Music Love Make The World Go Round Lin-Manuel Miranda cannot quit Twitter. So that’s where he posted yesterday morning that he would soon have music that “you don’t need tickets to hear”. Because he’s not busy enough and doesn’t have enough jobs. Turns out it’s a charity single with JLo, Love By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 12:52 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession John Krasinski & Emily Blunt’s new daughter Violet She has arrived – John Krasinski tweeted: What better way to celebrate the 4th... than to announce our 4th family member!!! 2 weeks ago we met our beautiful daughter Violet #Happy4th— John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) July 4, 2016 A sweet sentiment, right? It also makes his previous tweet, wishing ‘all fellow dads By Duana • Jul 05, 2016 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bridget Jones’s Face It’s been a relatively slow long weekend on social media, which was bad news for Owen Gleiberman, author of the ridiculously misogynistic Variety article about Renee Zellweger's face in the new Bridget Jones trailer. I really thought about whether or not using that word was hyperbole, but By Duana • Jul 04, 2016 02:52 pm
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 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' 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 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 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
