From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist, Emily Yoffe, responds to a reader whose husband is prone to making racially insensitive remarks.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

Fifty years ago, a film crew descended on tiny Phoenixville, Pa., to shoot scenes for the cult horror movie The Blob. Every summer, the town celebrates its 15 minutes of celluloid fame with an odd sliver of Americana called "Blob Fest."

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

The new Simpsons Movie unleashes an environmental threat on Springfield. The TV show has also dealt with eco-themes many times over the years, but often by making green do-gooders the butt of jokes. Torie Bosch shows us some classic scenes.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist, Emily Yoffe, counsels a young woman whose downstairs neighbor is very sweet but has some maddening habits.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist, Emily Yoffe, gives tips to a vegan on how to handle her new meat-eating co-workers.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:27 PM

To augment his income during a Swedish film studio shutdown in the 1950s, late director Ingmar Bergman made a series of commercials for Bris soap. Slate’s Dana Stevens introduces us to what may be the most avant-garde ads ever made.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

A distracted college professor asks Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, why his female students seem to be showing him so much skin these days. Are they coming on to him? Or is he reading too much into their behavior?

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Two comedy writers, conservative Rob Long and liberal Adam Felber, compare their perceptions of issues in the news with a MediaCurves.com survey of average Americans. On the agenda today: legal troubles for Lindsay Lohan.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

For the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Magnum Photos and Slate V offer a narrated photo essay about hippie culture. Photos and narration by Dennis Stock. NOTE: This video contains some nudity.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, counsels a woman whose widowed father seems to have a new relationship. Is it really what it seems to be?

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, answers a letter from a mom who often serves lunch to a neighbor boy. Trouble is, his table manners are atrocious. Should she try to fix the problem herself?

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Sen. Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct following his arrest for allegedly soliciting in a public restroom. Slate V delivers a re-enactment, based on the police report.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, answers a letter from an associate at a law firm who has loaned out her favorite pen and can't figure out how to get it back.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, answers an anguished letter from a man who didn't behave very well when his wife went on a business trip.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate advice columnist Dear Prudence answers a letter from a man driven to distraction by his family’s untidy laundry habits.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

The new TV season is filled with shows in which British actors play Americans. This inspired Slate’s resident U.K.-born editor, June Thomas, to visit an acting coach who helps Brits learn to sound like Yanks.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist Dear Prudence hears from a woman whose body piercing often draws hostile comments from the truck drivers with whom she works.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

From education to justice to Iraq, President Bush perpetrated a series of gaffes over the course of seven days in September.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, counsels a woman who's developing romantic feelings for a close male friend.

From: Slate V on Tue, Sep 29 2009 5:26 PM

Slate’s Emily Bazelon examines how parents and kids can find useful information about sex in the Internet era (when everything seems to be sexualized).