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Slate Culture FeedCulture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Middle of the Road Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Stephen Colbert’s trip to Baghdad and his guest editorship of Newsweek, the Tony awards and the year in…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Posh New Digs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics (plus guest gabber Troy Patterson) discuss Conan O’Brien’s first night as the host of the Tonight Show, the reality…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Boo-Effing-Hoo Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the return (er, relapse?) of the rapper Eminem, whether working with your hands is the new outlet for…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Mature Adaptation Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the end (and future) of the network television season, the Maureen Dowd plagiarism scandal, and the idea of…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Franchise Reboot Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams, Wanda Sykes’s routine at the White House Correspondents’…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Performance Anxiety Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the use of so-called neuro-enhancing drugs to aid study or work, the plight of the…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Oh My God Ugly People Can Sing Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss their adventures in the world of Twitter, the new HBO feature adaptation of the documentary Grey Gardens…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Empty Calories Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film Sugar and A.O. Scott's (flawed?) concept of Neo-Neo Realism, Levi Johnston's interview on the…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Why Do I Know This Word? Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Paul Rudd and Jason Segal's bromance in the new movie I Love You, Man, the implications of the Obamas'…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Commodified Girl Power Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new movie version of the classic graphic novel Watchmen, a new book on the canon of female American…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Public Disgust Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the Academy Awards, Rick Santelli's rant, the Octomom, and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Enough Already Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez's admission that he used a banned substance while playing for the Texas…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Brace for Impact Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Barack Obama's inauguration, Hua Hsu’s Atlantic Montly piece on the end of white demographic dominance…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, You Again? Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Golden Globe awards (and awards-season ennui), the long-delayed return of TV's pro-torture hit 24, and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, "Valkyrie Gives You Pinkeye" Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Tom Cruise's role as a one-eyed Nazi in Valkyrie, Bruce…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Undead Again Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Leno and late night TV, the dire state of the publishing…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Love Me for Who I Am Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the new movie Milk, Beyonce, and Black Friday. Hosted on…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Identity Crisis Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Malcolm Gladwell phenomenon, Michelle Obama's role as First Lady and Mom-in-Chief, and the post-Obama…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Wow Edition
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Obama, Obama, and Obama. What happened with the election, how the media covered it and what lies ahead for…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Bad Therapy Edition
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the catharsis they felt watching Oliver Stone's W., and revisit past Gabfest topics, including the ongoing…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Sore Loser Edition
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Nobel Prize for Literature's snub of American writers, Tina Fey's pitch-perfect imitation of Governor…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest End of Days Edition
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the financial meltdown, a trillion and counting, the ominous death of author David Foster Wallace, and more…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Resistance is Futile
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the dissection of Sarah Palin's personal life in the tabloids, the new Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC and the…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Fine Line Edition
In this week’s Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the merits and frivolities of Mad Men, the odds that Tropic Thunder will revive Tom Cruise's career, and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Twilight of the Idols Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Beijing Olympics and "The Redeem Team," the too-famous-too-fast Seth Rogen and his new film, Pineapple…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Monopoly Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Joss Whedon's new web-only musical show "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog," Starbucks' abrupt move to shutter…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Overblown Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, the New Yorker Magazine's cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Community Standards Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the re-release of Liz Phair's feminist indie rock masterpiece Exile in Guyville, the media’s…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Grownup Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Vanity Fair's sprawling, dishy takedown of President Clinton, Sex and the City's boffo success in movie…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Promiscuity Edition
Our critics discuss the counter-evolutionary nature of monogamy, the aesthetically promiscuous -- and recently departed -- artist Robert Rauschenberg, and…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Summer Movie Bonanza
Slate's Culture Gabfest with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the rollout of the summer…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest and Personal Virtue
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the viability of personal virtue to solve global warming, the possible failure of personal virtue in the…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Misplaced Outrage Edition
The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. This week, our critics discuss Vogue magazine’s King Kong redux, Hillary’s…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Schadenfreude Edition
The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, John Swansburg and Meghan O'Rourke. Our critics discuss Obama’s big speech, Bear Stearns’ big meltdown, plus…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Cultural Gabfest and Eliot Mess
The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and John Swansburg. Our newest podcast feature returns just in time to take on the colossal…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Second Cultural Gabfest
The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. We're back for another outing with Slate's cultural critics. This week they…
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Culture Gabfest - Slate: Introducing the Cultural Gabfest
The popularity of Slate's Political Gabfest over the last two years has prompted us to try a variation on the theme: a Cultural Gabfest, featuring some of…