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Mar 12, 2014 • 53min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: All Aboard the Model Train Edition
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Mar 5, 2014 • 53min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Travoltified Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the Oscar's highs and lows, Atlantic's article, "The Dark Power of Fraternities" with Slate's Mike Pesca, and why looking normal is the new fashion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 26, 2014 • 52min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: There is No Dana. There is Only Zuul Edition.
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the legacy of actor, writer, director and Ghostbuster Harold Ramis, Disney's latest animated juggernaut, and why writers are the worst procrastinators. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 19, 2014 • 49min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: The Doe-Eyed Triangle Player Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss Amazon's online comedy sensation Transparent, the Italian Oscar contender The Great Beauty, and is the great era of branding coming to a close. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 12, 2014 • 41min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Piece of Resistance Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the latest toy-cum-blockbuster movie Legos, what Sochi reveals about Russia and the American imagination with cultural reporter Masha Gessen, and Twitter's history problem with Slate's Rebecca Onion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 5, 2014 • 41min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Oh My God It's Rosanne Cash Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens are joined in the studios by Rosanne Cash to talk about her latest album The River and The Thread and New York Times Theater critic Jason Zinoman discusses the legacy of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 29, 2014 • 40min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Dana's Coming at You With a Big Wheel of Cheese Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the dark horse of this year's Best Picture nominees, Philomena, the webseries-turned-Comedy Central show Broad City, and Atlantic editor Scott Sossel's new book, My Age of Anxiety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 22, 2014 • 55min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: (picnic, lightning) Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and David Haglund discuss Lena Dunham's photoshopped Vogue photo spread, Woody Allen's troubling personal life and their favorite literary punctuations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 15, 2014 • 45min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: From Now on This Gabfest is a Space for Silent Reflection Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss HBO's "True Detectives," Will Farrell's mini-series parody "Spoils of Babylon," and the dearth of African American recording artists on the billboard charts in 2013 with Slate contributor Chris Molanphy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 8, 2014 • 47min
Culture Gabfest - The Culture Gabfest: Do Androids Dream of Joaquin Phoenix?
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss "Her," Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions about the present and critic anonymity with New York Magazine's restaurant critic Adam Platt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
