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 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 Palin, and the lack of interest in the recent trial of OJ Simpson.
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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 from that lovable comedy duo, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.
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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 hyper-quirky PC ad featuring heroes from yesteryear, Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.
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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 the new documentary film, Man On Wire.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest Twilight of the Idol...
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 Express, and the death of comedian Bernie Mac.
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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 a sizable number of its stores in the US and abroad, and Google's newest challenger in the search field, Ceil.
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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 as anti-American Mujahideen, and the mysterious relationship between Madonna and Alex Rodriguez.
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest Community Standards ...
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 semi-hysterical reaction to news of a "pregnancy pact" amongst teenage girls at a high school in Gloucester, MA, and the death of comedian George Carlin.
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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 theatres, and the ear-splitting arrival of mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice on CBS.
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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 Barack Obama's affinity for the work of novelist Philip Roth, the great bard of infidelity.
32 min
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest Summer Movie Bonanza
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Slate: The Culture Gabfest and Personal Virtue
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Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Misplaced Outrage ...
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Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Schadenfreude Edition
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Slate: The Cultural Gabfest and Eliot Mess
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Slate: The Second Cultural Gabfest
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Slate: Introducing the Cultural Gabfest
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