The Ridge Review

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Ridge Review

The Student News Site of Mountain Ridge High School | Glendale, Arizona

The Ridge Review

Entertainment

“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!” and So Do We, and So Should You! Here We Might Make You Laugh, Cry, Both; If Anything These Articles Are Sure to Brighten up Your Day

Five Classic Films For High School Students

Five Classic Films For High School Students

My Top 5 Movie Picks For Any High School Student
Aden Schulze-Miller September 18, 2019

There are an innumerable amount of films that resonate amongst High School alumni, some of them are natural classics while others bank on an all-teen cast and school set pieces to captivate their audience. Nonetheless, as High School has played an inevitable...

A Glimpse Into The Clash Between Evil and Innocence

A Glimpse Into The Clash Between Evil and Innocence

A Detailing on Why You Should Watch Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006)
Aden Schulze-Miller September 6, 2019

Within most of us there lies a sense of wonder, a lust for the fulfillment of the imagination. Often, our thirst for the response of creative stimuli is never satiated; though there is one film that’s deservedly commended for its qualities, those of...

Student-Ran Art Account

Student-Ran Art Account

Anna Goode May 22, 2019

  Ken LaCross has run an art account since 2017, but in June of 2018 his account was noticed by someone he looks up to, Chloe Moriondo, a popular singer and youtuber.   “It felt really good to have someone I look up to appreciate...

Seniors Post-High School Plans - 2019

Seniors’ Post-High School Plans – 2019

Laya Reddy May 10, 2019

                 

Whats It Like Being a Twin?

What’s It Like Being a Twin?

Kenadee Van Horn March 7, 2019

What it’s like being a twin? Do they really have a connection that other siblings cannot understand? Is it awesome knowing there is someone that is linked to you, and in some cases identical looking? I interviewed two sets of twins to get insight on...

I Gave Up Social Media For A Week

I Gave Up Social Media For A Week

Anna Goode March 7, 2019

Let me just start out by saying that this was very difficult for me, for some reason. I never would’ve thought I would be the teen who was addicted to their phone and social media, but I was wrong. While offline I felt like I was missing something really...

Top 5 Fiction Podcasts

Top 5 Fiction Podcasts

Kate Ourada March 4, 2019

A few months ago, I wrote a staff pick featuring 5 Podcasts for People Who Don’t Listen to Podcasts, which featured a few podcasts over a wide variety of genres to help introduce what radio on demand has to offer. This week, I wanted to shine a light...

Lost Dutchman

Best Places In Arizona to Travel for Spring Break

Chloe Merriweather February 27, 2019

Spring Break is the week-long break everyone counts down to. Everyone knows that spring break is the last hoorah before summer because once we all come back to school, it’s time to enter the last stretch of the game and prepare for AZMerit testing,...

The Reasoning Behind Our Nightmares About School

The Reasoning Behind Our Nightmares About School

Jenna Boden February 26, 2019

We’ve all had nightmares about school; the showing up to school in your underwear, taking a test and running out of time, or taking a test and not remembering anything you had studied so hard for. And then there’s the classic can’t get to class...

Happy Death Day 2U Review

Happy Death Day 2U Review

Josh Heinz February 26, 2019

Happy Death Day 2U, the sequel of the box office hit Happy Death Day, is a comedic horror movie starring Jessica Rothe as the main character, Tree Gelbman. The movie mostly takes place on a typical college campus, but the settings shift throughout the...

Leave It In 2018

Leave It In 2018

Hezekiah Haynes January 31, 2019

We woke up to a new year, new life, and we officially have arrived in 2019. With that arrival, we must also dispose of the bad habits that we have and leave it in 2018. This will lead to a wonderful year filled with new things and new people that come...