Top Reads The Filthy Tragedy of Operation Varsity Blues “This is a story made for you,” Lainey wrote. Truer words have never been spoken. I’m obsessed with schools, with education, with the way wanting ‘the best’ shapes and justifies people’s choices. I’m obsessed with the fetishization of the Ivy League and other ‘elite’ colleges. I spend By Duana • Mar 13, 2019 11:41 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: No, *You* Define a No-N Classic Hi Duana, My fiancé and I are getting married in March, and then we're planning to start trying for a kid fairly soon after. Both of our names start with K, and while I'm taking my partner's last name (something very important for him) By Duana • Mar 11, 2019 04:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: New Names, No Secrets Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second, a boy, in mid-March. As is to be expected since I’m writing to you, we are having a very hard time with the name. We landed on Rowan for our daughter fairly quickly (although much to my chagrin it By Duana • Mar 08, 2019 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No Teenage Dream, Thank You. A colleague suggested I email you because I am stuck for a name. We don't know the gender of baby 3, and have a boy name ready, but cannot find a girl name. I'm 33 weeks, and time is running out. I am also a teacher, By Duana • Mar 05, 2019 04:48 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Luke Perry Gave 90s Kids High Standards Yesterday, like everyone else who came of age in the 90s, I mourned Luke Perry. He was beloved for his arc on Oz, his self-deprecating appearances on The Simpsons and SNL, and his fully-realized three-dimensional Fred Andrews on Riverdale – but, as he said himself, he was, and forever will be, By Duana • Mar 05, 2019 02:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No, But Yes. But No. Hi Duana, I (like many women out there) have had a running list of baby names for my future child since about the age of 23 (I am now 31). I'm currently due with my first babe in March, and even though we were planning on keeping the By Duana • Mar 01, 2019 04:44 pm
TV Updates Welcome Back to West Beverly High The video teaser I’m posting below is only 10 seconds long. It has exactly zero familiar faces in it. So how, exactly, is it so satisfying? Kathleen and I were talking this weekend about songs that get stuck in your DNA. Mostly Christmas carols or hymns – and pop songs By Duana • Feb 28, 2019 12:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Found The Needle! Hi, Duana! Hoping for some quick help. I've just found out that I'll be delivering at 34 weeks on March 11, due to some complications that have also landed me in the hospital on bed rest. All this time with nothing to do has me going By Duana • Feb 27, 2019 04:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee You guys. We have been so excited to share this episode with you, and it’s only the first of two delicious, long, fast-as-hell-paced deep-dive conversations with the incredible Joe Zee. Part of the reason we started Show Your Work is because, especially (but not only) in show business, people By Duana • Feb 27, 2019 01:54 pm
Oscars 2019 Awkwafina: Oscar Best Dressed (Duana) I loved this the moment I saw it, and then it grew on me from there. It was kitschy! It was sparkly! It was totally Awkwafina, and also not like anything we’d seen her wear before – or, if it is, it feels new, and that’s part of it. By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:45 pm
Oscars 2019 Lady Gaga: Oscar Worst Dressed (Duana) Yes, it is glamourous. Some would say it’s a 7-year-old girl’s version of glamorous, what with the long gloves, but let’s not quibble. Yes, it is ‘appropriate’ to win your first Oscar in, as proven. Yes, it is slightly more unusual because it has the black ‘hips’ By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 04:39 pm
Oscars 2019 Chadwick Boseman Knows What Oscar Wants Everyone on social media is using the same picture of Chadwick Boseman on the red carpet, in front of that weird corridor-photo wall they had this year. It’s this one: Partly, it’s because you can clearly see his floor-length caftan jacket of awesome, it was tough going to By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 01:56 pm
Oscars 2019 What’s In JLo’s Oscar Mirror? Let’s get one thing very, very clear here. Jennifer Lopez looked stunnnning last night. It’s not just that she’s beautiful, which she is – but that dress is a treat for the eyes. I never, ever got tired of looking at it, from every multi-faceted angle, which of By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 01:44 pm
Oscars 2019 Melissa McCarthy Won’t Let Me I wanted to be annoyed. Melissa McCarthy was the long-shot nominee for a fantastic performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me, and even though I knew, and you knew, and she knew, that it was never going to happen, I wanted more people to treat it like it was a By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 10:15 am
Oscars 2019 Rami Malek’s Epic One-Night Story God, that kiss was hot. We’ll get to the kiss, I promise. On Show Your Work, and here, I’ve wished nominees would prepare their speeches, have something to say if they get up there and win – not everyone can be flummoxed as adorably as Olivia Colman. But they By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 09:28 am
Top Reads We Don’t Deserve Best Actress Olivia Colman I really don’t understand Twitter sometimes. I know a statement like that makes me sound too young, naïve, sheltered and privileged to be allowed chocolate milk, let alone unaccompanied access to one of the internet’s most reliable joke factories that sometimes doubles as a dumpster fire. But look, By Duana • Feb 25, 2019 06:51 am
