Lifestyle Duana Names: EVERYONE LOVES CHIPS Help! I’m within a couple weeks of my due date with baby 3 and I’m starting to sweat not having a name! My boy is Axel and that was an easy pick for us. We wavered between Levi and Axel and the one no one was using was By Duana • Feb 02, 2018 04:31 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: British But Not Hi Duana, I’m a huge fan of your naming column and I am so pleased I finally get to write to you! I’m writing on behalf of a friend/co-worker who is expecting her second child, a girl, at the beginning of February. She and her husband still By Duana • Jan 31, 2018 03:49 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Wheretofore A Clairvoyant’s Prediction Proves Intractable Dear Duana, A psychic told my mother I would have two daughters. So obviously my first born is to be a boy babe. My partner and I are both big on what I will call ‘dual naming’: a first name with gravitas and cool nickname to accompany it. We live By Duana • Jan 29, 2018 03:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Number Five Is A Whole New Ballgame Hi Duana, My friend is having her fifth child and it's her first boy. They are all completely shocked -- they thought for sure it would be girl #5. They have no idea what they are looking for in a boy's name. To give you some By Duana • Jan 26, 2018 03:28 pm
Emily V. Gordon Emily V. Gordon adapts The Nest I’m about to make a controversial statement about Oscar-nominated writer Emily V. Gordon: I was worried she was being overlooked this Oscar season. I know it’s preposterous, given that The Big Sick is literally about her, but Kumail Nanjiani has more facial recognition and ‘Emily’ is in a By Duana • Jan 25, 2018 01:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Know The Truth, Do It Anyway Dear Duana, My husband and I are expecting our first child, a baby boy in mid-January. Picking his name feels like a very big deal, and I would love to hear your feedback and perhaps some alternatives. In choosing the name, we are aiming to hit the sweet spot between By Duana • Jan 24, 2018 05:19 pm
TV Updates It’s Double SAG-nominee Alison Brie’s Problem We’ll get to what she said in a minute. But we really need to take a second and talk about the truly maddening fact that Alison Brie was asked about James Franco at all. If you didn’t know, she’s married to his brother Dave Franco, which is By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 01:34 pm
SAG Awards 2018 Saoirse Ronan Cements Stardom ~Prelude~ Stupid “So, you’re Irish!” question of the night: Guiliana Rancic told Saoirse Ronan that she heard that actually had trouble saying some ‘American’ words. Which made me roll my eyes, as per usual, but then of course, Saoirse Ronan is somehow able to make the anecdote charming, talking By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 11:33 am
SAG Awards 2018 Allison Janney: SAG Seventh Win Is it not amazing how the movies and shows and performances get shifted or elevated or changed in your mind? I saw I, Tonya before it was in wide release, so those who had seen it at film festivals were mostly talked out and everyone who hadn’t seen it By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 09:53 am
SAG Awards 2018 You Need Gina Rodriguez In Your Life I am all about the SAG awards having only female presenters, and it was pleasantly not noticeable in the way that men must feel all the time but I was of the opinion that Gina Rodriguez presenting with Megan Mullally was a slightly odd pairing, first of all, and a By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 08:34 am
SAG Awards 2018 Kristen Bell, First Host The SAG awards doesn’t get enough credit for being its own kind of weirdo awards show. It’s mercifully brief, there aren’t really ‘bits’ aside from the whole “I am an actor” business, and am I the only one who likes the whole long, slanted tables so nobody’ By Duana • Jan 22, 2018 07:28 am
Name Nerd CHICAGO WEST Noooooope this is not the way any of us thought this was going to go. Not one of us. Don’t you lie. Nobody saw this coming. About a month ago Lainey really latched onto my suggestion of ‘Truth’ -- and I mean, based on ‘North’ and ‘Saint’, I felt By Duana • Jan 19, 2018 04:20 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can You Mourn The Loss Of A Name? I’m out of breath typing this because we are OUT. OF. TIME. and maybe it makes no sense to be winded when I’m not doing anything but typing, but we’ve reached full-scale freak out. Writing this for my friend who is having her baby boy by next By Duana • Jan 17, 2018 04:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Written Word Edition There was never any doubt that we would discuss the 1.5 million dollar pay disparity between Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, but in a development that *never* happens, the longer we put off talking about it, the better the story got. The USA Today article with all the details By Duana • Jan 15, 2018 03:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Happy New Name Updates! What, you’ve never made a bad pun when you’re titling something? Look, sometimes it’s just how it is, OK? But we get to revisit a few titles as I have a great backlog of updates. First up, an update on the family dilemma presented in SOCCERSTAR! Hi By Duana • Jan 12, 2018 04:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Got It – But What IS It? Hi Duana, I'm so excited to be writing to you! When I first stumbled across your column I was pretty stunned - I had no idea other "name nerds" existed. I still have a beaten-up bright pink baby name book (straight from the 80s) that has By Duana • Jan 11, 2018 04:13 pm
