, as with all loves, can be difficult, and their frequency, as with few loves, becoming unbearable.
—P.T.
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July 2024
Friday, Jul 19
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Jul 19
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released
Friday, Jul 19
Blue 24 Forum
Palm Coast Community Center
Friday, Jul 19
‘The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals’ at City Repertory Theatre
City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
Saturday, Jul 20
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Jul 20
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Jul 20
Democratic Women’s Club
Palm Coast Community Center
Saturday, Jul 20
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Jul 20
‘The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals’ at City Repertory Theatre
City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
Saturday, Jul 20
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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It’s 11pm on a humid Thursday evening in East Beirut, and already it’s busier than Saturday night in central London. Phalanxes of girls parade down Rue Monot, cling-wrapped in Gucci and DKNY. Young men in designer suits leap out of open-topped sports cars, throwing their keys to the parking valet. Queues are already forming outside some of the area’s many bars, even though, in Beirut terms, the evening has barely begun. “Nothing stops Beirutis from going out,” enthuses Roody Jhalil, a 19-year-old student. “It’s only at night that the city really comes alive. People are determined to have fun, to forget about how f—ed up the economy is, what a mess the whole country is in. So people go out nearly every night.” […] Entrepreneurs are making the most of it. Against a backdrop of concrete high-rises, ancient sloping streets and grandiose red-tiled villas ornamented with bullet holes, a gaggle of bars, clubs and shops are sprouting up with astonishing speed. Unlike the bombed out husk of the old Holiday Inn next door, The Phoenicia Hotel, once centre of the high-life that saw the likes of Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando and the pre-exile Kim Philby partying in the Sixties, has dusted itself down and is now doing slick business in suitably decadent splendour. (Play out your Cannes fantasies walking up the immense red carpet to the lobby, where live-size nymphs recline nonchalantly.)
–From “Rock the kasbah,” by Toby Manning, The Independent, June 4, 2000.
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