Lifestyle Duana Names: Such A Thing As Too Much Irish? Hi Duana. I'm 5 months pregnant with my second son. Our first is named Declan. (You can imagine how excited I was when it came up in your column as a possible recommendation!) I agree with you on the Irish boys name front. They are cool but, if By Duana • May 30, 2013 02:02 pm
Girlcrushes A Love Letter To My Favourites* *Kerry Washington is my favourite of all the favourites It’s not a “gossip gift” per se, but this potential drama nominees roundtable is the best gift I could have gotten. It’s delicious. I know all these women, I watch all their shows – it feels strangely indulgent to have By Duana • May 30, 2013 10:58 am
Parent Pimps Will and Jaden like patterns (Last night I emailed Duana about the Will & Jaden Smith Vulture interview. I heard from her an hour later: OH MY GOD. Like I'm not even through it and I only woke up because Libby barked and I checked email on phone and could not even get By Duana • May 29, 2013 11:25 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: My Best Friend’s Moniker Hey Duana, I have a question about naming kids after friends. Is this an awkward thing? Like if you idolize a particular friend or role model or something, and name your kid after her or him, do you think it's too big of a gesture, or might make By Duana • May 28, 2013 01:34 pm
Mad Men Focus On The Family Mad Men Season 6 Episode 9 recap No matter how elegant and grown up you consider yourself to be, it is a long-understood truth of adulthood that you will revert to being thirteen as soon as you get back to within striking distance of your family. This could be dismissed By Duana • May 27, 2013 12:33 pm
Try Brunette Ambition So, in delightful news, Lea Michele is writing a book that will be out next spring. That in itself is fun, yes -- it’s going to be “part memoir, part how-to and part style guide” and I am very much looking forward to a how-to of getting the stomp-dance By Duana • May 24, 2013 12:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Putting A Name Into Action Duana, I've always been into baby names, but now that I'm looking at putting a name into action this June, I finally have a good reason to spend all my time on name sites! I always wanted something "normal" but not everyday... I was By Duana • May 23, 2013 02:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: First names for Jane Hello!! I absolutely love reading your name column! It is especially helpful as we are expecting our second in a few months. I am definitely someone who needs time to mull over a name, so your help would be greatly appreciated. Our first is Jackson Glenn (the middle name is By Duana • May 21, 2013 11:48 am
Mad Men Aural Assault Mad Men Season 6 Episode 8 recap That was the weirdest, most uncomfortable part for me. The weird, up-and-down in-and-out audio as the hallucinations began. I never feel like there’s any way to “ignore” a symptom like that and so that’s when it began to go bad for By Duana • May 20, 2013 01:51 pm
Game of Thrones God of Tits and Wine Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 8 recap You know you’ve really gotten into a show when you start to be endlessly frustrated with the characters who just won’t behave the way you need them to. This week had any number of irritants as well as the allegedly By Duana • May 20, 2013 10:54 am
Vampire Diaries Pomp, Circumstance, Humanity, and Truth The Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 23 recap It is a great luxury and a great relief to say that I can’t really breathe. The internet is a minefield today. Between Rob Ford (if you don’t know, please google ) and the Office finale and the VD finale and By Duana • May 17, 2013 01:50 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Liza with a Z I have a somewhat unusual first name and middle name (Ariel Zenobia) and I want something with the same vibe for my daughter. I love the idea of girls names that start with "Z" but the only one I am liking is Zahara. I don't mind By Duana • May 16, 2013 01:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Too short and sweet? Hi! I recently found out that I am pregnant and want your input about these names! All are namesakes for important people in both mine and my boyfriend's life, but I won't take it personal if you hate them (my bf isn't so sure By Duana • May 14, 2013 12:33 pm
Mad Men Field Trip Friday Mad Men Season 6 Episode 7 recap “I told you NOT to answer the phone” “Then stop callin’ me!” You remember it, don’t you? An exchange from Pretty Woman. Another hotel, another powerful man. It felt delicious, didn’t it? Have we been ruined, a whole generation of us? By Duana • May 13, 2013 12:31 pm
Game of Thrones Resisting a Bear Pun Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 7 recap I had fun this episode. I cringed sometimes, and I winced, but it was the fun kind. This is the kind of episode you can’t possibly explain to your friends who don’t watch, because how to sum up that it By Duana • May 13, 2013 09:11 am
Vampire Diaries Welcome Back The Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 22 recap Well, that was only a little bit creepy. I know we had twenty minutes of explanation about the veil and where it dropped and why, but aside from those nods to propriety, it all felt a little easy, didn’t it? Veil By Duana • May 10, 2013 10:18 am
