As almost everyone knows at this point, Stranger Things season two came out recently. Stranger Things has turned into a cultural phenomenon over the last year. The main actors have been turned into child stars overnight! I have been a little late with watching it, as I only just started a few weeks ago. In order to update others who may be in my position, I have written a recap of season one!   [!!SPOILER ALERT!!] Consider yourselves warned.   Season one opens with Will, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas playing the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons in Mike’s basement. Upon finishing, they each bike home. Lucas and Dustin peel off after a few minutes leaving Will to bike home through the woods. He spots a Humanoid creature, he runs home terrified. Unable to find his mom and brother he runs to his shed in his backyard and vanishes. This…

As Thanksgiving approaches, Friends’ Central is having a celebration of our own. The long awaited 28th anniversary of Friendsgiving, started in 1989 by Friends’ Central’s very own Chris Rosenbaum, has finally arrived! The name “Friendsgiving” was not something that Chris thought deeply about. It seemed natural to him that the celebration should remind people of not only the name of our school, but the fact that we at Friends’ Central are all friends. Thanksgiving is the country’s holiday; Friendsgiving belongs to our community. It’s a personal way for us to connect with the students and with the faculty in a casual location, where we can all feel like we belong. The name is just yet another way to communicate that. Friendsgiving was created so that everyone can be a part of something and for us as a school to feel like a family. The lunch staff and administrators who serve…

  This is a satirical article. All persons mentioned, aside from Danica Roem, are fictional. All quotes and situations have been made up. The election of Danica Roem is the only true event that has actually occurred. In a once-peaceful state, there is a commotion brewing. A new state legislator for Virginia has been elected. Danica Roem, a transgender woman was running and won the election. Now, what do we see? People, running through the streets. Zombies have begun roaming the Virginian counties. Aliens, abducting people’s dogs and stealing all the plastic scissors, so that everyone has to use those annoying metal ones. Why? Danica Roem is transgender. It’s simple. She was born male, and now that she has transitioned and taken a government position, everything is wrong. Water has become solid! Dryers are becoming sentient and shrinking everyone’s clothing! We took to the streets and found some local Virginians…

This past weekend, the Upper school performed Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. The show illustrates the lives of the people of Grover’s Corners, a small and rather unremarkable town giving home to many rather unremarkable people. The stage manager, played by Karishma Singh, is a character who moves the audience through the plot, guiding us through significant moments and small details that help clarify the overall ideas of the show. I was fortunate enough to view this show, and while I can’t say I was incredibly excited by the prospect of a play about very ordinary people’s ordinary lives, I was met with what was a very pleasant surprise. Our Town was, in fact, incredibly thought provoking, and carried a very beautiful message. Terry Guerin, the director of the show, was met with a rather large predicament at the beginning of the year. A bout of controversy drove her to select…