Name Nerd Duana Names: The Week You’ve Been Waiting For! It’s finally here – the week of the Oscars is upon us, and the excitement is matched by the number of things to do that demand attention (even if none of those is, you know, wondering what actually might win what). So, welcome to Update Week! Lots of you ask By Duana • Feb 03, 2020 03:42 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Timely Arrival, Name Delayed We are having a really hard time naming our now 5-day-old daughter! Pressure from relatives and friends is on! When we had our elder daughter, we spent a lot of time compiling respective lists of names we liked, virtually none of which were to be found on both lists. We By Duana • Jan 31, 2020 03:55 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Shopping for… Quirky-Lite? Hi Duana, I’m desperate for your help. Having our fourth boy in a couple of weeks (that was our last chance of having a daughter ;)) and am stumped for a name! I’ve set my mind on a unique, original name to make him extra special as the fourth By Duana • Jan 27, 2020 03:46 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Names You Would Hear On ‘Call The Midwife’ Hi Duana, I have followed your column since the very beginning. We are less than three weeks away from meeting our baby boy and we have made zero progress in naming him. Our daughter, Mathilda, took a few days to name after she arrived, but at least we had a By Duana • Jan 24, 2020 03:50 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: On Brand With Brad – and with Beyoncé? The SAG Awards didn’t even used to be a thing. Do you remember this? They were industry-only and non-televised, like the Independent Spirit Awards, until super-recently. But now they’re such a factor they might be accurate predictors of the Oscars in a few weeks’ time… …and they have By Duana • Jan 22, 2020 03:40 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Newly In Name Need Dearest Duana, I’m writing to you in a panic as we thought we had a name for our second daughter and now we’re not so sure. Okay, totally not sure. Our first born is Margaret “Maggie” Claire (now 21 months). Margaret is in honor of my husband’s By Duana • Jan 20, 2020 04:44 pm
Name Nerd For the Nth time… Hi Duana, I have two daughters, Neve and Neko, expecting my third daughter in a few weeks. Having two girls whose names begin with 'N' was not intentional, and it seems I am landing on 'N' names again. I will feel like a Duggar or cheeseball By Duana • Jan 17, 2020 04:06 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work – Oscars Fool Us Again Edition We always planned to talk about the 2020 Oscar nominations on this week’s episode, since an Oscar nod obviously has a huge impact on the careers of anyone nominated. Instead, we wound up talking about how obvious the Academy’s blind spot is: since once again white men vastly By Duana • Jan 15, 2020 05:13 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Pragmatic, Practical – and Perfect? Hi- hoping a note from a dad might be a fun change of pace for you. My wife and I are expecting a girl in 2 wks and are at loggerheads on not just a name, but a process to even get to a shortlist to find something mutually acceptable By Duana • Jan 13, 2020 04:55 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: How Do You Rate Alliteration? Hi Duana, We are expecting a girl in January and need some name help! For the last several years (as we have been thinking about and trying to get pregnant) I was sure I was set on Eleanor, but now I'm less excited about it, especially because of By Duana • Jan 10, 2020 04:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Name her like Greta Gerwig Did! Hi Duana, Hoping to follow-up on my e-mail from August as my husband and I are still having trouble and baby's arrival is a few short weeks away! We're essentially in the same spot - we know we'd like Jack Frances for our son By Duana • Jan 08, 2020 03:52 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: LIVE from the Golden Globes! We are back, and thrilled to bring you this special episode of the podcast LIVE (ish) from L.A., where Lainey was on the Golden Globes red carpet in the dress heard around the web! The red carpet is a strange beast, and fresh from what Lainey calls one of By Duana • Jan 08, 2020 03:18 pm
Gorgessity Charlize Theron: Golden Globes Best Dressed (Duana) All right… let’s do this. I even cracked my knuckles in anticipation. Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘best dressed’ as… Yeah, yeah, okay. Tired joke. But, knowing that I was gonna choose this look, and also knowing how many people already hate it, I wanted to actually try to do By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 03:27 pm
Bad Style Renee Zellweger: Globes Worst Dressed (Duana) Okay, let’s get this out of the way first. Nobody wants to be mean to Renee Zellweger. It’s unthinkable, like kicking a bunny rabbit. Moreover, I’m not using ‘worst dressed’ just to be a dick, it’s – you know what? Let’s call it ‘least favourite’ and By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 01:56 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Best Of The Globes: Michelle Williams’ Acceptance Speech Michelle Williams ruined my plans. I listened to a great podcast with Busy Philipps the other day, and knowing she’s always Michelle Williams’ date to awards shows, I really wanted to write about some of the ways Busy described her on the podcast (which were also in her book, By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 01:07 pm
Style I Finally See Gwyneth Paltrow I’m married to a wonderful person, but naturally, he has flaws. One of them is that he doesn’t like Succession. I know. We watched the whole first season, he said he was out, but I wheedled, ‘maybe you’ll like it this season, everyone says it’s so By Duana • Jan 06, 2020 11:17 am
