With Halloween right around the corner, the quest for the best candies has begun. Everyone has a favorite candy, and sometimes people bicker over which candy truly is the best. But let me make it really easy for you to decide, by ranking them.    Honorable...

We all flip through the radio stations, looking for something new after hearing all the same artists and tunes on the dial. You might be bored with your Spotify playlist and are looking for something different.    Good news! Here are some...

As fall sports’ seasons dwindle down with the chill of winter, Mountain Ridge can welcome those that represent winter. Girls and boys basketball, girls and boys soccer, and wrestling prepare for their debut come the end of 2021.   Winter...

For the land of the free, capitalist greed sure has an iron grip on us all. Why else do we continue to allow the amoral practice of planned obsolescence?    Planned obsolescence, or when a product’s expiration is pre-planned, is a dirty...

  Squid Game is filled to the brim with symbolism and layered meanings. There are too many to go over in a single article, but let’s go through the most important details of Netflix’s biggest debut hit to date. WARNING: Spoilers ahead, so...

Years have been spent in our adolescence slugging around pillowcases of sweet treasure come the last day of October. In our naive days, we never could have imagined a day where this fall practice would come to an end; it always simply seemed like a promise...

Treasure hunting is a mystery, sometimes easy, sometimes hard, but some treasure hunts seem more outrageous than others. In 1982, author Bryon Preiss created one of the most ambitious treasure hunts of all time. Currently, This treasure hunt still has...

The last few months of the year are finally beginning to roll around and I'm ready for it! Nearly every part of the rest of 2021 will be holding so much excitement! The question is, however, which part is the best?   First comes Halloween. We love...

The Mountain Ridge Student Government body and class representatives are often overlooked during the hectic fall semester. The members regularly work behind the scenes, getting to school early to decorate hallways for spirit week and staying late after...

For those who are new to gaming, microtransactions is the system of buying a digital item for a video game either being a benefit for being better at the game, or simply to make your in-game characters look better. Cosmetics, pay to win features, and...

Tame Impala, an Australian Psychedelic Indie-Rock band came to Good Ol’ Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, September 18th. As soon as I saw tickets on sale in May, I bought them immediately, and anticipated the wait. It was my first concert so my nerves...

  October’s commencement invites one of the most specialized benefits that comes with the transition to a new season, which is the marketing team frenzy that overtakes the product industry nationally. This ranges from the type of coffee people...