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Review: Big Fish at Upper Merion

Review: Big Fish at Upper Merion

Sarah Gorenstein April 8, 2022

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...

TONIGHT: Friends Select Winter Concert

TONIGHT: Friends Select Winter Concert

Sam Goldwert March 18, 2022

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: Colleen Hoover Does it Again

Reminders of Him: Colleen Hoover Does it Again

Scarlett Schneider and Zoe Siegel March 18, 2022

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...

Artwork from Past Students at FSS

Artwork from Past Students at FSS

TJ Hampton March 15, 2022

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...

Jennifer Lopez, the star of Marry Me.  Free use image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Marry Me, Lighthearted Crowd-Pleaser

Liv Smollen March 9, 2022

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...

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New Showtime Series: Yellowjackets

Lily Brin and Uma Vincent March 8, 2022

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...

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Review: Once Upon a Mattress at Archmere Academy

Elena Milliken March 8, 2022

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...

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2022 Oscar Nominations

Jakob Miller March 2, 2022

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...

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Dawn FM: Synths, Syncopation, and Style

Alex Ginsberg February 25, 2022

“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...

William Ju ‘23, Campbell Lee ‘23, and lead guitarist Christian Sun ‘23 circle together while playing guitars for the song The Only Exception by Paramore. These guitarists focus on establishing a singular sound, trying to work on simultaneous strumming and accents.

Lab Band: Student Leadership and Informal Learning

Margot Schneider February 17, 2022

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...

It Ends With Us: A Review

It Ends With Us: A Review

Scarlett Schneider and Zoe Siegel February 9, 2022

Spoiler Alert:  This article contains significant spoiler alerts for the plot of It Ends With Us. We recommend you read the book before you read this article!  It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is...

Star-Crossed Album Cover. Interscope/MCA Nashville

Star-Crossed: Kacey Musgraves’s Divorce Album

Liv Smollen February 8, 2022

Kacey Musgraves, a well-known country singer and songwriter in the country genre, released, Star-Crossed - her fourth studio album - this September. The album focuses on the disintegration of her marriage...