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...

An On the Arts profile of senior saxophone player, Thomas Sparks. http://youtu.be/1lwExQ1nrck

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...

By: Lauren Knudson and Brooke Lofgren [View the story "West High Promprosals " on Storify]

Photos by Megumi Kitamoto As a part of the foreign language program, I went to France for two weeks with 14 other students and two teachers.  It is safe to say that it is one of the best experiences...

    First of all, I have a confession to make.  When I picked up my copy of Larry Baker’s The Education of Nancy Adams last Friday, I defied what is, perhaps, the iron-law of reading--I...

My friends badgered me for weeks to read “Divergent” before we went to see the movie on March 20. I’ve had the book for years, since a friend loaned it to me back in freshman year and I never got...