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

Staff Picks

From Food, to Film and Things We Find to be Fun as A Whole, Here’s All of Our Favorite Picks We Choose to Share With All of You

There is a Review Among Us

There is a Review Among Us

Benjamin Jensen, Journalist October 22, 2020

While the world is quarantined from the COVID-19 outbreak. People will always find new ways to connect and have fun with their friends. A perfect example is a popular online game called “Among Us”.    Among Us is an online game created...

How to Spend Your Spring Break

How to Spend Your Spring Break

Madison Morse March 11, 2020

Spring break is all about having fun with family and friends. You don't have to break your bank to have fun. You might think there's not much going on but going out and making your own fun is what it's all about.    Go to a theme park. This...

Cheer: A Review

Cheer: A Review

Aileen Resendiz March 11, 2020

When you think of a sports documentary, you might think of the story of an up and coming basketball player, a professional boxer’s biography, or something like Free Solo, a story that follows rock climbers in Yosemite National Park. Would a documentary...

Coming to an End

Coming to an End

Kelsey Nahodil March 11, 2020

High school… the thing people look forward to from the moment they go to middle school. They can’t wait for the day to say they are in high school and starting all the different experiences. School sports, fun dances, friends, making memories. At...

Pictured: Ava Padelford and Alexa McClain (freshmen)

Monster Jam Review

Ava Padelford February 26, 2020

The racers are ready in the Cardinals Stadium. Their engines running like a herd of buffalo coming by. The audience puts on their noise canceling headphones and ear plugs, and only the bravest don’t. You can feel the dirt in the air and the rush of...

Make Smiling Your Favorite

Make Smiling Your Favorite

Emma Padelford, Editor in Chief December 9, 2019

Once December hits, I make it my primary goal to start the season off with watching one film in particular. This hilarious 2003 Christmas classic has been a part of almost every aspect of my life, during the Christmas season and off of it. It is responsible...

Poke Maki

Poke Maki

Stop by this new, delicious restaurant!
Emma Padelford December 5, 2019

Three months ago, a local business opened up on 59th Avenue and Bell Road. Serving up sushi, ramen, poke bowls, and other delicious and fresh foods, Poke Maki currently stands at a 4.6 star rating. The business is managed and owned by Willy Tanzil, John...

Do you Remember a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

Do you Remember a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

Aden Schulze-Miller November 21, 2019

Usually we regard the annual Thanksgiving/fall season as a semi-cheerful time that’s begrudgingly spent with obnoxious family members while gorging on nutmeg spiced confections.   It’s the standard case, at least from my experiences; every...

The iPhone 11 Pro

The iPhone 11 Pro

Rohan Agrawal and Julian Landry October 21, 2019

Unless you don’t watch television commercials or ignore all social media, you already know the new iPhone 11 lineup was released.. Every year, electronics like TVs, computers, and mobile devices become more advanced, and most people are excited to get...

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,...

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...