On February 17, 2023 the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) honored Todd Field and Martin McDonagh, awarding them with the Outstanding Director of the…
Valeria Polanco
Valeria Polanco is a senior at Santa Barbara High School and the News Editor for The Forge. She hopes to further her education within the community and wants to use the skills she learned through the Forge throughout her educational and professional life in the future. Outside of the class she likes to read and hangout with her friends and family.
Red Carpet Coverage The first celebrity interview Red Carpet of the 38th Santa Barbara Film Festival (SBIFF) was full of invigorating and empowering appearances. Honoree…
With the start of this new school year came a few new rules and restrictions on campus. Some of these new rules include new bathroom…
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is a powerful and emotional novel focused around the cycle of abuse. It’s written from the perspective of…
Bree-osh is a local French bakery and cafe here in Santa Bárbara that is very talked about, owned by Nelly and Pierre Henry. The bakery…
With so much going on around the world constantly, it’s really easy to lose track of important news we should be keeping up with. The…
After a difficult year of online learning, there were many challenges and changes that students had to adjust to. One of which was an apparent…
With this year coming to an end, we have a few teachers and staff retiring. One of them is Ms. Wagner who has been teaching…
We all want a diverse community, where everyone’s culture is appreciated and represented, but it’s up to all of us to create that. The SB…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news and media, you would know that anti Asian attacks have increased tremendously this year. Asians have been…
With the coronavirus breaking out a little more than a year ago, there are a lot of mixed opinions on the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. According…
Everyone has their idea of what fashion is and what it looks like, but we can all agree that recycled fashion has and will continue…