Culture Gabfest
New York Times critic Dwight Garner says “The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week.” The award-winning Culturefest features critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner debating the week in culture, from highbrow to pop. For more of Slate’s culture podcasts, check out the Slate Culture feed.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Live Q&A
The question and answer session from the Slate Culture Gabfest recorded live on December 6, 2011 at The City Winery in New York City.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, “Don We Now Our Gay...
Listen to Slate's show about The Muppets, decorating at home with Deborah Needleman, and Christmas carols.
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Slate, The Culture Gabfest, May Your Descendant...
Listen to Slate's show about The Descendants, laboratory mice, and the ultimate Thanksgiving stuffing.
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Slate, The Culture Gabfest: Cultureballs Edition
Listen to Slate's show about J. Edgar, Univision, and the 50th anniversary of the
British satirical magazine Private Eye.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I Want My Happy End...
Listen to Slate's show about The Fabric of the Cosmos, Once Upon a Time, and the 21st century’s cultural cannon.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Erudition is Si...
Listen to Slate's show about Beavis and Butthead, literary theory, and indie rock’s decent into banality.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Explain It To Me Li...
Listen to Slate's show about the new Wall Street drama Margin Call, Homeland, and the critical legacy of Pauline Kael.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, “Beyoncé’s Cafeteri...
Listen to Slate's show about Occupy Wall Street, Beyoncé’s dance plagiarism, and the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest Bronze Ball of Regre...
Listen to Slate's show about the new romantic comedy Weekend, Dancing with the Stars, and the legacy of Steve Jobs.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Ken Burns Flinc...
Listen to Slate's show about the new Ken Burns documentary Prohibition, Ikea, and the corpulence of Chris Christie.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bunny Emergency Edi...
Listen to Slate's show about the new TV dramas Pan Am and The Playboy Club, the breakup of R.E.M., and the robot job market.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Feel the Burn Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the new Ryan Gosling film Drive, the season premiere of Two and a Half Men, and the Burning Man Festival.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Stop Touching Your ...
Listen to Slate's show about Steven Soderbergh’s new film Contagion, Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show Anderson, and the demise of the US Postal Service.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Paranoid Style ...
Listen to Slate's show about 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, the iPhone App Instagram, and Suits on the USA Network.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Babyoncé Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the hype about the hype about Hurricane Irene, 4-Hour guru Tim Ferriss, and Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and the tabloids' obsession with baby-bumps.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Yammering Yobs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new film The Help, their favorite method for summer reading and the recent riots in London.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Hail Caesar Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the state of the book review, and the return of the ‘90s.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Daniel Craig in Cha...
Listen to Slate's show about the new movie Cowboys & Aliens, AMC’s Breaking Bad,and the death of painter Lucian Freud.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Featuring Marc Maro...
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Errol Morris’s new Rashomon-meets-Octomom documentary Tabloid and the long-awaited arrival of music streaming service Spotify. For their final segment, they’re joined by comedian and podcast host Marc Maron to discuss his podcast WTF with Marc Maron.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Vulture Epaulets Ed...
Listen to Slate's show about the end of the Harry Potter film series, Facebook competitor Google+, and the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Totally Gruesome Ed...
Listen to Slate's show about Jason Zinoman’s guide to fixing modern horror, the film industry’s all-too-familiar approach to online piracy, and the latest debate over antidepressants.
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Slate, The Culture Gabfest, Hornivores of the S...
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner are joined by Slate’s foreign editor June Thomas to discuss her new —their riotous past and uncertain future. For their next segment, they discuss the new HBO documentary , and whether it does tort reform justice. For their final segment, they discuss Nick Paumgarten’s New Yorker article on the weird world of .
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Summer Strut Edition
In this week's episode, critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Page One, a new documentary about the New York Times, Stephen's Slate article about Robert Nozick, and the results of Julia's search for a great summer strutting song.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I’m Doing The World...
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss J.J. Abrams’ new film Super 8, the blockbuster book Go The Fuck To Sleep, and the viral video reviving America’s battle over bike lanes.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bite Is A Gift ...
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner
discuss Dan Kois’s NYT Magazine Riff on “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,” MTV’s new
Twilight-style series Teen Wolf, and Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article on “Debating the Value of College in America.”
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