By David T. Valentin Now we all know despite the ongoing pandemic there will be people having small gatherings (hopefully) for costume parties this weekend. Afterall, Halloween does land on a Saturday during a full moon. Here at RDN we’re not here to judge; we only wish to remind people to be safe, be cautious, wear a mask and wash your hands. Regardless of whether you plan on going out today, whether for a spooktastic Halloween night or trick-or-treating with the kids, we at

Book Review: A Touch of Stone and Snow (A Gathering of Dragons #2) By Milla Vane Reviewed by Cardyn Brooks Fantasy adventure romance ★★★★★ While the title conjures thoughts of hard and cold, Lizzan of Lightgale and Prince Aerax embody ranges of vulnerability and heat in their volatile relationship with each other and the people of Koth. Ten years earlier a simple military skirmish resulted in a slaughter that left Lizzan as the sole survivor, leaving her scarred, shunned, ou

By Lilli McHale While many people think of Halloween as a scary holiday, a century ago the holiday did not have the same connotation. Instead, Halloween in the beginning of the 20th century was more focused on romance and the chance to peruse love. In the newspapers of the time, there were articles featuring approved of games to pay that emphasized the possibility of romance. The games all contained themes of love and its possibilities. At the time, Halloween provided a way f

By David T. Valentin Billy Porter, as radiant with love as ever, has released his four-part documentary series, Equal, a documentary series with the aim to educate viewers on the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. The documentary series released last Thursday, October 22nd on HBO Max. “There’s a lot of stuff in the four-part series I had not heard about before. So it’s always nice to learn something new.” The docuseries will tell the lives of notable LGBTQ+ historical figures through a

By Olivia Haveron It’s Spooky Season and what’s scarier than a global pandemic? This Halloween’s might look a little different this year with the COVID-19 Pandemic taking over our lives: some of us might be trick or treating (safely), while some of us might be dressing up for our own enjoyment and watching scary movies. Either way scary films will never fail us and there are many options this year to spook us more than the virus. Leigh Scheps lists off the large variety of Ha

By Glee Violette Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was even buried, her replacement was hand-picked by the conservative patriarchal religious backers of this administration, and Trump rubber-stamped her through, just as he did when he made her a judge less than three years ago. Today after McConnell rammed through her confirmation, and another victory celebration is held in the Rose Garden, we need to remember RBG, and the rights she won for women, which Handmaiden Barrett will obed

By Olivia Haveron In our romantic relationships, we normally expect our partner to be our first priority over everything else, whether we see this as a problem or not. Of course, even with the closest platonic relationships, their friendships reigns a different type of relationship than the romantic kind. However, what happens when we break this norm? Rhaina Cohen explores this in her article in The Atlantic “What If Friendships, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?” Here

By David T. Valentin There seemed to be drama in the penguin LGBTQ+ scene at Amersfoort’s Dierenpark zoo in the Netherlands. Just recently, two male penguins, determined to be fathers, attempted stealing an entire nest from a lesbian couple of penguins. But those mamas were not having it. The gay couple of penguins made headlines last year when they attempted to steal an egg when no one was looking. Unfortunately, the egg didn’t hatch and the gay couple remained without a chi

It seems no business is safe from the hardships, not even our favorite independent bookstore The Strand.  Just yesterday, the favorite multi-leveled New York bookstore posted on their social media accounts to, “Shop Local. Buy Early. Think Indie. #SaveTheStrand” “Our revenue has dropped nearly 70% compared to last year,” said the post. “And the loans and cash reserves that have kept us afloat these past months are depleted.” What followed in the post was a three-page letter w

​Season of the Wolf by Maria Vale Contemporary paranormal romance ​ ★★★★★ Evie, the ultimate Alpha of the Great North Pack, wears the heavy mantle of leadership as a position of service to the present demands and future needs of her community. There's no space or time to address her personal needs as an individual—until dangerous shifter Constantine sees Evie and recognizes her strength and her silent struggles. Twice during his lifetime the fates of powerful women have alter

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat serves as a perfect snapshot of mid-2000’s American culture, using the framing device of a fictional Kazakh journalist to display if not expose Bush-era xenophobia with copious amounts of gross-out humor and a heaping helping of ironic racism, antisemitism and misogyny. Borat’s success as a character—with his iconic gray suit and mustache—would intuitively make a sequel difficult, as much of the humor of the original film resulted from people not rec

Image taken from Tworivertheater.org “They are a sacred kind, a holy species. And like so many precious like so many others in our precious living world, they are wildly endangered by the carelessness and disregard of those who do not have the eyes to see.” Nurses: the human form of the miracle, saving lives and mending hearts with every patient they meet. However, the Coronavirus Pandemic is more than they ever signed up for, or expected from their job, pushing many to their

RedBox, a national chain of movie rentals, has an annual Halloween customer panel question, “What is your favorite movie to watch during the Halloween season?” Eight hundred forty-five Redbox customers answered with the following results between 9/15/2020 and 9/27/2020. 1. Hocus Pocus 2. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 3. Halloween (1978) 4. The Nightmare Before Christmas 5. Ghostbusters (1984) According to the Redbox movie experts, the top

I waffled over whether or not this was a topic for a RomanceDailyNews.com article. After all, there’s very little to like about this story, but the more I ruminated on it, the more I realized it is very important to romance readers and writers who are largely women and/or LGBTQ+ people, and therefore most likely to be the non-zoom dick displayer in a real life story like this. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, the Zoom Dick incident (which you could easily just G

Netflix just announced that what we can only expect to be a glorious inclusive historical romance of our dreams, helmed by the incomparable Shonda Rhimes (creator of Grey’s Anatomy) will launch in Christmas Day. Sorry A Christmas Story, but I’ve got other plans this year! The eight-part mini-series is an adaptation of Julia Quinn’s bestselling romance novels, set in Regency-era England starring Phoebe Dynevoe as Daphne and the very hot Regé-Jean Page as the Duke of Hastings!