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...

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...

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,...

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, 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...

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...

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we wanted to interview some couples at Ridge to see how well they knew each other. Senior Couple Kayci Kleven and Noah Hasegawa and teachers Mr. and Mrs. Romero all answered questions to test their knowledge...

Through countless TV-series and movies from the US, the rest of the world has garnered a better understanding and appreciation of American culture and how things work here. It was not until I became an exchange student that I realized how little Americans...

Over the first semester, Ridge has had some major achievements…   Kim Rodgers was nominated for the 2019 Gatorade secondary athletic trainer award for District 7.   Jenna Jones received the AZ Republic Academic Athlete of the...

Panic. Stress. Sweatpants. We all know what that means, it’s December. Something about the end of the first semester has always been intriguing, you can pretty much watch the life and happiness drain out of high school students. They stumble on campus...

Think back to when you were younger, and when you began to question Santa’s existence. Maybe it was a sudden realization, maybe your older brothers and sisters or friends told you, or maybe you never believed in him to begin with. Almost everybody...

Have you ever experienced a time where Netflix has taken down a movie or TV show that you have watched, or there isn’t a specific genre that you are looking for? If this is a problem that you may have experienced, then Netflix has a secret way of unlocking...