Lifestyle Duana Names: Stopping, Laying Off, and Leaving Names Alone One of the many, many things I love about this column and all of you who contribute is that it is so unabashedly a sociology exercise. We discuss names, and sooner or later those names apply to someone – and you can’t not react. I knew that there would be By Duana • Jun 29, 2015 02:05 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nicking the Name Hi Duana - Our family is expecting the addition of a baby boy the beginning of July. He is eagerly awaited by a big brother Rocco and big sister Tessa. We have a single syllable Chinese last name. You can see that we lie somewhere in the middle of quirky By Duana • Jun 26, 2015 03:19 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jennifer Love Hewitt has an Atticus Jennifer Love Hewitt named her son Atticus. Did you know that one of the reasons she has the ‘Love’ in her name, or that she used it professionally, was to distinguish herself from all the other Jennifers? True story. It kind of worked, in that she’s the only Jennifer By Duana • Jun 25, 2015 12:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Naming the Motherlode Hi Duana, So here’s the dilemma, I'm having quadruplets! I’m having two girls and two boys.So far we have three out of the four names settled but are having trouble cracking the last name for our boy. For the girls we have Remy and Lore, By Duana • Jun 24, 2015 01:21 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Names That Sound Like A Hot Dog Stand Hi Duana, Looking for some name help and due in 3 months!! My hubs loves the name Frank....and I just can't. All I think of is frank the tank or a kind of chubby / weirdo kid. To be fair, I love that the name is super classic By Duana • Jun 22, 2015 01:15 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Beginnings Hey Duana, I am due in July and am hoping for some guidance. My husband and I are expecting a little girl and this will be our only one. Sadly, I was pregnant with twins but recently lost one and now all of the names we loved feel like too By Duana • Jun 19, 2015 12:14 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Rafael Thomas Baldwin I do not have anything bad to say about the name Rafael. In fact, I think it’s gorgeous. If you’re one of the people who cares about the baby name thing, you know it’s becoming more popular now. If you’re one of the people who hates By Duana • Jun 17, 2015 11:46 am
TV Updates The Brenda Years The first thing I want you to do is not reflexively roll your eyes at the idea of “Lifetime movie”. Did you learn nothing from Taraji P. Henson last week, who was so proud of the breakthrough she accomplished and the Emmy nomination that resulted on her last Lifetime movie? By Duana • Jun 17, 2015 10:24 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates June 2015– Early and Late A bunch of updates came flowing in, letting me know that while everything else seems to be at a standstill because we’re waiting and waiting and waiting for summer to actually show up, babies are still arriving and being named and keeping us all amused. Really that’s what By Duana • Jun 15, 2015 02:37 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Committing to a Fit Duana, Just read your column on how tough boys names are, and that is right where we are. We don't know if we're having a boy or a girl, but we have lots of girls names that we love, and I have no concern that we& By Duana • Jun 12, 2015 03:23 pm
Maggie Gyllenhaal Hollywood Reporter Drama Actress Roundtable 2015 Man oh man, is it good to be The Hollywood Reporter this year. That is, they’re doing what they always do - including the actresses who are most likely to get an Emmy nomination or to be discussed if they don’t get an Emmy nomination – but these women By Duana • Jun 11, 2015 10:34 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Back to Basics Hi Duana, I am due with my second child, a baby boy, the end of June. We have a little girl and her name is Grace. My husband and I immediately loved her name so we never had any issues or debates over choosing a name. This time around it By Duana • Jun 10, 2015 04:37 pm
Book Review In The Unlikely Event review Spoilers everywhere – come back if you haven’t finished. You know, usually I am not afraid of endings. Usually I am the one who says things like “I’d rather something end well, early, than go on too long”. I am unsentimental, not because I’m heartless, but because usually, By Duana • Jun 08, 2015 03:18 pm
Books In The Unlikely Event Spoilers everywhere – come back if you haven’t finished. You know, usually I am not afraid of endings. Usually I am the one who says things like “I’d rather something end well, early, than go on too long”. I am unsentimental, not because I’m heartless, but because usually, By Duana • Jun 08, 2015 03:10 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Follow London’s Lead Baby #2 is on the way and my husband and I just can’t agree on a name. We’re having a baby girl and already have a daughter named London Nicole. The last name will be hyphenated and we would love a name with the same feel as London By Duana • Jun 08, 2015 02:27 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Surprise Twins are the best twins. Duana, I am pregnant with twins - a boy and a girl! The pregnancy is a wonderful, wonderful surprise as I was previously told by doctor's it would never happen for me. Believe it or not the time has flown by - my partner and I got married By Duana • Jun 05, 2015 01:06 pm
