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The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

The Student News Site of Shorewood High School

Shorewood Ripples

Rules: A short story by Sonia Bendre

Sonia Bendre March 9, 2024

Esmeralda rolled slowly down the road. The sun had not yet risen, so it was still dark. The dark made her nervous, just like it had used to when she was younger and still had hope of growing up and out...

2024 Grammys highlight diverse musical talent

Giselle Knox March 9, 2024

On February 4, the winners of the 2024 Grammys were announced at the 66th annual awards ceremony at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. For the fourth consecutive year, the ceremony was hosted by Trevor...

Drama prepares complex additions for Pippin

Jillian Beaster December 23, 2023

As the SHS drama department prepares Pippin, the winter musical, the technical theater and ensemble group have worked to present a unique show with complex new additions.  The recent Broadway rendition...

Shorewood Arts and Crafts fair brings out creativity

Aud Jenkins December 23, 2023

Every year on the first Sunday of December the Shorewood school district hosts an arts & crafts fair, making this the 43rd year. Many people come to the high school to show and sell artwork or products...

Drama opens with The Government Inspector

Sophie Hanna, Esme Kleban, and Masha Sizova December 2, 2023

Shorewood’s Drama Department’s first play of the season was the 19th century rendition of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. The classic Russian farcical play features a corrupt provincial...

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,...