Disclaimer: Contains Spoilers This summer, millions of pink-clad movie lovers rushed into cinemas for a glimpse of the long awaited Barbie movie. Billboards, social media…
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What’s the Point of … Back-to-School Shopping?
It’s that time of the year again—the (unenthused) start of a ten-month journey as we eagerly await for the next summer. Many things will stay…
Sandwich Wars: Rectangular Perfection or Triangular Superiority?
You’re out with your friends on a sunny day and you find the perfect spot for a picnic. A good friend of yours has packed…
Class of 2027, Please Don’t Make the Same Mistakes I Did
Freshman year—a year of excitement, new beginnings, and learning; a year of tests, Regents exams, and stress. Since elementary school, I couldn’t wait to attend…
Islands are Sinking, Yet We Are Focused On Ourselves
In the second week of June in 2023, a week before Regents exams, large amounts of smoke and pollution particles fell over the entire state…
On the Superiority of Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hopefully everyone has had a chocolate chip cookie before, and if you haven’t, it’s a cookie with chocolate chips in it. Big shocker. The superiority…
How Students Sell Themselves to Colleges Through “Trauma Essays”
Throughout high school, American students are taught to write essays reflecting and analyzing the content they are learning. Essay-writing often intends to develop a thesis…
Ithaca’s Bookstores: A Comprehensive Guide
When it comes to book-buying, it sometimes feels like you don’t choose the book; rather, the book chooses you. In Ithaca, with a large selection…
Foreign School Systems That IHS Should Implement
From the oldest school in China (established in 194 AD) to one that requires a zipline in a secluded part of Colombia, schools come in…
A Full Day of Downtown Grub
It’s no secret that the Ithaca Commons has some of the best places to eat in town. After living just a few blocks from the…
How to Survive Your First Year of High School
Making the switch from middle school to high school can seem like a daunting task for many students—myself included. I can recall with clarity the…
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Barbenheimer The Pop Culture Phenomenon
On July 21, thousands of people swarmed the theaters to bear witness to the most cinematic moment of the year, when Greta Gerwig’s witty comedy…
STEM Feature of the Month: New Technology to Combat Climate Change
Wildfires are spreading at rapid rates around the world. Many states, including New York, experienced poor air quality in June, when smoke from the raging…
From the Archives: Excerpts from The Tattler Issues of Yesteryear
Though the four cabinets holding bundles of old Tattler issues (and other random objects) have never quite kept a distinct location, their history remains the…
Hall Monitor: Graduates Edition
“What is something you did in the past four years of high school that could have gotten you in trouble but didn’t?”
Restaurant Review: The Coal Yard Cafe
In the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the no-man’s land between Belle Sherman and Cornell, lies what is probably the cutest brunch spot in the…
Craic and Countryside: A Trip to Ireland
I had the incredible opportunity to travel to the Republic of Ireland this summer, where I was dumbstruck by the natural beauty and community of…
Non-Western Artist Feature: Sho Madjozi
There’s always something special about finding ways to create groundbreaking art while honoring timeless traditions in the process. The South African rapper Sho Madjozi does…
A Tribute to the Life of Rich Mullins
If you Google “significance of the number 26,” the first result states that “The numerology number 26 is all about unconditional love, being patient while…
Remembering John Gavin Mahoney and The Lost Cat
If you’ve walked through the streets of Ithaca, you’ve undoubtedly seen the “Lost Cat” graffiti around town. The Lost Cat street art is a quintessentially…
The USWNT’s Early Exit from the Women’s World Cup
On July 20, the FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup took off, kickstarting a long-awaited tournament for many soccer fans. Particularly fans of the US Women’s…
A Trip Of A Lifetime: The Women’s World Cup
You might have expected my first game to be my favorite. It was a beautiful night in Auckland, where I got to watch the US…
Are Youth Sports Too Competitive?
This new generation of young athletes is facing a difficult choice at four years old. Continue playing soccer and basketball, with such popular sports being…
Sand People
It was only the third day of the beach getaway, and Lily wanted to do just that: get away. Leave it to her dad to…
Three Small Poems
water rolls underfoot waves of silver, tiny tears slipping through to coat my feet the tears fall towards the light if I knew the skies…