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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

Royal treatment for Mummers as kings join queens for New Year’s parade

Right now, Mummer brigades in Philadelphia are fluffing up their parasols and putting a shine to their golden slippers as they get ready ...

12 years ago

 Across the street from the Kimmel Center will be the SLS International Hotel and Residences. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for Newsworks)

Pennsylvania’s tallest residential building to rise on South Broad

A few years from now, a glass tower will rise above South Broad Street. It will be the tallest residential building in Pennsylvania and, ...

12 years ago

 Maggie Lakis in 'The Twelve Dates of Christmas' at Act II Playhouse in Ambler. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: Finding true love in ‘The Twelve Dates of Christmas’

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a song about the gifts a true love gives. “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” at A ...

12 years ago

 Kolbeinn Hugi, a visiting artist from Reykjavik, Iceland, is using a 3-D printer to make crystal shapes for the 'Due North' exhibit. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

NextFab Studio points ‘due north’ pairing print artists from Iceland and Philly

Philadelphia artist Marianne Bernstein says it’s not ice that gets you in Iceland. It’s wind — the inspiration behind her&n ...

12 years ago

 Sarah Sze at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (installation view, second floor), 2013. Mixed media. Dimensions variable. In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. (Photo: Tom Powel Imaging. Courtesy of the artist)

Sculptor Sarah Sze brings exploration of landscapes to Philly

The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia is showing w ...

12 years ago

 In Bucks County Playhouse's
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Review: The sounds (as in radio) of ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’

You could sit in the audience at Bucks County Playhouse’s “Meet Me in St. Louis” and never look up from the floor, and ...

12 years ago

Lehigh professor writing requiem for Sandy Hook shooting victims

Lehigh music professor and composer Steven Sametz grew up not far from Newtown, Conn. and relished his public school education. So ...

12 years ago

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 Longwood Gardens presents 'A Longwood Christmas' through January 12 on Route 1, Kennett Square, Pa.   (Image courtesy of Longwood Gardens)
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Weekly Entertainment Guide – ‘A Longwood Christmas,’ ‘Tributaries,’ and ‘Aladdin’

Looking for something to do this holiday season? WHYY’s Robin Bloom has some recommendations on what’s happening in the Phila ...

12 years ago

 In Lantern Theater Company's
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Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales,’ the longest day

If Lantern Theater company’s rendition is any indication, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the … slowest & ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, December 13, 2013

Keeping schools safe pt.1 There will be lots of coverage this week connected with the tragic events one year ago in Newtown, Con ...

Air Date: December 13, 2013

 Ben Dibble (left) and Rob McClure in
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Review: Rifts, cracks and all, ‘The Story of My Life’

Plenty of shows involve friends, but only a few focus on the idea of friendship, and that’s why I wish “The Story of My Life& ...

12 years ago

 Christine Mild in 'Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class' at Society Hill Playhouse. (Image courtesy of Society Hill Playhouse)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: The all-too cheery ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class’

“Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” is the latest to arrive here in Dan Goggin’s series of shows in the “N ...

12 years ago

 James Sugg as the inebriated Sir Toby and some of the musicians, in Pig Iron Theatre Company's
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Review: A Pig Iron-styled ‘Twelfth Night’

Three Fringe Festivals back, Pig Iron Theatre Company — among the nation’s most cutting-edge — dipped into the classics ...

12 years ago

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First

First for Friday, December 6, 2013

Port impact There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about building up the manufacturing and the blue collar work base ...

Air Date: December 6, 2013

 The ensemble of
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Review: ‘Nerds,’ the newly downloaded Nerds.2 version

The musical “Nerds” is like a new digital game that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Forget about everything else, it will wa ...

12 years ago

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