TV Updates The Wiz casts Dorothy The NBC live musical, a hilarious adventure in livetweeting, has been, you know, roundly mocked for the last two years. Particularly when Allison Williams was cast as Peter Pan in last year’s production, the coughs of nepotism were very, very loud. So they’ve pulled out all the stops By Duana • Aug 05, 2015 04:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Name? Before I begin – my inbox is FULL of adorable grandparent names and malapropisms that became grandparent names. Compiling them for us all to enjoy later. Standby! Hi Duana, Where do we/you start?!? We are only just pregnant after trying for long time to conceive. We are very excited but By Duana • Aug 05, 2015 03:54 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jagger Snow Ross You know, sometimes – often – I rail about how people should try to give their children names of equal heft and style, so that they don’t feel they’re unequal from the start. You know, balance that sibling rivalry. I always think about the siblings I met at the park By Duana • Aug 04, 2015 12:37 pm
Masters of Sex Take This Show On The Road Masters of Sex season 3 episode 4 recap The thing about sex that makes it interesting to talk about and see, especially on TV and the movies, is that it’s supposed to be secret and ‘between two people’, and that’s how we generally conduct ourselves in real life. By Duana • Aug 04, 2015 11:56 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Names for people who already have names Hi Duana, I'm not due until around Christmas, and my partner and I are still early in the baby name game (i.e. we're still pretty far apart on our choices). However, we have started thinking a lot about what the baby is going to call By Duana • Jul 31, 2015 02:16 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: How about a Z-sounding S? Hi Duana! Please help! My sister's first child (a boy) is due in early August and she wanted me to write to you because they are not even close to finding a name! We are Persian and both my sister and I and my two daughters have flower By Duana • Jul 29, 2015 04:14 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A Totally New Question Hi Duana We are pregnant, and while I would love to find out the gender ASAP hubby would love it to be a surprise until birth, so I will do that for him. I figure between conceding that PLUS giving birth he will owe me big time! We are lucky By Duana • Jul 27, 2015 02:28 pm
Masters of Sex The Truth About Masters & Johnson Masters of Sex Season 3 Episode 3 recap How to watch this episode: Roll your eyes at the ‘baby interruptus’, and wonder if you’re watching Up All Night. Recognize the woman Libby’s talking to in the kitchen. Rewind three times until you confirm that yes, in fact, that By Duana • Jul 27, 2015 11:03 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: I finally titled a column Mamma Mia Hi! Husband and I are due late August with our first babe, we are waiting to find out the sex. We are set on a girls name, his grandma that he was very close to was named Maria, and everyone called her Mika. So we are set on Mika for By Duana • Jul 24, 2015 03:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer It’s here. The final chapter. I have to give this trailer credit – I feel more excited about the end of Mockingjay than I thought I would, given how empty and flat the story left me feeling years ago. The fights were too endless, the blasts too uniform, and I By Duana • Jul 23, 2015 04:31 pm
TV Updates Empire Season 2 trailer drops You should probably turn on Drip Drop while you read this article. Got it? Empire’s season 2 trailer just dropped, under the headline “New Music, New Money, New Power”. This mostly is shown through Extreme Striding, several shots, but I will admit to getting genuine goosebumps upon seeing the By Duana • Jul 23, 2015 12:11 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: A ‘Choose Your Own’ Adventure Hi Duana, I'm a trans woman in the process of transitioning. I'm trying to work out a name that starts with E or L (though not opposed to others!). I also have an interesting surname (Winter) that makes things difficult. I also want to shy away By Duana • Jul 22, 2015 03:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Catherine Keeners Hi Duana This may be an unusual request in that we've already picked both of our names. My boyfriend and I ended on a stellar boy name after some dicey negotiating that included a serious bid from him for Hedwig (for a boy...). The girl name was much By Duana • Jul 20, 2015 03:44 pm
Judy Greer The Judy Greer Effect I have to be honest, I’m not sure how many people – even culture vultures like myself – are on a first name basis with Judy Greer. I’ve long had a sort of hobby of knowing the second or third leads in film, and Judy Greer isn’t just one By Duana • Jul 20, 2015 02:34 pm
Masters of Sex The Longest Shortest Pregnancy Masters of Sex Season 3 Episode 2 recap Let’s get the obvious strangeness out of the way first – was there something up with Michael Sheen’s voice this episode? Like, it sounded not very much like Michael Sheen’s voice? I couldn’t decide whether he was trying to By Duana • Jul 20, 2015 09:12 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: It’s Probably Not Donncha (* with love to Noel and Aine) Hi, My husband and I are hoping that we will be the beneficiaries of your name-nerd advice. We are expecting our second little one on August 8, 2015. We’re Asian and we somehow stumbled into a very lucky due-date! We don’t know if Baby #2 is going to By Duana • Jul 17, 2015 02:19 pm
