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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s. Friday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
- 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. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
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.
Crystal Gayle at the Fitz, Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center, Flagler Auditorium, 5500 State Road 100, Palm Coast. 7 p.m. Tickets, $64-$74. Book here. Crystal Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, KY, on January 9. Her older sister was future superstar and Grand Ole Opry member Loretta Lynn, though Loretta had already left home by the time Brenda was born. To escape constant comparison to her sister, Crystal wisely developed her own vocal and musical style. She had 20 No. 1 country singles, beginning with “I’ll Get Over You” and including her signature song, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” That song earned Crystal a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and also made her album We Must Believe In Magic the first by a female country artist to go platinum. Pretty soon, Crystal was topping the charts and getting her own invitations to play the Opry. Crystal was awarded Female Vocalist of the Year in 1977 and 1978 by the Country Music Association Awards. The Academy of Country Music gave her the same award in 1976, 1977 and 1979.
‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre , 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday. $25 for adults, $15 for students. Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan is a heart-wrenching yet hilarious story about a young child who creates a list of all the brilliant things in the world to help their struggling mother. From ice cream to construction cranes, this life-affirming play celebrates the beauty in everyday moments. Both touching and funny, it explores themes of hope, love, and resilience, making it an unforgettable theatrical experience.
‘Exit Laughing,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431., 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets: $25, Seniors $24, Youth $15. Three southern ladies “borrow” the ashes of their beloved bridge partner from the funeral home for one of the wildest nights with a police raid and a male stripper, discovering all the fun life can bring.
‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $25. Book here. The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst for the first time in a decade. Under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must come to terms with the consequences of her own “crimes of the heart.”
Sermon: “Alas,” Chekhov wrote in his notebooks in an undated entry, as most were in that too-slim volume from an equally slim life (he died at 44), “what is terrible is not the skeletons, but the fact that I am no longer terrified by them.” It’s impossible to know if Chekhov, a physician, was referring to the brittles of his trade or to something more metaphorical, in his stories, say (and therefore maybe more real to him, if not to us: his stories certainly are more real than anything we read about Putin’s Russia). He was funny and morose, he was a fatalist (what Russian wasn’t?), he was beyond illusions, when, clearly, he wishes he’d had a few. He reached early in life that station most of us (thankfully though pitifully) never reach, that station where all veils, all pretenses, all hopes have been dropped. When was the X-ray invented? The National Library of Medicine tells us that “W.C. Röntgen reported the discovery of X-rays in December 1895 after seven weeks of assiduous work during which he had studied the properties of this new type of radiation able to go through screens of notable thickness. He named them X-rays to underline the fact that their nature was unknown.” By then Chekhov was at the height of his powers, nearing their and his end, a practitioner of X-ray technology since his early stories in the 1870s, his sentences cutting to as much as seeing through the bone. You can pick stories at random. Toward the end of “In the Graveyard,” the motley two or three people who find themselves by the grave of a man they knew read on his tombstone: “… forgettable friend Moushkine.” “Erasing the un,” writes Chekhov, “time had corrected the lies we tell ourselves.”
—P.T.
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January 2025
Monday, Jan 13 – Monday, Oct 13
Flagler County Commission Workshop
Government Services Building
Monday, Jan 20
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Monday, Jan 20
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Tuesday, Jan 21
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Tuesday, Jan 21
John Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend,’ at Ocean Art Gallery
Ocean Art Gallery, 197 E Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL 32176
Tuesday, Jan 21
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Tuesday, Jan 21
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Jan 21
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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A silence followed. Kirilov turned his back on Abogin, stood still a moment, and slowly walked into the drawing-room. Judging from his unsteady, mechanical step, from the attention with which he set straight the fluffy shade on the unlighted lamp in the drawing-room and glanced into a thick book lying on the table, at that instant he had no intention, no desire, was thinking of nothing and most likely did not remember that there was a stranger in the entry. The twilight and stillness of the drawing-room seemed to increase his numbness. Going out of the drawing-room into his study he raised his right foot higher than was necessary, and felt for the doorposts with his hands, and as he did so there was an air of perplexity about his whole figure as though he were in somebody else’s house, or were drunk for the first time in his life and were now abandoning himself with surprise to the new sensation. A broad streak of light stretched across the bookcase on one wall of the study; this light came together with the close, heavy smell of carbolic and ether from the door into the bedroom, which stood a little way open. . . . The doctor sank into a low chair in front of the table; for a minute he stared drowsily at his books, which lay with the light on them, then got up and went into the bedroom.
–From Chekhov’s “Enemies,” in The School-Master and Other Stories, vol. 11 of the Complete Stories (Garnett translation), 1887.
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