Met Gala 2018 Janelle Monae: Best Met Synergy Here is gifted actress, musician, and fashion icon Janelle Monae at the Met Gala: Here is gifted actress, musician, and fashion icon Janelle Monae as pictured on her new album Dirty Computer: I believe this is what we call ‘synergy’. I guess it’s possible that it was unconscious that By Duana • May 08, 2018 06:56 am
Met Gala 2018 Madonna: the Met Gala’s Best Obvious Icon I’m just going to say it. We would not be here if it weren’t for Madonna. The theme is being referred to as ‘Heavenly Bodies’, and the dress code was also tongue-in-cheek-ishly ‘Sunday Best’, but the official theme is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”. Fashion wouldn’ By Duana • May 08, 2018 04:01 am
Style Amal Clooney: Best Met Theme Twist I had always assumed, up to now, that the co-chairs of the Met Gala were just chosen relative to what the theme might be, or, given that we’re talking about Anna Wintour here, even informed that they were being appointed co-chairs without being asked in so many words. But By Duana • May 08, 2018 02:26 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Short Yet Delightful Name Updates A flying update today as we get ready for all things Met Gala – but no less satisfying, as we get answers to a couple of December questions. First there was this update to Letter Writing Win, Name Jury Out: Hi Duana, Sorry it took so long for the update. She By Duana • May 07, 2018 04:27 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get Him To The Greek Hi Duana, We're expecting our first baby next spring, and while both my husband and I always thought we'd have a girl, the last scan showed enough to convince the Dr to 'lean' towards it being a boy! I don't care either By Duana • May 04, 2018 04:37 pm
The Affair The Affair Season 4 Trailer I used to scoff at people who said things like “I’m having so many feelings right now.” Not that it’s impossible to have more than one feeling at once, obviously, life is complicated – but I always thought it was a cop-out. Name them, in number order, and you By Duana • May 03, 2018 03:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When the thing is a Thing Duana, In desperate need of your help! I am currently pregnant with my second child and, as of yet, we are yet to find out the baby's sex. While not quite as knowledgeable about all things name as you are, I like to consider myself a bit of By Duana • May 02, 2018 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Inspired By Oscar Hi Duana, Having so much fun reading your column! I have a fun last name question for you. My boyfriend and I are getting married soon, and we live in Chile. (I’m American, he’s Chilean.) Women here don’t change their last names if they get married, and By Duana • Apr 30, 2018 03:48 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Louis Arthur Charles, AKA “?? of Cambridge” First of all, Will was trolling us. Or at least, he thought he was having some fun at everyone’s expense. Well, ‘fun’. A few weeks ago, after a match of some kind involving a star athlete named Jack, he mused that Jack was a good name, and then the By Duana • Apr 27, 2018 09:52 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Allllmost a Three-Peat I love a letter from a repeat caller. When I got this note I diligently filed it in the queue: Hi Duana! 5 years after my first post to you... baby #3 is on the way! Naming this baby has been challenging since we have decided to keep the gender By Duana • Apr 25, 2018 04:07 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means Help me, Duana... HELP, HELP! Our family is eagerly awaiting our second addition, a boy. However, my husband and I are not syncing in the name department. He is more of the traditional type who likes names such as Jack, Charlie and William. Being an elementary teacher, these names are By Duana • Apr 23, 2018 03:40 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Cannot Compute Hi Duana, Writing to you for a friend (whom I got hooked on your column but so far has been UNMOVED by any of your great, great names and is due in, like, 4 days). The facts: mom and dad have very 80s first names (Julie & Trevor), last name By Duana • Apr 20, 2018 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Making It All About Me Hi Duana! I've been dreaming of the day I could message you to talk baby names. I've struggled with infertility for years due to stage 4 endometriosis but thanks to IVF I'm currently 6 months pregnant with a baby boy! Now, here's By Duana • Apr 18, 2018 04:06 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: All Bey Everything – and Every Day Some things, as we know, are fate. We knew we could fill an entire podcast talking about #Beychella, especially since that performance – that performance – happened in the middle of the night, in what seems like it was a dream state. And especially after we had to take an unscheduled podcast By Duana • Apr 17, 2018 03:16 pm
TV Updates Saw Him First™ - Brandon Victor Dixon Edition Really, the title should read ‘Jesus Christ Superstar Edition’. I love that so many people loved what’s being called the most successful live musical ever – Matt Zoller Seitz called it ‘a minor miracle’. But as much fun as everyone had watching, can they fully enjoy Jesus Christ Superstar if By Duana • Apr 03, 2018 04:05 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Surprise Nostalgia Edition We didn’t know when we set out to do the podcast this week that it would have worked just as easily in 1998, but when there’s an celebratory Dawson's Creek reunion on the cover of EW, it kind of kicks things off. We spent time thinking By Duana • Apr 02, 2018 04:37 pm
