The Friends Select Upper School is currently putting on the musical “The Little Mermaid” under the direction of Devon Sinclair. Sinclair grew up in Upper Darby, PA and later graduated from Penn State...

Hippo Campus’s newest album LP3, released this February, is full of energy, color, and lots of strange and satisfying sounds. After struggling to find their collective sound for some time, Hippo Campus...

Emotion rippled through the sea of audience members at Upper Merion Area High School’s production of Big Fish. The company phenomenally captured both the fantasy of the musical and the passion of the...

Friends Select’s Winter Concert has been an iconic part of any FSS winter for as long as most of the FSS community can remember. The 2021-2022 Winter Concert, affectionately referred to as the “Sprinter...

Reminders of Him is another riveting and extremely well-written novel by Colleen Hoover. On January 18th, 2022, Reminders of Him was released and it became another hit across social media platforms like...

Student artwork from the class of ‘19 hanging in the upper school hallway. The large portrait is a student from Deborah’s Advanced 2D Studies course. An alumni’s self-portrait hanging in the...

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers for the movie, Marry Me. Marry Me, a new rom-com released this past February, follows protagonist Kat Valdez (Jennifer Lopez) whose new hit single, Marry...

On January 22nd, 2022 the season 1 finale aired for the Showtime series Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets chronicles a high school girls soccer team as they survive a plane crash on their way to a national...

A test: twenty mattresses. One desperate prince. Twelve princesses down. One remains. Once Upon A Mattress at Archmere Academy turned the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the...

A couple of weeks ago, the Academy Awards announced its nominations for the major film awards, such as Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

“Dawn FM was mediocre at best.” That’s what I first said about Abel “The Weekend” Tesfaye’s new album, Dawn FM, after listening through it for the first time. But after a couple of months...

Friends Select’s ‘lab band,’ a subsection of the Upper School instrumental ensemble consisting of nine students, rehearses every Tuesday afternoon in the ‘dojo’ - the school’s basement...