Lifestyle Duana Names: So Shall It Be Done Hi Duana, On the Netflix show The 100, the main character's name is Clark and she is a woman. I love that name for a girl. Is 'Clark' becoming a trend for girls? Has this come up on the 'Duana Names'? Also, what about By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 04:19 pm
Amazingness Mean Girls: The Musical - For Nerds, By Nerds I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tina Fey is a choir nerd. It’s most clear to me from intense readings of Bossypants - she mentions that she was in audition-only choirs and it was a big deal, in a way that is clearly joking-but-not-joking. By Duana • Mar 22, 2017 12:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: His Arabic Name So, Lainey and Sasha answer this question today on the Sasha Answers podcast. Their answers were thoughtful and heartfelt, of course, but they asked me to weigh in specifically from a name point of view. It was an honour to try to help. I need some advice regarding my son. By Duana • Mar 21, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates This Is Only Some Of Us On Friday, I opened Messenger, texted Kathleen, and proceeded to ruin her day. I’ve been thinking about This Is Us all week and I’m not the only one —their Saturday night panel at PaleyFest was packed. The show is ridiculously successful in a time when both network shows By Duana • Mar 20, 2017 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Defying Categorization and 80s Soaps Hi Duana! I’m currently expecting baby #2 (due late April) and we are not finding out the sex. My husband and I truly love our daughter’s name – Ruby Kyoko. I know Ruby isn’t your favourite – too ‘pinteresty’ I think you said (haha!) but I just love it. By Duana • Mar 17, 2017 03:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: BIT OF A LONG ONE Hi Duana, I got married last month and hubby and I already have the appointment set for our IVF cycle next month – I am not getting any younger, you know... I am the anxious/planner one in the family, and then he makes the comment “I can’t wait for By Duana • Mar 15, 2017 05:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Rules! Made to be Broken? Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in March and we are waiting to find out the sex. We are happy with a slew of girl names *(Margaret, Josephine, Penelope) but we are stuck on a boy’s name. WE want a name that “fits” with our first son’ By Duana • Mar 13, 2017 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Nerd Seeks Same Hi Duana! I’ve always been a name nerd as well, it’s so nice to read about a kindred spirit! Like you, I loved reading baby name books when I was younger. Kathleen sounds like a common name but I was always the only one and there were NEVER By Duana • Mar 10, 2017 04:18 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Course Correction Hi Duana, We are due this summer, so not for a while, but I feel like this baby naming thing is a big task and the more time we give it, the better. I come from a family of really good names. I have a strong 3-syllable name (Kennedy) that By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 05:11 pm
Equality Issues Maria nominates: Duana’s Ghostbusters crew In August 2015, almost a year before the all-female Ghostbusters was released, Duana wrote about an Instagram photo posted by Melissa McCarthy of the crew - all the women with their job titles specifically noted. Today Maria is nominating this post to revisit, on International Women’s Day, as we By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 04:07 pm
Equality Issues Joanna nominates: Duana on Allison Williams In Joanna’s words: I nominate Duana’s The No-Podcast Would-Be Episode of Show Your Work. I’ve been an avid listener of the podcast since it launched (remember “Working Class”?), but aside from the Dwayne Johnson-Anna Kendrick-shut down Jimmy Fallon mega episode from November, my favourite edition has to By Duana • Mar 08, 2017 03:35 pm
TV Updates I Don’t Want More Gilmore Girls Well, it’s been nice working here at LaineyGossip and existing under my own face and name on the internet, but I assume those days are over. Because when I read the headline that there might be more Gilmore episodes on Netflix, I thought... nah, I’m good. Which I By Duana • Mar 07, 2017 04:18 pm
Girls The Work of Girls I know the world needs less narcissism and not more. Still, indulge me for a second in thinking that the fact that I wasn’t able to watch the third episode of Girls season 6, “American Bitch”, until now is fortuitous, not unfortunate. The whole season has been rocketing along By Duana • Mar 07, 2017 03:41 pm
Top Reads Emma Watson, Evolving Feminism, and “T-ts” So Emma Watson is an actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. She defined feminism as “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” She’s currently in the middle of a massive promotional campaign for Beauty and the Beast. Hence her March cover of Vanity Fair. By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 03:57 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Natalie Portman’s Pre-Oscar Baby A Early in the week of the Oscars, Natalie Portman released a statement saying she wouldn’t be attending either the big show or the Independent Spirit Awards, ‘on doctor’s orders’. Turns out that was because her daughter arrived on February 22nd, and I swear up and down that she By Duana • Mar 06, 2017 02:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Does It Matter? Does ANYTHING? Hi there! First name nerd advice-seeker here. I wrote to you four years ago to get your take on our first child's name, a boy we called Theodore Roland Giguere Hodes. I need general name advice, but also want your take on something. I fancy myself a feminist, By Duana • Mar 03, 2017 03:54 pm
