Lifestyle Duana Names: On Spelling Hi Duana! I'm a product of the Whole Language movement, which means I cannot spell! Syntax, diction, even diagramming sentences is my jam, but I can't tell you the number of times I have screamed in frustration at a crossword puzzle, only to have my husband By Duana • May 25, 2018 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Are We Out-Naming Ourselves? Hi Duana! I am pregnant with baby #2, due late spring. We are not finding out the sex. We are again stuck on a boy name after having no trouble picking our girl name. I wrote into you for guidance with this same problem the first go around. You helped By Duana • May 23, 2018 04:29 pm
Name Nerd The Joys of Dragging Miles Theodore Stephens’ Dad The problem with adoring a celebrity couple is not that you might go too easy on them. The problem is that you collect up all kinds of information, in kind of the same way you did about an eighth-grade crush, and can’t keep yourself from spitting it out at By Duana • May 21, 2018 01:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does Long Have To Mean ‘Difficult’? Hi Duana, How much should we take our last name into account when choosing names? My wife is due mid-June and we are trying to figure out how to best pair the baby's first name with our last name. When we married we decided to both hyphenate our By Duana • May 18, 2018 01:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing Compares To Him Hi Duana, I love your column and have been scanning it for months hoping for some inspiration. We are expecting our second baby on May 17th. The gender will be a surprise until the big day. Our first was a boy and we named him Ivan. I absolutely love it By Duana • May 16, 2018 02:57 pm
TV Updates Show Your Work: Snubbed By Shonda, Jessica Alba’s Out, and the Divine Pettiness of Ryan Murphy We didn’t set out to make an all-TV episode of Show Your Work – but when we sat down to record the podcast on Friday night, it was Friday afternoon on the West Coast – so all the pilot pickups and passes were being tweeted more or less in real time, By Duana • May 14, 2018 04:36 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kirsten Dunst and Landry name their baby! I know. I know it’s not fair not to not name Jesse Plemons in the headline, especially since a lot of outlets are referring to it as “Kirsten Dunst’s baby” and leaving Plemons out of it altogether. But I have to chalk it up to the power of By Duana • May 14, 2018 03:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Does This Say About Us? Hey Duana, We're having our third (and final) kid this spring. Her brothers are Tristan and Cash. We've been dead set on Evangeline for a girl since I was pregnant with Cash (Princess and the Frog song, "Ma Belle Evangeline" - yes, I' By Duana • May 11, 2018 05:12 pm
Gorgessity Jennifer Lopez: Met Best Dressed (Duana) I checked and checked myself. Is she really my best dressed? Is this really the most arresting look of the night? But it is undeniable. This is the one I loved best. I think I might be grading on a curve again, but the overall look is like nothing we’ By Duana • May 08, 2018 12:18 pm
Met Gala 2018 Scarlett Johannsen: Duana's 2018 Met's Worst Dressed Look, she was already going to be my worst dressed. She was already on the “f-ck you” list for showing up to THE COSTUME INSTITUTE in something that looks like it was an also-ran for one of her We Got A Zoo premieres in Europe. I get that the highlight By Duana • May 08, 2018 11:52 am
Met Gala 2018 Zendaya: Best Met Armor I mean, God. She could have also been best Joan of Arc cosplay, best imitation of metal, best custom Versace any of us can remember. It’s truly spectacular. I can’t stop looking at it. And to top some of her previous Met Gala looks is an extremely high By Duana • May 08, 2018 11:13 am
Met Gala 2018 Donald Glover: Met Weekend Winner Is it weird to say that Donald Glover ‘won’ the weekend considering what he won with? I hope not, because to not do so would take away from how… everything he is. So yesterday Kathleen asked ‘HOW is he so good at everything?’ and I self-importantly texted her to tell By Duana • May 08, 2018 10:51 am
Met Gala 2018 Michelle Williams & Emma Stone: Met Worst Effort It’s a THEMED Gala! Where the theme is about what you wear! THEEEEMMME! Do these two really deserve to be yelled at in the same breath? Maybe not, though I think putting them in the same category is understandable… and yes, they’re both wearing Louis Vuitton, but that’ By Duana • May 08, 2018 10:04 am
Met Gala 2018 "Pretty Girl" Crowns: The Met’s Most Overdone Accessory They just kept piling up. When Lily Collins arrived in what I described as her “Wednesday Addams First Communion” outfit, I was stunned by the spiky saintly halo. Even when she posed with Hailee Steinfeld, who had the whole ‘Heavenly Angel’ interpretation going kind of literally, it was kind of By Duana • May 08, 2018 09:27 am
Met Gala 2018 Sarah Jessica Parker: Best Met Royalty I’m mad now. I went to google how long SJP and Andy Cohen had been friends and got sucked into a long chain of Plead The Fifth segments (which I am going to make all of our friends play next time we’re all together) and wasted an obscene By Duana • May 08, 2018 08:28 am
Met Gala 2018 Zoe Kravitz: Met’s Best Literal Interpretation There is nothing that makes me more mad than people who don’t lean into the theme of the Met Gala, except maybe people who decide they’re going to wear a straight up costume. More on both those offenses later. But there is a way to break the rules. By Duana • May 08, 2018 08:15 am
