Golden Globes 2019 Rosamund Pike Deserves It All Rosamund Pike, wearing Givenchy Haute Couture, was very nearly my best-dressed of the night. By rights, she should be. Look at what is happening here. First of all, her black dress made me care about black dresses, which I never do. It is perfectly tailored, it is the perfect black By Duana • Jan 07, 2019 04:21 am
Golden Globes 2019 Chrissy Metz vs. Alison Brie via Live TV Didn’t we all agree 2019 was going to be better? Didn’t we all think we were better than this? Early in the night, Twitter blew up because, in the words of social media, “Chrissy Metz called Alison Brie a bitch, you guys!!” on a Facebook Live Globes preshow By Duana • Jan 07, 2019 03:30 am
Golden Globes 2019 Kristen Bell, Jameela Jamil, and The Good Place At The Globes How much difference a year makes. Last year when Kristen Bell hosted the SAG awards I said I was the only one banging the Veronica Mars drum, and now? Now there’s a Veronica Mars revival currently in production, and that’s joyful enough on its own, but have you By Duana • Jan 07, 2019 03:02 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What The Name Needs Hi Duana! My husband and I are expecting our second (and last) child in early January, a boy. We've been throwing names around for a few months now, and nothing feels quite right. We recently ran across the name Axel, and we both really like it, but I By Duana • Dec 19, 2018 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Updates: Monday Morning Quarterback Updates So I was ready to do an updates post again – call it an end-of-year nostalgia – and wanted to see not only how you’ve been doing, but whether I was anywhere close in my suggestions. Partly because we’ve been talking about writing and what it’s for and what By Duana • Dec 17, 2018 04:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No Vampires! Hi, Duana! I’m pregnant with our first baby, due at Christmas. We found out early on we’re having a girl, which is thrilling, but definitely threw us for a loop – I was convinced it was a boy and had a name LOCKED DOWN. Girl names, though, are presenting By Duana • Dec 14, 2018 03:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Sweet & Salty Names Hi Duana, I’m writing in on behalf of my best friend. She is due in a month and stuck on a middle name. Her daughter will be named Billie after her father and she’s looking for something feminine to balance it out. Originally they were going to do By Duana • Dec 12, 2018 05:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Go With The Golden Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my second child which I am hoping so badly is a girl, due in December. I have a 2 year old son William who we call Will or Wills for short. I have always loved the name Olivia for a girl but it is By Duana • Dec 10, 2018 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates of Elation Okay, so it’s true - I’m on vacation, and the bliss of the sun and the weather has become even more delightful since I realized I can use geotags to find the people who are posing as hard as they can in all-day photo shoots. But if I By Duana • Dec 07, 2018 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Faking Out Real Names Hi Duana, I love the magic you are able to pull off with baby names and am wondering if you might help me name the main characters in a novel I am writing. November is "national write a novel in a month" and I am hoping to finish By Duana • Nov 30, 2018 03:43 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, Unexplored in Vanity Fair If this site had a daily thesis, today’s is ‘the celebrity profile is not dead’. So obviously I dove greedily into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cover profile in Vanity Fair. But I came away feeling flat and disappointed. Upset, even. Not what I expected at all. Am I the only By Duana • Nov 27, 2018 04:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Risk vs. Reward Hi Duana! Long time reader, fellow name nerd and big fan. I’m expecting my first child (gender unknown) and, being a naturally indecisive person, am having a hard time with names. I have been thinking about baby names since I was in elementary school but now that it’s By Duana • Nov 26, 2018 04:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: MUCH OF A MUCHNESS Hi Duana. Our last name is short and Czech and ends in an ‘a’ sound. I’m leaning towards very feminine Italian/Spanish for the first name. The names we are choosing between are Isabela, Amara, Alessandra and Valentina. I like the way the pretty syllables and ‘a’ endings roll By Duana • Nov 23, 2018 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: No Sacrifice! Hello! I’ll get right down to it: we have two children, Freya and Ned, and in late November, we’re expecting baby #3. We love that “pause factor” you’ve discussed in the past. If it were up to me entirely, we’d have 6 children, all with shabby By Duana • Nov 21, 2018 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Search of a Burnt-Toast Badass Hi Duana, I am hoping you can provide us with some direction. We are expecting baby boy number 2 and with less than two weeks to go (baby is coming on the 29th if he doesn’t arrive on his own before then) we are still no closer to finding By Duana • Nov 19, 2018 04:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade’s Baby Kaavia I mean, I’m not made of stone. I love this. How could I not? The reveal of Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade’s baby born via surrogate on November 7th was more than just a typical baby announcement for several reasons. First because she’s been very open about By Duana • Nov 16, 2018 01:41 pm
