As any junior in high school with parents that push me towards the label “academic overachiever”, I recently (as recent as you consider mid-October) took the PSAT. It was early on a Saturday morning–...

It’s Ava Kahn, your news editor for the 2023-2024 school year! Happy December! I hope your semester has been going well. As we get closer to the end of first semester, make sure to stay on top of your...

Madison is a great place to be during the colder months of the year offering a lot of activities, from festivals and events to indoor entertainment and winter sports. Madison gets a lot of snow but despite...

Parking problems continue and will worsen with the upcoming snow. As we know by now, seniors are given parking passes right away and juniors are entered in a lottery to get parking passes. People without...

“It's the most wonderful time of the year '' It's December, which means winter break,snow, and holidays with family! Now everyone may have different opinions on which of those things actually make it...

Plum pudding (also called Christmas pudding or figgy pudding) is, supposedly, a festive English dish that people often set on fire. It bears a striking resemblance to the mud pies of my childhood, and...

Decorated filmmaker Sophia Coppola has struck once again, this time with ‘Priscilla’ - a biopic examining the complexities within Priscilla and Elvis Presley’s marriage. The film is largely based...

The current school system that we have was made for farmers and, more specifically, giving their children time to help on the farms. In some cases this makes our current system archaic as a less than significant...

On November 9th, 2023, the longest actor’s strike in recorded history finally came to an end. The strike began on July 14, in solidarity with the striking Writer’s Guild of America. The combined length...

As the Opinions Editor for S&S, I know that as rewarding and satisfying as creative writing can be, it can just as often be a grueling, exhausting process. Whether you’re writing for a class, a club,...

The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 is set to be released on December 1, 2023, the 20th anniversary of the release of The Diary of Alicia Keys, Keys’ second studio album which came out on December 2, 2003. This...

*Cue the intro to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”. * For some, the beautiful tingles of this Christmas classic bring immense joy and anticipation. For others, the effect is quite...