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If you have an Alamo Drafthouse cinema near you, it might be a good time to break out your body glitter. The franchise’s movie house is bringing back The Twilight Saga, and you’re invited to the party for the price of admission.  If this is one of your guilty pleasures, read on to see where you […]

The 2025 College Football Playoff commences on Friday night in Norman, Oklahoma. No. 8 Oklahoma (10-2) hosts No. 9 Alabama (10-3) in the first round of the College Football Playoff at 8 p.m. ET in what’s just the ninth all-time meeting between the two programs. The SEC schools faced off in the regular season in Tuscaloosa, with Oklahoma getting a 23-21 win. On that note, the Sooners have beaten the Crimson Tide in each of the last two years and in five of their last six matchups. Granted, Alabama beat Oklahoma in the semifinal round of the 2018 College Football…

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One of the reminders I offer most often when working with horses, is “teach, don’t expect.” This mantra is equally helpful to human students—not just those learning to ride, but also those learning any number of skills in daily life. Riders, and too many trainers, often expect horses to just figure skills out. A young horse doesn’t even know how to turn a corner in an arena—he walks down the long side next to the fence and stops when the fence turns a corner in front of him. The same is true for grooming, saddling, and mounting a young horse;…

Some horror movies need jump scares and buckets of blood. Others whisper in your ear, letting the dread seep in slowly. And then there’s It Ends, a film that understands that the most terrifying thing of all might just be the realization that you’re stuck. No monsters, no ghosts, just the road. An endless road that feels unsettlingly like real life. This isn’t a film that sets out to scare you. Instead, it uses fear to teach us something about life. It Ends initially appears to be a minimalist survival story. A group of characters, a van, and the open…

Listening to a child is not merely an act of attention. It is a form of emotional scaffolding that shapes how a developing mind organizes pain, meaning, and responsibility. Children do not become dangerous because they experience distress; they become dangerous when distress has nowhere safe to land. Listening provides that landing space, turning emotion into thought rather than action (Castell Britton, 2025). Within the home, listening teaches children how to handle inner experiences. Every interaction communicates whether emotions are manageable, threatening, or irrelevant. Over time, these micro-interactions form internal rules about expression, restraint, and connection. What follows are not…

LIVE Video: Rubio touts foreign policy moves in first year of second Trump term The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday hits the deadline set by Congress to release documents related to the investigations into and death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed last month, orders Attorney General Pam Bondi to…

A sinisterly sweet treat arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day, EC Comics’ new anthology Tortured Hearts #1 will bring romantic horrors to comic shop shelves beginning February 11th from Oni Press, and ahead of its anticipated release, we have an exclusive preview of the skin-crawling story “A Pocket Full of Nails” from writer Ann Nocenti, artist Dan McDaid, and colorist Michelle Madsen to share with Daily Dead readers! Beware of sharp objects and dangerous obsession in our exclusive preview of “A Pocket Full of Nails” below, and we also have a look at the eye-catching (and eye-gouging) cover art…

Recent media portrayals of family estrangement have sometimes trivialized the phenomenon, framing it as a generational fad or a product of social media–driven “boundary culture.” Britt Frank’s post, “The Dangers of Calling Family Estrangement a ‘Trend,’” rightly challenges that caricature. Estrangement is typically not impulsive, and it often follows years of unresolved conflict or emotional pain. Yet in correcting one distortion, the post may introduce another—one that replaces oversimplification with moral certainty, and inquiry with a largely one-sided account of harm. Estrangement Is Contextual, but the Context Is Varied Research does support the claim that estrangement often follows long-term relational…

The best team in the College Football Playoff era is _______?With the inaugural 12-team CFP getting underway this week, our team at FOX Sports set out to find the answer to that loaded question.There was the Joe Burrow-led LSU team that averaged nearly 50 points per game on its way to a perfect 15-0 record. There was the 2014 Ohio State team, the first national champions of the CFP era, led by backup quarterback Cardale Jones. And how about the 2023 Michigan Wolverines, a dominant group on both sides of the ball and the winner of the final game of…