Culture Gabfest

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Culture Gabfest episodes

February 17, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We're Saving Our Own Lives Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss "We Are the World" take two, singer-songwriter John Mayer's disturbing Playboy Interview and the start of the 2010 winter games.

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48 min
February 10, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest: We Have No Pants Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Seth Stevenson, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss this years crop of Super Bowl ads, the HBO Temple Grandin biopic and The New York Times story on a killer karaoke Sinatra song.

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42 min
February 03, 2010 Slate, The Culture Gabfest: Mourning in America Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson and Dana Stevens discuss Oscar nominations, death and mourning in American and the loss of author JD Salinger.

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39 min
January 27, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Origin of Speciousness Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Mike Pesca and Dana Stevens discuss the new Charles Darwin biopic Creation, liberal outrage and the airwaves and The New York Times hiding behind a pay wall.

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43 min
January 20, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest: The Golden Globalization Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Troy Patterson, Dana Stephens and June Thomas discuss the Golden Globes, the Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times Magazine and the latest video to go viral from American Idol.

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35 min
January 13, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest: I've Got Ten Cartridges of Toner in My Pants Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss the fate of late night TV, the works of the late French director Eric Rohmer and twenty years of The Simpsons

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39 min
January 06, 2010 Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Scary Bunny Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Adam Gopnik, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stephens and Julia Turner discuss sex and the American novel, the fate of magazines and van Gogh's ear.

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43 min
December 30, 2009 Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Puny Ingratiation Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the mistress of yuppie comedy Nancy Meyers latest film It’s Complicated, the loss of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and predictions for the decade to come.

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43 min
December 23, 2009 Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Do You Want to Touch My Poof Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Jessica Grose, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the best TV shows and films of the year and decade and the polluted waters of MTV's reality show Jersey Shore.

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45 min
December 16, 2009 Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Better Than an Emery Board to the Eyeballs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Daniel Engber, Stephen Metcalf, Chris Suellentrop, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the whether you should see James Cameron's Avatar, women both in and absent in the film world and video games as art.

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46 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…