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Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Biometric Barbie Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dahlia Lithwick, Stephen Metcalf, Troy Patterson, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss The Real Housewives of…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Angelina Jolie/Model American Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss the new Angelina Jolie blockbuster Salt…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Inception, Slate’s…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, What's Your Provenance Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Do Not Go Gently Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Beauty in the Sky Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Maximum Fun Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Old Ball and Chain Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Girl with the Wealth of Boring Details Edition
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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Truffle Fries Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the pop star M.I.A's beef with The New York Times, the new…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Kung-Chung Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens, John Swansburg and Julia Turner discuss Law and Order the final episode…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, First Ever Live Gabfest Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Ridley Scott’s retelling of the Robin Hood myth…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bigger Explosions, Smaller Laughs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss 88-year-old Betty White’s appearance on Saturday Night…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Optimization of Selfhood Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss a new biography of Oprah, the Data-Driven Life…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Naked Doorway Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Lisa Tharpe and Julia Turner discuss performance artist Marina Abramovic…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I'm Not Going to Say That on the Gabfest Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Kick-Ass, literature and cognitive neuroscience…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Ooh La La Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss David Simon's latest HBO endeavor Treme, the…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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"…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, This is Event Programming, Dammit Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss HBO's new mini-series The Pacific, Variety firing it's…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture 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…
Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate, The Culture Gabfest: Mourning in America Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson and Dana Stevens discuss Oscar nominations, death and mourning in…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Origin of Speciousness Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Mike Pesca and Dana Stevens discuss the new Charles Darwin biopic Creation, liberal outrage and…
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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…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest: I've Got Ten Cartridges of Toner in My Pants Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of late night TV, the works of the…
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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…
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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…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Do You Want to Touch My Poof Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the best TV shows and films of…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Better Than an Emery Board to the Eyeballs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Daniel Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Chris Suellentrop, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the whether you should see…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, That's My Gingerbread Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the decade of change in the music business, the…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, They'll Remember Me 100 Years From Now Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss White House party crashers, the "decade from hell," and Eva…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bombard Me With Phonemes Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new season of 30 Rock, the refund offer from Baby Einstein, and the genius – and crossover potential –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The If You Were Keats You'd Be Dead By Now Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of politicians (real and fictional) on TV, led by President Obama on Letterman; Jane…
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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…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Soft in the Middle
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner chat about the release of the new digitally remastered Beatles box…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Old Fogies and Jailbait Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are joined by Slate's John Swansburg and Jody Rosen. Topics on deck include, Mad…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Springtime for Tarantino Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Quentin Tarantino’s new WWII fantasy, Inglourious Basterds, with special guest Ron Rosenbaum; the new…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Total Commitment Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Ponyo, the new film by Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s master animator; the to do over Whole Foods CEO John…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The 'I Weep for the Future' Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the passing and the films of 80s auteur John Hughes, the distortion of rock concert ticket prices by forces…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The All Hail Meryl Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Meryl Streep’s new movie about Julia Child, Julie & Julia; Amazon’s beloved, vexing Kindle e-reader; and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Shrinky Dink Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the arrival of Judd Apatow’s third movie, Funny People; the rapid disappearance of the music magazine; and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Rocket Experience Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni’s struggle…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The In Bruno Veritas Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Bruno, the confrontational new comedy from Sacha Baron Cohen; the links between Goldman Sachs and each of…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Smooth Criminal Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the memorial service for Michael Jackson, Michael Mann’s new depression-era bank robber movie Public…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Everybody's Dead Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of celebrity deaths, starting with Michael Jackson and the lesser lights – Farrah Fawcett…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Failed Species Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Woody Allen’s new film Whatever Works, the HBO vampire drama True Blood, and A Vindication of Love…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Heavy Traffic Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Twitter’s role in the post-election protests in Iran, nostalgia for a grittier New York City, and Times…