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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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Shapiro on Theater

Title: Trying to blend the tales in ‘Grimms’ Juniper Tree’

What happens when, say, Rumpelstiltskin and the candy-coated Hansel and Gretl become linked in the same story? You get a Grimms fairy-tal ...

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Philadelphia Flower Show embraces fine art to create living landscapes

We’ve just been through two winter storms in less that a week, and another is on the way. But the Pennsylvania Horticultural ...

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 Philadelphia's official Poet Laureate Frank Sherlock and his friend Samuel Durso at City Hall Friday for Sherlock's appointment to the position. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Frank Sherlock poet laureate for city of ‘Otherly Love’

Frank Sherlock, a mostly self-taught poet born and raised in Philadelphia, will be the city’s official poet for the next two years. ...

11 years ago

 The photography-based works of Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow are the subject of a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Philly Museum of Art offers challenging, rewarding retrospective of Michael Snow photos

One of the most recent pieces in the 40-year retrospective of Michael Snow& ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, January 31, 2014

Paratransit overhaul Governor Markell put a lot of emphasis on fixing infrastructure and overhauling the way trans ...

Air Date: January 31, 2014

 Laurie Klatscher, Tad Cooley, John Judd, Robin Abramson, and Alex Hoeffler in Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Tribes’ and the all-consuming power of words

In “Tribes,” a play that bursts with life and energy in a new Philadelphia Theatre Company production, it’s all about w ...

11 years ago

 (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Younger singers, audiences find harmony with Philly choral groups

Conrad Erb started singing when he was 5 years old in the Mennonite church where he grew up. He continued singing through college. Then h ...

11 years ago

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Members of Adath Emanu-El don't know where the Torah came from. Rabbi Moshe Druin said it is about 300 years old and originated in Czechoslovakia. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Restoring a Czech Torah to holiness in South Jersey

A 300-year-old Jewish Torah, originally from the region once known as Czechoslovakia, is now being restored in Mt. Laurel, New Jerse ...

12 years ago

 Karen Peakes (left) as the teacher and Alice M. Gatling as the mother in InterAct Theatre Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: In ‘Gidion’s Knot,’ the acting’s the thing

If you’re a student of acting – literally or not – “Gidion’s Knot” at InterAct Theatre Company is an excellen ...

12 years ago

 Armando Batista as Elliot Maia DeSanti as his cousin in Arden Theatre Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater

Review: The real, the virtual, the quest for connection in ‘Water by the Spoonful’

Two elements of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ remarkably crafted play “Water by the Spoonful” are striking and memorable. One ...

12 years ago

 One of Kate DiCamillo earlier books,

Superpower squirrel and 19th Century train win Caldecott and Newbery in Philly

The two major prizes for children’s literature were announced Monday morning in Philadelphia at the American Library Association ...

12 years ago

Hall of Fame basketball player Tom Gola dies at 81

Tom Gola, the Hall of Famer who led La Salle to the 1954 NCAA title, still holds the Division I record for career rebounds and helpe ...

12 years ago

Harriet Tubman
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Playful philosophy inside a ‘Snowglobe’

Mother Nature is clearly on the side of the team that put together “Snowglobe,” which opened at the Shubin Theatre in the mid ...

12 years ago

First

First for Friday, January 24, 2014

2014 Delaware State of the State address The first half of our broadcast this week will come from Legislative Hall, where Govern ...

Air Date: January 24, 2014

 A new exhibit at Moore College of Art and Design surveys the diversity of punk and post-punk graphic design, including work by designer Barney Bubbles. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Moore offers graphic look at creative chaos of punk

Original graphic designs from the Cramps, the Clash, X-Ray Spex, the Ramones, Black Flag and countless others are wallpapering the galler ...

12 years ago

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