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Suitable Attire.Meet Mark Stewart, director of commercial activities at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Perfect in Black and White.Meet Setenio Borges, Co-Owner of coffee bar and shop: James North General Store & Co.261 James Street NorthHamilton, Ontario L8R 2L2
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text: Bistrot Bruno Loubet Bistrot Bruno Loubet, 86-88 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RJ +44 2036416581 (4.8) International Reserve Overview Countries Countries(4) Location Average Main Course £16 Food Spend £23 Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday: 07:00 - 10:30 12:00 - 14:30 18:00 - 22:30 Saturday: 07:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 15:30 18:00 - 22:30 Sunday: 07:30 to 12:00 12:00 to 15:30 18:00 to 22:00 A perfect Sunday Dilys 26 August 2014 From London View all 4 reviews More about Bistrot Bruno Loubet Hailed by critics including Giles Coren, AA Gill and Jay Rayner and run by Michelin-starred chef, Bruno Loubet, Bistrot Bruno Loubet in London offers French home-cooking with a contemporary twist. Based in the hustling heart of Clerkenwell within the award-winning Zetter Hotel, the restaurant features a leafy al fresco dining area out front.Finished with finesse, the Bistrot Bruno Loubet menu offers a wide selection of rousing French wines and innovative dishes, including rich, fleshy scallops teamed with an aromatic vegetable chorizo and plump saffron mussels. Tender guinea fowl gratifies with its wild game flavour, whilst a delectable apple cheesecake drizzled in rosemary & bourbon syrup leads the desserts at Bistrot Bruno Loubet.Inside the Bistrot Bruno Loubet restaurant, the décor is traditional with a contemporary quality, combining exposed brickwork with shabby chic furnishing. Peppered with whimsical designs, rich tones of purple and brown are lifted by white-wash walls and light oak trimmings.Bistrot Bruno Loubet is a 4-minute walk from Farringdon Station. Landmarks in close proximity of the restaurant include St Paul's Cathedral and St John's Square. Great Offers! Delivered direct to your inbox. No registration required! Where do you normally eat?AberdeenBasildonBedfordshireBelfastBirminghamBournemouthBradfordBrightonBristolBuckinghamshireCambridgeCardiffChelmsfordCheltenhamChesterColchesterCoventryDerbyDudleyDundeeEdinburghEssexExeterGlasgowGloucesterGuildfordHarlowHerefordHullIpswichKing's LynnKingston-upon-HullLeedsLeicesterLiverpoolLondonLutonMaidstoneManchesterMiddlesbroughMilton KeynesNewburyNewcastleNorfolkNorthamptonshireNorwichNottinghamOxfordPeterboroughPlymouthPoolePortsmouthPrestonReadingSalfordSheffieldSouthamptonSouthend-on-SeaSt AlbansStevenageStoke-on-TrentSunderlandSwanseaSwindonTelfordWalsallWatfordWelwyn Garden CityWeymouthWolverhamptonWorcestershireWrexham You're done! Great deals coming your way soon Customer Reviews for Bistrot Bruno Loubet 4.8 (based on 4 reviews) 100% of diners at this restaurant would recommend it to another person. Food: Drinks: Service: Ambience: Value: Location: Recommended for romantic (3) lunch (2) child friendly (2) large parties (2) al fresco (1) business (1) entertainment (1) luxury (1) trendy (1) (5) 26 August 2014 by Dilys from London A perfect Sunday (4) 14 December 2013 by Peter Holland from London Warm welcome, good food and service (5) 12 December 2012 by Libby from Surrey We had an early evening table, having booked at the last minute. Even so we didn't feel rushed and had a very pleasant experience. We would definitely return. (5) 7 December 2011 by Shmedia from London I enjoyed a fantastic meal at Bistrot Bruno loubet last week. It was a business lunch (although not a formal one) and all my guests were very impressed with the quality of the food, the friendly service and buzzy atmosphere. I have booked to go back in the evening already. Recommended Loading .... Bistrot Bruno Loubet Bistrot Bruno Loubet, 86-88 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RJ General: +44 2073244455 Reservations: +44 2036416581 Website Make a booking See other restaurants in London Nearby Restaurants Workshop Coffee - Clerkenwell INTERNATIONAL 100 m AVG. MAIN: £10 Portal EUROPEAN 150 m AVG. MAIN: £19 (4.3) 9 reviews Foxlow BRITISH 190 m AVG. MAIN: £18 (4) 4 reviews Iberica Farringdon SPANISH 230 m AVG. MAIN: £6 The Fence BRITISH 300 m AVG. MAIN: £8 See other International restaurants in London

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Sarasota News
The Mall at University Town Center (UTC) in Sarasota is be the biggest, finest and newest fashion/shopping in western Florida.
This 880,000 square foot regional shopping center at the interchange of I-75 and University Parkway is now OPEN! With over 100 retail and dinning destinations, the two stories of luxury will be anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Dillard's. Along with high fashion, The Mall at UTC will be bringing some restaurants to Sarasota for the very first time including BRIO Tuscan Grille, The Capital Grille, The Cheesecake Factory, Kona Grill, Seasons 52, and many others.
This new mall is the hype of the town as it is sure to be the new favorite shopping location for Sarasota, surrounding areas, and visitors alike. Updated lists of stores keep making their way onto the web but a few unconfirmed favorites that are word on the street include:
Salvatore Ferragamo
Tiffany's & Co.
Hugo Boss
Forever 21
Urban Outfitters
Others that you can for certain look forward to:
Brooks Brothers
Crate and Barrel
Mac Cosmetics
Pacific Sunwear
Pottery Barn
For more information regarding The Mall at University Town Center or anything else that you need to help plan your trip to Sarasota or Siesta Key please feel free to call the friendly staff at Tropical Beach Resorts.
Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Siesta Key, Fl 34242
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Become a Sarasota Bay Explorer for the day
Become a Sarasota BayWant your kids to learn more about the ocean than they can by just visiting the beach? Interactive marine science boat trips and safaris are cruising through Sarasota Bay and Lido Park that are sure to get the whole family excited about marine life in Sarasota. There are 3 different eco tours available for you and your family to experience, that are in conjunction with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium.
Sea life encounter cruise (suitable for all ages):
This 1 hour and 45 minute journey through Sarasota and Roberts Bay will teach you about the ecology, history and folklore of Sarasota. From the boat you will most likely get great views of dolphins and manatees before arriving to an island for a nature walk. A guide will take the group to view pelicans, herons, ibis and egrets in their natural habitat. Also, the kids and adults alike will get hands on time with some critters such as puffer fish, sea horse, stone crabs, cow fish and more though a collection that will be gathered there with a trawl net. The trip will include cold drinks, snacks, and lots of learning!
Reservations are recommended
Check-in is 30 minutes prior to departure.
Cruise Ticket
Adults: $27
Children (4-12): $23
Children 3 and under: Free
Combo Ticket
(Cruise and Aquarium)
Adults: $40
Children (4-12): $33
Children 3 and under: Free
Guided Kayak Tour (6 years old and up):
No kayaking experience? No problem. Before this backwater adventure you will have a quick lesson to teach you all you'll need to know to paddle through the mangroves and observe the wildlife up close and personal. A naturalist will be there to lead you through the journey in Lido Park and to describe all the plants and animals you will come across.
Kayaks, paddles, life jackets and instruction will all be provided.
Reservations and deposits are required.
