October 31, 2022 by Jade Helal ’23 Taylor Swift released a new album for the first time in two years, Midnights. A collaboration with Jack Antonoff, the 13 songs on the album represent 13 sleepless nights throughout Swift’s life. A deluxe version, Midnights (3 am edition), was released a mere three hours after the original […]
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October 17, 2022 by Aditi Singh ’24 Warning: This review contains spoilers. Book Content Warning: This book contains mature content. For content warnings, visit this link. The romance book It Ends With Us by Collen Hoover has been a TikTok sensation for quite some time now, but I never really looked into it until recently.
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October 3, 2022 by Brittyn Daley (’23) This Friday, the Saratoga Springs High School football team will play their 4th home game, and the student section will be back with an all-new theme: Pink Out! While we are all wondering if the team will continue their win streak, I’m sure some of you are also
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October 3, 2022 by Brittyn Daley (’23) by Brady Reynolds (’23) On Friday, September 23rd, Saratoga Springs high school students packed onto the bleachers for the Toga vs. Guilderland football game, bring plenty of school spirit decked out in all white. Looking at the student section was almost blinding, leaving many to wonder why Student
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September 19, 2022 by Eliza Krackler For Tom King, it’s survival of the fittest. Life was always like that for him, and in his early days of prize-fighting, he wouldn’t have had it any other way. He used to live in a world of triumph and happiness. He always came home with a story to
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“Just a Start of Something” is a poem written by Italia Sephas, a student at Saratoga Springs High School. Just a Start of Something The sun is an artist, The stars are dancers, The moon is a singer, The sun can paint beautiful streaks of pink and purple from sunrise to sunset, The stars
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By Eliza Krackeler Fueled by antipsychotic medications and frustrations at her father and stepmom to last a lifetime, 16-year-old Mary Iris Malone (better known as Mim) runs away from home with nothing but stolen cash, a small backpack, and the clothes on her back. Striding past the main office and out the school doors, her
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“Question Me” is a poem written by Alicia Gell, a student at Saratoga Springs High School.
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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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“Mountain Top” is a college essay written by Jackson Katusha, a senior at Saratoga Springs high school. Mountain Top 2,236 feet of vertical ascent. 10.2 miles. 2 hours 3 minutes and 14 seconds. Heart racing. Legs on fire. I did it. I ran Cat Mountain… twice. There I stand, bent over on the
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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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By Laney Paige It all started in 1868 when Louisa May Alcott wrote the novel known as Little Women. The classic coming-of-age story follows four sisters during the Civil War era in Concord, MA, and has been adapted countless times. Little Women has been adapted for the screen three times, the latest being in
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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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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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