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
Lifestyle Duana Names: I am G. Elizabeth Lastname I don't like my first name - Gillian. I can't seem to say it so people hear it... people always hear it as 'Joanne', and I always want to ask them how old they think I am because nobody in my generation is called By Duana • Sep 25, 2017 05:02 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Bonne Chance, Duana! Dear Duana, We are expecting our second child in the next few days, unexpectedly early because of some medical concerns. So, while we had a bit of time on our side (and don't feel like we MUST land on A name before baby arrives), I'm now By Duana • Sep 22, 2017 02:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Knew You Could Do It All Along Duana! This is a long overdue thank you and update on my request for help naming our third child. You were right about the similarities between our two oldest sons names, and we had decided on a name that was also a "thing," was a family name and By Duana • Sep 20, 2017 04:17 pm
Bad Style Reese Witherspoon: Emmys Worst Dressed (Duana) Maybe I’m sleep deprived, but my first thought upon seeing Reese Witherspoon’s dress when she went up to accept the Emmy for Big Little Lies was, ohhh, interesting, she chose a ‘producer’ outfit rather than an ‘actress’ dress. Lainey’s response was, “That’s a way to defend By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 02:22 pm
Style Lena Waithe: Emmys Best Dressed, Best Prepped (Duana) If we have learned one thing from Taylor Swift, it is that there is no charm in fake surprise at an awards show win. Genuine surprise makes great TV – the gasping and gulping and ‘you like me!’ that fuels social media the next day—but the calm, faux splutter of By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 12:57 pm
Sit DOWN Shailene Woodley: The Emmy “reader” Imagine that you are lucky enough to be involved in the biggest project of the year, at your work, say. Imagine too that you are plucked to be among much more experienced, celebrated, talented people who have been working juuuust about as long as you’ve been alive. Imagine having By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 11:40 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Donald Glover’s Earnest Emmys Come on now. When’s the last time we saw someone react quite like this? I tweeted earlier that this was a game changer for Donald Glover in what was already a game-changer of a year. Atlanta is a hit, he’s a new dad (about to be again, apparently By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 11:17 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Zoe Kravitz: Emmy Colour Couture I love colour, especially in clothes. I am a sucker for a rainbow stripe, I rarely go for a black dress, and I inevitably wind up whining/wiggling my way out of writing about certain people during our awards show wraps because I haaaate nude/neutral dresses. This Zoe Kravitz By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 08:45 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Kate & Alec: Emmy ‘Supporting’ Comedy There was more, this year, about SNL than in… almost decades. That sounds insane, but it’s true—and you heard Lorne Michaels say so in one of the most dour acceptance speeches in my memory. Maybe he was tired from having won four more trophies last week, but you By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 08:01 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Emmy Expected Win You know what it was that did it? It was that one particular line during VEEP’s win for Best Comedy Series. Showrunner David Mandel, in his speech, said they had a “no asshole policy” on the show “…and everyone abides by it except Julia”. And everybody laughed. That was By Duana • Sep 18, 2017 07:32 am
