Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Bigger Explosions, Smaller Laughs Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss 88-year-old Betty White’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, the 50th anniversary of "the pill," and...
19 Maj 201033min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Optimization of Selfhood Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss a new biography of Oprah, the Data-Driven Life as quantified by Gary Wolf, and the new ...
5 Maj 201034min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Naked Doorway Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Lisa Tharpe and Julia Turner discuss performance artist Marina Abramovic retrospective at MOMA, censoring and the 201st episo...
28 Apr 201047min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I'm Not Going to Say That on the Gabfest Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the new film Kick-Ass, literature and cognitive neuroscience and the Library of Congress preserving y...
21 Apr 201043min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Ooh La La Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss David Simon's latest HBO endeavor Treme, the loss of British punk rocker Malcolm McLaren ...
14 Apr 201044min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, I Want to Touch the Machine Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Seth Stevenson and Julia Turner discuss Seth Stevenson's new travel book "Grounded", creating your own TV ad with a little he...
7 Apr 201046min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Shake Your Bon-Bon Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, June Thomas and Julia Turner discuss the new CBS television show Undercover Boss, the language of coming out when your a cele...
31 Mars 201045min
Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Number One Record Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Mike Pesca, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discus the death of Big Star front man Alex Chilton, music criticism is it worthless and replacing Wil...
24 Mars 201043min
