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Elliot Serure

Elliot Serure, Cartoon Editor

Elliot Serure, 12th grade, joined the Boiling Point his sophomore year writing articles for the Arts and Culture section. Since then he has started drawing art for the paper and created a cartoon caption contest, and this year was given his own column called “The Culture Corner.” Outside of Boiling Point, Elliot enjoys drawing, playing guitar and piano, and watching movies. 

All content by Elliot Serure
CAST: Cast and crew of ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’ posed in cos-
tume with Drama teacher Ms. Emily Chase and musical director Tom Griep.

Drama’s ‘Charlie Brown’ explored happiness, bullying and other preschool nostalgia

By Elliot Serure, Senior Writer
April 2, 2023

Walking into the Shalhevet theater, I was impressed to see a beautiful cartoonish set painted in vibrant primary colors. As the...

Boiling Point Caption Contest: Winners and new cartoon!

Boiling Point Caption Contest: Winners and new cartoon!

By Elliot Serure, Cartoon Editor
October 6, 2022

Boiling Point Cartoon Caption Contest To enter, write your caption idea below, along with your name and the city where...

Senior columnist Elliot Serure prompted an AI art generator to create this picture by requesting  “Van Gogh’s 'Starry Night' but with the Brooklyn Bridge.”

Wait — AI can paint now?

By Elliot Serure, Senior Columnist
September 4, 2022

  I still don’t know whether I felt terror or awe at that moment. While perusing the internet, I found myself...

NEW CONTEST: Submit your idea for May's drawing, above, in the form box below. You may enter as many times as you like. (BP Cartoon by Elliot Serure)

Boiling Point Caption Contest May 2022: Winner and new cartoon

By Elliot Serure and Eli Weiss
May 2, 2022

Congratulations to Shalhevet's SAS Computer Science teacher Dr. Josh Sharfman, who wins first prize for his caption in the Boiling...

NEW CONTEST: Submit your idea for Adar's drawing, above, in the form box below. You may enter as many times as you like. (BP Cartoon by Elliot Serure)

Boiling Point Caption Contest: Winners and new cartoon!

By Elliot Serure, Benjamin Gamson, and Tomomi Shaw
March 8, 2022

Congratulations to Shalhevet junior Jack Metzger, who wins first prize for his caption in the Boiling Point's first-ever Cartoon...

Boiling Point Caption Contest!

Boiling Point Caption Contest!

By Elliot Serure and Benjamin Gamson
February 10, 2022

Nice cartoon – what’s the caption? That’s up to you, our readers!  Welcome to the Boiling Point’s new caption-writing...

RELEVANT: Contestants in ‘Squid Game’ wear green or pink uniforms, which South Korean demonstrators now wear to protest against low wages and other problems in their country’s economic system.

Squid Game, worldwide hit, raises radical questions about choice, death and squalor

By Elliot Serure, Staff Writer
December 6, 2021

Boom. A bullet knocks a man dead, another falls, then another. They lost the game – a simple childhood game of red light-green...

BOARDS:  Members of the Shalhevet Surf Club, along with Judaic Studies teacher Dr. Shiela Keiter, met several times during the summer and plan to continue in the 2021-22 school year.
They are, from left, Dr. Keiter,  Adam Hertzberg, Akiva Rubin, Lippe Popack and Gabriella Bentolila.

Surf’s up and cowabunga, quarantine saw many more students and faculty catching the waves

By Elliot Serure, Staff Writer
September 1, 2021

During the pandemic, new and established Shalhevet surfers found themselves zooming through frigid California waves at the...

PROTAGONIST: Played by John David Washington, Tenet’s main character travels backwards and forwards through time trying to save the universe in Christopher Nolan's latest film.

Despite faults, ‘Tenet’ is a time-bending thriller that will leave you thinking

By Elliot Serure, 10th Grade
May 21, 2021

Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Tenet was supposed to save the film industry. Prior to Covid, movie theatre...

SUPPLIES: Sophomore Benjamin Gamson attended art class on Zoom Sept. 22 with materials provided by the Art department. When in-person classes were cancelled in March, art supplies were at school and teachers had to find ways to teach without them.

Another first for Covid school: Art kits for everyone who’s taking art

By Elliot Serure, 10th Grade
September 25, 2020

When school started on Aug. 26,  Shalhevet’s art students grabbed brand-new plastic mesh packages they’d picked up from...

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