It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover ★★★★★ In spite of this book’s continued popularity, it took me a while to pick it up. I’m not sure why because I really enjoyed Hoover’s novel All Your...

As seniors begin counting down the days until graduation, commencement plans are moving forward quickly. Dr. Dirda recently announced the commencement speakers. Of the 16 seniors who auditioned on April...

A few weeks ago, my sister and I headed to Lawrenceville to see a small show in a pizza place and music venue called Spirit. I could tell relatively quickly that this wasn’t like any show I had been...

The following three books are similar in a few ways--they are New York Times bestsellers, recommended on YouTube by numerous creators, and are in the library, available for your reading pleasure at this...

The past few weeks have been very exciting in the world of music. Ranging from a song that already found its way onto a plethora of TikTok feeds before release to long-awaited singles and albums to songs...

TigerThon, a longstanding organization at North Allegheny that benefits children with pediatric cancer, is working toward a successful rest of the school year. Originally inspired by Penn State’s dance...

The Guest List by Lucy Foley intertwines a murder mystery, a high-end wedding on an island, and six different perspectives that all come together to fabricate a slow-burn hatred for the victim rather than...

The time in my life during which I was coming to terms with my bisexuality happened to be the same time that I began to question religion. After being raised Christian and baptized in a church that told...

Most of the programs that I have considered my top choices throughout the college application process have acceptance rates below 20%. The environment that surrounds me at North Allegheny, though this...

A great deal of Americans are familiar with only four major league sports: football, baseball, hockey, and basketball. Globally, however, cricket is exceedingly popular, with more than 300 million participants...

You graduated NA in 2003.  What is the best part about being back at NASH? The green chalkboards still span the entire wall. I also enjoy the energy of the building. From class to class, this school...

AP English Language teacher Lance Rhinehart does not only specialize in the art of teaching Moby Dick and rhetorical analysis.  For the past year and a half, he has spent much of his free time building...

Aside from trick-or-treating and dressing up, entertainment is one of the most important aspects of Halloween. Though horror movies run year-round, they are exceedingly popular during the month of October...

Two words provoked the flocking of North Allegheny community members of all ages to the senior high Friday night: Homecoming weekend.  The cheering of students and the arrival of 15 floats marked the...

Homecoming planning is underway, and the NASH Student Council has been working tirelessly to guarantee that students will be able to have the safest and most enjoyable weekend possible on October 8...

How did you feel when you found out about your perfect scores on the SAT and ACT? I was elated. I remember finding out about the SAT score, which came first, at home. I woke up around 7 AM for school...

After someone gets pushed out of a window and Guy, played by Ryan Reynolds, says, “Mondays, am I right?” and continues on his way to a job at a city bank that gets violently robbed multiple times a...

Maybe it was because I was excited to see my favorite Enchanted actress play an obsessive, agoraphobic New Yorker, but after finishing Netflix’s The Woman in the Window with a favorable opinion, I was...

Editors' note: This article was written and published before the North Allegheny School District announced Monday afternoon that it will resume requiring students and staff to wear masks for the remainder...

In March, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that they would be taking steps toward universal free lunches for American youth through summer. Similarly, back in October of...

When the NASH community saw a chance to continue enriching the learning environment at the school and improving the day-to-day experience of all students, they did not hesitate to take it.  “Our...

Recent music releases range from punk to indie to country, so there is something to cater to everyone's taste. You might even be surprised by how much you like a song that's different from what is...

The clearest sign of privilege is the inability to recognize that it is there in the first place. Further, after this privilege is recognized, it is still necessary to continue to acknowledge it and work...

What inspired you to start The Diversity Story? Over the summer, I did a tutoring exchange with Ray, a friend who lived in China, where he taught me computer science, and I helped him improve his English....

Trigger warning: This review contains content regarding depression and suicide. Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, a 2020 New York Times Bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award Winner in the fiction category,...

In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued what they believed to be the best practices for naming new human infectious diseases. They did so in acknowledgement that, after reports on newly-identified...

February is Black History Month. To observe and honor the accomplishments of Black Americans, the Student Council, Social Justice Club, and Multicultural Student Union have come together to host a series...

After Joe Biden became the official Democratic candidate at the party’s national convention last year, I hesitantly stood behind the “settle for Biden” mantra, as I felt it was too late at that point...

High school students are traditionally conditioned to work towards one common goal: pursuing some sort of higher education and moving on to a career that will sustain them until retirement. What many don’t...

I spent more time in quarantine than I would like to admit scrolling through far-right media sources such as PragerU and Breitbart, knowing full well that they are a desecration of journalistic integrity. ...

COVID-19 has shed a harsh light upon our understanding of loss and grief. With over 300,000 Americans dead as a result of the pandemic, as well as a lessened ability to hold funerals, grieving death has...

As we approach the end of 2020, 30-40 million people in America are at risk of losing their homes. Predictably, COVID-19-related wage and job losses are to blame for the housing and eviction crisis.  In...

Throughout the short-lived Thanksgiving break, the North Allegheny community anxiously awaited the district’s decision on whether students and teachers would return to hybrid-learning or stay home. ...

Despite the challenges that have come with the COVID-19 pandemic, new music continues to come out, and there's something for everyone.  Copycat Killer (feat. Rob Moose) - Phoebe Bridgers  In...

On the morning of November 7th, 2020, all major news outlets projected that former-vice president Joe Biden would be the next president of the United States. Despite some controversy over alleged voter-fraud,...

On October 5th, the official Emily Skopov campaign Instagram, @emily4pa, released a post addressing her opponent Republican Rob Mercuri's failure to engage in a substantive dialogue about issues that affect...

Before he was hired as a North Allegheny custodian, Jay Koval worked on the production team at Pittsburgh's Club Cafe, a local music venue and longtime hot spot for emerging jazz and indie bands. "We...

It's a common adage in economics: There's no such thing as a free lunch.  But this fall, the notion is in need of revision. Approximately 30 million students across the United States qualify for free...

Let's start here: The first presidential debate of 2020 was an absolute disaster.  I was not looking to change my views Tuesday night when President Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden walked...

For today's students, the presence of police in schools hardly sounds unusual.  But not too long ago -- and throughout most of the American educational system's history -- police officers were present...