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Liars to the end.

The Pretty Little Liars

Savannah Warren May 28, 2025

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.   Pretty Little Liars (ABC) follows four girls who go through many struggles to find their missing friend. In the first episode, the girls are having...

Flow the Movie - Dream Well Studio, Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions

Best of The Animation of The Year: Flow’s Innovation is Stunning

Adelaide Hamm May 28, 2025

Produced by only 20 animators, Flow is a breathtaking, Oscar-winning film made in Latvia about a cat struggling to make it in a world made against it. The story begins with a cat living a life of fear,...

Sunrise on the Reaping book review

New Hunger Games Book Review

Ishmal Choudhary May 28, 2025

Suzanne Collins has consistently been praised for her social commentary with the original Hunger Games trilogy, specifically on how our culture settles for entertainment rather than fighting for injustice...

Album cover for I Am Music.

Playboi Carti: I Am Music – But Is He Really?

Sydney Harwick May 28, 2025

After a hiatus of over four years, Playboi Carti has finally released a highly anticipated new album, Music (I Am Music). But will this album fulfill what fans have hoped for, or be a chaotic disaster...

Series Cover - Squid Game 1 and 2

Which Squid Game Season (1 or 2) Do Skyline Students Prefer?

Dana Abduljaber May 28, 2025

What would you risk for a second chance at life? In Squid Game (Netflix), desperate players fight to survive a series of twisted childhood games where losing means death and winning could mean millions....

Germania’s map of Germany; historical German territory is shaded in red. Photo by Ian Saucer-Zeoli.

Simon Winder’s Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History is an Insult to the Germans and Their History

Ian Saucer-Zeoli May 16, 2025

Simon Winder’s Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History (Picador, 2011) believes the most important part of German history is Adolf Hitler. It is a history book about something its...

Contest flyer spread throughout the building, with information for anybody to enter.

Writing Center Holds AAPI Month Writing Contest

Nati Murrell May 12, 2025

Skyline’s Learning Center has recently announced their new writing competition. Students have been asked to respond to the prompt, “What is a meaningful experience or tradition you have relating to...

Anne-Marie Roberts leads blocking for Will Powers (‘26) and the Workers ensemble.

Skyline Theatre Closes Hadestown: Teen Edition

Leif TenBrink May 5, 2025

With a flower, a song, and a dream, Skyline Theatre has ended their run of Hadestown: Teen Edition this past weekend, May 2-4.  Which makes last week tech week. In these final hours of production,...

The movie cover for A Complete Unknown

Timmothée Chalamet Morphs into Bob Dylan: Channeling Oscar Nomination

Phoebe Spadafore April 11, 2025

Popular movie star Timothée Chalamet embodies Bob Dylan as the lead in A Complete Unknown, and has earned an Oscar nomination for his impeccable performance. The film follows Dylan's musical journey,...

Edited together by Kathryn Plotner.

Nostalgic Mobile Games That Defined a Generation

Arthur Zheng April 9, 2025

Before mobile gaming was dominated by battle royales, gachas, and those weird deceptive games that always show up in ads, there was a golden age of simple, yet addicting games released during the late...

Cover art for the show Dexter: Original Sin.

Dexter: Original Sin — Is It Any Good?

Joshua Starr April 2, 2025

Dexter: Original Sin (Showtime) is a spinoff from one of the most popular TV shows to date: Dexter. Many fans have been unhappy with the previous spinoff, Dexter: New Blood, and the original series was...

Balatro's cover art on Steam.

Balatro: Hypnotic Weekend Eater

Reese Bergey March 31, 2025

Every so often, you come across a game that completely takes hold of your attention and destroys your idle time. For me, that game has been Balatro, a wonderful single player, deck-building roguelike game...

15 Minutes (Epic Records), It's ok I'm ok (RCA Records), Short'N'Sweet (Island Records)

Ranking The Top Three Pop Songs of The Year

Joy Sauers March 28, 2025

In my opinion, the top three songs of this year are It’s Ok, I’m Ok by Tate McRae, Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter, and 15 Minutes by Madison Beer. Tate McRae’s It’s Ok, I’m Ok is...

“Life to Death” by Lumi Mott

Showing Skyline Artists: What Inspires Their Creativity?

Nola Cobos March 26, 2025

What inspires Skyline artists’ creativity and how does it shape their style? In this story, we delve into the minds of some of Skyline's brilliant minds and their creations. Lumi Mott (‘26)...

The game cover of Mouthwashing.

Is Mouthwashing Worth Playing?

Dana Abduljaber March 24, 2025

Trigger warning: suicide, abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs Spit out the lies, rinse off the guilt, and hope the aftertaste doesn’t linger. Mouthwashing drags you into a warped world where words...

Big George Foremen movie poster credit: IMDb.

