Slate Arts & Culture – Spoken Edition
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Slate Arts & Culture – Spoken Edition
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Thursday 25 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Wednesday 24 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Tuesday 23 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Monday 22 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Thursday 18 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Wednesday 17 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Friday 12 January 2018 : Your daily arts & culture update, brought to you by Slate. Hear more Slate articles at Slate.com/Voice. Want to hear a daily selection...
Thursday 28 December 2017 : “None of us thought that much into it,” Ed Sheeran says, right before breaking down in great detailed bit by detailed bit just how much...
Monday 25 December 2017 : In 2009, Chris Brown viciously assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna. His sentencing as ordered by a judge included five years probation, as...
Friday 22 December 2017 : It’s that time of year again: Love Actually season is upon us. The modern holiday classic is full of egregious flaws, from the...
Thursday 21 December 2017 : When the entire cast belts out “THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW” a minute into your movie, the film itself had better live up to it. The...
Wednesday 20 December 2017 : Dave Grohl, who many lifetimes ago was in a band called Nirvana, stopped by Saturday Night Live with his new band the Foo Fighters, and he...
Monday 18 December 2017 : There’s no shame in revisiting a classic, and on this week’s Saturday Night Live, host James Franco riffed on one of the show’s most...
Friday 15 December 2017 : The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony will be presented by women, women, and more...
Thursday 14 December 2017 : On Monday, a 27-year-old man tried to blow up a pipe bomb at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, but really he only succeeded in...
Wednesday 13 December 2017 : Hannibal Buress, the comedian whose 2014 stand-up routine about Bill Cosby was, in many ways, the opening bell for the current wave of...
Monday 11 December 2017 : Jimmy Kimmel is taking the week off to spend time with his family after his son’s surgery, but Jimmy Kimmel Live! has continued to air new...
Thursday 07 December 2017 : Johnny Hallyday, the singer whose French-language covers of American songs helped bring rock ’n’ roll to France, has died of cancer at...
Wednesday 06 December 2017 : NBC fired Today host Matt Lauer on Wednesday morning following a complaint by a colleague describing “inappropriate sexual behavior,”...
Tuesday 05 December 2017 : What would we do without Slate? No, I don’t mean Slate Magazine. I mean Jenny Slate, actress, comedian, and—today at least—queen of...
Monday 04 December 2017 : One might call Melodrama—Lorde’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated sophomore album—high art. The album is not just an aural...
Friday 01 December 2017 : After a miserable day like Wednesday, we could all use a news story—just one!—that isn’t part of the torrent of garbage that’s been...
Thursday 30 November 2017 : There hasn’t been a better feel good story in a long time than Project Veritas’ hilariously inept attempt to trick the Washington Post...
Wednesday 29 November 2017 : Pixar has always been known for making children’s movies adults can love too, occasionally to the point of giving their youngest viewers...
Monday 27 November 2017 : Thanksgiving! Is there any other word that so perfectly embodies the spirit of Thanksgiving? If there is, we should change the holiday’s...
Slate Arts & Culture – Spoken Edition
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Appreciation and obituary of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The late night shows are all about Donald Trump, so maybe watch The Steve Allen Show instead?
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Sundance’s The Tale is the perfect movie for our #MeToo moment.
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The Patriots are going to keep doing this forever, aren’t they?
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Eliza Dushku’s agent and on-set legal guardian both back her account of sexual assault.
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Mark Wahlberg donates his All the Money in the World reshoot money to Time’s Up.
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Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, reviewed.
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Ed Sheeran Needs Legos to Help Him Write, and Other Fun Facts From the Making of “Shape of You”
“None of us thought that much into it,” Ed Sheeran says, right before breaking down in great detailed bit by detailed bit just how much...
Nick Cannon Casts Chris Brown in a Movie Meant to “Empower Women.” Seriously.
In 2009, Chris Brown viciously assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna. His sentencing as ordered by a judge included five years probation, as...
Love Actually’s Workplace Harassment Feels Especially Egregious at the End of 2017
It’s that time of year again: Love Actually season is upon us. The modern holiday classic is full of egregious flaws, from the...
The Greatest Showman Isn’t Exactly the Greatest Show on Earth
When the entire cast belts out “THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW” a minute into your movie, the film itself had better live up to it. The...
Dave Grohl, Who Used to Be in Nirvana, Plays Crowd-Pleasing Christmas Ditties With the Foo Fighters on Saturday Night Live
Dave Grohl, who many lifetimes ago was in a band called Nirvana, stopped by Saturday Night Live with his new band the Foo Fighters, and he...
James Franco Gets in Touch With his Inner Dan Aykroyd in This Bloody Saturday Night LiveSketch
There’s no shame in revisiting a classic, and on this week’s Saturday Night Live, host James Franco riffed on one of the show’s most...
The 2018 SAG Awards Will Be Presented by an All-Female Line-Up, Because Women Are Awesome
The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony will be presented by women, women, and more...
New York City’s Late-Night Hosts Were Not Impressed by the Subway Bomber
On Monday, a 27-year-old man tried to blow up a pipe bomb at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, but really he only succeeded in...
Comedian Hannibal Buress Arrested in Miami, Charged With Disorderly Intoxication
Hannibal Buress, the comedian whose 2014 stand-up routine about Bill Cosby was, in many ways, the opening bell for the current wave of...
Tracee Ellis Ross Reads a Children’sBook About Our Current Cultural Monster: Sexual Harassers
Jimmy Kimmel is taking the week off to spend time with his family after his son’s surgery, but Jimmy Kimmel Live! has continued to air new...
French Rock Star and Actor Johnny Hallyday Dies at 74
Johnny Hallyday, the singer whose French-language covers of American songs helped bring rock ’n’ roll to France, has died of cancer at...
New Details About Matt Lauer’s Alleged Misconduct at NBC Are Extremely Gross
NBC fired Today host Matt Lauer on Wednesday morning following a complaint by a colleague describing “inappropriate sexual behavior,”...
Jenny Slate Is Writing a Feminist Essay Collection, Is Back With Chris Evans, Is Everything That Is Right and Good in the World
What would we do without Slate? No, I don’t mean Slate Magazine. I mean Jenny Slate, actress, comedian, and—today at least—queen of...
Lorde’s Grammy-Nominated Melodrama Takes Its Rightful Place in the Louvre
One might call Melodrama—Lorde’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated sophomore album—high art. The album is not just an aural...
Need Some News That Won’t Make You Puke? Here’s the Trailer to a New Aardman Film!
After a miserable day like Wednesday, we could all use a news story—just one!—that isn’t part of the torrent of garbage that’s been...
It Looks Like Project Veritas Tried to Sting Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
There hasn’t been a better feel good story in a long time than Project Veritas’ hilariously inept attempt to trick the Washington Post...
Pixar’s Coco, Reviewed by Someone Who Watched Day of the Dead by Mistake
Pixar has always been known for making children’s movies adults can love too, occasionally to the point of giving their youngest viewers...
Thanksgiving Stress? Maybe This 12-Hour Recording of Turkeys Gobbling Can Help!
Thanksgiving! Is there any other word that so perfectly embodies the spirit of Thanksgiving? If there is, we should change the holiday’s...
