Taylor Martin


Wake up. Turn off the alarm. Check Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. Check the weather. Get ready. Text your friends. For many, that’s how an ordinary day begins. For some, that’s primarily what their day consists of. Freshmen are staring down art slides to cram for the next humanities exams via PowerPoint. Seniors are desperately searching for […]

Campus

February is over and that means the Winter Olympics have once again come and gone. However, this year happened to be a bit more exciting for Team USA with two openly gay male athletes representing the nation. Skier Gus Kenworthy and figure skater Adam Rippon showcased their friendship and pride for both themselves and their […]

Sports

It’s that time of year again: the cameras flashing, the pearly whites are smiling, dresses are glittering, and fans everywhere are screaming. That’s right, it’s award season. And the Grammys did not disappoint this year. The 60th Annual Grammy Awards premiered Sunday, January 28. Hosted by the great James Corden, the awards show was recorded […]

World

Smiling clowns can sound like a fun time for some people. For others, it’s the worst nightmare imaginable. In the 2017 movie adaptation of Stephen King’s It, smiling clowns is a terrifying reality in the small town of Derry, Maine. When Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), a young boy with a passion for fun, goes missing […]

World

The bass is thumping. The electric guitar rocks. The room is filled with the overall auditory beauty that comes when various instruments come together. But the spotlight falls on one person alone: the keyboardist leading the congregation in song. Christy Dickison, the worship leader at the West Market location of North Ridge Community Church, raises […]

Community

As one of the most popular trilogies in today’s society, the anticipation for the second to last installment of The Hunger Games was sky-high, and Mockingjay, Part One did not disappoint.  Following in the footsteps of other major novel-based movie trilogies, Mockingjay, the last of the series, was split into two separate movies to prolong the highly anticipated […]

World