Slate Editor (and Bostonian) Julia Turner will be home for the live taping of Slate's Culture Gabfest podcast at the Wilbur Theatre on Monday night. She'll be joined by friends of Slate, including Boston-based former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky. . . . Directors Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo will be in town Thursday to screen their film "Revenge of the Green Dragons" as part of the Boston Asian American Film Festival. . . . Pandora Vanderpump, whose mom, Lisa, stars on "Vanderpump Rules," was in town to promote the family's brand of sangria and stayed at the Revere Hotel.