Culture Gabfest

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Culture Gabfest episodes

April 16, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: The Silent "T" Party Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and guest Gabber Jacob Weisberg discuss Stephen Colbert's move to late night television, chat with author Adam Begley about the legacy of John Updike, and then it's a Guggenheim field trip to check out the exhibit, "Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe."

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49 min
April 09, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: My Little Dictaphone Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Errol Morris' study of Donald Rumsfeld in his latest documentary "The Unknown Known," HBO's tech industry send up "Silicon Valley," and why faster isn't necessarily better when it comes to reading.

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50 min
April 02, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: Are You There God? It's Me, Hollywood. Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Darren Aronofsky's Hollywood version of Noah's Ark, how fame changes friendship in HBO's Doll & Em, and the TV recap website "Television Without Pity" going dark.

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50 min
March 26, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: The Green Handshake Edition
Everyone's a guest this week on the Culture Gabfest with Slate's Mike Pesca, John Swansburg, and Jessica Winter filling in for our usual hosts. The guest gabbers discuss the movie Muppets Most Wanted and what the Muppets mean to kids in 2014. Next, it's High Maintenance a fictional web series that follows a pot dealer into clients' homes, and lastly the effects of e-payments on tipping.

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45 min
March 19, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: Prime Directive Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss FX's Cold War era throwback television show The Americans, whether Amazon is ruining literature, and the matriculation of trigger warnings into the college classroom.

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44 min
March 12, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: All Aboard the Model Train Edition

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53 min
March 05, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: Travoltified Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the Oscar's highs and lows, Atlantic's article, "The Dark Power of Fraternities" with Slate's Mike Pesca, and why looking normal is the new fashion.

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53 min
February 26, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: There is No Dana. There is Only Zuul Edition.
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the legacy of actor, writer, director and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Disney's latest animated juggernaut, and why writers are the worst procrastinators.

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52 min
February 19, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: The Doe-Eyed Triangle Player Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Amazon's online comedy sensation Transparent, the Italian Oscar contender The Great Beauty, and is the great era of branding coming to a close.

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49 min
February 12, 2014 The Culture Gabfest: Piece of Resistance Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the latest toy-cum-blockbuster movie Legos, what Sochi reveals about Russia and the American imagination with cultural reporter Masha Gessen, and Twitter's history problem with Slate's Rebecca Onion.

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42 min

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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…