The Upper School fall musical this year, Urinetown: The Musical, will feature an all-student five-member pit orchestra behind the actors for the first time since 2017. The pit orchestra, a small band...

The Friends Select Jazz Band, a former club, was always an integral part of the Friends Select music department, playing at World Cafe Live, seasonal performances, and musicals. However, for the 2025-2026...

This school year, the spring musical was Curtains, a murder mystery comedy set in 1959 Boston, where the leading lady of a new musical is killed. A local detective is called to solve the case, and the...

The March 12th reception for the Friends Select Senior Art Exhibition highlighted a programmatic shift. While the annual event has existed for nearly two decades, it previously featured only students...

Lower, Middle, and Upper School students crafted various kinds of art inspired by their observations from field trips to The Academy of Natural Sciences. All of the pieces were then composed into an art...

I’ve played League of Legends once. I did not enjoy it. It just wasn’t for me. Then, around 3 years ago, my friend talked me into watching Arcane, a show based on LoL, and I was instantly hooked. The...

The FSS winter concert is one of the things that makes our school most unique, with the combination of heartfelt classical music and choral songs, combined with the Jazz and Lab band’s lively music performances....

On August 29th, 1997, Netflix was founded in Scotts Valley, California, as a mail-based DVD rental company; now, twenty-seven years later, it is one of the biggest on-demand streaming services in the world....

Did Kendrick just secure the album of the year in November? It’s possible.  Kendrick Lamar’s newest project, GNX, which came out on the 22nd of November, stunned fans. No one saw the drop coming,...

The Penguin plunges into Gotham’s dark underworld across eight gripping episodes, telling the story of Oswald “Oz” Cobb—a ruthless and layered character navigating a chilling world of power and...

It’s normal to be a little disappointed by your Spotify Wrapped, especially if you find out your top track is “White Noise For Sleep 10 Hours Loopable No Fade.” But this year, Spotify users were...

From November 16th to December 15th, 2024, FSS student artwork from all three divisions will be displayed in Kids Care 31, at the Helen Millard Children's Gallery at the Woodmere Art Museum.   There...