December 16, 2024 by Elias Prodger (‘26) Looking back, 2024 was truly an incredible year for music. With timeless rap beef, exciting indie releases and a banner year for pop music, the music industry made releases this year that have proven to be some of the most exciting we have seen in a long time. […]
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December 16, 2024 by Alex Wersten (‘25) As an artist, I approached the 2024 movie adaptation of Wicked with a mixture of anticipation and excitement. The musical, first performed on Broadway in fall of 2003, starring Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda and Idina Menzel as Elphaba, has long been a masterpiece of storytelling, a symphony of
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November 18, 2024 by Ava Tatum (‘25) Little Women is a timeless story and novel written by Louisa May Alcott and originally published in 1868, created into a movie in 1949 to be remade up until 2019, adapted into a play by Kate Hamill in 2018 and was wonderfully performed on the Lowenberg Auditorium stage
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November 11, 2024 by Elias Prodger (’26), Kazuki Borchardt (’26), and Max Greenblatt (‘26) Downtown Saratoga’s very own Boca Bistro was one of many restaurants that participated in the region’s annual Restaurant Week. Every year, many of Saratoga’s biggest restaurants produce a menu at a fixed price in order to generate more customers’ dining to
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November 11, 2024 by Elias Prodger (‘26) Tyler, the Creator has never been afraid to reinvent himself. From his early days as an Odd Future edgelord, to his expansive and conceptual album Igor, Tyler appears to be fearless. He portrays such confidence to each one of his records and I feel as though every move
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November 11, 2024 by Olivia Clemmensen (‘26) Released on October 4th, 2024, the film White Bird touched the hearts of its viewers. Not particularly well known, the movie is based on the wonderful American Author, R.J. Palacio’s historical fiction graphic novel “White Bird”. The graphic novel was first published on September 3rd, 2019, a thrilling
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October 28, 2024 by Ava Tatum (‘25) “You, Disappearing” by Alexandra Kleeman is a short story about a woman grappling with an apocalypse. This eerie and somber story discusses themes of mortality and the inevitability of death. Unlike the typical apocalypse you might see in “The Walking Dead” or “I Am Legend”, there is nothing
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October 15, 2024 by Ava Tatum (‘25) Have you seen the TikTok trend where people go up to strangers and ask them if they can borrow $100? It sounds silly but this is a real self-help method where people will look to be turned down so that they are desensitized to the anxiety of being
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September 30, 2024 by Emma Gowen (‘25) This past Friday morning, Saratoga Springs’ class of 2025 trudged onto the football field for the kickoff of their senior year: Senior Sunrise. Dressed in sweats, carrying fluffy blankets, and double fisting caffeinated beverages, everyone was anticipating the sight of warm hues painting the sky. With students huddled
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September 30, 2024 by Elias Prodger (‘26) Another year means another round of the MTV Video and Music awards. Since 1984, MTV has been hosting their annual award ceremony. As a response to other mainstream award shows such as the Grammys, the MTV Video and Music awards were originally focused on the art of the
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June 13, 2024 by Anonymous This is an article practicing restorative justice! Recording a school fight can have many negative consequences for the individuals involved in the fight, the person recording the fight, and the school community. Videotaping a school fight can directly impact the individuals involved in the fight. First, knowing that the fight
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June 13, 2024 by Mattie Delaney (‘24) A question I get asked quite frequently is “Are you going to miss school?” and my response is always, “Yes.” They look at me like I’m crazy, and ask why. I tell them, “We’re never going to have something like this ever again in our entire lives. There
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April 30, 2024 by Francisca Schmalz (‘24) Released on April 12th, 2024, Alex Garland’s Civil War has seemingly taken the world by storm. For the first two weeks of its release, it managed to stay number one at the box office, despite three new movies coming out last week. Garland is someone who does it
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April 30, 2024 by Elias Prodger (‘26) 2024 has been a fairly fruitful year in the world of mainstream and underground music. In the mainstream, new records from Ariana Grande and Justin Timberlake represent the return of pop royalty along with a genre shift into country influences from Beyoncé. On the more experimental and underground
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April 30, 2024 by Sam Pecota (‘24) While Americans basked on beaches and traveled far and wide for spring vacation, citizens of two countries experienced a very different April. Gazans and Sudanese alike are caught in the throes of genocide, their stories facing censorship by Western media. Their struggles are poignantly detailed by dedicated journalists
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April 30, 2024 by Elias Prodger (‘26) I have to be honest. I was not super excited to write this review. It’s neither because I am some devoted Taylor Swift hater, nor because I am filled with fear of angry mobs of Swiftes trying to track down my home address. My problem with the majority
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