Lifestyle Duana Names: How ‘Under’ is This Underdog? Hi Duana! My boyfriend and I are expecting a baby boy in January and are in dire need of your help to find a perfect name for him. We both have a French Canadian background and my boyfriend's family name is very French sounding. Because of this, and By Duana • Jan 06, 2017 04:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Feliz Navidad! Dear Duana, My best friend has recently gotten pregnant after an extended period of trying, and the new topic of conversation between her and her husband is what to name their to-be baby (gender unknown). It’s a long conversation, because my friend is an historian who likes literary names, By Duana • Dec 23, 2016 04:08 pm
Name Nerd Blake, Ryan, and their daughters, DRAMA and ATTENTION Reynolds What? What’s wrong with those names? You think my headline’s over the top? I submit that’s what Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively may as well have named their children. Read on: This week we found out the name of their second child. It’s a girl, and By Duana • Dec 21, 2016 12:57 pm
The Affair It’s A Hard Noah Solloway Life The Affair 303-305 Recap I could watch a show about Cole. That is, I do watch a show about Cole. But I could watch a whole show about Cole, his ex-wife and current wife and daughter and (deceased) brother and family, and people like Oscar who rotate into his life By Duana • Dec 20, 2016 02:54 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: SOCCERSTAR! Hi Duana! I’m an Aunt to two amazing boys and my sister is expecting her third (and very much surprise) baby in December. We just found out this week it’s another boy. I’m in Auntie heaven already! Here are the issues: My brother in law is Mexican-Italian By Duana • Dec 19, 2016 05:08 pm
Julia Roberts Julia Roberts. On Your TELEVISION Julia Roberts has signed on to a TV adaptation of Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different. As with all things Julia Roberts, it’s very hard not to think this was done expressly for me and my benefit. I love Maria Semple, and recommended her book Where’d You By Duana • Dec 19, 2016 01:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Grandmothers and grudge-holding So you know, on these days when we talk fondly about the children who may soon arrive, there’s always someone who says “Ugh, kids. And they’re full of GERMS.” And it’s true, they are… but I have it on backed-up, I’m-not-the-only-one proof that my current plague By Duana • Dec 16, 2016 03:44 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Flag-Waving Name? Dear Duana, After obsessing over names for my entire life, I’m now stuck with only a few weeks left to figure this out! Duana, I’m turning to you – please help. Here are some perfunctory details before I launch into the dilemma. I am due with baby number two By Duana • Dec 14, 2016 06:31 pm
Don Cheadle Golden Globes TV Nominations 2017 Awww HFPA, you’re so cute! You are adorable, because the way you nominate shows sometimes intersects with the best things on TV, but…you know, not all the time. For example, Game Of Thrones, representing once again in Best Dramatic Series, and…that’s it? OK, there’s also By Duana • Dec 12, 2016 04:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Want To Know Right Now What Will It Be? Hey Duana, My husband and I are expecting a girl on January 1st and are still undecided on her name. We have a son, Alexander, who mostly goes by Alex, but is also called Sasha by myself and my husband (we both speak Russian). I love me some odd names, By Duana • Dec 09, 2016 04:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: One Plus One Equals Three? Hello Duana, When we were first talking about having kids I was so excited to pick names! I thought it would be the best part about being pregnant, but it’s turned out to be hard and exhausting in reality. My husband and I are expecting our second baby [in By Duana • Dec 08, 2016 04:48 pm
TV Updates “That Chubby Communist Girl”, or “White Day Is Every Day” I was dismissive about NBC doing Hairspray: Live, and I was wrong. As a musical nerd (see: virtually every post I’ve ever written on this site) I’m usually sort of dismissive of the more popular musicals. The ones people cite as ‘the only musical I’ve ever seen’ By Duana • Dec 08, 2016 04:28 pm
Music The Hamilton Mixtape Is Modern, Stars Women Before Lainey dreamed about being the dean of celebrity studies at a small liberal arts college somewhere in New England, we would talk about how great it would be just to be perpetual students, deep in studying for learning’s sake, not for a degree and a job, Hermione Granger By Duana • Dec 06, 2016 03:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Pretty Hurts? Hi Duana, I swear at one point I had a mental list of beloved names but now that we’re expecting (after over 7 years of trying!) I can’t seem to remember any of them! She’s expected to arrive in January and we’re stuck for names. My By Duana • Dec 05, 2016 05:09 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kunis & Kutcher’s New Baby and a set of “Hollywood” Twins Over the weekend, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher announced the birth of their son, Dimitri Portwood Kutcher. I am all for this. Every bit of it. In a way, Dimitri is an obvious choice (though I suspect that in this family they’re going to be less likely to use By Duana • Dec 05, 2016 12:32 pm
TV Updates Gilmore Girls: A, Single, Non-Definitive, Year In The Life I really appreciate having couple of days to sit with A Year In The Life. I took my time, as Kathleen texted me ever-more-frantically. “Have you started yet?! HURRY!” “OMG.” “OMG ARE YOU AWAKE?” (OK, that last one was me.) I feared being disappointed, because I thought the show might By Duana • Nov 30, 2016 03:40 pm