Adults: $55
Children: $45
Nature Safari (6 years old and up):
This new tour is really the experience of a life time. Go boating with marine biologists to Lido Key Beach to walk through the beach and trails where you can explore multiple different ecosystems including coastal grasslands, wetlands, uplands and tidal mangrove forests with a vast amount of plants and animals in each that will be shown to you by the guide. Next stop is a sandbar to search for live shells, sea stars, fish, crabs, sand dollars and even sea horses.
Adults: $45
Children (6-12): $40
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Want to mix up your Friday nights this summer in Sarasota with free events?
Want to mix up your Friday nights in Sarasota this summer with free events?
One Friday a month in the summer the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall holds a FREE outdoor concert called Friday Fest on the Bay that takes place on their bayfront lawn. 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of this gift back to the community for the support Sarasota gives. Although it is widely known to locals, they are not the only ones that get to take advantage of this event. The bayfront lawn becomes filled with both locals and visitors to watch the sunset and take in the free music rain or shine. If bad weather does hit, the festival will be moved to the Grand Foyer.
On July 25th, August 22th, and September 26th join the free entertainment with a beautiful view. You can enjoy the variety of music from country, jazz, to disco along with food vendors, a full bar, and art displays while relaxing on your lawn chair or dancing by the water. This event can be a great way to start of your weekend visiting the Sarasota or Siesta Key area this summer.
*All Friday Fest evenings take place from 5 – 9 p.m.*
July 25th : Come Back Alice
Enjoy this bands unique sound called southern gypsy funk.
August 22th: SoulRcoaster
Take a ride with SoulRcoaster through an assortment of music genres including classic rock, pop, jazz, country and disco.
September 26th : Adrian Ray
Listen to this cowboy and his band play a mix between country and classic rock ("Heavy Country") for the last Friday Fest of the year.
Don't miss out on experiencing the entertainment, food, full bar and art on display for sale this summer
The Van Wezel: 777 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL
For more information, call 941-953-3368 or ask the knowledgeable staff at Tropical Beach Resorts. They are happy to help you in anyway with your visit to Siesta Key, Florida. Let us help you plan the island get-a-way of your dreams!
Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, FL 34242
Reservations 800-235-3493 –
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Where will you be watching fireworks this Fourth of July?
If your answer is somewhere in beautiful Sarasota then you are doing Independence Day right! Sarasota has parades, fireworks and more to help you have as much patriotic fun as possible on this very special day because, well… AMERICA. So get out your best red, white and blue attire and prepare to plan for your day of celebrating freedom!
Start the morning off at Bicentennial Park watching the infamous Annual Freedom Fest Parade at 9 a.m. This brief celebration and parade will also include food, music, and children's games.
Bicentennial Park: on the corner of Gulf of Mexico Drive and Bay Isles Road, west of Town Hall at 2730 Gulf of Mexico Drive. 941-383-2466
After you spend the rest of your day at the beach you can make your final destination at Tropical Sarasota Fourth of July at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens starting at 6 p.m. Don't miss out on the barbeque, popcorn and ice cream to prepare you for the much anticipated fireworks. Bring a chair or a blanket so you can see the spectacular Bayfront Fireworks that begins around 9 p.m.
$20 for non-members, free for kids 11 and under. 811 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota
Would you rather watch the Bayfront Fireworks Spectacular blast off over Sarasota Bay for free? Anywhere downtown including Bayfront Park and Island Park will have a great view. The display is privately funded and charity focused, benefiting Suncoast Charities for Children.
Bayfront Park: 2 Marina Plz, Sarasota, FL 34236
Island Park: 1 Marina Plz, Sarasota, FL, US, 34236
There is another fireworks show in Sarasota on the soft white sand of the number one beach in America: Siesta Key. The 24th Annual 4th of July Fireworks Display and Party shoots fireworks off north of the volleyball courts, so the view is great from anywhere south and along Crescent Beach. Ideal weather conditions will bring about 20,000 to 30,000 to the fireworks, which starts at about 9:15 p.m.
Siesta Key Beach: 948 Beach Rd, Siesta Key, FL, US, 34242
Book your stay with Tropical Beach Resorts to have a private beach access just steps from your room to watch the Siesta Key 4th of July Fireworks Display this year.
Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Siesta Key, Fl 34242
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You probably know that Sarasota is famous for its beautiful beaches, but did you know it is also famous for its Ringling Circus heritage?
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was a world-renowned show that traveled across the United States, and had its winter headquarters settled in Sarasota. One of the brothers, John Ringling, was a great deal of importance in the modern development in Sarasota. He also bought water front land, which he then built a mansion on and later built a museum to hold him and his wife, Mable's, collection of Baroque art. It wasn't long before John became extremely wealthy and bought the American Circus Corporation, thus owning every traveling circus in America. During this time he traveled Europe while adding to his art collection, which is now the couples growing legacy: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; a unique gem of Sarasota.
Today The Ringling's beautiful property includes the Museum of Art, Circus Museum, Ca'D'Zan, Historic Asolo Theater and the Bayfront Gardens.
Visiting information-
Open 7 days a week
10:00am – 5:00pm Daily
Thursdays open until 8:00pm; The Museum of Art and & Circus Museum are open after 5:00pm
The Bayfront Gardens are open from 9:30am until 6:00pm
Adult: $25
Senior 65+: $20
Students 18+ w/ID: $5
Child 6-17: $5
Active US Military: $10
Children under 6: No Charge
The Circus Museum was created to celebrate the history of the American Circus. When John Ringling made Sarasota the Winter Quarters of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, a great deal of the performers moved to the area. Due to this The Ringling Museum of the American Circus was able to document their history with collections of wardrobes and circus memorabilia, which vastly grew over the years. Today the museum is a family favorite that includes performing props, equipment, circus railroad cars, the film The Life and Times of John and Mable Ringling, and even interactive galleries where you can walk the wire, squeeze into a clown car and have your picture take with a faux tiger.
The Ca' d'Zan is the breathtaking mansion that was built for John and Mable Ringling. It is open to the public 10am-5pm, but if you would like to delve deeper into the palace there is also a summer tour special now through Labor Day, September 1, 2014 where you will receive a FREE Guided Tour of Ca' d'Zan first and second floors when you purchase a Ca' d'Zan Private Places Tour. Tickets are $20.
If you would like to see an affordable show that will make the whole family laugh while visiting Sarasota, then be sure to experience the Summer Circus Spectacular at the Historic Asolo Theater. Experience comedy by Chris Allison, award-winning hand-balancer Christian Stoinev and his canine cohort Scooby, the quick-change magical transformation act of Olga & Vladimir Smirnov, the magnificent "Queen of the Air," Dolly Jacobs, and more!
Performances are Tuesday – Friday @ 11:00am and 2:00pm
Saturdays @ 2:00pm and 5:00pm
$15 Adults/$12 Children
Jun 17, 2014 – Aug 2, 2014
PLUS admission to the Circus Museum is just an additional $5 with your Summer Circus performance ticket! Tickets can be purchased in the Visitors Pavillion the day of your show.
The staff at Tropical Beach Resorts is happy to answer any questions you might have on The Ringling or your trip to Sarasota.
Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, Fl 34242
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What is there to do on World Oceans Day with the kids in Sarasota, FL?
First of all, what is Worlds Oceans Day?
Worlds Oceans Day was invented at the Earth Summit in 1992 and was officially recognized as a holiday for June 8th of every year by the United Nations in 2008. This day was created to honor the Earth's oceans with all they provides us including seafood, marine life, beauty and even air! The ocean actually produces 70-80% of all the air we breathe, cleans the water we drink, and offers a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines. Even with all the ocean does for us, we humans often overly take advantage of it. With this being a serious problem to the Earth, World Oceans Day has been used to help spread awareness of over-consumption of fish and global pollution by The Ocean Project and the World Ocean Network.
