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
Lifestyle Duana Names: Double Order Up! Hi Duana- I emailed u about 2 years ago asking if the name Frank was any good and worried that if I had 2 boys (Frank and Austin) they might sound like a hot dog stand haha. Well we went with Frank and he is 1.5 years old and By Duana • Mar 29, 2018 04:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Feminist Like That Hi Duana, I am very close to delivering my 4th (yes fourth) child!! He was a surprise and while I thought I was done with the whole baby naming thing, I have now found myself dealing with it again and no better than I did the first 3 times. The By Duana • Mar 27, 2018 04:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Guess What’s *Off * The Table? Hi Duana, First off, I love your column and despite stressing about this I'm excited to be writing in and hearing your thoughts! I'm due in a little less than a month with our first (a boy), and my husband and I are struggling on the By Duana • Mar 23, 2018 03:02 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ben Platt Release Found/Tonight Last week I almost caused a traffic accident. We were on a four-hour drive and had been listening to Hamilton for about an hour and a half, but then in the middle of Act 2, the thing that happens happened. Which I have never made it through without crying, even By Duana • Mar 21, 2018 03:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: And It’s Not Even My Birthday Dear Duana, Just like everything in my life, I'm cutting this one really close. Our daughter (first child) is due on March 15, and we are still stumped. I read your column religiously, and read The Name Therapist in my first trimester. I'm hoping you can By Duana • Mar 19, 2018 05:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What Does it Mean To ‘Royal’? Hi Duana, I don't usually do this sort of thing, but I'm writing this with fingers and toes crossed that you respond to this email as I'm coming up empty for our third (and most likely last) child's name. It was so By Duana • Mar 16, 2018 04:42 pm
TV Updates John Legend’s Jesus. As for the Superstar… Last week, thinking about Emma Stone at the Oscars, I wrote about how many things would have to go wrong to constitute a bad day. Today I’m contemplating the opposite – you know when things are shaping up to give you a really good day? So far today, the weather By Duana • Mar 14, 2018 03:17 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: That Would Be Enough Hi Duana! We are due with baby girl number 2 in March and I'm stuck on loving-but-questioning the name Tory. I can't remember where this name came to me from but I already find myself calling her "Baby Tory" in my head, for some By Duana • Mar 13, 2018 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: If You Please Hi Duana, I’m not sure if your name suggestions extend to pets, but here goes nothing! I am getting two Siamese kittens from the same litter this month, a male lilac point Siamese and a female chocolate point Siamese. Adorable pics attached! I already know I am going to By Duana • Mar 09, 2018 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: This Is Why Not Hey Duana! I am a bit of a name-junkie myself, and have carved out what I see as the *perfect* names for our little family. Growing up I was the only "C" name in a sea of "J' names (literally almost everyone in my family, 30+ By Duana • Mar 07, 2018 05:15 pm