Big George Foreman: Fun For All Ages

Arturo Gonzalez March 21, 2025

Big George Foreman is an inspirational action movie showing the legendary champion who gained back his title and remembered who he was as a person. From the boxing ring to the grill, the incredible true...

Skyline Students' Top Alternative Music Picks

Skyline Students’ Top Alternative Music Picks

Chamayli Fauble March 21, 2025

Music can connect, inspire, comfort, and is a part of personal identity and self-expression. In the diverse world of alternative music, where genres and styles blur boundaries, listeners find unique voices...

Eight albums of 2024: Brat, Alligator Bites Never Heal, The Tortured Poets Department, Bright Future, We Don't Trust You, Charm, GNX, and Hit Me Hard and Soft. Edited together by Kathryn Plotner.

2024 Music Breaks Records Like Never Before

Evi Edlund March 19, 2025

Brat by Charli XCX Charli XCX’s Brat should be the new standard for club music. With its iconic green album cover, Brat brought the club music genre back to the public eye. It gained popularity...

The title screen of Mindwave.

Dive into Mindwave: Snappy Gameplay With a Story

Kathryn Plotner March 12, 2025

Enter the Mindwave tournament. Dive into your opponent’s mind to play a series of microgames based on their thoughts and memories. See who they are — and be careful to remember who you are. This...

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl poster.

Wallace & Gromit Are Making a Comeback

Eva Becker March 12, 2025

Wallace and Gromit, a dorky man and his dog, are a classic dynamic duo from a series of movies and short films created by Aardman Studios. Their first appearance was in a short series that included many...

Emilia Pérez, movie poster, IMDb, 2025

Does Emilia Pérez Deserve Its Oscar Nominations?

Shiloh Merges March 7, 2025

Emilia Pérez is very similar to Drake's "It's All A Blur Tour”: overhyped, undeserving of positive recognition, and failing to deliver on the things that matter. Despite not even paying to watch this...

University of Michigan

Skyline High School to Host 51st Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow

Nathan Smith March 7, 2025

“Today’s powwows are, at their core, an act of community resistance,” says executive board member of the Native American Student Association at the University of Michigan and one of the head coordinators...

Smile 2 - Movie cover

Smile 2: Is it Worth the Watch?

Addie Fife March 6, 2025

Smile 2, where a simple smile turns into something sinister, deepening the mystery of the sequel, while twisting psychological horror with unsettling twists. Smile 1 follows psychiatrist Rose Cotter...

Big red no sign across Disney Castle.

Disney Going Downhill

Eva Becker March 5, 2025

When people think of Disney, they think of good old-fashioned, vibrant musicals. Despite Disney’s success with their classics, lately they seem to be straying away from the genius creativity they once...

brat (Atlantic Records), GNX (Interscope Records), I Lay Down My Life for You (AWAL), The Secret of Us (Interscope Records), The Tortured Poets Department (Republic Records), Might Delete Later (Dreamville Records)

Skyline’s Favorite Albums of 2024

Zach Huber March 5, 2025

2024 was one of the best years for music in a long time. Albums such as Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, Charli XCX’s Brat, Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don't...

A spaceship floating through space.

Starfield: A Disappointment to All of Space

Shannon Anderson March 4, 2025

Starfield is a game set in space, roaming from planet to planet making decisions of either good or evil. Starfield is a free roam role-play style game that was developed in 2023 by Bethesda Game Studios,...

Combination of albums that dropped in 2024.

Skyline’s Least Favorite Albums of 2024

Bodhi Loftus February 28, 2025

As we make the transition into 2025, students have weighed in on the music that left them unimpressed during 2024. From unfinished tracks to wack beats, two albums in particular — Vultures 2 by Kanye...

Lucius feeling the sand representing the iconic scene from the first movie done by Maximus.

Gladiator II: Does the Sequel Live Up to the Legacy?

Joshua Starr February 27, 2025

When Gladiator came to theaters in 2000, it carved a place in cinematic history with its breathtaking battles, performances, and a story that left audiences chanting, "Are you not entertained?"  The...

Tyler, The Creator expresses himself to deeper levels on his new album, Chromakopia, than seen in his previous albums.

Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia: A Showcase of Introspection

Zach Huber February 26, 2025

Chromakopia (2024) is the newest studio album from Tyler Okonma, better known in the music world as Tyler, the Creator. It’s his eighth album overall and a return of sorts – his first album in three...

Lana Del Rey's Album Cover for "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" Credit: Ninth Studio Album
SZA's Album Cover for "CTRL" Credit: Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records 
The Marías Album Cover for "Superclean, Vol. ll" Credit: Superclean Formats

Unwrap My 2024 Spotify Wrapped: Music That Defined My Year 

Phoebe Spadafore February 24, 2025

On December 4th, Spotify took the spotlight, almost outshining the Christmas season as users immersed themselves in the gift of a year's worth of music.  For those unfamiliar with the infamous Spotify...

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