The West Side Story asked three librarians to recommend a few of their favorite summer reads. Click through the slideshows below to find a book or two to add to your own summer reading list.
If you...
The West Side Story asked nine English teachers to recommend a few of their favorite summer reads. Click through the slideshows below their pictures to find a book or two to add to your own summer reading...
The West Side Story asked five of West's string musicians to share their favorite tunes. They responded with everything from classical favorites to up-and-coming jazz.
Keara Dennis '14, violin
Symphony...
I went through a fairly intense Lily Allen phase in seventh grade. It wore off when she didn’t release anything for over five years, but now she’s finally back.
With “Sheezus,” Allen went for...
"Time flies when you're having fun." Ironically, time also flies when you are desperately lugging several pounds of unrelated notebooks in a feeble attempt to reach a room several continents away from...
For me, Spider-Man has always been ranked near the bottom among superheroes, and the most recent Spider-man movie hasn’t changed my mind. It wasn’t a bad movie, and the actors were decent, but everything...
By Megan Stewart
Sometimes it's hard to find somewhere fun around your local area. In this video, the WSS shows many different things to do around the Iowa City area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foIwWWoVgiU&feature=youtube_gdata
With the sun beginning to consistently shine and the flowers blooming, the WSS feels it is necessary to grant its readers with some tunes to accompany outside's joyous ambiance. Hopefully you will be able...
Compiled by Blake Oetting, Matthew Murry, Megumi Kitamoto, Consuelo Mendoza, and Velarchana Santhana
Photos by Abby Burgess, Lizzie Pruneau, and Gage Van Dyke
Art by Shirley Wang
As the musical, Annie, prepares...
Since I first saw the trailer in November, I had been impatiently awaiting the release of director Wes Anderson’s most recent film, the Grand Budapest Hotel. His harnessing of saturated colors, deadpan...
