The MCAS, or Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, is the primary method by which the state of Massachusetts can test the aptitude of students in high school, and passing it is currently a graduation requirement...

The Batman (2022) is a superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Directed by Matt Reeves, it is a reboot of the Batman franchise across the various shared universes....

Imagine being crowded into a cramped, impossibly long row house with an entire town’s worth of people, your limbs stretching disproportionally and warping into spirals. This is the mental image that inspired world-renowned horror...

The 2025 class council elections at ARHS brought to light acts of bribery, unfulfillable promises, and a lack of substantial engagement. With candidates facing limited campaign time, the focus shifted toward popularity rather than...

As I scroll through the never-ending pages of my social media I can’t help but notice the extreme changes in emotion in each video I scroll to. Flipping from funny, to fear-inducing to heartbreaking...

The Pilgrim, Their God and The King of My Decrepit Mountain is a piece of modern mythology, taking the listener on a journey over land, sea, and space. Crafted by six-piece London-based band “Tapir!”,...

On March 22, 2024, Adrianne Lenker released her sixth solo album Bright Future. The album delivers the poetic lyricism that Lenker has become known for with beautiful and sparse instrumentation.  Lenker released her first...

Kanye West’s history of instability over the past decade has been at times polarizing and shocking, but a bipolar diagnosis in 2016 explained some of his struggles, most of which had not been a...

Addison Rae is most widely known as one of TikTok’s biggest stars, but her music career flies under pop culture’s radar. Rae released her debut EP, ‘AR’ in August 2023, a pop record that...

Christain Petzhold’s latest and greatest film yet, Afire (2023) opens with the slow, hypnotic song “In My Mind” by Wallners as the main character, Leon (played by Thomas Schubert), who gazes out the window...

Godzilla is the giant dinosaur we all know and love, and he is on the big screen once again with none other than King Kong himself. The new sci-fi action thriller is a must-watch...

Have you ever wondered which local Dunkin’ is the best? Well we’re here to help!  Dunkin’ Donuts was originally founded in 1950 by Bill Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 2019 the name was...

Five seconds. That’s how long headlight glare can disorient a driver. That’s also the time it takes to cross one and a half football fields at 60 miles per hour. The effects of glare...

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...