Culture Gabfest

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the 2011 Oscar nominations with Slate Brow Beat writer Nina Shen Rastogi, IFC’s new sketch comedy Portlandia with Slate associate editor Jessica Grose, and Brock Enright’s pay-per-thrill “reality adventures” with Slate’s pop critic Jonah Weiner.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Gwyneth Paltrow in Country Strong and the recent kerfuffle over the shifting signs of the zodiac. They’re joined by author Lauren Redniss to discuss her new illustrated biography Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss PBS’s new upstairs-downstairs drama Downton Abbey, the controversy over NewSouth Books’ new censored edition of Huckleberry Finn, and the overnight fame of a “homeless man with a golden voice,” Ted Williams.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine, the year 2010 in film, and Google’s new Ngram database.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss Sofia Coppola's latest film Somewhere with film critic Dan Kois. Plus the best TV shows of 2010 and their New Year's resolutions.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Coen brothers’ film True Grit. They’re joined by Slate’s political reporter Christopher Beam to discuss the movement to abandon caps lock, and by Slate’s music critic Jody Rosen to discuss the death of Captain Beefheart.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss director Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech and NBC sitcom Community. They’re joined by Slate’s Daniel Engber to discuss the state of peer review.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of narcissism as a psychiatric disorder and director Andrew Jarecki’s film All Good Things. They’re joined by Slate pop critic Jonah Weiner to discuss Kanye West’s latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Burlesque, MFA's and today's writers and Microsoft's latest gizmo Kinect.

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner answer questions from the audience live from Seattle's Town Hall.

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