Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Busby Berkeley Dreams Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the Oscars, finding your way through New York's Penn Station and whether The National Enquirer should...
10 Mar 201048min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Warbly Strangly Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the singer song-writer Joanna Newsom, the new NBC show "The Marriage Ref" and ten rules f...
3 Mar 201040min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Meet the Crotchman Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss this Esquire profile of film critic Roger Ebert, the new animated HBO incarnation of The Ricky Gervia...
24 Feb 201041min
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 ...
17 Feb 201047min
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 Ti...
10 Feb 201041min
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 Saling...
3 Feb 201038min
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 ...
27 Jan 201042min
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 late...
20 Jan 201034min
