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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...

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Op -Counter Op: Lady Bird

Margot Schneider and Patrick Ryan January 28, 2022

Lady Bird, a 2017 coming-of-age movie, is about Lady Bird MacPherson, a head-strong, stubborn, self-absorbed teenager attending a Catholic high school in the early 2000’s. She struggles with finding...

Art Portfolio Exhibit Closing Celebration Today in Select Gallery

Art Portfolio Exhibit Closing Celebration Today in Select Gallery

Katie Kern January 28, 2022

The Friends Select Portfolio Exhibit, organized by the Portfolio Class and Deborah Caiola, Chair of the Art Department, is now open for the third year in a row to display Friends Select Seniors’ artwork....

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Red: Nostalgia and Forward Movement in the Music Industry

Lena Kinser December 17, 2021

On November 12, 2021, Taylor Swift released Red (Taylor’s Version). The original version of the album was released in 2010 and featured 22 songs. However, in this re-release, Swift added 11 “from...