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Dec 30, 2009 • 42min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Puny Ingratiation Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 23, 2009 • 45min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Do You Want to Touch My Poof Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 16, 2009 • 45min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Better Than an Emery Board to the Eyeballs Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 9, 2009 • 46min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, That's My Gingerbread Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 2, 2009 • 40min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, They'll Remember Me 100 Years From Now Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 25, 2009 • 54min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Tangled Up In Yule Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 18, 2009 • 48min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Plutonium Blonde Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 11, 2009 • 45min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Cute vs. Evil Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 4, 2009 • 41min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Good Breeding Edition
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 27, 2009 • 46min
Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Bombard Me With Phonemes Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the new season of 30 Rock, the refund offer from Baby Einstein, and the genius – and crossover potential – of country music star Brad Paisley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
