In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Coen brothers’ film True Grit. They’re joined by Slate’s political reporter Christopher Beam to discuss the movement to abandon caps lock, and by Slate’s music critic Jody Rosen to discuss the death of Captain Beefheart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 22, 2010•39 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They’re joined by Slate’s Daniel Engber to discuss the state of peer review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 15, 2010•44 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of narcissism as a psychiatric disorder and director Andrew Jarecki’s film All Good Things. They’re joined by Slate pop critic Jonah Weiner to discuss Kanye West’s latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 08, 2010•44 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Burlesque, MFA's and today's writers and Microsoft's latest gizmo Kinect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 01, 2010•46 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner answer questions from the audience live from Seattle's Town Hall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 01, 2010•16 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Engber, Troy Patterson, John Swansburg, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the outcry over the TSA's new scanning procedures, the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly and HBO's new documentary Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 24, 2010•47 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Sarah Palin's new TLC show Alaska, the British jihadi satire Ten Lions and the Sinatra bio "Frank: The Voice." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 17, 2010•44 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Conan on basic cable, the many facets of James Franco, including his latest film, and the Yale University Press Anthology of Rap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 10, 2010•45 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the new zombie apocalypse show The Walking Dead, and Masterpiece Mystery’s irreverent new 21st century adaptation of Sherlock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 03, 2010•46 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new documentary Inside Job, the FX show Terriers and New York magazine's anthropological exploration of the hipster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 27, 2010•41 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the box office record set by Jackass 3D, the dueling magazine profiles of Gawker's Nick Denton and the best way to handle celebrity sightings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 20, 2010•45 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the It Gets Better web campaign against bullying, a newly unearthed Ted Hughes poem and HBO's Bruce Springsteen documentary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 13, 2010•49 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Malcolm Gladwell's latest piece on activism and social media, Law and Order LA and the Civil War tourism series by Slate's John Swansburg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 06, 2010•40 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film about Facebook, The Social Network, Oliver Stone's Money Never Sleeps and the new NBC comedy Outsourced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 29, 2010•45 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire and the controversial documentary Catfish. They are also joined by Slate contributor Joshua Wolf Shenk to talk about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and his series on creative pairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 22, 2010•47 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss round two of the Kanye vs Taylor Swift VMA face-off, the new Robert Rodriguez film Machete and the monetization of sex on Craigslist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2010•36 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss George Clooney's latest flick The American, income inequality with Slate's own Timothy Noah and the phone hacking scandal in the Murdoch media empire. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 08, 2010•46 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss this years Emmy's ceremony, the new handbook True Prep and the summer song of 2010. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 01, 2010•45 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss twenty-somethings, Sylvester Stallon's latest action flick, and the new Arcade Fire album. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 25, 2010•43 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love, the sanctity of academic tenure and the Starbucks' bagel standoff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 18, 2010•40 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Kois, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg discuss the new comic action film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the rules regulating spoilers and the loss of the British historian Tony Judt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 11, 2010•48 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dahlia Lithwick, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss The Real Housewives of Washington D.C., publisher Andrew Wylie's big bet on eBooks and the new FX comedy television show Louie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 04, 2010•42 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss the new Angelina Jolie blockbuster Salt, Comic-Con with Time Magazine's Lev Grossman and the Mad Man Season 4 premiere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 28, 2010•47 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Inception, Slate’s Josh Levin joins the gabbers to talk about Steve Jobs and the woes of the iPhone 4 and finally Old Spice ads gone viral. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 21, 2010•46 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new film The Kids are All Right, Jezebel verses The Daily Show and The New Yorker's David Grann on authenticating a masterpiece. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 14, 2010•47 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the age when novelists hit their prime, the latest musical foray from Liz Phair and the retirement of music writer Robert Christgau's "Consumer Guide." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 07, 2010•34 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dan Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, Dana Stevens, James Sturm, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss life without the Internet, June’s must see list of summer TV shows and love 'em or hate 'em no Fourth of July is complete without fireworks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 30, 2010•40 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Clive Thompson and Julia Turner discuss the third installment of Disney-Pixar's Toy Story, the science behind a great vacation in The Boston Globe and an answer to that eternal question can an IBM supercomputer win at Jeopardy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 23, 2010•38 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Hanna Rosin, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the new documentary on Joan Rivers, the Bravo reality show Work of Art and the downfall of men as reported in The Atlantic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 16, 2010•39 min
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Michael Agger, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Stieg Larsson obsession, our brains on the internet (revisited) and World Cup mania. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 09, 2010•45 min