How can you celebrate World Oceans Day with the kids while in Sarasota?
Mote Marine Aquarium is having a World Oceans Day Family Festival a day early the on June 7th, 2014. This day will be Dr. Seuss themed to focus on "the ocean's deep connection to the human spirit and the boundless inspirational power of our natural world's greatest resource". The events will entail games, crafts and marine science learning centering on green practices.
Do not let the family miss out on experiencing this extra special day at one of the best Aquariums in Florida! In fact, Mote Marine's World Oceans Day festival received the 2010 Big Fish Award for best aquarium World Oceans Day event from Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7
Mote Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway in Sarasota
Cost: Free with admission to Mote Aquarium. Admission is $19.75 for adults, $18.75 for seniors over 65, $14.75 for kids ages 4-12 and free for ages 3 and younger. Mote Members always get in free.
Contact the helpful staff here at Tropical Beach Resorts for any questions you might have about this event or anything else that will help you with your vacation to Sarasota or Siesta Key!
Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, Fl 34242
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What are your plans for Earth Day in Sarasota? Get close with nature at Oscar Scherer State Park's 25th annual Earth Day Festival!
Celebrate Earth Day in Sarasota at Oscar Scherer State Park's 25th Annual Earth Day Festival!
Oscar Scherer is just 6 miles south of Sarasota and is a true local gem. The park is located just off US 41 but as soon as you leave the road you are back to nature in a beautiful flatwoods preserve, home to the pretty little blue and white Florida Scrub Jay. It is the perfect place to get your fix of Florida wildlife and nature while on your vacation to the Sarasota area. You can enjoy fifteen miles of trails through the park that allow you to go hiking, bicycling, and wildlife viewing. One of my personal favorites is canoeing or kayaking for a few hours along South Creek, a blackwater stream that flows to the Gulf of Mexico. You can also go fishing along the creek or lake Osprey, which is also the park's swimming area. It is easy to make a day trip out of the park with the picnic areas that line South Creek which are equipped with grills and pavilions for a fun family outside dinning experience.
25th Annual Earth Day Festival:
Sunday, April 27, 2014 from 10:00am – 4:00pm
This is event is one the whole family will love, especially the kids! There will be activities such as a coloring contest, storytelling, a puppet show; along with events that will satisfy the rest of the family including live music, food vendors, tram tours, information and craft booths, demonstrations, and a photo exhibit featuring local photographers. The best part is the park's normal entrance fees will be waived on this date in celebration of Earth Day. FREE FAMILY FUN! It doesn't get much better than that.
Florida is home to a wealth of state parks and several are a nice day trip from Sarasota, you can check them out at:www.floridastateparks.org
Or let knowledgeable staff at Tropical Beach Resorts can suggest a fun day trip to one of the many other area parks and attractions during your visit to Siesta Key, Florida. Let us help you plan the island get-a-way of your dreams!Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, FL 34242
Reservations 800-235-3493 –
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Time to Tee Up? Sarasota is home to a wide range of spectacular golf courses.
Sarasota is home to a wide range of spectacular golf courses!!
Want to take a day off from the beach but still enjoy the gorgeous Sarasota weather? Why not play a round of golf at one Sarasota's superior courses! The county is home to over 60 golf courses ranging from the budget friendly public courses, like Bobby Jones, to swanky private courses with big greens fees… and lots of options in between. Growing up in Sarasota with tons of country clubs and choices to play a round, learning a little about the game is just par for the course! My dad outfitted me with the cutest purple golf bag full of miniature sized clubs and took me out to the range to hit balls and even a to a few par 3 courses. Unfortunately, I never ended up being too great at it, but a day on the golf course with your dad is always the best! My father on the other hand, though definitely not a pro, really enjoys golfing and takes advantage of the excellent golf courses we have in town. From his local insight and my past experiences I have chosen three really enjoyable golf courses for those vacationers who want an outing away from the beach on their vacation to Sarasota or Siesta Key.
TIP: Most local courses offer discounted fees in the late afternoon! Whether you want to save a little money or enjoy the beach in the morning, take full advantage of better rates later in the day for your tee time.
Stoneybrook Golf and Country Club:
This Arthur Hills designed golf course is located just ten minutes from Siesta Key. The par 72 layout permits players of all skill levels but is best for those with a bit of experience. It is a challenging course with water hazards and natural wetlands, but is also one of the most beautiful courses in town. The course consists of Bermuda grass fairways and Tiffeagle Ultra Dwarf greens. The GPS on the carts will stop you from going too close to the greens and will send you a message if you're running behind time. Didn't bring your clubs? Don't fret you can rent them on sight!
8801 Stoneybrook Boulevard
Sarasota, FL 34238
Phone: (941) 966-2711
Calusa Lakes gives you the true Florida feel with its course that twists through a diversity of Florida landscape and wildlife, while also providing a mid-Atlantic feel with the many pine and oak trees. There are multiple lakes around, though the course is still player friendly. You will find new Champion Grass greens as well as enjoyable rolling fairways and fair landing areas that are made to accommodate players of all abilities. You can also rent your clubs and cart while there. This location is a few minutes further away from the Key, but it's a fantastic golf course to check out!
1995 Calusa Lakes Blvd
Nokomis, FL 34275
Phone: (941) 484-8995
At Misty Creek Country Club, you can "golf in nature's backyard". This golf course is very unique in that it is the only course in Southwest Florida that is on a wildlife preserve with resident bald eagles. Not to mention, it is a championship golf course where almost every fairway is bordered on one or both sides by oak forests. This course is for serious golfers! It is a par 72 course with four sets of tees. Some wildlife you might see is deer, bobcats, wild boar, alligators and a variety of bird species. Here you can enjoy your golfing while experiencing the nature Florida has to offer.
8954 Misty Creek Dr.
Sarasota, FL 34241
Phone: (941) 922-2188
The knowledgeable staff at Tropical Beach Resorts can suggest the right course for you or help you with additional information and tee times during your visit to Siesta Key, Florida. Let us help you plan the island get-a-way of your dreams!Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, FL 34242
Reservations 800-235-3493 –
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Do you plan on bringing your dog with you on vacation?
There are multiple waterfront parks in Sarasota where you and your dog can take a walk, enjoy the scenery, and even picnic by the water.
Bird Key Park:
Bird Key Park is right over Sarasota's beautiful Ringling Bridge that takes you to Lido Key. You are right on the bay where you can watch the boats go by and maybe even see dolphins jumping!
Location: On the John Ringling Causeway – 101 Bird Key Dr, Sarasota, Florida
Ken Thompson Park
This park is great for the whole family! Your dog can hang with the family on a leash, the kids can play on the playground, and everyone can walk on the boardwalks through the mangroves and tidal marsh restoration areas. The board walk stretches out passing the shore so you can get a great view of Sarasota across the bay. Not to mention it's one of the best spots in town to have a picnic on one of the many tables that line the water front.
Location: 1700 Ken Thompson Parkway
Sarasota, Florida 34236
On City Island, by Mote Marine Lab.
Bay Front Park:
This Island Park is located on an island peninsula right on the water of
Sarasota Bay. Sidewalks line the water all around the park, making this the perfect spot for walking your dog while getting to take in the wonderful waterfront atmosphere Sarasota has to offer. Also, children absolutely love the water fountain play area and the huge playground. As an added plus to Bay Front Park, there are two waterfront restaurants, O'Leary's Tiki Bar & Grill and Marina Jacks dockside.
