TV Updates ‘Encore’ Is My Kristen-Bell-Fueled DREAM Last week, I noticed Lainey said Do It On My Twin Bed was one of my favourite SNL sketches. The wording is important, because it was once my favourite, but can never get back there. That spot has been permanently supplanted by Crucible Cast Party: Crucible Cast Party (Kate McKinnon) By Duana • Nov 15, 2017 03:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oy Vey Re: Name OCD I've been reading your post for years, and I finally get to write about my very own pregnancy. My husband and I are expecting our first baby (second for him) the beginning of December, but there is a good chance we could have the baby mid-November. We have By Duana • Nov 13, 2017 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing Is As It Seems Hi Duana, Even before we got married, my husband and I talked about how if we ever had kids, and if it was a girl, we'd name her after my maternal grandmother - Loree (not Laurie. Lor-EE) This was so much the plan that when my sister had By Duana • Nov 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I’m Ross, Claudia’s Violin Teacher Hi Duana, We are due in mid-November and decided for the surprise (!) aka we don’t know the sex of the baby. This has been surprisingly difficult in 2017, as many people WANT to know the gender for gifting and I’m actually amazed at how ‘gender/sex-oriented’ clothes and By Duana • Nov 08, 2017 06:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Pairs Well With Marshmallows Hi Duana! Here's the situation. A few years ago my partner and I adopted a beautiful Maine Coon cat and naming her was a snap - the shelter had been calling her Marsha, so we shortened that to Mars in honor of one of our favorite heroines, Veronica By Duana • Nov 06, 2017 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing’s Off The Table Hello Duana, I am writing to you in desperation as we are very close to our due date (October 29) and we still haven't decided on a name for our little girl. She will be our first child unless you count our dog and cat (Cali and Maya) By Duana • Oct 27, 2017 05:19 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Long But Not. Popular But Not. Elspeth But Not. Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second daughter on October 25, and we are struggling to come up with a name. Our first daughter is called Dorothy - Thea for short. We would like a name that is longer, but can be shortened. We also don' By Duana • Oct 25, 2017 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JULIA IS 50! … and working! You guys, it can’t be an accident. It can’t be an accident that the opportunity to write about Julia Roberts twice in one day happens the same week as her birthday, on Saturday, when she will be 50. My headline is in reference to the Oprah interview that By Duana • Oct 24, 2017 03:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Well Here’s One I Haven’t Been In Before Hi Duana, I would love your help selecting the perfect name for our baby girl (Due October 2017). We know the middle name (Frances) and last name, obviously, which is W---t. This will be our first child and I am really hoping she is born with her dad's By Duana • Oct 24, 2017 11:13 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Embracing The ‘Ten’ In Pretentious Hi Duana, We are currently expecting our second child, a boy. Last name is a two syllable Irish name starting with D. Our first child is also a boy, and I love his name. It's unique, easily pronounceable and a family name: Livingston Christopher- We mostly call him By Duana • Oct 20, 2017 03:06 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Clear, Simple… and Refreshing Hi there! My wife is due October 17th and we are having a hard time deciding on a first and middle name! Right now we've got 2 that we're partial to... I like Juniper (June) and my wife likes Ingrid. We've come up with By Duana • Oct 19, 2017 04:12 pm
Equality Issues I Feel Pity: Mayim Bialik’s “Feminism” Hurts Raise your hand if Blossom broke your heart a bit this week. For a specific subset of women who make up the Oregon Trail Generation or whatever we’re being called these days, Blossom (and Mayim Bialik) was it, in terms of sassy-but-still-basically-rule-abiding role models who’d read as many By Duana • Oct 17, 2017 04:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nicknames - Have to have or nice to have? Hi all! Thanks for all your notes asking for Name Nerd to come back from its hiatus and thanks for being patient with me! I wanted to jump back in with this note from Sarah P, which I received just after publishing ...which is fine, I guess, where I referenced By Duana • Oct 16, 2017 04:53 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Hamilton Begins To Climb? Hi, I'm writing on behalf of my sister, with her permission, about her baby boy due in a week or so. Her main question is about the name "Hamilton". Her husband is an economist, and a fan of Alexander Hamilton, and they both love the musical. By Duana • Oct 13, 2017 04:05 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Harvey Weinstein Edition Lainey and I both knew we would have a hard time holding on through the whole hiatus. We talked all the time about what we would talk about on the podcast when we brought it back. But we couldn’t have predicted it would be for this. As the Harvey By Duana • Oct 11, 2017 02:45 pm
Music Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Almost Like Praying’ A few years ago, during some now-forgotten revelation of crime or some other embarrassment during the reign of Toronto’s bumblingly catastrophic mayor Rob Ford, Kathleen said (and later tweeted) something so hilarious I fell in love. ‘I always wanted to live in Gotham but NOT WITHOUT BATMAN.’ To paraphrase By Duana • Oct 10, 2017 03:17 pm
