After “Witching Hour” read-a-thon event sells out in just three minutes, students take on reading challenges to get off the waitlist
By Kayleen Capitulo, Townsend Harris High School
• October 28, 2025
Steel-ing the spotlight
By Elena Brown, Walnut Hills High School
• October 28, 2025
Strung for Greatness
By Lucas Ruan, Clayton High School
• October 28, 2025
The hidden stage: A theater run on passion, not paychecks
By Annabel Orcutt, Wayland High School
• October 27, 2025
A seat in the symphony
By Nyla Kërr, McIntosh High School
• October 22, 2025
Insta-Instruments
By Yonnie Yang, Jayant Kalra, and Sarah Jung
• October 22, 2025
Yo, Brea, Brea, It’s ‘Yo Gabba Gabba!’
By Charlotte Nethers, Brea Olinda High School
• October 21, 2025
The Beat of Change: Why protest music must rise again
By Charles Penn, Walt Whitman High School
• October 21, 2025
Students Teach Children to Crochet
By Kate Lorenz, Marquette High School
• October 21, 2025
The Penguin Project’s savannah sprinkles Disney magic
By Melissa Krainer, Altoona Area High School
• October 21, 2025
“The Toxic Avenger” Remake Captures Cult Classic’s Charisma
By Leo Maucieri, Alexandria City High School
• October 20, 2025
South Asian fashion: a glimpse into the West’s selective appropriation
By Zara Madhok, Walt Whitman High School
• October 20, 2025
Seattle Prep’s Very Own Twisted Tale: Amanda Knox
By Kate Smith and Kate Cannon
• October 20, 2025
From crayons to comics: The artistic journey of “Joey and Friends” creator Branch Sword
By Gionna Russo, Tennessee High School
• October 16, 2025
Vedanshi Prasad overcomes obstacles and ignites inspiration
By Prisha Pulastya, Lynbrook High School – CA
• October 15, 2025
TikTok trendsetter takes over the Bowie teaching world
By Morgan Hertel, James Bowie High School
• October 15, 2025
Bryce Mikolajczak’s Cell Quest gamifies the world of cells
By Nicolas Cheng, Lynbrook High School – CA
• October 14, 2025
Westernization drains the K from K-pop
By Emma Li, The Harker School
• October 14, 2025
Finding the groove
By Emma Mainarich, Baldwin High School – PA
• October 10, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another”
By Rocco Awad, Lakewood High School
• October 8, 2025
‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Review: Taylor Swift Cosplays as Daisy Buchanan on Latest Album
By Sofia Rodriguez, Brea Olinda High School
• October 7, 2025
American Legion Post 716 hosts unveiling for new mural
By Lily Zimmerman, Los Alamitos High School
• October 7, 2025
‘Silent storytellers’: The job of a fashion, costume designer for award-winning movies, TV shows
By Elisabetta Silveri, Archer School for Girls
• October 7, 2025
Senior turns school project into published children’s book
By Victoria Medina, Willis High School
• October 7, 2025
MTC Announces Cast of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
By Grayson Bowen and Siya Taneja
• October 6, 2025
Harmonies, hurdles and high school
By Charlie Brady, Malia McLellan, Zainab Al-Jaff, Zaina Hasan, and Jude Taher
• October 3, 2025
Senior Satya Dominguez-Hultgren adds whimsy to aerial dancing through clowning
By Lila Coyne, University of Chicago Laboratory High School
• October 3, 2025
‘I’m a storyteller:’ Gotham Chopra documents athletes’ mentality, drive
By Laila Taraporevala, The American School in London
• October 3, 2025
‘Come From Away’ soars into audience’s hearts, lands in DGS community
By Joy Haddleton, Downers Grove South High School
• October 3, 2025
Skylar Snyder Turns Her Personal Inspiration Into a Children’s Book About ADHD
By Cynthia Lan, Yorba Linda High School
• October 3, 2025
Artist vows to be true to himself after painting singled out by the White House
By Rylin Kinzel, Shaler Area High School
• October 1, 2025
Public media memories left defunded
By Evie Fernandez ’27, Lavanya Dixit ’27, and Fiona Seale ’28
• October 1, 2025
His childhood friend faced deportation, so he made a movie about it
By Annabel Orcutt and Ainsley Jay
• October 1, 2025
‘The Long Walk’ is a thrilling trudge that sometimes loses its footing
By Jillian Ju, Monta Vista High School
• September 30, 2025
Inside Eila Kittikamron Mora’s journey to becoming Chicago’s Youth Poet Laureate of 2025-2026
By Izzy Elkin, New Trier High School
• September 30, 2025
Pothukoochi’s quest for truth in a noisy world
By Prisha Hooda, Coppell High School
• September 26, 2025
Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah?: ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Phenomenon
By Charlotte Nethers, Brea Olinda High School
• September 24, 2025
Offset’s ‘Kiari’ takes an off path to introspection
By Ritik Shenoy and Anish Khinvasara
• September 22, 2025
‘Superman’ confronts power, propaganda through action, parallels real world events
By Ayra Ansari, The American School in London
• September 17, 2025
Bay Area youth transform Coyote Point’s public restroom into art
By Keira Sarmiento, Carlmont High School
• September 17, 2025
Live, laugh, love… Labubus?
By Adriana Monsanto and Sofia Azevedo
• September 17, 2025
San Carlos mural celebrates 100 years of history
By Claire Kornberg, Carlmont High School
• September 16, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter continues to play it safe
By Ella Bissonnette, Starr’s Mill High School
• September 16, 2025
Feeling the music: Purav Chavarkar’s journey as a musician with congenital hearing loss
By Salem Dinh, Huron High School – Ann Arbor, MI
• September 16, 2025
Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing”
By Rocco Awad, Lakewood High School
• September 16, 2025
American Legion Post 716 to unveil mural, a lasting tribute to veterans
By Leah Oh, Los Alamitos High School
• June 2, 2025
A cultural affair
By Sophia D’Sa and Kate Yang
• June 2, 2025
The return of vinyl in the digital age
By Adriana Monsanto, Hagerty High School
• June 2, 2025
Striking a chord
By Arpan Basnet and McKinley Beech
• June 2, 2025
Peacocks in My Backyard: What “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh” Gets Wrong
By Kaveri Udupa, Stanford Online High School
• June 2, 2025
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