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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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File photo: Ringo Starr plays as part of a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Fringe Festival, Ringo Starr, Wu-Tang and Nas, Feria del Barrio, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sept. 8 - Sept. 11: The Fringe Fest begins in Philadelphia, Ringo Starr comes to the Met, The Disco Biscuits are in Delaware, and Wu-Tang and Nas hit the stage in New Jersey.

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Sue Bird reacts after Tuesday's game, the last of her career, at the 2022 WNBA Playoffs semifinals in Seattle, Wash. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
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Basketball icon Sue Bird plays her last game after two legendary decades in the WNBA

She retires as the winningest WNBA player of all time.

3 years ago

Frances Tiafoe reacts after winning a tie breaker against Andrey Rublev, of Russia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Wednesday in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP)
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Tiafoe becomes first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006

The 24-year-old Tiafoe was backed by a boisterous partisan crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

3 years ago

Gianna Yanelli (left), who portrays Adrian in Walnut Street Theatre’s production of ‘’Rocky, the Musical,’’ and Matthew Amira, who portrays Rocky, make cheesesteaks at Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Rocky the Musical is getting its Philly debut, but first, cheesesteaks

The iconic Philly story premiered on Broadway in 2014 for six months, then all but disappeared. It opens at Walnut Street Theatre in October.

3 years ago

A rendering shows the Vestige Garden at Calder Gardens, a proposed museum dedicated to the works of Alexander Calder, to be located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Herzog & de Meuron)
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

New Calder museum plans revealed for the Parkway

The Calder Gardens will be built along the Parkway in Philadelphia in 2023, pairing Alexander Calder’s famous mobiles with natural landscaping.

3 years ago

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Ruby Bridges, desegregation trailblazer, writes kid’s book

“I Am Ruby Bridges” goes on sale Tuesday. It’s aimed at readers as young as 4 at a time when teaching the history of race in America has never been more difficult.

3 years ago

A map shows an aeiral view of ancient hunting traps.
History
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

CIA photos from U-2 spy planes of the 1950s have new life in archeology at Penn Museum

The Penn Museum is showing declassified images from 13 miles in the air, giving archeologists new tools to study ancient cities.

3 years ago

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TV

Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

The former president won the best narrator award at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”

3 years ago

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Philadelphia

Thousands pack Ben Franklin Parkway to celebrate the end of summer at Made in America

Performers included Philadelphia natives Jazmine Sullivan and Lil Uzi Vert, as well as headliners Tyler, the Creator and Bad Bunny.

3 years ago

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Ben Grinberg, co-founder of the Cannonball Festival, at one of it's stages in the Icebox, at the Crane Arts Building in Kensington. (Courtesy of Cannonball Festival)
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Performance ‘hubs’ keep Philly Fringe growing

Collectively produced artists keep costs low and creativity high.

3 years ago

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Goodnight Moon has comforted kids at bedtime for 75 years

The book has lulled children around the world to sleep with its dreamy ritual of bidding "goodnight" to everything in the "great green room."

3 years ago

File photo: Alabama's James Burnip warms up before the College Football Playoff championship football game against Georgia on Jan. 10, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by ’26 season

A 12-team, 11-game postseason system to crown a champion could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences that play major college football.

3 years ago

The 84-year-old actor said in an Instagram post Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and has begun a six-month course of chemotherapy. (Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Health Care
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TV

Jane Fonda says she has cancer and is undergoing treatment

"I've been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and have started chemo treatments," the actress, activist, and former fitness guru told her Instagram followers on Friday.

3 years ago

Banksy's rats appeared on street signs in Bristol, England, in the 1990s. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Social Justice

An unauthorized Banksy retrospective opens in Germantown

“BanksyLand” has about 50 original pieces by the secretive and controversial street artist. Banksy has neither endorsed nor condemned the show.

3 years ago

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Billy Penn

A guide to all the Philly artists performing at Made in America this year

The Labor Day weekend music festival flaunts a lot of local talent.

3 years ago

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