Culture Gabfest

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 your tweets. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automa...

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 and the comic musings of Tina Fey. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Ap...

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 help from Google and Apple's much hyped IPad. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscrib...

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 celebrity and the website TV Tropes. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Appl...

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 William Safire at The New York Times. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Ap...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and June Thomas discuss HBO's new mini-series The Pacific, Variety firing it's critics and mommy bloggers in The New York Times. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic acces...

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 be eligible for a Pulitzer. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Po...

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 for writing fiction. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts ge...

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 Gervias Show, and ChatRoulette the international chat room that pairs you and your webcam with a total stranger. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ a...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed v...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribe...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic acce...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed...

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 Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required....

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via...

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. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members s...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Jody Rosen, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss the decade of change in the music business, the art of selling out and the everlasting Facebook. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss White House party crashers, the "decade from hell," and Eva Tanguay, the first rock star. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup req...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Bob Dylan’s Christmas CD Christmas in the Heart, the South African sprinter Caster Semenya and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s new documentary Le Danse. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic acces...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guests Troy Patterson and Juliet Lapidos discuss what's so great about Lady Gaga anyway, filmmaker Wes Anderson's latest, and how to translate "nuclear waste" to society some 10,000 years from now. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podca...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner take on the film Precious, the novel Black Dogs (about the fall of communism) and the nauseating, exploitative menace otherwise known as cute. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via App...

In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner and guest June Thomas discuss ABC's new sitcom "Modern Family", Tad Friend's latest memoir and a hundred things a restaurant staffer should never do. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via...