Scandal The Intervention Scandal Season 5 Episode 16 recap Hands up if you only really woke up when Mellie read Mean Tweets about herself. That woman is a ray of sunshine, and if Marcus’s only purpose on this show is to get her out of her head and onto the Jimmy Kimmel By Duana • Apr 01, 2016 09:45 am
Theatre Nerd Wrong Side of History You know how, when everyone really likes a thing, someone gets jealous or sick of how well that thing is doing, and there’s a backlash? Jennifer Lawrence, Scandal, Paleo? Well, someone decided it was time for a Hamilton backlash—except they really picked the wrong battle. The open call By Duana • Mar 31, 2016 10:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: I LOVE IT…now what? Duana, Okay, you know how people say to keep a perhaps… controversial name choice a secret until the baby is born? That no one can really talk shit about it, because it's attached to an actual adorable little human being? Yeah, I maybe tried to do the opposite By Duana • Mar 30, 2016 02:47 pm
TV Updates You need to binge-watch American Crime Story We’ve been at ‘peak TV’ for a while now, so what’s your method for dealing with the pressures of all there is? I assume it’s “tune out all but the essentials”, but I’m gonna need you to reconsider. I gobbled down two episodes of American Crime By Duana • Mar 29, 2016 05:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Journey to the End of the Alphabet Hi Duana, I have a good friend who's due with her 3rd boy, and she knows what an obsessive name nerd that I am, so she and her husband asked me to write you and help her figure out a name! I asked her all the questions I By Duana • Mar 28, 2016 03:39 pm
Girls Fairytale of New York Girls Season 5 Episode 6 recap Ohhhh, this was such a great episode. I knew as soon as Desi repeated “recoiled from my touch” that we were getting to the real truth of the thing, mainly that you can be way too much, like Marnie Michaels is, and still not By Duana • Mar 28, 2016 09:39 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Get out of the locker! Hi Duana! I have been reading your articles for such a long time now, I can't even remember when I started. It was definitely before I had my first kid - a fabulous boy named Luke (not Lucas). Now I'm expecting my second, due on March By Duana • Mar 23, 2016 05:51 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: We Must… Hi Duana, My husband and I are due with our second baby girl in April, and we are having a hard time coming up with a name for her. Our firstborn is named Emilia, which we loved and still love, except now we've run into the pesky issue By Duana • Mar 21, 2016 04:54 pm
Girls Salt and a Monokini Girls Season 5 Episode 5 recap One of the reasons the scenes with Hannah’s parents have always been so good is that she doesn’t pretend when she’s with them. The ‘Brooklyn Hannah’ attitude that allows her to inform people about the conscious choices she’s making in By Duana • Mar 21, 2016 08:59 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can a Nickname Just Be A Name? Hi Duana, I’ve had this name question for awhile now, but didn’t want to write in until we had reason to, being superstitious and all (no jinx!). My husband and I are now expecting a little boy and the timing is right for my question! We are heavily By Duana • Mar 18, 2016 03:31 pm
Scandal It’s My Turn Scandal Season 5 Episode 14 recap Man, the subtext is really, really becoming text here. In large part, this episode is about Abby being hungry, deciding that well-behaved women never make history, and grabbing for what she wants. In large part, this is about Olivia explaining to Quinn why she’ By Duana • Mar 18, 2016 10:42 am
How To Get Away With Murder Tell Me How To Say No To This How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 15 recap A season finale is supposed to be heart-pounding, breathtaking, a constant roller-coaster riding twisting screech to the finish. Revelation! Revelation! Twist! Gasp! That’s what we’ve been trained to expect. The finale tied up loose ends, but the By Duana • Mar 18, 2016 10:19 am
Emma Watson #HeForShe For Hamilton For Hogwarts Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emma Watson had a conversation for #HeforShe, the U.N. gender equality initiative for which Emma is a vocal and active representative. The interview, in four parts, is about an hour(!) long, and really becomes an in-depth discussion of Hamilton, the references, the inspirations…all through a By Duana • Mar 17, 2016 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Am I Naive? We are expecting our first girl in early summer. To date, we have put a few names on a short list but have yet to decide on one. We both have names that were of average popularity in the late 70’s and early 80’s, and our surname is By Duana • Mar 16, 2016 05:03 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What would Proust say? Madeleine has made its way into consideration, but debate over pronunciation and spelling is cloudy the decision. I understand Madeleine is the classic, French spelling, and Madeline the English spelling? My question is: are these all the same name, or are they different? I would have pronounced all of the By Duana • Mar 14, 2016 04:25 pm
Girls Cruel To Be Kind Girls Season 5 Episode 4 recap The Girls of five years ago would have set this weeks’ relationships on fire and walked away. Their patience in the face of things not being easy (and really, when are things ever easy in a relationship?) is due to…maturity? Increased patience? Increased By Duana • Mar 14, 2016 09:23 am
