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The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

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

Aud 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,...

42nd Street concludes, Jerry Awards for Little Shop of Horrors

42nd Street concludes, Jerry Awards for Little Shop of Horrors

Jillian Beaster and Tyndall Talley June 8, 2023

This spring, Shorewood Drama performed 42nd Street, Mark Bramble and Michael Stewart’s flashy Broadway musical. With the show winning Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography, the theater department...

Lana Del Ray’s new release: let’s talk about it

Ben Weisse, Claudia Talarczyk April 25, 2023

Just this March, Lana Del Rey graced us with her new album Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. Her ninth studio album is just two years out from her last, Blue Banisters. The album is...

courtesy Merge

Restaurant review: Korean fusion is revolutionary at Merge

Max Schmaling and Emmett Joslyn February 19, 2023

Max's take Located on the east side of Milwaukee, Merge offers a variety of Korean fusion dishes.  In late 2018, Merge opened as Milwaukee's first Korean fried chicken bar, offering a variety of...

Record label highlights underground music

Record label highlights underground music

Ethan McKaig June 1, 2022

In praise of the Numero Group: the world's greatest reissue label A lot of my life has been spent listening to music. And for me, my music-listening career can be split in two by one event: there is before...

Home Alone: A retrospective of a classic

Home Alone: A retrospective of a classic

Josh Fendyke and Silas Kemp December 22, 2021

Home Alone is widely regarded as a holiday classic and is a classic movie to watch around the holidays. The movie leaves the viewer feeling nostalgic, with the simple childhood premise of being left...

Audience members find their seats in the historic Warner Grand Theater. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performs in the newly reopened hall.

MSO returns to in-person performances

Noe Goldhaber November 17, 2021

For the first time in nearly a year and a half, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) welcomed the public to an in-person symphony performance, A Grand Opening. Performances took place from October 1...

The album cover for Blue Banisters, Lana Del Reys new album. (courtesy Universal Music)

Lana Del Rey releases second album of 2021

Tyndall Talley and Sam Diliberti November 17, 2021

Lana Del Rey released her eighth studio album and second album of the year, Blue Banisters, in October. Born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, Lana is an American singer-songwriter known for her cinematic sound...

AFS Showcase returns after last year’s virtual performance

Noa Biener November 17, 2021

The high school talent show, AFS Showcase, took place in-person on November 12 and 13 for the first time since the pandemic. The show consists of student acts, and all proceeds go to American Field Services,...