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
TV Updates The Affair’s new season is ‘A Bit Murky’ The Affair, Season 3 Episode 1 and 2 recap I would imagine there is significant overlap between the people who watch The Affair and a certain other show that is about the intimate wonderful terrible ways of family. I felt like a few days of distance would help us to By Duana • Nov 29, 2016 05:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Four for Four I've never wanted to be out in public discussing my name choices but we now have 1 month left to name the child who will be our last: our 4th girl due at the end of December!! And I am tapped! As an indecisive person, I had trouble By Duana • Nov 28, 2016 05:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Have A Repeat Caller! Hi Duana! I am due in December and am in need of some help. I actually wrote into you two years ago looking for a badass name for my son and am now on the hunt for a badass name for my daughter. A refresher: our last name is two By Duana • Nov 25, 2016 02:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Seventeen Simple Steps To Harnessing Name Distaste Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting a daughter in December and we are not finding any common ground, mainly because we hate everything we come across. Prior to discovering I was pregnant I had a slew of hypothetical names that I had been tossing around and they were By Duana • Nov 23, 2016 06:00 pm
Jimmy Fallon Get Lost, Jimmy Come Lately You know why I love writing here? Many reasons, among them the following exchange: @Cinesnark not any more than @LaineyGossip. Not possible— Sasha (@Sasha_Tong) November 22, 2016 You guys? That’s Sarah and Sasha being petty about who is pettier. (Bonus that Sasha is stumping for Lainey, not herself. By Duana • Nov 23, 2016 01:46 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Alternatives to Perfection Hi Duana, Per the midwife this baby has one foot out the door and I’m panicking because we still don’t have a name. We are expecting a boy and he has two older sisters – Gwen and Virginia. Last name is two syllables, starts with a D and is By Duana • Nov 21, 2016 03:08 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Have Each Other… Okay, so it’s been a rough little while. So we’re all exhausted by all the articles we’re sending around, the Biden memes have slowed to a trickle, and it feels as dire as ever but with the added implication that we should have to get back to By Duana • Nov 18, 2016 03:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: The Unicorn Letter Duana: My partner and I are having the hardest time agreeing on names for our little girl, arriving in December. I want a timeless, feminine name and he prefers something a bit less common. Names that I love: V----a names: Victoria, Virginia, Veronica (NOT Vanessa though); Louisa; Edith (we would By Duana • Nov 16, 2016 04:31 pm
Harry Potter Diary Of A Bad Hufflepuff Like all of us, I was sorted on Pottermore. I don’t know if most people feel like they’re pulled in many…I had valid options for more than a few of the questions. Then when the Hufflepuff banner came down, I was horrified. You go through an entire By Duana • Nov 16, 2016 01:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can’t Change It, Love It Dear Duana, I am in need of your assistance with naming my first child and am hoping that you can help. I am not sure whether you post the entirety of the emails that you receive so apologise in advance if this is too long. I am having a boy. By Duana • Nov 14, 2016 04:03 pm
Girlcrushes What Kate McKinnon Can Do Sunday morning, I sent the following text to Kathleen: “Modern Challenge: How to send my mom, who doesn’t have Twitter, a link to the Kate McKinnon SNL opening that isn’t already dead?” (These are the perils of living in a geoblocked nation.) My reaction to the opening of By Duana • Nov 14, 2016 02:26 pm
