Lifestyle Duana Names: What Even IS Our Style? Hi Duana, We are in desperate need of name help. We are (unexpectedly) expecting our third child this winter and are completely stumped on a name. We don't know the gender and have two sons already named Kadence (the K...I know, I know but I was young By Duana • Oct 12, 2016 04:43 pm
TV Updates Kathleen & Duana watch Insecure Kathleen and I have been talking about Insecure and Issa Rae since way before it had a name. We were both fans of Awkward Black Girl and despaired at the false starts of getting this woman on our TV screens. So anticipation was high, and like nerds, we pressed play By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 12:42 pm
TV Updates Factual Evidence to support Crucible Cast Party (I don’t remember the Sprite. What am I forgetting?) The most recent episode of SNL was always going to be a stacked deck for musical theatre, song-and-Broadway nerds. Elsewhere you can see host Lin-Manuel Miranda do his ‘I hope I nail SNL hosting’ rap to the tune of My By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 11:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Where Am I In The Mix? Hi Duana! I LOVE your column and your name nerd advice (and your name, to be honest). I also loved your book – how we feel about our names is such a study in human hope and behaviour, I can hardly believe that we went this long without the name nerd By Duana • Oct 07, 2016 04:39 pm
TV Updates Nothing Like the Real Thing, Gilmore-Wise There are times when you think of yourself as cool, and then there are times when you have to abandon the pretense that you ever were. Yesterday I stood in line in an empty mall waiting to get coffee from a fictional coffee shop in a tea shop (that used By Duana • Oct 06, 2016 02:44 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: I Like It, But Don’t Love It Hi Duana, I am due in December with my first, a girl. We were pretty set with boys names, our father's names in the middle, with Remi as the first name. (I am French Canadian, so I favour French names. Hubby is Polish Canadian and has no real By Duana • Oct 05, 2016 03:28 pm
Child Stars Things I Wish I Didn't Know About Millie Bobby Brown Lainey winced when she sent me the article. Because she knew. She knew I couldn't not know what I know now. Apparently, Millie Bobby Brown, of Stranger Things, who's being inundated with film and TV offers, is about to sign with a new agent. Before she By Duana • Oct 05, 2016 11:55 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Ain’t Looking For an Ava Hi Duana, I am expecting my second child in early October, gender to be discovered at birth. I think it is a boy (because the needle and thread said so) but am preparing for either. My first son's name is Tighe (pronounced like Tadgh - Tiger without the By Duana • Oct 03, 2016 04:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: “Biracial Baby Blunt-Krasinski” Hi Duana, I hope you're well! Sorry for the strange title, but I hope this email explains it all. My husband is white and I'm black and we're trying for our first baby. There's nothing immediate, but we've been talking By Duana • Sep 30, 2016 03:01 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: When you just…can’t Hi Duana, We're expecting our second child in October and have started thinking of names. Our first child is Ethan Patrick, which we chose based off of family names. I realize with Ethan coming in on several Top 10 baby lists that it's also probably considered By Duana • Sep 28, 2016 03:29 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda, redeemed in New York This is more like it, KATHLEEN. Not only is this Variety cover of Lin-Manuel Miranda much more representative of what he actually looks like than certain fashion covers from a week ago, it’s also him in his natural habitat of New York (if by ‘natural’ you mean casually leaning By Duana • Sep 28, 2016 11:50 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Only Five for Number Four Hi Duana! I'm writing on behalf of my best friend (with her knowledge. No shadiness involved!). She and her husband are having kid #4, a boy, and she is PISSED about it. She had incredible plans for this year involving exercise, self-improvement and further study, and her husband& By Duana • Sep 26, 2016 04:55 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Guess Again Hi Duana, I’m due with my second daughter at the end of September. When it came time to naming our first daughter, we came to a decision pretty quickly. Her name is Milana but goes by Mila – a name we both loved and still love – and her middle name By Duana • Sep 23, 2016 03:39 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Adam, Behati, and yes… The rumours are true. Dusty Rose. Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo named their baby Dusty Rose. Incredibly, this is not the first Dusty Rose I have been acquainted with. As a teenager, I was a day camp counselor, and one session, a girl walked in and announced her name was By Duana • Sep 23, 2016 03:02 pm
TV Updates Why You Feel Gross About the JonBenet Shows I don’t know how it’s possible, but when I wrote about CBS's then-upcoming JonBenet miniseries, I didn’t know about the JonBenet specials on A&E, TLC, and Dateline, not to mention Dr. Phil’s 3-part interview with Burke Ramsey. Everyone wants to capitalize on By Duana • Sep 21, 2016 10:36 am
Style Sarah Paulson: Emmys Best Dressed (Duana) Let’s just get this out of the way: this dress is spectacular, and I knew the second she appeared on my screen that she would be my best dressed. I love the emerald colour and the chunky texture and the deep v-neck and the nod to breasts lying in By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 04:09 pm
