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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,...

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...

New film “Air” addresses real life issues

Noa Biener April 27, 2023

Shoes. We don’t think about them too much, probably only the little price tag located on the side of the box. But then again, I can’t speak for everyone. Though one thing is for sure; we never pick...

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...

SHS members share their vivid dreams

Aud Jenkins March 20, 2023

We may think we know the people around us – our friends, peers, teachers, colleagues – well, but could looking at their dreams tell a different story? And are our adventures under the moon symbolic,...

Dijon’s storytelling shines in “Absolutely”

Sam Diliberti February 21, 2023

Dijon’s sound has always been difficult to pin down, as he regularly switches up his style and collaborates with an unusually wide range of artists. But, in his exciting 2021 project Absolutely, Dijon...

courtesy Polydor Records

Lana Del Rey drops a surprise

Ben Weisse and Claudia Talarczyk February 20, 2023

Tune in to Lana’s “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean blvd” Now that you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard, let's jump right in. Early last December, Grammy-nominated singer...

courtesy TVLine

Book Nook: Looking for Alaska

Sophia Levitas-Goren December 1, 2022

Given that the season of Thanksgiving is upon us, I decided to choose a book that is all about gratitude and that I am personally extremely grateful for. The book in question is Looking for Alaska by John...

courtesy Polygon

Pearl: a drama-turnt-slasher

Claudia Talarczyk, Ben Weisse December 1, 2022

In Pearl, Ti West’s second movie in his X trilogy, we see the life of a girl in her late-teens separated from most of society play out with disastrous effects. Set in rural Texas in 1918, our main character...

Edmund Fitzerald on the St. Marys river, August 1975

Bestselling author visits Shorewood Library

Sebastian Pollock December 1, 2022

Rochelle Pennington leads discussions about SS Edmund Fitzgerald Many people are familiar with the Titanic, the doomed ocean liner whose fate was soon adapted into a major feature film starring a young...