Location: One Marina Plaza, Sarasota, Florida 34236
Also, the knowledge staff at Tropical Beach Resorts can provide other information to help you plan your visit to Siesta Key, Florida. We even can accommodate dogs at the resort if they are the under 30 pounds and over three years old. Call us or visit our website to learn more.Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, FL 34242
Reservations 800-235-3493 –
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Could you take our picture on Sarasota's Bayfront?
A picture with the Unconditional Surrender, the Famous WWII "Kissing Sailor" Statue, is a Sarasota Tradition
Looking for a fun side-trip with the perfect picture taking spot? Standing tall and proud on the Sarasota bay front is the 26-foot tall Unconditional Surrender sculpture and getting your picture taken at its feet, kissing or not, is a Sarasota tradition. The statue is located at Bayfront Park, a lovely little peninsula of land at the edge of the downtown area with waterfront restaurants and walking paths. The Unconditional Surrender Statue is a recreation of the famous kissing picture that was on the cover of Life Magazine in 1945, the year of the end of World War II. This statue first popped into the Sarasota scene in 2005 and reappeared in 2009 when a US Navy World War II veteran offered a $500,000 grant to ensure it would stand proud to greet visitors, and as fun and positive to make sure veterans like him would not be forgotten.
Eleven men and three women reported to Life Magazine that they were the infamous kissers of the photograph and more recently the inspiration for the Unconditional Surrender statue. One of these men was George Mendoca, who was identified by the Naval War College in August, 2005 as the kisser by matching his scars and tattoos to those in the photo. This was done by experts at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. George's story leading up to the photograph goes as follows: George was on a date with a cousin to his brother-in-law. This women, Rita, and George had met at a barbecue and George said it was love at first sight. They were at Radio City Music Hall when they heard people banging on the doors from the street screaming that the war is over! With the news that the Japanese had surrendered the two ran out into times square with the rest of the crowds. George laid eyes on a woman he thought was a nurse, grabbed her, leaned her back, and kissed her with everyone standing only feet away. George thought so highly of the nurses who took care of wounded service men that he said grabbing her was just instinctive. The women he thought was a nurse was actually a dental hygienist named Greta Friedman, who dashed from the office when she heard the good news and was unexpectedly dipped into a kiss.
Another man, Glenn McDuffie alleged in 2007 that he was the subject of the photograph. Houston Police Department's forensic artist Lois Gibson analyzed the picture for key facial features to match to current pictures. She came to the conclusion that it was indeed McDuffie, who also passed polygraph tests confirming his claim. His story is that he was on the subway to Brooklyn and came out at Times Square where there was immense excitement in the street with the news that the Japanese had surrendered. He realized his brother who was a war prisoner would soon be released. He claims a nurse held open arms to him, so he ran to her and kissed her long enough so that the photographer could take their picture. On McDuffie's 81st birthday he was recognized as the "Kissing Sailor" during a Houston Astros and New York Mets game at Minute Maid Park. McDuffie passed away just this past Friday, March 14, 2014. More information on McDuffie's story and more here: http://life.time.com/history/v-j-day-kiss-in-times-square-and-other-celebrations-august-14-1945/#1
Looking for local attractions and places of interest? The knowledgeable staff at Tropical Beach Resorts can suggest lots of fun sites to see during your visit to Siesta Key, Florida. Let us help you plan the island get-a-way of your dreams!Tropical Beach Resorts
6717 Sarasea Circle
Sarasota, FL 34242
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Spotlight: Ocean Gelata Meets Curious, Talented Minds
Spotlight: Ocean Gelata Meets Curious, Talented Minds
There are not enough adjectives in any language to adequately respond the the breathtaking photos of Alexander Semenov.
He is a living embodiment of talent + curiosity + intelligence + passion, all coming together for ocean exploration and inquiry. And he is passionate about sharing it with the world. Support him! Alex and his compatriots have a dream – of ocean exploration. Check it out, and…
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Immersed around beautifully landscaped grounds, McKenzie at Natomas Park is an idyllic sanctuary, offering luxury, comfort, and sophistication. One step out the door and you will have numerous recreational and leisure activities to choose from including a gorgeous resort-style pool and spa, comprehensive strength and fitness center, and gas barbeques for pool-side cooking and dining. Make coming home the best part of the day, here at McKenzie at Natomas Park Apartment Homes.
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It's not 2002 anymore, so most mashups are pretty lame, but this combination of MJ's vocal from "Beat It" and the instrumental from "We Found Love" is like Peanut Butter and Sex and Chocolate. It's one of those "wow, this is the rightest" moments. Enjoy!
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These stickers are part of the launch collection from Hi-Art, an app that aims to "make contemporary art part of everyday conversation."
Relatedly: do you think people are going to miss communicating with words? We're basically all reverting to heiroglyphics. If they're this awesome, not sure it's a problem.
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1. Indiana is not from the midwestern United States as her name might imply. Instead, she's from Europe (specifically England), which is probably why her debut single has a dark, throbbing, 5 am strobelights dark disco vibe.
2. The track is called "Solo Dancing" but a key lyric goes "I go dancing by myself" and you kinda can't help but feel that this is a response to Robyn, something that's somehow feels darker while expressing a substantially more independent worldview. Anyway: if you liked "Dancing On My Own," you will probably like this.
3. Here's a partial list of weird things in this video, which actually has less dancing than you'd expect: someone rubbing butter onto an ear of corn on the cob with their bare hands. A pork loin. A pork loin being smashed. A FRENCHIE! Indiana twisting a dreidel between her fingers. A jar of pickles! Anyway, listen to the track, it's major.
For the uninitiated: DUNE is a 1965 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that became a worldwide phenomenon (it's actually still the world's best-selling sci fi novel). Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean-French avant-garde filmmaker who, for several years in the mid-70s, was planning to direct a film adaptation of DUNE that would have starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, and Salvador Dali. JODOROWSKY'S DUNE is a very very very entertaining documentary about the inspired but ultimately doomed creative process the director and his band of "spiritual warriors" went through on the way to creating one of the world's most legendary unfilmed storyboards. Jodorowsky corralled artists including H.R. Giger (the designer of the Alien), the graphic artist Moebius, and special effects guru Dan O'Bannon (not to mention Pink Floyd) onto his team for the project; after the project burst into flames a great deal of the creative material generated ended up in (or directly inspiring) movies like Alien, Blade Runner, and The Matrix.
Still screening in New York, and almost certainly coming soon to an art house near you, this documentary is a celebration of the creative process and an inspirational depiction of one enigmatic artist in particular. Jodorowsky (who was a cult figure in the 70s art world due to his prior mindfucks El Topo and The Holy Mountain) at one point tells a story about how he dreamed of casting Mick Jagger as a key character in his film, but had no idea how to reach Jagger ("We did not have the Internet") and was skeptical that he'd at all be interested, given that he was at the height of his fame and glory at the time. Luckily, Jagger and Jodorowsky then ended up at the same party together. Even luckier: Jagger strode across the crowded room specifically to greet Jodorowsky. "I said, 'I want you in my film,' and he said, "Yes." It's a fantastic anecdote, but also believable, because Jodorowsky comes across as intensely charismatic cult leader - driven to create and imagine, but also someone you could imagine leading a compound somewhere, in a different life. The kind of person who says "Sell all of your possessions and move to Paris" and people do it - all in service of an artistic vision, a creative dream. While Jodorowsky's version of DUNE was never produced, a staggering amount of conceptual work was done before the project was scuttled, and this film documents a great deal of the dazzling imaginative work his team did - work which still influences visions of the future and the weird to this day. If you're a person who loves art, you should go see this movie.
