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The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

The Beatles drop a surprise in “Now and Then”

The Beatles drop a surprise in “Now and Then”

Jillian Beaster and Andrina Roberts December 2, 2023

Thanks to a late John Lennon (and maybe a splash of modern technology), we in the 21st century can finally listen to a newly released Beatles song, something never thought possible. What was once a scratchy,...

Priscilla Presley’s story highlighted in new film

Priscilla Presley’s story highlighted in new film

Claudia Talarczyk and Ben Weisse December 2, 2023

Have you ever sat in a diner sipping on a Coke in the late 1950s? Well, neither have we, but Sofia Coppola makes you feel like you have in the opening scene of Priscilla, a biographic of Priscilla Presley’s...

Hugo Awards highlight recent gems in fiction

Hugo Awards highlight recent gems in fiction

Aiko Levick and Ana Pheister November 13, 2023

It’s that time of year again-- when we swap out our tank tops for flannels, and our careless summer fun for anxiously awaiting important news. About what, you ask? Why, for the winners of the Hugo Award...

Farmers Market wraps up successful season

Audrey Jenkins and Lucy Kuhnen-Grooms November 13, 2023

This year’s Shorewood Farmers Market came to a close on September 29 after more than four months of providing fresh produce, food products, and weekly entertainment. The market aims to foster a sense...

Move over Nicki Minaj, new Barbs rule the world

Jenna Abu-Zahra and Masha Malinkine September 24, 2023

She's everything. He’s just Ken.  With its exploding theme of pink, Barbie has already made a lasting impression through its production and message. Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the Barbie...

Oppenheimer: the idea that destroyed the world

Maya Schmaling, Jillian Beaster, and Andrina Roberts September 24, 2023

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”  Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a chilling rendition of American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin dominated the box office this...

courtesy Brownstone Productions

Indie film Bottoms satirizes high school drama genre

Sophia Levitas-Goren September 24, 2023

In a summer filled with blockbusters, as well as controversy surrounding those blockbusters’ producers, one movie stands out. That movie is Bottoms, an indie comedy produced by the same people who brought...

courtesy 4AD Records

Big Thief releases “Vampire Empire” single

Audrey Jenkins September 24, 2023

Indie folk band Big Thief sent shockwaves through the music world with the release of their highly-anticipated single, “Vampire Empire”, this summer on July 19. First teased in live shows nearly a...

AP Art students celebrate year with event

AP Art students celebrate year with event

Sonia Bendre June 8, 2023

This year, on May 24, AP Art students presented their yearlong investigative portfolios about a topic of their choosing. Over the course of the school year, students worked on 15 pieces of art, plus two...

The novel Everything I Never Told You reflects a crushing society

The novel Everything I Never Told You reflects a crushing society

Jenna Abu-Zahra and Masha Malinkine June 8, 2023

Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, contains merciless depictions of soul crushing society and how a Chinese-American family copes with the suffocating tradition of the 1970s.  Right off the...

Enjoy a short story: The Mechanical Sunflower

Enjoy a short story: The Mechanical Sunflower

Audrey Jenkins June 8, 2023

And by the seventh day, the silver bullet had grown into a beautiful sunflower. It was fantastical in more ways than one. The yellow-petaled plants, heralded for their modified carbon-capturing abilities,...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a review

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a review

Aiko Levick June 8, 2023

Whoopi Goldberg, gross medical malpractice, and even terrorist attacks. What on Earth could these things possibly have in common? The answer is that they are all aspects of Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2018 novel,...