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A little bit of sophistication, a dash of music and a whole lot of clowning around: those are the three main components of an unforgettable night at the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. The latest Pop Series performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Cirque de la Symphonie, proved to be a treat for both the ears and the eyes of all who attended Nov. 14-15, as the orchestra ... Full story

Junior defender Matthew Hollyoak led the UNF men’s soccer team to its current 9-10 season as the team captain. Hollyoak, who was born Aug. 17, played in all 17 games of the 2007 season. He met up with the Spinnaker to share about his experiences at UNF on and off the field. Below are 17 things you must know about the captain. Full story

A trip to the annual Collegiate Media Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, this week has proven to be filled with surprises. Full story

Filmmaker Greg Bennick and social psychologist Sheldon Solomon will be speaking at UNF on “Terror at the Voting Booth” at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Robinson Theater. Bennick will be showcasing his film, “Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality,” a documentary about the psychological human conflicts with death and how it can affect one’s decision making. The discussion will focus particularly on the harms that ... Full story

Ben Kastan has an unstable home. In fact, his home moves from one parking lot to another each night. Kastan, a recent college graduate from Washington University in St. Louis, is a volunteer for Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization. The group decided in October 2007 to take its library of information to the roads with a 45-foot tour bus. Full story

Soldiers returning home without job opportunities, a failing economic situation and people fatally sick without health care or hope – these were a few reasons Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker decided to travel across the country and campaign for the upcoming election. Whitaker, who won a 2007 Academy Award for best actor in “The Last King of Scotland,” spoke to a crowd of UNF students, ... Full story

Hundreds of HIV positive fathers, mothers and children surrounded him in the middle of an African tribe, and he didn’t see statistics, he saw people, Major General J. Scott Gration said. Gration spoke of Sen. Barack Obama to a packed UNF theater Sept. 23, commenting on his ability to listen, get insight, judge what the right thing to do is and then have the courage to ... Full story

Dr. Nancy Rabalais, the executive director and professor of Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Her research interests include biological oceanography, the distribution and dynamics of hypoxia water groups and the relationship between animals and sediment. Full story

Dr. Jarik Conrad, president of Conrad Consulting Group, LLC. Conrad grew up in a housing project in East St. Louis, Ill., an area that has been described as the most distressed small city in America. Conrad recently led the Blueprint for Prosperity, an initiative to improve Jacksonville’s quality of life. Full story

Guards at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Northwest Florida shut off the water to inmate Danny Brown’s cell at 3 p.m. June 11, 2002. At the same time, guards outside taped the window so nothing could escape – including Brown. Then the guards released chemical gasses into the cell. Brown, a bi-polar inmate, suffered an asthma attack, breathing difficulties and mental and emotional pain from ... Full story