Look, this is a video of a teacup pig splashing around in a kiddie pool. It's exactly as advertised. Why you're reading this instead of clicking "play" over and over and over, I don't know. Maybe you just don't love joy and wonderfulness, who can say?
If you're a New Yorker and you read this blog you've almost certainly already seen PARIS IS BURNING, the totally mandatory 1991 documentary about the ball scene of late 80s NYC. If you haven't, drop everything and get yourself to Netflix. [waits a few hours]. Okay. Now that we've all seen PARIS IS BURNING, I'm sure that we all understand how amazing it would be to see a screening of the film preceded by a conversation between director Jennie Livingston and the legendary Junior Labeija, moderated by Carl Siciliano of the Ali Forney Center. So aren't we extraordinary lucky that that's exactly what's happening on Friday May 16th at the Director's Guild of America. As if that lineup weren't compelling enough, all the proceeds from tickets to the discussion and screening will benefit AFC, NYC's largest shelter and outreach organization for homeless LGBTQ youth. Go grab a ticket and justify constantly saying "REALNESS" for at least a year.
If Norwegian disco don Todd Terje's new record It's Album Time can sometimes be, as the name sort of implies, a bit too jokey for its own good (there's probably a dash or too much corny nu-lounge in the first half), at least when the time comes to launch the dancefloor weapons it's deadly serious. We're particularly partial to "Delorean Dynamite," half for the precision-machined pneumatic hands-in-the-air whoosh it achieves and half because it reminds us of our gorgeous new Delorean Jacket.
Little did we know, in the days of It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, what DMX was actually for. Note: DMX is for making llamas look even sillier. Ruff Rydin, y'all.


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William Cohan: "The Price Of Silence"
Thanks for joining us. I'm Diane Rehm. When we hear the words Duke lacrosse, many of us remember 2006 when three members of the team were accused of sexual assault. Despite the overwhelming media attention the case received and the public debate it sparked, author and Duke alum William Cohan says many questions went unanswered.
He joins me in the studio to talk about his new book. It's titled "The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities." If you'd like to be part of the program, give us a call, 800-433-8850. Send us your email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow us on Facebook or send us a tweet. William Cohan, it's good to see you.
It's great to be back here again, Diane.
Thank you. You're a Duke alum, and you've gone back and written a 600-page book here. Why'd you decide to go back and look at this case again?
Well, Diane, so, you know, I spent 17 years on Wall Street. And in the last 10 years, I've written three bestselling books about Wall Street. The easiest thing for me to do would have been to just write another book about Wall Street. That's what I think my publisher wanted me to do, and things like that.
But I decided that I had too many open questions in my mind about what happened at my alma mater, which I love, about what happened during this incident between March of 2006 when the party occurred and April 2007 when Roy Cooper, the attorney general of the state of North Carolina, declared these boys innocent. I wanted to know what happened. There was no trial in this case. I wanted this book to serve as the trial that never happened.
Tell me about whom you were able to speak with early on.
So, you know, that's a very interesting question. It shouldn't be. But it is, and the name of the book is "The Price of Silence." I was able to speak to people who had never spoken before about this, like Mike Nifong. Everybody wanted to talk to Mike Nifong in 2006, in 2007.
And remind us who he was.
He was the Durham district attorney that decided to prosecute this case. You know, viewers have to -- or listeners have to remember that this was the Flight 370, this was the Bridge Gate of 2006. I mean, this was major league media attention on this case, around the clock, and people like Mike Nifong, you know, said a lot at the beginning and then were silent. This is the first time he's spoken about this case since then.
And you also talked with Robert Steel, chair of the Duke Board of Trustees?
Yes, after Duke University, my alma mater, told him not to talk to me, tried to silence him. But he courageously wanted his version of this story out. He wanted to say what had happened here. And he was more than happy to talk to me.
But, you know, it's interesting. You begin the book not with lacrosse but with basketball at Duke. How come?
Well, because, when it comes to Duke, I think everybody recognizes that the premiere religion at Duke is Duke basketball -- Mike Krzyzewski, you know, the greatest college coach of all time. And it starts -- the book starts in June of 2004 when the new president of Duke, Dick Brodhead, gets to Duke. It's even -- he's supposed to start July 1, but he actually shows up at the end of June, unpacks his bag in his office.
He's just was the dean of Yale College, one of the most highly respected scholars in the country, always wanted to be a university president, said that he turned down other offers until Duke came along, and the first thing that he encounters, even while he's unpacking his bag, while he's mentally unpacking his bags, the athletic director comes into his office and says, oh, by the way, Mike Krzyzewski is threatening to leave to go to the Los Angeles Lakers where they've offered him a five-year $40 million contract, $8 million a year.
You know, even before you got -- you know, open your office here, Dick, you're going to have to deal with the fact that Mike Krzyzewski is potentially going to the Los Angeles Lakers.
So how does that then take us to 2006? And remind us what happened in March.
So obviously Coach K. decided to stay. Dick Brodhead dodged a bullet. You know, they increased his compensation. They did all sorts of other things to make it more attractive to him. He's clearly the single most powerful person at Duke and the highest paid person at Duke. And so, well, the message is that athletics and athletes and student athletes are very, very important to Duke. And that's very different than the message he probably got at Yale.
So that, you know, come March 2006, it's spring break. The lacrosse team is on campus. They're basically the only team on campus. It had been a tradition apparently for 15 years to have a big party on the lacrosse team during this time. The guys after practice decided in the afternoon it would be a great thing to have a, you know, to have a party all day and then...
This is March 14.
March 13 of 2006...
...going into the early morning hours of March 14.
And at about midnight, they decided to invite two strippers. They paid $400 to them each with the idea incredibly that they were going to put on a show for two hours. After about five minutes of dancing and all sorts of, I would say, vulgar behavior that the boys evidenced, which I track in the book -- can't really say on a family radio show -- the women left. And later one of them accused three of the boys of raping her and sexually assaulting and kidnapping her.
Kidnapping her?
Well, kidnapping her in the sense of keeping her in this bathroom against her will.
And you talked with her?
Yes. I talked with her, also for the first time that's she's spoken publicly about this. I met with her in a Durham jail while she was awaiting a trial on a completely separate matter of murdering her boyfriend, which is, of course, shocking. Last November, that trial occurred, and she was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend. She's now serving up to 18 years in prison for that crime.
But at the time, she and she alone claimed that she had been forcefully, sexually assaulted.
Yes. That is true. She claimed that she was the one in the bathroom with which she claimed was these three players. She was -- she left the house. She didn't make any claim when she left the house with the other dancer. Eventually, she would not communicate her name or where she lived. So the other dancer brought her to a Kroger supermarket parking lot in Durham whereupon a security guard at the Kroger -- it was early in the morning -- called the police.
The police came. They tried to get her out of the car. She wouldn't -- she was not responsive. They gave her smelling salts. It woke her up. They eventually took her to something called Durham Access. While she was at Durham Access, they asked her what had happened. She said, I was raped. They immediately took her to the Duke University Hospital. She was examined by a nurse. And for the first time, the nurse's report is in my book. That had never been released before.
Why not?
It was deemed to be a private document, a secure document, a nonpublic document, and so it never came out before. I was able to get a copy of it. A lot of defense attorneys sort of made hay with it, about what they thought it said, but now, for the first time, you know, people can see actually what it said. And in there she tells a story, Crystal Mangum, the victim slash -- and she was later known as the accuser when the story turned.
But she told the story of how these guys, unnamed guys, had raped and sexually assaulted her. And Tara Levicy, the nurse who examined her that night and early that morning, basically believed her and wrote that in the report. Now, of course, the defense has made all sorts of hay about this, that she was an unqualified nurse, that she was a feminist, and therefore she was biased against, you know, the players and was very sympathetic.
