Lifestyle Duana Names: Desperate, Yet Unique? Hi Duana, I am so confused. Pregnancy hormones are not helping! We are expecting our second child in less than 2 weeks and are choosing not to find out the gender. However, we are stumped on names. We both are of Indian origin and thought we were being unique in By Duana • Jun 29, 2016 05:12 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Why Now? Hi Duana, I'm not pregnant but I have a name question or curiosity that I need to have some clarity on. We had a baby girl in December and named her Kyra. One month before she was born an acquaintance had a girl named Kiera. Two months after By Duana • Jun 27, 2016 04:32 pm
TV Updates Michelle and Rory, Sitting in a Library When Barack and Michelle Obama became the most media savvy and best-dressed First Couple in our collective memories, we all nodded, sage. It made sense. Sure, Barack would want to keep his Blackberry, and obviously Michelle Obama wore Lululemon. (OMG, that last sentence. Were we ever so young? Now he By Duana • Jun 27, 2016 03:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Unique Do I Need To Go? Hi Duana, I have a unique name: Siobhan. Luckily I live in the UK so most people know how to pronounce it but I grew up in Australia where they didn't. Few can spell it but I've gotten so used to it that I don' By Duana • Jun 24, 2016 03:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: But Please, No Hi Duana, Writing in for my work wife who is due in June. Her daughter is Eliana and they had a very hard time coming up with that name. Mom and dad have very common 80s names (mom is something like Lauren or Julie* and dad is something like Jason By Duana • Jun 22, 2016 04:54 pm
Music What The World Needs Now… You know when something’s somehow better than you expected? The Broadway for Orlando charity single is exactly what they promised it would be –Broadway’s brightest and most legendary voices coming together to cover What the World Needs Now is Love. 100% of the sales go to the LGBT By Duana • Jun 21, 2016 12:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Suddenly Stalled Hello Duana, I'll be delivering a baby boy in September as a single mum. The circumstances around the situation are delicate at best, let's just say I have no confirmation if the father wants any involvement in this child's life. With that in mind By Duana • Jun 20, 2016 02:29 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: My Tradition is Losing My Mind Hi Duana, My lovely husband has been alternating subtle and not-so- subtle hints that if our second baby is a girl, he would really like to name her for his mother. It's tradition in his family to name new babies for their grandparents, and while that's By Duana • Jun 17, 2016 02:26 pm
Clay Aiken Celebrities Holding The Mic I’ve been the first to say we should treat entertainers like entertainers, not role models. But in the wake of the Orlando massacre, there are reactions that make me think that, sometimes, I should revise my opinion – including my opinion on some of the stars having the reactions in By Duana • Jun 16, 2016 01:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Third Time’s The Charm Hi Duana! We have a son named Grant and a daughter named Lucy. I love both of their names and they are both the only ones in their class and have family history, but now we are struggling with #3! We had always said we'd name our hypothetical By Duana • Jun 14, 2016 02:54 pm
Amazingness Hamilton at the Tony Awards “I am inimitable, I am an original” You could be forgiven if you felt a little overwhelmed by the amount of Hamilton coverage lately. It’s so ubiquitous because Lin-Manuel Miranda and the show Hamilton are at once separate entities and inextricably linked. Miranda won two Tonys personally last night, By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 02:40 pm
Theatre Nerd The Color Purple at the Tonys “I’m Beautiful, And I’m Here” People swear that you have to see Hamilton. People brag about their tickets, about their transformative experiences about the show. They refer to Lin-Manuel Miranda by his first syllable, they unearth obscure references in even the less-celebrated songs, and wave their merch around, By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 12:08 pm
Theatre Nerd The Tony Awards Measures In Love It would have been a great show regardless. These are show people, so they put on a show, they prepare their speeches, prepare to belt their performances. The energy of live theatre beats in the blood of people who do it every day, and somehow they reproduce that energy in By Duana • Jun 13, 2016 10:29 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Arrived & Unnamed! Hi Duana!!! I am writing with an urgent request – my brother and sister-in-law just had their perfect daughter yesterday, their second child, and are having trouble picking a name! They have asked for my help so of course I thought of you. I know you have some crazy June baby By Duana • Jun 10, 2016 03:36 pm
TV Updates Ginnifer Goodwin’s great baby name leads to Americans withdrawal Ginnifer Goodwin and her husband Josh Dallas named their new baby Hugo Wilson Dallas. I really, really love Hugo, even though one of my strongest aural memories of it is Perpetua ‘yars’-ing the name in Bridget Jones’s Diary. It’s a good name, works well with their first By Duana • Jun 09, 2016 01:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Pinning Down Your Magnolia Duana, We have lots of time to answer this question (this isn't like a, due next week problem) but I am worried that we will never be able to decide on a girl's name. I NEVER thought this would be us because I had my names, By Duana • Jun 08, 2016 02:28 pm
