Mad Men Buying New Clubs Mad Men Season 7 Episode 9 recap You know that thing parents say? “I love you, I just don’t like you right now”? That’s how I feel about this episode of Mad Men. I get everything that went on, in a logical manner – or at least, I get By Duana • Apr 13, 2015 08:24 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Prayer for the Weary Hi Duana, I write to you as a disillusioned name nerd. I've been looking forward to naming a baby for a long time, but now that my husband and I are expecting a little boy, it turns out to be a lot harder and less fun than I By Duana • Apr 10, 2015 02:13 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: All the ‘Good’ Names Hi Duana, Almost 10 years after the birth of our first daughter, Lily, my husband and I are expecting a second baby girl. This pregnancy was a very big surprise, since, as the result of a complications from a chronic disease, I was told I couldn't have any By Duana • Apr 08, 2015 03:38 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Half the Choices is Still Many Choices Hi Duana My due date is fast approaching on May 17. My husband and I are expecting a boy and having a hard time agreeing on a name. I initially didn't want to know the sex, but picking names turned out to be so difficult that I needed By Duana • Apr 06, 2015 11:39 am
Mad Men I Don’t Expect You To Understand Mad Men Season 7 Episode 8 recap You know, every Mad Men has a tenor. There’s always a tension as you wonder what’s going to happen next, and a general unease. But this was the first episode in a long time where it felt straight-up sinister. There’s By Duana • Apr 06, 2015 08:20 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Fun with Syllables Dear Duana, I am having my fourth baby in July. I have boy/girl twins who are four named Annabelle Rae (b/c I have always loved Annabelle and Rae is my mom’s middle name) and Stephen Michael (after my dad). Our two year old girl is Beatrice Elizabeth By Duana • Apr 02, 2015 12:57 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Milla Jovovich’s Baby Name Let’s be honest, Milla Jovovich would not be featured for the birth of her child if she had not chosen a name that really makes my eyes roll. So she and her husband already had a daughter named Ever, which, fine, I dislike but can swallow, I guess. But By Duana • Apr 01, 2015 01:30 pm
TV Updates Keke Palmer for Dorothy - The Wiz on NBC Well, Deadline has apologized by not apologizing, so it’s time to pretend that the NBC musical that was announced yesterday, The Wiz, isn’t totally a reactive, opportunistic move to make them look like they’re on the side of the good guys. Last summer they said that The By Duana • Mar 31, 2015 02:43 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Names help Careers Hey Duana, My boss and mentor is expecting her second daughter and is having a hard time deciding on a name. Her eldest is named Mischa, and the frontrunner right now for the younger sibling is Logan. Her main worry is that Logan is really popular right now as a By Duana • Mar 30, 2015 11:59 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Give Generously Dear Duana, It's getting desperate. Our baby girl is due in April and we are having a complete culture clash. This is a longed for baby and likely to be the only one. I'm English and would love a name that is pretty, reasonably traditional and By Duana • Mar 27, 2015 11:49 am
Scandal We Are Not Partners. We Are Not Friends. Scandal Season 4 Episode 16 recap Did you hear a couple of weird turns of phrase this episode? ‘You went around my back to Mellie’, instead of ‘behind my back’. The bits about whether or not Cyrus was ‘a rosebud guy’, that seemed to change to ‘rose petal guy’ a By Duana • Mar 27, 2015 09:35 am
TV Updates “What if there’s TOO MUCH Diversity?” Duana’s (snarky screenwriter) take Oh NO, you guys, terrible news! It seems that Hollywood has gotten a clue, based on how Shondaland kills everything in its path on Thursday nights, how well Jane The Virgin has done, and how Empire has JUGGERNAUTED its way through season one. Hollywood has By Duana • Mar 25, 2015 12:41 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Love The One You’re With My husband and I are expecting our second daughter (due April 9th) and we haven’t finalized her name. Our first daughters name, Addison, stood out to both of us. We knew it was the name immediately and never second guessed our decision. This time around, it's not By Duana • Mar 25, 2015 12:04 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Double Middle, Side of Potter? Duana! Help! I'm due in March with our second and we have no clue! So, typical of many of your questions, we have a multi-cultural family and would like names fairly easy to pronounce in English and Spanish. The first problem is my husband happens to have an By Duana • Mar 23, 2015 12:00 pm
Girls I Am Going To Be In Love With You Soon Girls Season 4 Episode 10 recap Everything is perfect, until it isn’t. I know how elementary it seems, but I appreciated how delicately Girls approached this theme in their season finale, which was mostly devoid of the guest stars who trod so heavily over this season, and kind of By Duana • Mar 23, 2015 09:17 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: What’s Wrong With Popular? (Seriously) OK, look, I just need something clarified- why is being Emma J and one of three Jackson's suddenly a cultural dilemma. This is new, the desire to be unique, the only Thisbe or Barthes in the school, city, province. I'm just genuinely curious to hear the By Duana • Mar 20, 2015 01:08 pm