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The Blue and White

The Student News Site of Abington Friends School

The Blue and White

The Blue and White

Let’s Talk About Intimacy

Let’s Talk About Intimacy

Ava Cole '25 May 5, 2024

Breaking news: Abington Friends Upper School Theatre has an intimacy director. That’s right, it’s not just for Bridgerton. Carly Bodnar served as the intimacy director for this year’s Upper School...

For The Record

For The Record

Kaitlyn Podulka ‘25 March 20, 2024

The Record, a Boygenius album released in March of 2023, is both unique and generic. The lyrics on this album are creative and beautiful. They are clearly a product of passion for poetry. Each of the songs...

Horror Movies are Getting Worse

Horror Movies are Getting Worse

Kathereen Jean ‘24 March 20, 2024

Horror movies have long been a staple of the film industry, captivating audiences with suspense and fear. However, as of recently, the genre has fallen short of its purpose to write a compelling, scary...

The Past and Present of Three Sisters

The Past and Present of Three Sisters

Ash Cohen '26 March 16, 2024

At the end of last school year, AFS theater director Kittson O’Neill announced that the spring play for the 2023-2024 theater season would be Three Sisters by Anton Chekov. Many students may have wondered...

Rhyme and Reason

Rhyme and Reason

Serafina Kubersky '26 March 16, 2024

Flamenca poems perfectly encapsulate the fast-paced passion of dance. Originating from 18th century Southern Spain, flamenco dancing mainly inspired the Flamenca. Syllable count and assonance combine within...

Rhyme and Reason.

Rhyme and Reason.

Serafina Kubersky ‘26 February 29, 2024

Unlike the more modern Blitz and Cascade styles, Rimas Dissolutas poems have enchanted hundreds of generations of poets. Its name, which translates to “dissolved rhyme”, provides a clue into the mysteries...

National Writing Month.

National Writing Month.

Anjali Tremblay ‘26 February 28, 2024

In 2022, 51,670 people each wrote tens of thousands of words for a novel in exactly a month. How? National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short, which started in 1999 as a challenge for writers to...

Cappie Review of Penn Wood High School’s Little Shop Of Horrors

Hannah Elkin ‘26 February 28, 2024

Where else can you find struggling street urchins, a blooming romance, and a strange and unusual plant that costs $1.95 but Penn Wood High School’s production of Little Shop of Horrors! With the ’60s...

ANC’s The Play That Goes Wrong

Casey Smothers '25 February 27, 2024

For a Play That Goes Wrong, Academy of the New Church got a whole lot right. The farcical production, with its misplaced props, missed and mispronounced lines, and unplanned on-stage brawls, was a delightful...

Interview with Audrey Cobbs

Interview with Audrey Cobbs

Kathereen Jean ‘24 January 28, 2024

 This past fall, the AFS community was transported into a world where scarecrows could talk and lions could show fear in the magically weird world of The Wiz. The Wiz was a large success, especially amongst...

Romance, Drama, and Jazz at Pennsylvania Leadership Charter’s Romeo and Juliet.

Casey Smothers '25 January 28, 2024

Abounding with joy, passion, and despair, The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School’s (PALCS) jazzed-up take on Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet was absolutely captivating. One of English...

Rhyme and Reason: Cascade Poem

Rhyme and Reason: Cascade Poem

Serafina Kubersky '26 December 23, 2023

Cascade Poems exist in a very niche space, having only been created in 2007 by Udit Bhatia. Like its namesake, Cascade poems fall down the page in a waterfall . They are sensational for writers wanting...

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