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Students can cozy up with coffee at OP’s ELEVATE concert

Amber Lake Feb 1, 2015
Four local musicians will perform, including Kristina Aranilla, Chris Kieler, Charles Adderley and Tyanna Elise of American Idol fame.
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Photo by Morgan Purvis

Think ink: balancing textbooks and a tattoo machine

Danae Leake Jan 30, 2015
Local tattoo artist and UNF student Will Buenavista talks to Spinnaker about what it's like to be a tattoo artist, his views on art and Pokémon. Buenavista balances being a fine arts major with being a tattoo artist at Jacksonville's Florida Velvet Tattoo and Piercing shop.
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Fjord Explorer will perform at OZ Fest March  Photo courtesy of Facebook

Five Jacksonville-based rock bands confirm as supporting acts for OZ Music Festival

Justin Belichis Jan 29, 2015
Osprey Productions has booked five local bands for the first OZ Music Festival, March 5-6. Sidereal, Weekend Atlas, Aurora, Fort Stories, and Fjord Explorer confirmed that they will be performing as supporting bands at the event. OP announced Sublime with Rome and Mac Miller earlier this month as the headliners for the two day music festival.
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Photo by Camille Shaw

Packed UNF vigil remembers Garth Sangree

Amber Lake Jan 28, 2015
UNF students came together at the Student Union to honor the memory of fellow student Garth Sangree. Garth's father, Mark Sangree, spoke at the vigil that was hosted by Baptist Collegiate Ministries.
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  “Florida’s Mountains” by Alexander Diaz is a collection of photographs he took that look like mountains, but under further inspection it is observed that they are piles of dirt at construction sites.   Photo by Morgan Purvis

Alexander Diaz turns dirt mounds into mountains with his photography exhibit “Florida’s Mountains”

Rachel Cazares Jan 26, 2015
"Florida's Mountains" is a photography collection by UNF professor Alexander Diaz. The photographs look like they are of mountains but are actually of dirt mounds at construction sites.
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Many alumni and students gathered for this event, located at UNF Gallery of Art in Founder’s Hall.   Photo by Kristen Smith

No division: five UNF Art and Design students win awards in a competition designed to exhibit diverse forms of art

Danae Leake Jan 26, 2015
Five UNF Art and Design students won awards at the 2015 Student Juried Annual Exhibition. The exhibit will be on display until Feb. 25 at the UNF Gallery of Art.
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Rapper Mac Miller is the second and final headliner performing at the OZ Music Fest in March. Photo courtesy of Mac Miller's Facebook.

Osprey Productions is expected to announce Mac Miller as a headliner of the first OZ Music Fest

Amber Lake Jan 23, 2015
Osprey Productions is expected to announce Mac Miller as the second headliner for the OZ Music Festival. The first headliner, Sublime with Rome, was announced Jan. 16. The festival will take place March 5-6 on the auxiliary field behind the Student Wellness Complex.
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LGBT Resource Center brings “The Gay Moralist” Dr. John Corvino to speak at UNF

LGBT Resource Center brings “The Gay Moralist” Dr. John Corvino to speak at UNF

Amber Lake Jan 23, 2015
"The Gay Moralist" Dr. John Corvino uses logic, humor and personal experience to scrutinize frequent arguments against homosexuality since 1992. Corvino will give two public lectures at the UNF University Center on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 at 7 p.m.
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Concert Review: Of Montreal returns to Jacksonville

Concert Review: Of Montreal returns to Jacksonville

Clark Jan 21, 2015
Of Montreal, a Georgia-based band, returned to Jacksonville and gave a musically and visually great performance.
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Weekend Atlas performs at their album release show at Freebird Live on Saturday Jan. 17. 
Photo courtesy Justin Drain

Local band Weekend Atlas releases first full-length album

Rachel Cazares Jan 20, 2015
Weekend Atlas, a seven-member band with unique folk flare and a roots rock influence, released their self-titled album Jan. 20 after their record release show at Freebird Live on Jan. 17.
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UNF elementary education graduate Tracy Darakis says goodbye to bachelor Chris Soules on the third episode of ABC’s The Bachelor.
Photo courtesy ABC

UNF graduate Tracy Darakis is eliminated from ABC’s The Bachelor in Week 3

Avery Harter Jan 20, 2015
Tracy Darakis, UNF alumna with a degree in elementary education, spent Week 3 on The Bachelor shucking corn and attending a cocktail party and pool party. However, at the end of the episode, she did not receive a rose from Chris Soules.
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Sublime with Rome will play at UNF for Osprey Productions' OZ Music Fest on March 5-6.Photo courtesy Facebook

Sublime with Rome is one of two bands headlining the OZ Music Fest

Spinnaker Jan 16, 2015
Osprey Productions announced that Sublime with Rome will headline at their first ever Spring OZ Music Fest in March.
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