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The Review

Cora West pulls into Senior Lot at 5:45 a.m. She has clocked an average of 90,000 driving to and from her home in Richmond.

Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Students reflect on long commutes

Katharine Yao February 28, 2024

A little over 76% of SJS Upper School students live 15 minutes from campus. For the rest of us, driving to campus can be a major stressor for students outside the beltway. Senior Cora West has driven...

At the end of every week, bakers will take some of the uneaten pastries from the Mav Cafe home and the rest are sent to Second Servings of Houston.

Efforts to reduce food waste at St. John’s

Isabella Adachi and William Liang February 7, 2024

One in seven Houstonians go home every day wondering if they can put food on their table. Director of Food Services Alan Mallett combated this problem by partnering with Second Servings of Houston and...

“It was fun and entertaining in an unexpected way,” freshman SAAG member Mira Pemmanda said. “It was the perfect representation of our vibrant Indian culture.”

Students perform songs, dances at SAAG assembly

Bella Dodig and Nia Shetty February 2, 2024

The last thing students expected to hear when Online Technical Editor senior Arjun Maitra stepped on the stage to perform his tabla solo for the annual SAAG assembly was “Sicko Mode” by Travis Scott...

Kirby is very pro the concept of blue raspberries. Blue Raspberry is a collection of odes to the artificial.

Katy Kirby’s ‘Blue Raspberry’ is a gem

Lucy Walker January 24, 2024

Calling in from the apartment in Bushwick, New York, where she wrote most of her upcoming album Blue Raspberry, Katy Kirby, a Texan, sounded right at home. She’s thoughtful, and the way she speaks—much...

Good Morning toured with friends Frankie Cosmos and Katie Von Schleicher this past October.

Good Morning’s Stefan Blair loves soup, announces new album

Lucy Walker January 19, 2024

A few weeks ago, I had a chat with Stefan Blair, one half of the Aussie rock duo Good Morning. It was an absolute blast. I was finishing up homework here in Houston while he had just put some coffee on...

On the (Abbey) road with Ian Sweet

On the (Abbey) road with Ian Sweet

Lucy Walker January 11, 2024

Jillian Medford was home for the holidays. The 30-year-old artist, known by her fans as Ian Sweet, was visiting her parents in California for Thanksgiving two weeks after the release of her fourth studio...

Frankie Cosmos features guitarist, bassist and lead vocalist Greta Kline, drummer Luke Pyenson, bassist and keyboardist 
Alex Bailey, and harmonist and keyboardist Lauren Martin.

Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline on touring, friends of friends and Wayne Gretzky

Lucy Walker November 1, 2023

I spoke with Greta Kline the morning after our excruciatingly close victory over Episcopal. I had precious few hours between rolling out of bed and a six-hour theater rehearsal to get the interview and...

Mrs. Bennet (played by Finnian Owsley) advises her daughters (played by Sasha Mintz and Nadiya Naehr) on matters of marriage.

Fall play brings “Pride and Prejudice” to Lowe Theater

Aien Du and Nathan Kim October 23, 2023

It was only the first scene, but laughter was already erupting throughout Lowe Theater as the hectic Bennet family’s apathetic, bold, spoiled, ecstatic and neglected natures turned a timeless classic...

A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night is out on Oct. 20.

A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night

Lucy Walker October 19, 2023

Ursula K. Leguin is blocking Katie von Schleicher’s camera as we speak on a Tuesday Zoom call. The white parakeet, named after the late Earthsea author, was jockeying for press time of her own. But...

All Around You was released on September 8.

Lead Guitarist on Subsonic Eye’s new album

Lucy Walker October 16, 2023

When guitarist Daniel Borces was 15, he wanted to learn how to play songs by early 2000s bands like Blink-182 and All Time Low—stuff he found on the pop-punk side of Tumblr. He later picked up drums...

Students enjoyed the giant birthday cakes and many party hats given by The Friday Project.

A sprinkle of fun: The mysterious Friday Project bedecks campus with socks, birthday cakes

Genevieve Ederle, Staff Writer October 5, 2023

As teachers and students entered school on a dreary Friday morning, something seemed different. Students arrived on campus to discover brightly-colored anomalies: Silly socks strewn around the halls. At...

Many students ended up tossing out metal silverware, leading to the return of plastic utensils.

Life with plastic is not so fantastic: Green initiatives clash with convenience in servery

Bella Dodig and Yutia Li September 19, 2023

Plastic utensils have been mysteriously disappearing—and reappearing—from the servery since school began.  Dashing into Flores for the annual first-day Community Breakfast, students discovered...

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