The Affair Aftermathing The Affair Season 3 Episodes 9-10 finale recap So here we are…in Paris. Now we know what we know. ‘Do you think you’re some kind of expert on affairs’, Juliette wants to know, and at the end of three seasons, well, do you? I have been skeptical about By Duana • Jan 31, 2017 04:48 pm
Amazingness Dear Development Executives Dear Development Executives, Sometimes what Lainey refers to as my ‘contrariness’ is actually just saturation fatigue. If you’re not into something, or someone, and people keep talking about them, it can feel straight-up aggressive. So you, who are constantly scouring for new talent, could be forgiven for maybe feeling By Duana • Jan 31, 2017 12:58 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Should We Fix This “Mistake”? Dear Duana -- I'm pregnant with Baby No. 3. My husband and I both adored and agreed easily on the name Stella Jane for our oldest. The name hadn't *quite* taken off when we chose it, but, honestly, we didn't care that it was By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 05:20 pm
Style Nicole Kidman’s SAG Showstopper Mock this dress. I dare you. Complain about the gorgeous colour. The ingenuity of macaws (hat tip to Sarah) ready to tear it up over her clavicle and chestbone – no, don’t look at that dress and tell me those birds are peaceful. They are not. They are ready to By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 03:35 pm
SAG Awards 2017 Natalie Portman: SAG Whispers Let me say at the outset here that I think Natalie Portman is up against a relatively exhausting set of circumstances. She is quite, quite pregnant, and that only means exhausted because even if you got to sleep until seconds before it was time to go, you can’t sleep By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 03:09 pm
SAG Awards 2017 Naomie Harris’s SAG lounge-wear One of the things Lainey’s always eager to talk about during awards season is the idea that celebs can be holding back, or banking, their best dresses—or alternately, spending them earlier if they don’t think they’re going to get a lot of play on the big By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 02:03 pm
Style They love Claire Foy and so do I Herewith, I eat crow: I did not think Claire Foy was going to win, and I told Lainey as much. Yes, yes, people love The Crown, and obviously John Lithgow because that …shoulder-hump prosthetic is amazing as it is, but I didn’t think that the mousy Queen Elizabeth, who By Duana • Jan 30, 2017 10:33 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Karmic Culture Chameleon? Hi Duana! I am due in Feb with a boy and my husband and I are totally at a loss on what to name him. To give a little heritage context, I am of Sudanese/Turkish/Moroccan/Yemeni decent with an unusual Turkish name that’s also uncommonly used in By Duana • Jan 27, 2017 03:59 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: SON OF TWELVE Hi Duana, My boyfriend and I are having our first baby in one month and we need help. We’ve decided to keep the gender a surprise, which means we get all the fun of brainstorming twice as many names. While we’ve got loads of great girl names (possibly By Duana • Jan 25, 2017 04:51 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Geri Halliwell’s Son…YES… Are we about ready for some earnest Spice Girls nostalgia? I assume so, given that it was exactly 20 years ago that they were becoming a massive phenomenon when Spice was released. But it’s not just cheesy romanticizing – what’s become obvious in the 20 years since they first By Duana • Jan 23, 2017 10:54 am
Music MILCK can’t keep quiet God, I love hearing stories from the Women’s March protests on Saturday. Marches? How do we properly grammaticize what happened across the globe this weekend? I’ve spent the last two days looking over my photos, your photos, which we LOVE that you are sending, those amazing aggregate photo By Duana • Jan 23, 2017 10:38 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Don’t Panic Hi Duana, Do I have a job for you! My husband and I recently found out we are expecting our second child (our first was born 9 short months ago...surprise!) and are completely lost when it comes to naming number 2. Yes, the name is what I'm By Duana • Jan 20, 2017 04:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Getting Specific About Sibling Names I wrote to you two years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter, who we named Margo Naomi. My question was about spelling it Margo vs. Margot. I was so thrilled that you responded, even though we had already put the name on the birth certificate by the time By Duana • Jan 18, 2017 05:05 pm
The Affair The Fault In No-Fault Divorce The Affair Season 3, Episodes 306-308 recap The trick of The Affair, the thing that made it fascinating all this time, was the idea that of course, the small-a affair doesn’t just affect the people in it, but everyone around them. It’s one of those ideas that’s By Duana • Jan 17, 2017 02:42 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: To The Day…But Not The Letter We are expecting girl2 in mid January (actually have the same due date as with girl1, they will be 3 years apart) and we can't find a name we love as much as we love girl1's name. Girl1 is named Lilian Heather (goes by Lily 85% By Duana • Jan 16, 2017 03:57 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Why People Love Math We are expecting our second child, a daughter, in February. We lean toward traditional names and spent time finding ones that weren't too popular. Our son is named Peter, and we've chosen Jane as the first name for our daughter. We have a fairly common last By Duana • Jan 13, 2017 03:41 pm
