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I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Summer Strut 2014 edition.

It's Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

On today's show, The Fosters is a show about a mixed-race lesbian couple and their multi-culty straight gay

by and questioning kids it would be a peasy nightmare if it weren't also so good and

then summer strut is here we pick through a listener suggested song list to find our streadiest favorites.

And finally, why have old corporate signs become such an urban revivalist nostalgia trip?

Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor Julia Turner. Hello Julia.

Hi Steve. And of course Slate's film critic Dana's Hey Dana.

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