Lifestyle Duana Names: Boys Who Make Sense Hi Duana, I had to google "twee" after you referred to my son's name as twee! It was your guess that Ryan and Blake would name their new lil one Greyson... which we had just done, so I know you may not be a fan of By Duana • May 04, 2016 04:54 pm
Girly Throw Downs Jennifer Hudson Reacts to Tony snub The story at the Tony Awards was never going to be Hamilton, because that was always going to be the story. Yeah, 16 nominations is a lot, but the show has probably been the most mentioned piece of art in the last twelve months, by an exponential amount. That was By Duana • May 04, 2016 12:56 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oh, We’re Halfway There Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting boy-girl twins in early May 2016. We are super excited about this as the road to conception was anything but easy (IVF and the whole works....) and a LONG time coming...... We are a mixed-ethnicity couple, with me being a Euro blend By Duana • May 02, 2016 04:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Opinions! Go! Duana, Straight to the point, here is our short list of boy names Samson Dietrich Rex Do we have a winner here? We tend to gravitate towards strong hopefully non-pretentious names. I could go into detail why each of these mean something to us but that's not how By Duana • Apr 29, 2016 04:14 pm
Scandal Who Was That? Where Is She? Scandal season 5 episode 19 recap May I raise a glass to Sally Langston as the most creative and surprisingly believable and effective use of a character who had in theory outlived her usefulness? I may, with an extra clink for the disdain with which she enunciates ‘feminist’. It’s By Duana • Apr 29, 2016 10:17 am
Dumbass Is it bad to be Becky? It happens to all of us eventually—I got into a Twitter fight with Iggy Azalea, and I won. Okay, no. Not exactly. What actually happened is that Azalea, who is…exhausting, at best… got offended when someone referred to her as ‘Becky’. Not implying she was the actual “Becky By Duana • Apr 27, 2016 01:14 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emily Blunt & Lin-Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins I cannot tell you how much this casting delights me. I never think of Emily Blunt as being super-British, which is ridiculous because of course she’s British and also how do you gauge the Brit-ness of someone? But I guess, as opposed to Adele or Stella McCartney or someone By Duana • Apr 26, 2016 01:00 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Searching for Klarity Duana! I’ve struggled my whole life to come to terms with my name because not only did my Chinese parents give me a French name that they can’t pronounce, they had to go and spell it differently! They did the same cruel thing to my sister. It’s By Duana • Apr 25, 2016 04:25 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: On Musical Associations I have a twofer today because two letters came in that had such similar echoes of each other I thought, why not. Also, because just putting ‘Musical’ in the title will make Lainey scan suspiciously for references to THAT show… Hi Duana! We’re expecting our second, a boy, and By Duana • Apr 22, 2016 04:09 pm
Scandal The Legend of Pete Harris Scandal Season 5 Episode 18 recap I have decided that there are two ways to respond to and recap this episode, and so after careful consideration, I’m doing them both. Here we go… Who CARES? At this point, who cares anymore? Okay, so Olivia is a pouty, mentally unstable By Duana • Apr 22, 2016 10:02 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: We’re Not Playing Hi Duana, My partner and I have been avoiding the "name game" like the plague. We cannot see eye to eye. We live in a bilingual part of the country, so a bilingual name is a must. With my first born, I waved the white flag right after By Duana • Apr 20, 2016 05:15 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession John Legend & Chrissy Teigen name daughter Luna Simone I’m so down with this one. I was asked about my predictions for this name a few weeks ago, and I said it was going to be a little offbeat, in a familiar way. Ultimately these two people are named John and Christine, and even though they’re both, By Duana • Apr 18, 2016 11:56 am
Girls I Would Love To Surprise Someone Sometime Girls Season 5 finale Episodes 9 and 10 recap First things first: My longing for Jenny Slate’s haircut. I wanted it when she first got it, snapped back to my senses, and this episode has renewed my love. Please know that I have forced my curly hair into submission By Duana • Apr 18, 2016 09:34 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Protecting the brilliance of A certain name Hi Duana, I love your columns and feel that you have so much power over other name nerds that I yelled at you a year ago for overhyping our daughter's name, Anthea, because I wanted to keep it to ourselves. I must have made an impression because you By Duana • Apr 15, 2016 04:55 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Kelly Clarkson’s baby son Remington Alexander Kelly Clarkson’s son has arrived, and has been named Remington Alexander, younger sibling to River Rose, and to Brandon Blackstock’s older children, Savannah and Seth. Clearly there’s some alliteration love going on here, since Remington goes with River as Savannah goes with Seth. I’m not mad By Duana • Apr 14, 2016 04:09 pm
TV Updates ABC Comedy Child-Actor Roundtable Everyone who tweets about this article says how cute it is. And Lord, those GIFs of all of them jumping around are amazingly cute. In fact, before we go any further, let’s look at this group of 7 kids on ABC, notice something remarkable about the picture, and appreciate By Duana • Apr 14, 2016 01:09 pm
