Lifestyle Duana Names: Double Dipper Hi Duana, Almost 2 years ago you really helped us out in having the ‘guts’ to choose our son’s name: Duncan. He’s almost 2 and we still love the name. (Remember the ‘Teacher’s Curse’?) Well, baby #2 - a girl - is on the way! We have By Duana • Feb 10, 2017 04:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Angelica! Eliza! …and Firefighter I am pumped to write you as we expect the arrival of our third baby. We were on the unenviable infertility journey for years before we welcomed our first son, and even know as we prepare to welcome our third, it feels like a crazy miracle. Henry Clarke is our By Duana • Feb 08, 2017 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Complete the Set? Or Something New? Hi Duana Almost 2 years ago now I gave birth to twin daughters Amelia Grace and Marlowe Faith, I even wrote to you then asking for help and it was such a delight getting your feedback and input. We are having another girl in the new year and could use By Duana • Feb 06, 2017 04:08 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Different Babies, Same Patterns? We're expecting a little girl in early February. We already have two boys, Emerson Rhys and Sebastian Wynn. Our last name is a double barrel, both start with B and the very last ends in "ah". We had an easy time naming the boys but we& By Duana • Feb 03, 2017 03:39 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfection Plus What? Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second child in 3 weeks, a baby girl. With our first I was obsessed with finding the perfect name to suit our tastes and we were successful in choosing one we absolutely love and never questioned once we found it: Keaton. By Duana • Feb 01, 2017 05:48 pm
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
