Getting to Love Hitler and Zooey Deschanel’s TV Show

Slate Takes Its Culture Gabfest to Los Angeles

How true does a good story need to be? And should you bring your toddler to The Hunger Games? These questions and others were the subject of discussion as actress Elizabeth Banks joined editors and critics from Slate in bringing the magazine’s Culture Gabfest Live to Los Angeles at the Petersen Automotive Museum. They talked about the retraction of a story on PRI show This American Life; Zooey Deschanel’s TV show The New Girl; and The Hunger Games, in which Banks plays a starring role.

Truth and Fiction on This American …

March 20, 2012

What’s Not Hot

Some Trends of 2012 That Ought to Be Over

March 19, 2012

We haven’t been dancing the Lambada in 2012, nor have we been wearing double-breasted suits, nor have we been obsessing over vampires. But we’ve still been doing a lot of …

My Golden Ride in The Idiot Box

TV Writing Paid My Bills, But I Still Don't Watch

by Rafael Alvarez | January 25, 2012

In 2006, I served a long year in the psych ward/nursery school that was the writers’ room for the quickly cancelled NBC drama The Black Donnellys.

The show held great promise, …

Go Ahead: Love Television Today

And Don’t Slight the Shows About Cupcakes

January 25, 2012

How much should we love what’s on TV? A panel of critics, producers, and television writers agreed that a lot of shows today are excellent and that viewers have more …

Is This the Golden Age of Television?

Maybe You Should Feel Better About the Junk You Watch—Maybe

January 23, 2012

We hate it and we love it. Television is worse than ever and better than ever. Most of us can reel off the names of ten shows that we consider …

Was Ever a City More Bewildering?

Wim Wenders, John Singleton, Richard Rodriguez, and Others Grapple With the Hidden, Violent, Beautiful, Sunny, Dreamy Mystery That Is Los Angeles

November 20, 2011

Images of Los Angeles in art, film, television, and advertising have captivated global audiences for decades. This weekend, a group of filmmakers, critics, historians, and writers visited Zócalo at the …

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