How did they justify the claim that she was not really qualified to make that assessment?
Because she had gotten her certification on March 1 of 2006, but she hadn't gotten it in the mail until she actually went home that night on March, you know, 14.
So they said, okay, well, she wasn't technically certified 'cause she hadn't actually got her certification. Then she was from Maine. And when she was in Maine, she had, I guess, produced a play at the university in Maine, "The Vagina Monologues" play. And therefore they decided -- the defense decided that she was biased and a feminist, so therefore she couldn't objectively assess what happened to Crystal Mangum.
Was there a second assessment at the time? Was there someone else who confirmed the evidence?
Well, there was also a doctor who -- there were many doctors who examined Crystal. There were many police who talked to her. The police investigators from Durham spent a lot of time with Crystal. They obviously believed much of her story. They believed she was assaulted.
Did they write that in a report?
Yes. Oh, yes, they did. One of the things that Mike Nifong told me, the Durham district attorney, was that had the players given DNA tests voluntarily, which they decided ultimately not to do, had they done that voluntarily, there would not have been a Duke Lacrosse case.
William Cohan, his new book is titled "The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities." Short break here, right back.
And here's our first email following our earlier portion of the conversation about William Cohan's new book, "The Price of Silence." This from Mercedes, who says, "Mr. Cohan has expressed his belief that something happened to Crystal Mangum, at the Duke lacrosse party on March 13th," or 14th because it happened after midnight. "I would like to know, based on his research, what he believes happened in that bathroom. Does he believe that the three indicted players are not innocent?"
So that is a very simple question that is complex to answer.
Of course. Because the first thing, Diane, is we will never know what happened in that bathroom. It's kind of, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, as unknown unknown. We won't know. In part because the people who were in that bathroom aren't talking.
Even she?
Well, she believes -- well, okay. She believes, she told me in the Durham County jail, that she believes she was assaulted with a broomstick in that bathroom. Okay. Fact number one. Okay. Mike Nifong, the Durham district attorney, that nobody in this case wants to hear from. They want Mike Nifong -- they won't be happy until Mike Nifong is buried in the ground.
He was actually disbarred, was he not?
He was disbarred. He was fired. He filed for personal bankruptcy. He spent a day -- he's the only person in this case to spend time in jail. He spent a day in jail for contempt of court. But he was a 28-year veteran of that office.
Prosecutor. He was extremely well respected before this case came along. And all of a sudden everybody wants to say he had no judgment and he was just out for political gain, and this was all a vendetta against Duke students, where both -- his parents both went to Duke.
He got into Duke and chose to go to UNC. They just make him out to be an incredible villain. And I'm sorry -- and this is going to make all the haters hate me all the more -- I don't believe it. Okay. I believe he was an honorable man trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
All right. Now, take us back to the Duke University Hospital once again. Did any of the evidence indicate that this young woman had been assaulted with a broomstick?
Well, that night, when she was examined, I don't think she said anything. I mean, there was discussion about a broomstick and the threat of using a broomstick. The broomstick idea is something that she told me later. Okay. That was new information that was not mentioned that night. That night she said she was assaulted, she was raped, which means that a non-broomstick was used. That she was actually raped and sexually assaulted by the three men.
She said she was anally…
Anally and vaginally assaulted…
All right.
…by three of the men at the same -- basically at the same time. And that was a story that she stuck to for a long time until December of 2006, when she was -- so this is sort of nine months into this controversy -- when she was interviewed by one of the Mike Nifong's investigators. And during that interview, which was, you know, transcribed and put on -- written down, she said she could no longer remember whether she was assaulted by a penis that night.
And so Mike Nifong dropped the rape charge, kept the sexual assault charge and the kidnapping charge in December. And then in January of 2007, because the state bar had filed complaints against Nifong, he recused himself from the case and he turned it over to the state attorney general.
Tell me why Nifong recused himself.
You have to give the defense attorneys in this case an incredible amount of credit for the way they represented their clients. They are powerful people in the state of North Carolina. They are well-respected lawyers in the state of North Carolina. The state bar in North Carolina, until this point, had basically been a, you know, a powerless sort of namby-pamby organization that never disciplined any district attorneys. For the first time they decided that Mike Nifong needed to be disciplined. He needed to be removed from the case.
Why. The first charge was because during the first or second week of March, after he had the case, he was on TV everywhere talking about his belief that these kids had done this -- committed this crime. He was everywhere. He was everywhere. And the second part of it was related to DNA evidence that the defense believed that Mike Nifong withheld. I don't believe he withheld it. He turned all the DNA evidence over to the defense during the course of the procedural part…
What kind of DNA is he accused of having withheld?
The DNA, the tests. There were two sets of tests. Okay. First, the state investigatory arm took the DNA that the boys were compelled to give. Remember, I said that had they given the DNA voluntarily there may not have been a Duke lacrosse case. But they originally said they would give the DNA voluntarily. Then they said they wouldn't. And then a judge, a state judge, compelled them in what was called a non-testimonial order to give the DNA.
The all traipsed down to the Durham police station to give the DNA. Those DNA samples were sent off to a state lab. They came back negative for the Duke lacrosse players. He then -- Nifong then took more DNA samples and turned it over to a private lab and that, too, came back with no evidence from these players on Crystal Mangum's body, in or on, as they like to say. Okay. Now, the defense attorneys claim that Mike Nifong withheld that information from them. But that's just simply not true.
He turned it all over to them months before there was going to be any trial. He didn't make it easy for them. He didn't put a nice bow around it. He made them dig through it and find out that there was DNA evidence from other men in and on her, not related to the Duke players. So of course they then trumpeted that information publicly and then they had the state bar file a complaint against Nifong for claiming to so-call withhold this evidence. But obviously he didn't withhold the evidence because they found it.
So they found the evidence, which it sounds as though could have been exculpatory.
Yes. I'm not a lawyer. So then there's the whole debate about exculpatory and inculpatory. Basically, Mike Nifong, what he told me was that the absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. It happens to be a same phrase that Donald Rumsfeld used in the new Errol Morris movie. But the fact of the matter is there was rape cases brought in Durham and in jurisdictions all over this country before DNA evidence was used.
Before they even had DNA testing, rape trials occurred all across the country. And basically, his view -- this is Mike Nifong's view -- just because there was no DNA evidence doesn't mean something didn't happen in that bathroom.
Okay. Here's what I'd like to understand. You said that one of the other strippers took the young woman into her car, went to a parking lot where police approached. Now, what does the other young woman say?
Okay. So this is complicated, too. Okay. At first the other -- now, the other woman was not in the bathroom with Crystal.
So it's basically hearsay.
At first what she said was, "It's a crock. It never happened." Then she changed her story and said that actually it could have happened. "I don't know for sure. I wasn't there, but it could have happened." The defense says she changed her story because there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest for a parole violation.
And that the quid pro quo, they claim -- again, the defense has a big conspiracy theory about all this -- was that Nifong had conspired with the other stripper in exchange for reducing her payment related to her outstanding warrant that she would change her story. But she's basically not findable. I couldn't find her. I don't know where she is.
But she -- the last point was that, you know, she made, was that it's quite possible that this happened, but I don't know.
All right. The remainder of the subtitle of your book is, "The Corruption of Our Great Universities." What are you referring to?
I'm referring to the fact that, you know, number one, that the emphasis on sports and big-time sports and the status that athletes get at universities all across this country is just a fact of life that is corrupting. We see that now going on, playing out in real time because we're just coming off the NCAA basketball championship where billions of dollars go to these schools.
