Lifestyle Duana Names: OMG. No, wait – well, maybe. OMG? Hi Duana, I am in a real conundrum. We thought we were having a boy originally and had a name picked out no problem. My name pick for a girl was Margot Mabel with the last name L----c. Unfortunately.... my partner’s name is Marko which was pointed out to By Duana • May 17, 2017 05:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Dub By Any Other Name Hi Duana, My boyfriend showed me this article this morning and I immediately thought of you. It’s a hilarious name-nerd writeup disguised as sports writing, about the WHL draft and the names of the players, born in the early 2000's for the most part. And his commentary By Duana • May 15, 2017 04:16 pm
TV Updates “RENT” Live on Fox Alert, Oregon Trail Generation*, this is not a drill. Fox has announced that RENT will be its next live musical (along with A Christmas Story, which I like, but… never thought of as a musical?). Take a second with that. Call back every angst-filled lyric you memorized and practiced and By Duana • May 15, 2017 02:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Solutions for the 2am Search Hi Duana, I know you generally answer letters when delivery dates are close by and I'm not even pregnant yet but this name interrogation is keeping me up at night (my husband thinks I'm crazy and he might be right...) We're going for baby By Duana • May 12, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Secret Agent Baby-O Hi Duana, I'm due at the end of May but I have no idea what to name our baby if baby turns out to be a boy. This baby will be number 3 and likely our last. I already have a boy, age 3.5 (Theo, Theodore on By Duana • May 10, 2017 04:51 pm
Amazingness Nicki Minaj, Achievement Boosts, and ‘Whataboutism’ Around 4 PM yesterday I opened Twitter for the first time. And saw this tweet: Uh, Nicki Minaj is offering to pay tuition for dozens of her followers on Twitter right now, as long as they have good grades. pic.twitter.com/dVdnGsGj8C— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) May 7, 2017 By Duana • May 08, 2017 09:52 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: When You Can Go Anywhere…Go Where? Hi Duana, After a long period of losing hope, it was a big surprise to know that we are finally expecting our first baby in May 2017. I am lao/vietnamese background and my husband is german/ukrainian/hungarian/lebanese background. It will be one really mixed kid! We believe By Duana • May 05, 2017 03:23 pm
MET Gala 2017 Halle Berry: MET Worst Dressed 2017 (Duana) I had to think about this one. I knew Halle Berry was right at the bottom of the list, but it took me a minute to figure out why. You probably got there before me, right? This look is, on its own, not bad. It’s not avant-garde or on-theme, By Duana • May 02, 2017 01:53 pm
Style Solange: MET Best Dressed 2017 (Duana) Well. I mean, of course it’s not surprising that Solange is Best Dressed. In fact, she’s been using the MET Gala as her personal runway for years—a place where she is, in a different way than Rihanna, expected to reign. But man, I didn’t know it By Duana • May 02, 2017 01:17 pm
MET Gala 2017 CELINE DION: Best MET Rookie Lainey and Lorella and I talk about Celine a fair bit. Mostly we talk about Celine and Rene. How bananas it all was. How much she loved him. She grieved more than anyone will ever grieve. She mourned! Wearing black lace! It’s like an opera taking place in real By Duana • May 02, 2017 12:44 pm
MET Gala 2017 Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds: MET Obligation You know I have opinions. And we’ll get to those in just a moment. But first I find myself having to say something… if not in Blake Lively’s defense, then on her behalf: We stay up all night to write, and it’s inevitable that sometimes I forget By Duana • May 02, 2017 12:00 pm
Style Janelle Monae & Chrissy Teigen: Best MET Feather Bombs Officially, my assignment sheet also includes John Legend, but can we acknowledge what we know? JL, you look great, it’s not about you, we gotta go. Okay. These dresses are kin to one another—not yin and yang, more like Big and Little Sis. But they’re both about By Duana • May 02, 2017 11:19 am
MET Gala 2017 Kerry Washington vs. Lily Collins: MET Dueling Bobs No, of course it doesn’t have to be a competition. But when two women both wear a distinctive hairstyle that’s nothing like their own (and is very obviously a tribute to Rei Kawakubo) you tend to wind up putting their attempts beside one another. One of the reasons By Duana • May 02, 2017 10:46 am
MET Gala 2017 Katy Perry: MET Costume You’re lucky, Katy Perry. You’re the co-chair of the event, which is also called the Costume Institute Gala, and that article about you in Vogue inspired a super-ranty episode of Show Your Work where we complimented you for being interested in learning more and being more. You’ve By Duana • May 02, 2017 09:49 am
MET Gala 2017 Matthew Rhys & Keri Russell: Best MET Story When we divide up the people we’re going to write about at LaineyGossip, some are for fighting over—wait for that later today—and some are just givens. Nobody would even have to blink before handing me Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys but you know what? I’m gonna By Duana • May 02, 2017 08:51 am
MET Gala 2017 Katie Holmes: MET Fudge I hesitated on that title. But I couldn’t think of another way to describe what Katie Holmes is doing in this outfit. You know when you try to get away with something? When you know what you’ve worked on isn’t exactly the answer to the question, but By Duana • May 02, 2017 08:30 am
