Students globally spot the presence of AI every day, but it’s become so commonplace that we’ve stopped caring about it. Maybe a friend needs more help than usual on their homework, or maybe a...

Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, Trump organized a rally at the Ellipse of the Capitol complex. He called it the Save America March, and he used it to urge his supporters to...

Just three days into a new year, on January 3, 2026, Donald Trump launched Operation Absolute Resolve. He bombed Venezuela, captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, as well as his wife Cilia, from the compound...

I’ve always loved diner food, and consider myself lucky to have such a great diner in our community. I’m talking about Johnny’s Roadside Diner in Hadley, at 458 Russell St.  Johnny’s has a wide...

On Thursday, January 8, at 7:30 p.m. the ARHS music program hosted its third annual Cabaret show at The Drake, a live music venue in the center of Amherst. The price of admission was...

The year 2025 put me through hell and back, but music has been my escape throughout the years.  Music has always helped me with emotions, feelings, and explanations I didn’t know how to give...

Sometimes the greatest albums are old ones produced well before we were even born, albums we listen to and fall in love with right away. “Live,” by the soul singer and songwriter Donny Hathaway,...

Are you looking for drama, wealth, beauty, mystery, and a comedy wrapped up into one beautiful and short series? If so, I have the perfect show just for you. Sirens, a Netflix original show,...

The Oscar buzzing film “Hamnet” is a captivating story based on a 2020 historical fiction novel by Maggie O’Farrell (of the same name)  about William Shakespeare’s inspiration for his iconic play, Hamlet. Shakespeare’s 11-year-old...

The Knives Out movie series is known for mind-bending, perspective-shifting murder mysteries. Benoit Blanc, the special detective played by Daniel Craig, is the only consistent figure throughout the movies, and he always solves the...

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is one of the three movies produced by James Cameron (who also wrote the screenplay) and Jon Landau. The movie takes place in the year 2170 on a moon (Pandora,...

I like origami, but not in the way someone likes something for a short period of time, then moves on. Instead, it has consistently kept my attention for a long time. The reason I...

However obvious this might sound, my definition of a scary movie is “a movie that scares me.” The only real “horror” movie I’ve actually seen was Fear Street in eighth grade, and I couldn’t...

Every fall, high school seniors across the country begin the process of applying to college. The big question looms: will their 650-word statement be enough to get them into the college they desire?  The...

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering. The idea...

Field mice and rats might be uninteresting or repellent to you, but the film “The Secret of NIMH” will change your whole view on the small things. It features beautiful imagery, amazing storytelling that...

Most people love french fries. But there are so many varieties, shapes, sizes, and seasonings for these tasty potato treats. So I decided to test them all over the Valley and see whose fries...

On December 14, 2012, 20 first graders and six staff members’ lives were lost in the Sandy Hook, CT school shooting, permeating fear into schools across America and making it one of the most...

Bagels have always been my go-to breakfast food. I’m always down to try new places, but recently I was thinking about different bagel places and realized I don’t have a favorite bagel spot. I...

Frank Ocean, whose real name is Christopher Edwin Breaux, began recording and creating music in 2005 while still a high school student. After releasing two albums, Frank Ocean “vanished from the world,” according to...

On March 1, 2024, Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Dr. Slump, and many other series passed away due to an acute subdural hematoma, leaving behind a roughly 40-year legacy of inspirational...

I was scrolling through YouTube to get my music started to clean my room when I realized Rod Wave had dropped his new album. The moment I heard the first few lyrics it spoke...

Since his passing in September of 2018 at the age of 26, rapper Mac Miller has released two studio albums recorded prior to his death. The most recent dropped on what would have been...

The film “I’m Still Here” directed by Walter Salles, is based on the book of the same name written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family during a really difficult time in Brazil’s history....

Juror 2 is about a man named Justin Kemp (played by actor Nicholas Hoult) who is chosen for a jury on a murder trial, only to realize he may be responsible for the murder...

Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers, is a Gothic retelling of the classic vampire story and draws inspiration from many spheres of literature, film, and folklore. Eggers is well known for his eerie period pieces...

In the United States women pay 10-15% more for products than men do. Items like shampoo, deodorant, and razors are priced higher for women even though they are of equivalent use to that of...

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden...

Do you ever think about why the MCAS, a statewide standardized test in Massachusetts, is so high-stakes? For the past six years, I’ve wondered that. When I was in the middle of my eighth-grade...