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Weather:
- 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:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, 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.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre,160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $30 for adults, $15 for students, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Book here. Violet is a young disfigured woman on a transformative bus journey from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, seeking healing. Winner of Off Broadway’s most prestigious Best Musical award, this compelling narrative with great songs promises an unforgettable theatrical experience.
Phenomenal Women’s Event The Flagler County Branch Women in NAACP (WIN) and the African American Cultural Society invite you to join us in celebrating Women’s History Month. The 2025 Annual Women’s History Month WIN Phenomenal Women’s Event will take place on Saturday, March 29, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). Bring your family and friends to help us celebrate women of our Flagler Community, All Are Welcome! The ticket price is $25. Lunch will be provided.
Peps Art Walk, noon to 5 p.m. next to what used to be JT’s Seafood Shack, 5224 Oceanshore Blvd, Palm Coast. Step into the magical vibes of Unique Handcrafted vendors gathering in one location, selling handmade goods. Makers, crafters, artists, of all kinds found here. From honey to baked goods, wooden surfboards, to painted surfboards, silverware jewelry to clothing, birdbaths to inked glass, beachy furniture to foot fashions, candles to soaps, air fresheners to home decor and SO much more! Peps Art Walk happens on the last Saturday of every month. A grassroots market that began in May of 2022 has grown steadily into an event with over 30 vendors and many loyal patrons. The event is free, food and drink on site, parking is free, and a raffle is held to raise money for local charity Whispering Meadows Ranch. Kid friendly, dog friendly, great music and good vibes. Come out to support our hometown artist community!
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.
Notably: The first Star Wars was released in May 1977. Like every Star Wars since, it was premised on the David-Goliath myth, the underdog “rebellion” against the big bad Empire and its Death Star, Darth Veder and the rest of them. The irony never occurred to me until I read Roy Scranton’s 2016 OpEd in The Times, after it was referenced in Omae el Akkad’s new book (One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This). Scranton watched the movie as a soldier on a rooftop one July 4 during the Iraq War, in Iraq, while actual warfare was lighting up the sky in the distance. The premise struck him as absurd, at least to the extent that it was an allegory Americans could identify with, as if Americans were the underdog: “The literary historian Richard Slotkin called this story ‘the myth of regeneration through violence,’ and he traces it from the earliest Indian captivity narratives through the golden age of the western, and it’s the same story we often tell ourselves today,” Scranton wrote. “It’s a story about how violence makes us American. It’s a story about how violence makes us good. Looking out over Baghdad on the Fourth of July, I saw the truth that story obscured and inverted: I was the faceless storm trooper, and the scrappy rebels were the Iraqis. Did it really take going to Baghdad to learn this? Hadn’t I read about the campaigns against the Cherokee, Nez Percé and Sioux, the long war against Philippine independence, and the horrors of Vietnam? My grandfather served on a Swift boat in the Mekong Delta at the end of his military service, though he never talked about it; hadn’t trying to fill in his silence taught me about free-fire zones, My Lai and hospitals full of napalmed orphans? The bloody track of American history, from slavery to genocide to empire, is plain for all to see. But reckoning with the violence itself was the appeal: I thought I could confront our dark side, just like Luke Skywalker, and come away enlightened.” But there is no such redemption: “On this Fourth of July, while American violence continues to rain down on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, as we continue to support violent regimes in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and elsewhere by buying oil that we then burn and dump into the atmosphere, precipitously heating the planet, and amid a crucial presidential election, we should ask ourselves what we’re really celebrating with our bottle rockets and sparklers.”
—P.T.
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March 2025
Saturday, Mar 29
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Mar 29
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Mar 29
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Mar 29
Phenomenal Women’s Event
African American Cultural Society Center (AACS)
Saturday, Mar 29
Peps Art Walk Near JT’s Seafood Shack
Saturday, Mar 29
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre
City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
Sunday, Mar 30
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Presbyterian Church
Sunday, Mar 30
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Mar 30
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Sunday, Mar 30
Al-Anon Family Groups
Sunday, Mar 30
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre
City Repertory Theatre at City Marketplace
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Our society is narcissistic, then, in a double sense. People with narcissistic personalities, although not necessarily more numerous than before, play a conspicuous part in contemporary life, often rising to positions of eminence. Thriving on the adulation of the masses, these celebrities set the tone of public life and of private life as well, since the machinery of celebrity recognizes no boundaries between the public and the private realm. The beautiful people–to use this revealing expression to include not merely wealthy globetrotters but all those who bask, however briefly, in the full glare of the cameras live out the fantasy of narcissistic success, which consists of nothing more substantial than a wish to be vastly admired, not for one’s accomplishments but simply for oneself, uncritically and without reservation. Modern capitalist society not only elevates narcissists to prominence, it elicits and reinforces narcissistic traits in everyone. It does this in many ways: by displaying narcissism so prominently and in such attractive forms; by undermining parental authority and thus making it hard for children to grow up; but above all by creating so many varieties of bureaucratic dependence. This dependence, increasingly widespread in a society that is not merely paternalistic but maternalistic as well, makes it increasingly difficult for people to lay to rest the terrors of infancy or to enjoy the consolations of adulthood.
–From Christopher Lasch’s Culture of Narcissism (1979).
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