It’s no secret that over the past decade bubble tea has taken over as one of the most popular drinks of this generation. Bubble tea cafes continue to pop up in surrounding towns, and...

Looking for some new clothes? Instead of buying brand new, why not try thrifting? If you’ve never heard the term “thrifting,” Goodwill defines it as “going shopping at a [second hand] store, garage sale,...

“Poor Things” (2023) is a movie unlike any I’ve ever seen, directed by the quirky Yorgos Lanthimos, a director who has never shied away from the uncomfortable and bizarre, it is both hard to...

Luis Mandoki’s 2004 film “Innocent Voices” tells the story of one out of millions of individuals living in one of the most cruel moments in El Salvador’s history. This movie illustrates how the ugliness...

Content warning: this review explores multiple real-life deaths by suicide. In 2008, director Darren Arfonky released “The Wrestler,” the story of a wrestler whose life was slowly consumed by a business that he loved. ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s 2023 film “The Boy and the Heron” is a semi-autobiographical film that drew the renowned director out of retirement. Released in November of last year, the film spent approximately seven years in...

“‘I’ve never had a crush on anyone in my entire life,’ I said. It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I...

For years now, in Amherst and surrounding towns, people have been asking: which Amherst pizza tastes the best?  Though this opinion piece represents my, and only my thoughts, I consider myself a pizza expert. ...

Lynne Ramsay’s 2018 film You Were Never Really Here is one of my favorite films, though many people have never heard of it. The movie’s use of artistic and beautiful cinematography is used like...

The movies Barbie (Greta Gerwig) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan), took over the cinemas on their simultaneous release date, July 21, 2023. Rather than being deliberately marketed as a double feature, fans created the idea...

Blockbuster movies usually feature big names and are often meaningless action movies or feel-good dramas that end on a high note. Killers of the Flower Moon largely departs from that model. Even though it...

I wanted to watch the highest-rated movie to see if it lived up to the hype so I went to IMDB and Letterboxd, the two most popular movie-reviewing websites. IMDB’s number one was Shawshank...

Generation Ratify Amherst is a youth-led organization fighting to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It is the chapter of the national organization, Generation Ratify. Generation Ratify Amherst was founded in 2020 by Marisol Pierce...

Generation Ratify Amherst is the local chapter of a national, intersectional, youth-led movement fighting for the enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution and widespread gender equity. Generation Ratify Amherst launched a...

I loved the blockbuster film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The plot focuses on a Chinese-American couple, Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), who are running the family laundromat...

On March 4, the disability community lost Judy Heumann often described as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement.” During the creation of the new Disability Justice Literature course, I examined a wide variety...

UPDATE: Since the publishing of this article, bathrooms have been re-opened. Bathrooms are only locked, if at all, for short periods and to address student vandalism or vaping. Principal Talib Sadiq sent out an...

I rarely feel like a senior. For me, and the rest of the class of 2022, the pandemic stole the latter half of our sophomore year and the vast majority of our junior year....

When I walked into the science classroom where I would serve as a teaching assistant on the first day of my junior year, I stopped in my tracks. Though my high school is predominantly...

Empty parking spaces and closed-down businesses stare back at me as I slowly drive through Amherst, Massachusetts. What used to be a popping and lively town full of students from the five colleges and...

Going into quarantine was quite the surprise for me.  I missed the last week of school before March 13, so I was very out of the loop when it came to even discussing COVID-19....

March 28, 2020 I want to go back to school so badly. I never realized how much it means to me until now. I’m not ready to never walk back into my school again....

My initial reaction to finding out about the coronavirus outbreak was utter shock and disbelief.  I remember the moment I knew this pandemic was a serious issue. It was during math class; Ms. Sulikowski...

Being locked in a house is sad. Not being able to see friends or explore the world. Only seeing spring bloom through the window. My life during the pandemic has been overwhelming, because of social...

Ever since the world was hit with the pandemic known as COVID-19 or the Coronavirus, followed by a worldwide quarantine, I’ve still managed to be pretty busy. Since I’ve been home, I’ve picked music...

For the past six weeks everyone in the entire world has been faced with the same challenge. This hiatus from normal life has certainly been a curveball for me, my family, and everyone I...

Due to the recent coronavirus pandemic, millions of teenagers are stuck at home. Like many of my peers in quarantine, I have spent a large percentage of my time playing video games. There’s not...

By Benji Jang The Joker is not just an iconic comic book villain from the DC universe, and Batman’s biggest rival, he’s also a movie franchise. The white-faced clown with an oversized red smile...