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
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
