Sinopsis
New York Times critic Dwight Garner says The Slate Culture Gabfest is one of the highlights of my week. The award-winning Culturefest features Slate culture critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner debating the week in culture, from highbrow to pop.
Episodios
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Culture Gabfest Presents: Upon Further Review
22/05/2018 Duración: 24minJulia Turner is here to present the new podcast from The Gist's Mike Pesca, about the great "what-ifs" in sports. "What If I Hadn’t Written That Fan Letter to Dan Majerle in April 1993?", Jesse Eisenberg asks, revisiting a painful chapter of his youth when his beloved Phoenix Suns lost to the Chicago Bulls in the final seconds of Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals. Wracked by guilt at the possibility that his fan letter to the Suns’ Dan Majerle proved a fatal distraction, he imagines an alternate reality where he never put pen to paper. NBA legends Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan also make an appearance. Then there's a bonus conversation between Mike and Jesse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: Deadpool 2
18/05/2018 Duración: 48minForrest Wickman, Marissa Martinelli and Sam Adams spoil Deadpool 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Smoke-N-Chill Novelties Edition
16/05/2018 Duración: 58minDana Stevens, Sam Adams discuss the new film The Rider with Inkoo Kang, Childish Gambino's song and video for This Is America with Aisha Harria, and Jia Tolentino's New Yorker piece "The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of Juul" with Lena Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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[Laugh Track] Edition
09/05/2018 Duración: 01h01minStephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens, discuss the new film Tully with Slate's Willa Paskin, who sticks around to talk about her new podcast Decoder Ring and the history of the laugh track, and finally: are you a brand? Should you be one? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Culture Gabfest Presents Decoder Ring: The Laff Box
04/05/2018 Duración: 31minJulia Turner is here to introduce you to the new show from Slate's TV Critic Willa Paskin. Decoder Ring: the show about cracking cultural mysteries. Subscribe here to get episodes as soon as they're ready. Every episode we’ll take on a cultural object, idea, or habit and speak with experts, historians and obsessives to try to figure out where it comes from, what it means and why it matters. Why do we get so invested in fictional romances? What does it mean to wear a baseball hat backwards? Why do we clap? What do people think about all day? Decoder Ring explores questions and topics you didn't know you were curious about. In our first episode, we ask: What happened to the laugh track? For nearly five decades, it was ubiquitous, but beginning in the early 2000s, it fell out of sitcom fashion. What happened? How did we get from Beverly Hillbillies to 30 Rock? We meet the man who created the laugh track, which originated as a homemade piece of technology, and trace that technology’s fall and the rise of a more m
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The Monkfish Was Fine Edition
02/05/2018 Duración: 01h06minJulia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Stephen Metcalf discuss the Netflix documentary series Wild, Wild, Country, the flap over the White House Correspondents Dinner, and nooks and crannies of Youtube subculture with Slate's Justin Peters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hit Parade: The You Give Rock a Bad Name Edition
27/04/2018 Duración: 01h10minBon Jovi are many things: platinum-selling, chart-topping and now, Hall of Fame–inducted. That angers music critics, who have been slagging off this band of hard-rock prom kings since the 1980s. Among the haters is Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy, who has loathed Bon Jovi since high school. But even he can’t deny it: Bon Jovi are hugely influential. In the wake of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Chris puts aside his animus to explain how the biggest band in hair metal have remained strangely relevant—thanks to their deathless hits, their album sales and, more recently, their influence on a certain hair-metal-loving Swedish pop producer. Email: hitparade@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: Avengers: Infinity War
27/04/2018 Duración: 01h17minDana Stevens, Jonathan Fischer, and Forrest Wickman spoil Avengers: Infinity War. Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It's Hammer Time Edition
25/04/2018 Duración: 01h03minStephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the new BBC America series Killing Eve, the film from Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here, and ask themselves: "should we delete Facebook?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apocalypse Mom Edition
18/04/2018 Duración: 01h01minStephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the hit horror film A Quiet Place, the new adaptation of Howard's End on the BBC and Starz, and Barbara Ehrenreich's essay: "Why I'm Giving Up On Preventative Care". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie Edition
11/04/2018 Duración: 01h03minDana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Willa Paskin discuss the return of ABC's Roseanne, Kacey Musgraves' album Golden Hour with Slate's Carl Wilson, and Molly Ringwald's essay in the New Yorker: "What About 'The Breakfast Club'?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: Ready Player One
06/04/2018 Duración: 56minDana Stevens, Laura Hudson, Dawnthea Price, and Forrest Wickman spoil Ready Player One. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Midnight at the OASIS Edition
04/04/2018 Duración: 01h01minDana Stevens, Christina Cauterucci, and Sam Adams discuss the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One, HBO's new assassination comedy series Barry, and the Cannes Film Festival's decision to ban Netflix films from competing in the festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hit Parade: The Veronica Electronica Edition
29/03/2018 Duración: 01h13minIn 1998, Madonna was at a career crossroads. After dominating the ’80s with hits like “Like a Virgin” and “Open Your Heart,” she spent the first half of the ’90s wavering between roles as a provocateur (Erotica, Sex) and adult-contemporary balladeer (“I’ll Remember,” “Take a Bow”). That’s when she took a sharp left turn, working with producers and deejays in the burgeoning electronica scene. If it even was a scene: The very term “electronica” was a music-business confection, and by 1997 it was more hype than hit. But the result of Madonna’s experiment—her acclaimed ’98 album Ray of Light—was not only one of her biggest smashes ever. It also helped turn electronic music into viable pop. Email: hitparade@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Great Work Begins Edition
28/03/2018 Duración: 59minDana Stevens, Dan Kois, and Isaac Butler discuss the revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America which recently arrived on Broadway, The World Only Spins Forward, the oral history of Angels in America, and the film Love, Simon with Slate's Alex Barasch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: Isle of Dogs
23/03/2018 Duración: 58minDana Stevens, Forrest Wickman, and Inkoo Kang spoil Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We Are a Sacred Troupe Edition
21/03/2018 Duración: 01h01minJulia Turner, Dana Stevens, and Gabriel Roth discuss Armando Iannucci's new film The Death of Stalin about the power struggle's in the days after Stalin's death in 1953 Soviet Russia, NBC's new musical series Rise about a high school drama director, and the power or lack thereof of Twitter metrics and if we'd be better off without them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: Blue Planet II
16/03/2018 Duración: 01h04minSusan Matthews, Dan Engber, Jacob Brogan, Kirsten Berg and Alex Barasch sit down for a science-filled spoiler special all about Blue Planet II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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10th Anniversary Edition
14/03/2018 Duración: 01h18minStephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show live at The Bell House in Brooklyn New York. They discuss the film A Wrinkle in Time, go deep on the cultural significance of color, and are quizzed on past segments of the show by Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Spoiler Specials: A Wrinkle in Time
09/03/2018 Duración: 01h06minDana Stevens, Aisha Harris and Forrest Wickman spoil A Wrinkle in Time, discussing how it translate from book to screen, if children will actually like it, and what the deal is with that flying lettuce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices