Name Nerd Duana Names: Secrets Of His Success Hi Duana, My friend Hafida is having a baby boy at the end of May, and is a bit stuck for names. The baby's big sister is Sophia. His father is Samir, and the family's background is Moroccan origin, but they live in the Netherlands. My By Duana • May 29, 2019 04:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Astounded / Euphoric / Blunt / True Dear Duana - LONG time reader, first time writer. Potential meltdown haver. Love your taste, and your advice would be a HUGE help. I live in the middle of conservative America, but I am part of a liberal-yuppie-hint-of-hipster-crew. I hate that I just wrote that, but I’m self aware. By Duana • May 27, 2019 03:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Push Because I Love Hi Duana, We are expecting our second daughter in a few weeks and haven’t yet settled on a name. For our first daughter, her name came super easily. We both had really liked the name Serena and it was the natural choice - we hadn’t really thought of By Duana • May 24, 2019 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Riverdale Writer Michael Grassi Takes Us To School He’s a real-live showrunner! This week’s Show Your Work is a special pleasure for both of us; for me, because our guest, Michael Grassi, is not just a writer and co-executive producer on Riverdale AND the showrunner of the upcoming CW show Katy Keene, also based on a By Duana • May 23, 2019 12:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What About Love? Hey Duana! We are expecting late spring this year, and don’t know what gender the baby will be. The longer I sit on names, the less they seem to appeal to me... we do want names that would be easily said in English or French. Ages ago, we came By Duana • May 17, 2019 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Update Fire Sale! I’ve amassed quite a few name updates and I don’t want to always wait for a busy day or relevant reason to deploy them, so let’s just assume today is all of those things, and get right to them! Here’s the update to ‘Permission Slip – Check By Duana • May 15, 2019 04:20 pm
TV Updates Beverly Hills, 90210 trailer birthday! Oh you beautiful dolls! First reaction – pure, giddy tween joy. Second reaction – am I being an uncritical stan? See for yourself: Maybe we should talk about the art of trailers on Show Your Work, because they can be very good or very bad, but when they’re good, they’re By Duana • May 14, 2019 12:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Chew On This Dear Duana, A very good friend of mine is due to give birth to baby #3 next week. She massively struggles with names (this is the text she sent me earlier today: "Why is naming a human soooo difficult???"), but she and her partner did an exceptional job By Duana • May 13, 2019 04:20 pm
Equality Issues “You Know Me”: Busy Philipps Speaks Out This is the opening of Tuesday night’s episode of Busy Tonight. The relevant part begins at the 39 second mark: The clip stands on its own, obviously. You don’t need me to explain why it’s so powerful, especially because it’s not new news – Busy wrote about By Duana • May 10, 2019 04:23 pm
TV Updates Tori Spelling… Gets It? If you’re like me, you still can’t quite believe the 90210 reboot – or revival, or mockumentary, or whatever you want to call it – is happening. It seems like the kind of thing that people would drunkenly pitch over drinks and then realize, when they were sober, could never By Duana • May 09, 2019 01:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Taylor Jenkins-Reid thinks Daisy Jones Should Drive You Nuts This week it’s part 2 of our conversation with the incredible Taylor Jenkins-Reid! Because Lainey and I were both so obsessed with Daisy Jones & The Six we were shameless about getting her to talk to us about our favourite moments and characters, and didn’t stay away from By Duana • May 08, 2019 03:28 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor! THEY DID IT. THEY DID THAT. They surprised everyone! NOBODY had Archie on their lists. Not a single person in all the opining about Philip and Spencer and Charles had any of these names anywhere on their list… which means I am so proud of these Sussexes I can’t By Duana • May 08, 2019 12:58 pm
Met Gala 2019 Elle Fanning: Met Gala Best (Duana) It was an embarrassment of riches last night. This theme brought out one of the best overall showings in years. But while some of the people we loved are the ones we expected to (looking at you, Celine) part of the reason this look gets my best dressed is that By Duana • May 07, 2019 12:12 pm
Met Gala 2019 Kerry Washington: Met Gala Most Boring (Duana) I loooove Kerry Washington and I frequently love what she wears. Especially in her Scandal period her work wardrobe was so cashmere sleek that she got to play more on carpets – especially those where she was just a presenter or a guest. Relatively low pressure seemed to work well with By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:49 am
Met Gala 2019 Gabrielle Union & Dwyane Wade: Met Headgear Champions How do they do that? How do they make what could easily veer into cheesy couple’s costume territory look so dramatically badass? Look at these two. Just please experience Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade right now… I don’t have enough knowledge of various Catholic orders to have the By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:14 am
Met Gala 2019 Janelle Monae: Met Devotion This is true devotion to the theme. Janelle Monae has always honoured this carpet, in the most literal, personal ways. She is, more than almost anyone else, an artist whose clothing is an extension of her personality, and of the vibe she’s embodying. Right? Like it’s never a By Duana • May 07, 2019 11:04 am