And we see that, of course, none of that money goes to the student athletes. And we see that the Northwestern football team is, of course, trying to change that real time. And you can see what happened, you know, at Duke. You know, there's a $50 million sports budget. Basically, sports at Duke doesn't really make any money. So that's basically a gift from the University to the athletic department to enable those sports to happen.
The basketball program does make money, of course, Under Coach Gay. But this party, in the end, Duke settled with these kids for reasons that are mystifying to me. Paid them $20 million each.
And this party has cost Duke upwards of $100 million, between legal fees and P.R. fees and investigations and settlements. And I wanted to know why. Why did my university spend this money? And I feel like, you know, they got corrupted in the process.
Here's an email from Lisa, who says, "Please address the issue of the culture of the men's lacrosse team, whose end-of-year celebrations included a stripper. For these young men to have been wrongly convicted and to serve jail time would certainly have been unjust, but they put themselves in a position to have that happen by having a stripper at the party. The issue of the exploitation of women was never addressed. And the lacrosse players risked their freedom by their thinking it was okay to celebrate with a stripper present."
I agree with that email. I think that because of the pedestal that the lacrosse players were put on at Duke, they were allowed to get away with a lot of bad behavior, misdemeanor kind of behavior, underage drinking, public urination, noise. I mean if you look at the analysis of the "crimes" or the misdemeanors that occurred at Duke during this period and the years leading up to it, fully half of them were committed by the lacrosse team players.
So there was this culture of being able to get away with things. And the women who followed them were called lacross-titutes. And so they had the complete devotion of many of the women at Duke, too, in a way that was not healthy.
And you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." Here is an email from Michael who says, "As he father of a former Division I lax recruit, I can personally attest to the terrible lacrosse party culture. It's been that way for many years. Lacrosse is a rich kids' contact sport. Most Division I players come from the most exclusive private high schools, have led a life of promiscuity, and entitlement. I know of many parents who rue the day their son chose lacrosse over any other sport." That's a pretty broad statement.
You know, yes it is a pretty broad statement. It is a sport that has been predominately played at private schools in the Northeast and in the Northeastern Corridor. Recently, a couple years ago the Princeton coach moved to the University of Denver and started a program there, but lacrosse isn't played in Stanford, for instance. It's really played east of the Mississippi by and large, except for the University of Denver.
And it's basically, as we said, by the sons of well-to-do parents. And by the way, as is their right, the parents of these kids, of course, had a bottomless pit of money to spend on the defense. Had the tables been turned, had it been, you know, black players and, you know, and poor black players, there wouldn't have -- and they would not have had the money for this defense. And who knows what would have happened.
Of course there were lots of concerns over alcohol use at schools across the country.
Well, Diane, this is one thing that I've come to learn. You know, underage drinking is a national epidemic. You know, the drinking age is 21. So everybody knows that administrators at these colleges and universities are turning a blind eye, certainly every weekend, maybe even every day, to the underage drinking that's going on. Duke tried to grapple with it by, you know, Duke has a West Campus and an East Campus. This house was off of East Campus.
The partying, the excessive partying was going on in the neighborhood called Trinity Park, off of East Campus. It had been going on for years. And the neighbors were getting increasingly upset. And they kept pushing the Durham police to do something about it. Finally, at the beginning of 2005/2006 school year they determined they were going to do something about it and crack down. And they did crack down, but the lacrosse players, you know, with impunity, kept having these parties.
And were basically asking for the police to come and, you know, challenge them on it. And they had this party. Interestingly, which Mike Nifong pointed out, normally when the police would come to these parties, of course people would still be at the party. But at this particular party they came to the party, you know, at 1:00 in the morning or whenever it was, and none of the players were there. Everyone was gone. Everyone had disappeared.
Now that is, according to Mike Nifong, very strange behavior. You know, if you hadn't done anything wrong why did everybody have to flee? When Reade Seligman, one of the players who was indicted, says, you know, his alibi was he took a cab at whatever, 12:13 or whatever time it was, he asked for that cab to come not to the house where the party was, but at a house around the corner. Why did he do that?
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And welcome back. If you've just joined us, William Cohan is my guest. He's written a new book, this time about the Duke Lacrosse scandal. It's titled "The Price of Silence." The subtitle also goes on "The Power of the Elite and the Corruption of our Great Universities." William Cohan is, of course, the author of the New York Times Best Sellers "Money and Power" and "House of Cards."
Here's an email from Malcolm who says, "One thing your guest failed to mention was that the DA, the prosecutor Nifong was in a heated re-election campaign.
That is, of course, quite true. And I think I referred to that as well but I'm happy to reiterate the fact that he was appointed the DA in 2005 when the then current DA was appointed a judge. He then, at the end of 2005, declared himself to be a candidate for the seat himself after 28 years being an underling. He was actively campaigning to become the DA. Beginning of the year of 2006 he had two opponents. And then in March of 2006 this happened.
So the defense and the critics will say he just used this case to promote his political ambitions, because Durham is 45 percent black so he's just going to appeal to the black community. I mean, I think that is total rubbish. He didn't -- he is already a declared candidate in January of 2006. This case comes around in March of 2006. He realizes it's going to be volatile and important. And he just happened to find out about the case by reading this non-testimonial order that appeared on a copy machine a week after the case had started. And so for his critics to complain that he was just exploiting this for political purposes, I don't think is fair.
Here's an email from Andrew. Did you speak with any of the Duke 88 faculty members and what happened to those faculty members?
Yes. I spoke to a number of the faculty members. Understandably they still work there. And even though they're tenured, they don't want -- never wanted their names to be used because they are very scared. There's still legal proceedings going on. There's still law suits. Lawyers have been sending professors threatening letters about make sure they don't talk to the media, don't share any documents with the media. Everything is subject to litigation.
So the answer is I did speak to them. Many of them of course are still -- they remain adamant with their original position, the group of 88, that something happened here and that none of us would be proud of. they had a chance to reiterate that view or decide not to pursue that view any more a year later in March of 2007. And they reiterated their view despite knowing that the kids were soon to be declared innocent.
All right. Let's go to Terry in Hicksville, Ohio. Hi, Terry. You're on the air.
Hi. Yeah, thank you. First, based on this I probably am not going to give a donation this year. I am just shocked that a program would basically publish something I would call propaganda. As you pointed out, you are not an attorney. And as an attorney I can say the real justice here is the District Attorney didn't go to jail longer. What you describe on the air is a violation of code of ethics. When you force the defendants to find it before you -- find evidence before you turn it over, that's a violation of ethics.
Also there's a violation of ethics to threaten to prosecute a cab driver if he didn't change his testimony. And the reason that Duke didn't want to go to trial, because they would've got their clock cleaned and it would've came out ways of true corrupting influence in our colleges today, which is a left wing fanatical feminism that so pervasive on campus.
All right, sir. Thanks for calling.
I'm not sure there's a question there.
He asked -- he mentioned a cab driver.
Okay. So the cab driver that he's talking about was the cab driver that drove Reade Seligmann, picked him up at the house around the corner from the house where this party occurred, which is very strange, then took him to the cash machine where he could of course be photographed taking cash out. And then to a restaurant -- the Cook-Out restaurant to get some food and then back to his dorm. And basically Mr. Mostafa the cab driver was saying -- you know, was -- gave an affidavit saying, I picked him up here, I took him here. And this formed the basis of Reade Seligmann's alibi, which actually seems quite credible.
Mike Nifong thinks that that alibi is sort of convenient. If you did something wrong why did -- if you didn't do anything wrong why did you have the cab pick him up around the corner? And if you were trying to establish an alibi, of course he would go to an ATM machine and then a restaurant and then pay a big tip to the cab driver and all of this.
