Culture Gabfest - 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...
31 Jul 200832min
Culture Gabfest - 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 myste...
17 Jul 200832min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Community Standards Edition
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" ...
2 Jul 200832min
Culture Gabfest - 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 m...
4 Jun 200832min
Culture Gabfest - 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 nove...
21 Mai 200832min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest Summer Movie Bonanza
Slate's Culture Gabfest with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the rollout of the summer movie season, including the superhero movie ...
7 Mai 200829min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest and Personal Virtue
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the viability of personal virtue to solve global warming, the possible failure of personal virtue in the travel writing business and the utter failu...
23 Apr 200833min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Cultural Gabfest, Misplaced Outrage Edition
The Slate Cultural Gabfest, with Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner. This week, our critics discuss Vogue magazine’s King Kong redux, Hillary’s millions, and the latest in nerd verite, th...
9 Apr 200830min
