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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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Arts & Entertainment

 Alan Holmes (left) as an abbot and Robb Hutter as the Marquis de Sade in Luna Theater Company's production of 'Quills.' (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Spooking the Marquis de Sade and his ‘Quills’

What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abb ...

11 years ago

 The Princeton Battlefield on Veterans Day 2014. (Alan Tu/WHYY)

Mission to preserve Revolutionary War site in Princeton enlists further support

A Revolutionary War battlefield in Princeton, New Jersey, has gotten reinforcements from the Civil War. The Civil War Trust has, i ...

11 years ago

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 William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere (left) and Edward 'Babe' Heffron pose for a photograph in Philadelphia in 2007. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Once part of ‘Band of Brothers,’ South Philly World War II vets to live on in bronze

Two World War II veterans from South Philadelphia, who parachuted with Easy Company into Europe to combat German forces in 1944, will be ...

11 years ago

First

First for Friday, November 7, 2014

Election Day impact First Look this week dives into the impact of Tuesday’s vote. Will the Republican strategy make a dif ...

Air Date: November 7, 2014

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First Election Special 2014

First Election Special 2014 ...

Air Date: November 7, 2014

Richard Shoemaker, an emergency room physician at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Chester, Pa., makes his way through the course. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Work of Barnes friend, artistic guide William Glackens featured at foundation

The Barnes Foundation, on the Parkway in Philadelphia, is exhibiting the work of an artist who played a critical role in the cr ...

11 years ago

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 Brian Ratcliffe (left) and Keith Conallen in Theatre Exile's production of 'Red Speedo.' (Photo courtesy of Paola Nogueras)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Red Speedo,’ white-hot lies

The difference between right and wrong doesn’t figure into the ways the characters think in “Red Speedo.” But what& ...

11 years ago

 Carla Belver as Amanda Wingfield and Charlie DelMarcelle as her son, Tom, in Act II Playhouse's production of 'The Glass Menagerie.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Peering into a crystalline ‘Glass Menagerie’

The stunning production of “The Glass Menagerie” at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is all the more stunning because it never trie ...

11 years ago

Biking in Philly: Then and Now [photos]

Philadelphians love biking. A report issued by the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia this summer ...

11 years ago

 From left, Kate Czajkowski as Estella, Sally Mercer as Miss Havisham, and Josh Carpenter as Pip in Arden Theatre Company's production of 'Great Expectations.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Great Expectations,’ especially for the plot

Arden Theatre glides steadily through the broad sweep of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – and when it comes to ...

11 years ago

NJ museum displays massive mural a jailed man created from sheets, hair gel, and newspapers

A Pennsylvania man engineered his mental escape from prison through creation of a towering artwork, mailing it piece by piece beyond bars ...

11 years ago

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 Josh Stamper composed 'Rivers,' a work for prepared piano and prepared cello inspired by the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

‘RIVERS’ celebrates course of Schuylkill, Delaware in shaping Philly

This weekend, a musical composition about the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers will premiere in Philadelphia, evoking both the movement of ...

11 years ago

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Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Asking For It’ and dishing it out

The comedian and theater artist Adrienne Truscott immediately begins her one-woman “Asking For It” with a piece of shtik that ...

11 years ago

 Christie Parker (left) and Bi Jean Ngo in InterAct Theater Company's world premiere of 'Caught.' (Photo courtesy of  Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Caught’ in an intriguing labyrinth

Is there such a thing as being close to the truth, or is that the definition of a lie? Well, it is not a matter of truth or fiction, but ...

11 years ago

 Dan DeLuca gives instructions to the striking newsboys in 'Newsies,' beginning its national tour at the Academy of Music. (Photo courtesy of Deen van Meer)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Newsies,’ when urchins helped make press lords rich

Too bad that the national tour of Disney’s “Newsies” is running at the Academy of Music only through the weekend, becau ...

11 years ago

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