Emmy Awards 2018 That’s How You Open the Emmys? Credit where credit is due – the way the nominees, then presenters, then winners were announced was so inexplicable and utterly confusing that it probably made people pay a lot more attention. To the point where, when Kate McKinnon and Kenan “Holy Sh*t He Looks Good” Thompson came out, people By Duana • Sep 18, 2018 01:17 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Help, Question Mark? Hello Duana, Help? My partner and I are expecting twins (a boy and a girl) and cannot agree on a name. He is Israeli and has conventional taste. I am South African and want a name that will stand out from a crowd. We plan to raise our children in By Duana • Sep 14, 2018 05:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Natural Acts of Names, And a Dire Warning Hi Duana, My daughter was born in 2009. Her name is the same as a popular exclusive dating app. When I picked her name, it was a relatively unknown but not too exotic name. Now I'm afraid people will know her name from the dating app first. Should By Duana • Sep 12, 2018 06:18 pm
Douchebags Olivia Munn, alone at TIFF A few weeks ago, before The Predator was to make its international debut at TIFF, Olivia Munn discovered that Steven Wilder Streigel, an actor she shared a scene with, was a registered sex offender. That phrase should stand on its own, but if you need more, he pleaded guilty to By Duana • Sep 10, 2018 03:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is Too Weird A Thing? Dear Duana, (just so you know, my auto correct turned your name to Diana) I just finished reading your book and loved every bit of it. As a name geek and fellow owner of a confusing Irish name, so much of it resonated with me. As a side note, I By Duana • Sep 07, 2018 04:22 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfect… Plus Hi Duana, I’m a huge Name Nerd and I couldn’t wait until I had a reason to email you for advice. My daughter is due in early September and I’ve found her first name but no middle. What to do when her dad and I can’t By Duana • Sep 05, 2018 04:32 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Long Weekend Reader Roundup! What I’ve learned is that I should ask you guys for help more often, you have some collective skills. Last week I asked for your comments on ‘Name the Art Baby’ and you guys totally came through (though I have to say that I did expect a little more By Duana • Aug 31, 2018 12:45 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Wish Fulfillment (Nick)names Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my second child (gender unknown), due at the end of August. I'm having a hard time settling on a name. My older child, Eleanor, is named after a beloved family member. I have loved the name forever and always knew I would By Duana • Aug 28, 2018 04:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name The Art Baby Dear Duana, This is a bit off kid naming, but I'm having an art baby instead of a human one, and I am hoping you'll have some thoughts! I am an illustrator and artist that is in the midst of starting a brick and mortar retail, By Duana • Aug 24, 2018 03:02 pm
Equality Issues Who’s Gonna Watch You The Affair, Season 4. My feeling at the end of Season 4 of The Affair, beyond that it was bleak, and beyond the Ruth Wilson Cryptogram, was that we now officially have less than we started with. That is, for all the risks they took and all the passion and By Duana • Aug 24, 2018 02:45 pm
Top Reads Loan Tran, a.k.a Kelly Marie Even if you don’t follow Star Wars, even if you tune out any headline that includes the words ‘social media’, you heard about Kelly Marie Tran. That she quit social media after she was bullied and berated by Star Wars truther bros for daring to appear in their beloved By Duana • Aug 21, 2018 04:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When Is A Name An Egg? Hi Duana, My partner and I are expecting a boy and while I think we have the middle name nailed down, we need some input on the first name. So full disclosure - I too have an unusual name that has been mispronounced my entire life, which is maybe why By Duana • Aug 20, 2018 05:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Answer Is Already Inside You Duana, I've had "MY" girl name picked out for 12 years. I was happily surprised to learn Baby #2 is a girl due in August, and my husband immediately said, "Cool, we already have a name." Yet here I am, agonizing and overthinking and By Duana • Aug 17, 2018 04:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If Not You, Then Who? Hi Duana, We're expecting our first child, a boy, in two weeks, and have been at an impasse for months. I'm torn between the '60s and '70s names I like and the names that are popular now (most of which I don't By Duana • Aug 15, 2018 05:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Short, yes. Simple – not so much. Hi Duana, I’ll keep it short and sweet. I’m expecting my second babe, sex unknown, end of August. Our son’s name is Fergus and we love it. Originally we had planned on the name Seamus but when our guy arrived it didn’t quite fit, so a By Duana • Aug 13, 2018 05:24 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Update - It’s Not About Me, Exactly… I mean, I should be making an effort to not have it about me, but I was so delighted with the response from the letter writer in the very personally-affecting Making It All About Me that I had to go ahead and make this the headline on a short but By Duana • Aug 10, 2018 04:05 pm
