Lifestyle Duana Names: That Damn Princess Bea Hi Duana, Our daughter is called Dorothy Wynn and we absolutely LOVE her name. We love it for many reasons. We love nicknames so we call her Dot or Dotty. Wynn harks back to my Welsh heritage and my partner’s Grandmothers were called Dorothy and Winifred. Mine were called By Duana • Mar 27, 2019 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Permission Slip – Check Yes or No Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first, probably only, child in April – a baby girl! His last name (and future baby’s) is a Filipino name pronounced E-bay-as. Lots of vowel sounds, which is challenging. We fell in love early and hard for the name Mayari. She’ By Duana • Mar 25, 2019 04:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Caitlin Doesn’t Equal Catherine Hi Duana! I'm a single mom by choice expecting my first baby in April, a girl! I spent hours devouring Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison and Montana as a teenager and making up long lists of names for my future children. The name I've wanted to By Duana • Mar 22, 2019 03:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Define – okay, no, SPELL ‘Synonymous’ Hi Duana, My partner and I are expecting our first child in a few weeks and, though we’re happy with where we’ve landed if baby turns out to be male, we’re at an impasse on the female side of things. We both LOVE Ursula but I’m By Duana • Mar 19, 2019 04:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Joyous, Slightly-Boastful Updates To all my delightful name nerds - it’s been a big week, and I have a feeling there are more weeks like this on their way... so I couldn’t help ending the week with a couple of updates, including arguably the most self-congratulatory one yet: an update to By Duana • Mar 15, 2019 04:41 pm
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
