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Episodes

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I Want to Touch the Machine Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Seth Stevenson and Julia Turner discuss Seth Stevenson's new travel book "Grounded", creating your own TV ad with a little help from Google and Apple's much hyped IPad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 07, 201047 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Shake Your Bon-Bon Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new CBS television show Undercover Boss, the language of coming out when your a celebrity and the website TV Tropes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 201045 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Number One Record Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Mike Pesca, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discus the death of Big Star front man Alex Chilton, music criticism is it worthless and replacing William Safire at The New York Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 24, 201044 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Busby Berkeley Dreams Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Oscars, finding your way through New York's Penn Station and whether The National Enquirer should be eligible for a Pulitzer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 10, 201049 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Warbly Strangly Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the singer song-writer Joanna Newsom, the new NBC show "The Marriage Ref" and ten rules for writing fiction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 03, 201041 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Meet the Crotchman Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss this Esquire profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the new animated HBO incarnation of The Ricky Gervias Show, and ChatRoulette the international chat room that pairs you and your webcam with a total stranger. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 24, 201042 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We're Saving Our Own Lives Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss "We Are the World" take two, singer-songwriter John Mayer's disturbing Playboy Interview and the start of the 2010 winter games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 17, 201048 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We Have No Pants Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Seth Stevenson, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss this years crop of Super Bowl ads, the HBO Temple Grandin biopic and The New York Times story on a killer karaoke Sinatra song. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feb 10, 201041 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Golden Globalization Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stephens and June Thomas discuss the Golden Globes, the Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times Magazine and the latest video to go viral from American Idol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 20, 201034 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Scary Bunny Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Adam Gopnik, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss sex and the American novel, the fate of magazines and van Gogh's ear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 06, 201043 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Puny Ingratiation Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the mistress of yuppie comedy Nancy Meyers latest film It’s Complicated, the loss of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and predictions for the decade to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 30, 200942 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Tangled Up In Yule Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Bob Dylan’s Christmas CD Christmas in the Heart, the South African sprinter Caster Semenya and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary Le Danse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 25, 200954 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Plutonium Blonde Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guests Troy Patterson and Juliet Lapidos discuss what's so great about Lady Gaga anyway, filmmaker Wes Anderson's latest, and how to translate "nuclear waste" to society some 10,000 years from now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 18, 200948 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Cute vs. Evil Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner take on the film Precious, the novel Black Dogs (about the fall of communism) and the nauseating, exploitative menace otherwise known as cute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 11, 200945 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Good Breeding Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guest June Thomas discuss ABC's new sitcom "Modern Family", Tad Friend's latest memoir and a hundred things a restaurant staffer should never do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 04, 200941 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Flying Circus Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the media circus surrounding the Colorado “Balloon Boy,” the case for and against circumcision in New York Magazine, and the new documentary on the 40th anniversary of comedy troupe Monty Python. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 20, 200941 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The I'll Eat You Up Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, the notion that comedians are starting to take aim at President Obama, and a series on obesity in America by Slate’s Daniel Engber Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 14, 200946 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Damage Control Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the blackmail scandal surrounding David Letterman’s sexual relationship with some of his female employees, the New Yorker’s profile of Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke, and Conde Nast’s decision to shutter Gourmet Magazine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 07, 200944 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Teen Beat Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland and possible extradition to California for sentencing on a decades old sexual abuse case, the new Fox TV musical drama Glee, and the New York Times Magazine cover story on gay teenagers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 30, 200942 min

Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Kill Rock Stars Edition

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Kanye West’s outburst at the VMAs and other recent examples of bad manners by celebrities; the new, prime-time, Jay Leno Show; and an exhibition of Claude Monet’s paintings of water lilies at New York’s Museum of Modern Art Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 16, 200944 min
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