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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Nancy Meyers' latest yuppie comedy It's Complicated, the loss of singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt, and predictions for the decade to come.

Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned in the show:

Dana Stevens' Slate review of It's Complicated.
The official Web site and trailer for It's Complicated.
Wikipedia's entry for The Philadelphia Story.
Lambchop's official Web site.
Sweet Relief II, a tribute album for Vic Chesnutt.
The official Web site for the Spanish film The Sea Inside, based on the life of Ramon Sampedro.
See Vic Chesnutt play a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR.
Anne Applebaum's take in Slate on what the next decade will bring.

The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:

Dana's picks: Vic Chesnutt's interview with Terry Gross on NPR and the Harry Nilsson album of children's folklore The Point!
June's picks: the Spanish historical epic film Bloody May,directed by Jose Luis Garci; and The Last Cargo Cult,created and performed by Mike Daisey.
Stephen's picks: writer Jonathan Raban's piece "Sarah and her Tribe," in the New York Review of Books,and Vic Chesnutt's album West of Rome.

You can e-mail us at culturefest@slate.com.

Posted on Dec. 30 by Jesse Baker at 11:57 a.m.

Dec. 23, 2009