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Enjoy the summer weather with these new tunes

Summer on Repeat

Audrey Herrera, A&E Reporter
September 2, 2025

Summer 2025 featured a variety of new releases across a wide range  of genres, from rap to 80s-style pop.  . Tyler, the Creator reminded audiences to stop scrolling and start living, Conan Gray turned...

How students spend summer break

How students spend summer break

Analeigh Nava, Assistant A&E Editor
May 28, 2025

It’s getting warmer, your summer playlist is on repeat and the shorts from the bottom of your drawer have made their way to the top. Whether you’re a sophomore, junior or senior, everyone is excited...

Bucket list for seniors

Bucket list for seniors

Annabelle Cheung, Assistant A&E Editor
May 28, 2025

As our beloved seniors finish their time at the school, it is important that they make the most of their last summer together before leaving for college. The summer before college is more than just a break...

Summer Screening: Staff Movie Picks

Summer Screening: Staff Movie Picks

Staff members share their favorite seasonal movies to enjoy this summer.
Kayla Graff, Assistant Features Editor
May 28, 2025

“Barbie” “I feel a deep personal connection to Ken. And Barbie.” - Nathan Wang ’25 “Fast Five” “Although it’s the fifth movie in the ‘Fast and Furious’ series, it’s number one...

Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair

Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair

Chloe Kim, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
March 19, 2025

Director of Kutler Center and Summer School Programs Jim Patterson partnered with Coast-to-Coast Camp Fairs to host the Summer Camp Fair at the Upper School on March 15. Many local summer programs, including...

Printed with permission of Finn Slootweg

The Rise of Brat Summer

Students discuss the trend “Brat Summer,” sparked by Charli XCX’s new album, “Brat,” and its influence in social media aesthetics.
Annabelle Cheung and Analeigh Nava
September 10, 2024

On a summer day in June, Sofia Giovine ’26 scrolled through her phone, the screen lighting up with a video to a sound that had been flooding her For You Page. The caption read “brat summer”, the...

Illustration by Alexa Liu

European Summer: Coldwater Edition

Hannah Shahidi, Assistant News Editor
August 25, 2023

Scrolling through Instagram is my favorite extracurricular. I basically consider it an internship at this point, and before anyone asks, it WILL be the number one activity on my Common Application. But...

Summer Activities

Georgia Goldberg, Opinion Editor, Satire Editor
September 2, 2022

During the school year, the students of Harvard-Westlake — the school known for its widespread Prozac consumption, mediocre football team and parking lot often mistaken for an Audi dealership—ever...

AN EASYGOING EVENING: Jewish Family Alliance (JFA) members mingle as they enjoy the food provided at the summer JFA Shabbat dinner.

JFA hosts summer Shabbat dinner

Natalie Cosgrove
September 6, 2021

Harvard-Westlake Jewish Family Alliance (HWJFA) hosted their first Shabbat potluck dinner Aug. 20. The gathering was a back-to-school celebration allowing student members to sing blessings and discuss...

Evie de Rubertis ’21 builds a model for her studies on the representations of the female form. Credit: Evie de Rubertis, used with permission

Evie de Rubertis studies women in art

Harry Tarses
August 30, 2020

Evie de Rubertis ’21, one of the seven recipients of the Junior Summer Fellowships, used her resources to explore the history and evolution of women in art and examine how these feminist works relate...

Summer quarantunes

Sydney Fener
August 27, 2020

Tongue Tied - Grouplove “I love ‘Tongue Tied.’ It banged when it first came out, has banged since and will bang forever.” — Kyle Reims ’21 Ribs - Lorde “‘Ribs’ is one of those...

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