The Culture Gabfest: Meat Your God Edition
Slate's Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf and John Swansburg discuss History Channel's "The Bible," the results of VITA count and the death of the American pun. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you...
13 Mar 201342min
The Culture Gabfest: I Guess We Should Ask You for Money Edition
Slate writers Dana Stevens, David Haglund and Forrest Wickman are joined by Mark Harris to discuss his piece for GQ on the leading man, Amanda Palmer's TED talk on crowdfunding and the PBS documentary...
6 Mar 201345min
The Culture Gabfest: We Saw You're a Boob Edition
Slate critics Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen and David Haglund weigh in on the Oscars, the Harlem Shake meme and the HBO series "Enlightened." Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you su...
27 Feb 201343min
The Culture Gabfest: Only Beyoncé Could Make me Not Like Beyoncé Edition
Slate critics Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf and Slate Deputy Editor Julia Turner discuss Beyoncé's documentary, Kindling Quarterly, a new magazine on fatherhood and the Oscar-nominated documentary "Se...
20 Feb 201346min
The Culture Gabfest: Hump the Host Edition
Slate's Dana Stevens, Stephen Metcalf and June Thomas discuss the Broadway revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", the life and death of Aaron Swartz and the bigtime Oscar contender "Lincoln." N...
13 Feb 201343min
The Culture Gabfest: 6 Seconds of My Life Manages to Bore Even Me Edition
Slate's Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and Brow Beat blog editor David Haglund discuss Netflix's new series "House of Cards," the movie-making app Vine and gear up for the Oscars with "Silver Linings Play...
6 Feb 201342min
The Culture Gabfest: First, We Kill All the Cats Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the song "Thrift Shop" with Jody Rosen, unpack Dana's coined phrase "artisenal horror" and discuss the end of cats. Need to set up...
30 Jan 201348min
Slate Culture Gabfest: This is an Aztec Sacrifice of my Time Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss 'Zero Dark Thirty,' celebrity journalism and remember Pauline Phillips a.k.a. 'Dear Abby' with Slate columnist Emily Yoffe Need to ...
23 Jan 201345min
