Arts & Entertainment

Hamilton’s Rise to Pandemic Fame

By Aja Jane Lipkin   Hamilton is one of the most loved and unique musicals of all time. Written by Lin Manuel Miranda, it tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, an American founding father. According to businessinsider.com, “Playwright [Lin Manuel] Miranda saw it right away after reading Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. The biography inspired Miranda

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SSHS Film Forum Presents “The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun”

The Saratoga Springs high school film forum is holding a virtual screening of the 1999 Senegalese film La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun) with a foreword from Hédi Jaouad, a Professor of French at Skidmore College. The screening is available on-demand via a Google Drive folder and free to all SSHS

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Gaga for Gaga: A Definitive Ranking of Lady Gaga’s Discography

By Grace Beauregard and Isabelle Kelly    Lady Gaga has one of the most recognizable voices in the music industry. She has released five solo studio albums over her decade-long career; each album has its own distinct sound and Gaga has proved time after time that experimental pop can receive a positive response from today’s music

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Six Free Movies to Kick Off 2021

By Julian Silva-Forbes   Movies did not escape 2020’s weirdness. Coronavirus pushed franchise films like James Bond: No Time to Die, Black Widow, and Top Gun: Maverick into 2021, and we watched the year’s best movies from our phones and laptops.   Yet, in the middle of this weirdness, fantastic films were released on various platforms and services. With the arrival of the new

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SSHS Drama Club Presents “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”

By Grace Billok On a Wednesday night in mid-March, the Saratoga Springs High School Drama Club performed their final dress rehearsal for 2019’s spring musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. How to Succeed follows J. Pierrepont Finch (played by junior Liam Epstein) in his quest to—naturally—succeed in business. Finch begins as a

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2019 Pepsi Halftime: Not a “Sweet Victory” for Maroon 5

By Grace Billok Last night the New England Patriots pummeled the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in a historically low scoring Super Bowl. However, the halftime show may have been sadder than the main game itself. Headlined by Maroon 5 featuring Travis Scott and OutKast’s Big Boi, the Pepsi Halftime Show failed to save itself from

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“The Lost Boy,” The Tale of a Boy Finally Found

By Grace Billok and Tyler Charnik My personal favorite straight play Saratoga Springs High School has put on, The Lost Boy made me walk out of the theater with my mind simultaneously racing and empty. The emotional story of J.M. Barrie’s childhood constantly shadowing him brought me to tears prior to intermission, with senior Alyce

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Saratoga art show to feature SSHS students

By: Ryan Zimmermann   The annual All Stars art exhibition will feature student artists from Saratoga, Fulton and Montgomery counties from January 13th to February 10th, 2018, at the Saratoga Arts Center. The exhibition will feature pieces, selected by teachers, of all media forms ranging in sculpture to drawings. The show features exceptional student art

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