So Mike Nifong has doubts about Reade Seligmann's alibi. It seems pretty airtight to me but nevertheless, what this caller is referring to is that the cab driver had driven a woman -- totally separately, had driven a woman to the mall where she went into a store and stole some handbags. And then he drove the woman home, okay. And there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest for sort of abating -- aiding and abetting this stealing of the handbags crime. And this was dug up when his name surfaced in the -- providing the alibi for Reade Seligmann.
And so the defense of course made a big deal about how somehow Nifong was manipulating the cab driver with this outstanding warrant and forced him to go to trial. He was found not guilty, of course, of having anything to do with the stealing of the handbags. And he didn't change his story. So again, you know, there's so much misinformation.
I mean, one thing that I am amazed at, you know, when we're talking about DNA is one of the players in the house who was living at the house who was one of the co-captains, Matt Zash, said that he had moved -- Crystal Mangum was wearing plastic fake fingernails. He said that he had moved and thrown those fake plastic fingernails, which came off in a struggle, into the wastebasket, okay. And there was no DNA evidence of his on those fingernails.
However, there was DNA evidence on those fingernails of David Evans, one of the indicted players, at least with 98 percent certainty that they matched his DNA. And she said -- Crystal Mangum said from the beginning that she struggled in that bathroom and she was fighting for her life. And that's why her fake fingernails fell -- came off. Now so if she hadn't struggled why did her fake fingernails come off? And if she hadn't struggled why was David Evans' DNA on those fingernails?
Now the defense will say because he's the one that put them in the waste basket. But in fact it was Matt Zash who put them in the wastebasket and they don't -- never explained that and of course nobody wants to talk about that.
All right. To Thomas in Kinston, N.C. Hi, you're on the air.
Hi. Hello. I can't help but think that these gentlemen and the media were being persecuted heavily simply for the fact that they had strippers at a campus party. And people saw that as chauvinistic, saw these men as elitists, okay. Well, my question is, would Duke University have reacted the same way if they became aware of other provocative behaviors having on campus, whether it was a homosexual swingers ring or something of that nature?
And my argument is that they wouldn't because we accept homosexuality in all its forms now but we are intent on persecuting wealthy white males, you know, for things that, you know, affect our sensibilities. And I think it's a very unfair way to look at this case. And that...
Well, first of all, it was a lot more than just having strippers at that party. You need to read, you know, what was in the police reports that I include in the book. A part of the -- three of the players who lived at the house, Matt Zash, Dan Flannery and David Evans voluntarily gave statements to the police about what happened that night. And in those statements it's clear that there was more going on than just dancing and under-age drinking, okay.
There were racial epitaphs thrown, there was provocative statements with a broomstick made about how they were going to assault the dancers with the broomstick. It was very, very ugly behavior. Again, nothing that anyone would be proud of. Maybe -- it may not have been criminal behavior. As I say, we will not know.
Obviously Mike Nifong and Crystal Mangum still believe there was criminal behavior in that bathroom. A lot of people would say they have absolutely no credibility. You know, I think what I tried to do for the first time, as I said, was present a fair and balanced way all of the evidence that I could dig up. And I dug up a lot of evidence and I talked to everybody who would talk to me. And even the people who wouldn't talk to me, I presented fairly and honestly their point of view.
So I think the reader should, you know, hopefully, if they're interested, read this book and will see for the first time all of the evidence. And they can decide for themselves whether or not justice really was served here.
And here is an email from Paul who says, I live in Durham. I'm a researcher in the Duke community. I obviously cannot speak to the disputed facts of the case. I can speak to the culture privilege and entitlement that pervade Duke. One day shortly after the case, I was working in the library when the Lacrosse players entered all clad in shirts mocking Nifong and his charge that they were hoodlums. They showed absolutely no regard for the other library patrons as they talked about their latest drunken exploits in the most lewd of terms.
I wish to stress I view this as a culture that has compromised the integrity of the individuals involved. However, that Duke and other universities failed to address this is truly troubling."
And I think he's absolutely right. And this is my alma mater. You would've thought that this would -- this incident would've evoked a great amount of introspection. And at first there was. Dick Brodhead, the president, created all these committees, a culture committee, a lacrosse committee, this committee and that committee. But -- and he seemed quite serious about addressing under-age drinking and the lacrosse-stitutes and the privilege and the elitism and all the misdemeanors that the lacrosse players had committed without -- with impunity up to that point.
It seems like there was a real desire to change but once the narrative changed, once it suddenly seemed that Nifong was out on a limb and that Crystal Mangum was bipolar and was making all of this up and then it got thrown out by the State Attorney General Roy Cooper after a four-month investigation that he won't let anybody see or he won't give interviews about this, that all seems to have faded away.
And, you know, even in recent years, I mean, we know about the Duke porn star from this fall, which was big news for a while. There were Asia-themed parties at Duke that were -- again, I'm a duke alum and a loyal duke alum. I find this kind of behavior reprehensible. There was Karen Owen who decided it would be a great idea to put a PowerPoint together to discuss all the men she had sex with while she was at Duke. And it went viral and public. I don't understand what's going on at this university, which is my alma mater and needs to change.
And you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." I'm going to take a call now from Stuart Taylor who I think has some very strong opinions on this issue. Stuart, welcome to the program.
Thank you, Diane. And hello, Mr. Cohan. I'll try to be brief. I've written a book. It's not disinterested but I am well informed. It's called "Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case." It strongly argues that the players were innocent. My co-author's KC Johnson. My question for Mr. Cohan is whether any of the following three comments are wrong.
Number one, this book adds not a single piece of significant new evidence to that which convinced then North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and virtually all serious analysts by mid 2007 that the Lacrosse players were innocent of any sexual assault on anyone...
...unless one considers as new evidence Mr. Cohan's stunningly credulous interviews with three far-from-credible participants in the drama, Nifong, Crystal Mangum, the whole schpiel.
You're going to have to be brief, Stuart.
Lastly, what Mr. Cohan just said about being the first to get the report of the sexual assault (unintelligible) is clearly false. Dozens of reporters, including me, have had it since 2006. Mr. Cohan could've found it prominently displayed in our book. Thank you.
All right.
Well, I guess -- Stuart Taylor who wrote his book with KC Johnson in 2006, it was published in 2007, clearly does not want to take into account any of the new information that has come out in terms of the police reports, in terms of yes, Tara Levicy report. He obviously doesn't want -- doesn't care or want to hear what Mike Nifong would have to say or Crystal Mangum or Bob Steele.
Basically I have tried to present all sides to this fairly and dispassionately. But the haters like Stuart Taylor don't want anything to do with a fair and dispassionate assessment of this case. They are so whetted to their point of view of the fact that these kids were railroaded and were declared innocent and therefore must be innocent, they don't care about the fact that Roy Cooper, the attorney general of North Carolina will not make his investigative material public.
I've had to sue him in North Carolina as under a Freedom of Information Act request to try to get access to that information. He declined on my request to be interviewed. If these kids are quote unquote "so innocent," why wouldn't Roy Cooper be the first to talk to me and why wouldn't he make his investigative material available publically?
Where are these young men now?
So the three indicted players, they've got their 20 million. One of them is in a private equity firm in New York. One of them works for Deutsche Bank in New York. And one of them went to law school and is now clerking for a federal judge in Campton, N.J.
William Cohan. The book is titled "The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite and the Corruption of our Great Universities." And he's telling you to make up your own mind. Thanks for listening all. I'm Diane Rehm.
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