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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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Yuengling beer
Business
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania

Yuengling, America’s oldest brewer, invades the West Coast

D.G. Yuengling and Son, America's oldest operating brewer, is sending some cold ones your way for the first time since it began making beer in 1829.

5 years ago

Scrapple
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

How to cook the best scrapple at home

Level up your brunch with the breakfast of Philly champions.

5 years ago

A patron stands in front of a shelf full of wine bottles at a liquor story in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 20. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
Public Health

Hangover from alcohol boom could last long after pandemic ends

Americans are drinking more during the COVID-19 pandemic. A beer in the evening can feel like a taste of normal life, but experts worry about alcohol's deadly side effects.

5 years ago

A block of Sansom Street in Center City is closed to traffic for outdoor dining on Sept. 9.
The Why
Business
Food & Drink

COVID forced a reckoning in Philly’s restaurant scene

The pandemic has exposed inequities in Philly's restaurant industry. Workers are speaking out and some restaurants are making changes. Here's what it could it mean for diners.

Air Date: September 10, 2020

Listen 15:57
(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

You can order a ‘WAP’ at this Philly Starbucks

Move over PSL, there’s a new coffee drink in town.

5 years ago

Radio Times
Behavioral Health
Environment

Human cooperation and survival

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare says that human being's ability to cooperate and communicate with others even across species, is what's behind our success and survival.

Air Date: September 1, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:44
Memphis Taproom's erstwhile spaghetti sandwich; anonymous letter (Memphis Taproom; Ken Correll)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Memphis Taproom trolled with analog ransom note over popular spaghetti hoagie

The Kensington bar took the vegan sandwich off the menu two years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

5 years ago

Whitney Blaylock (right) is launching Women's World Gym on Allegheny Avenue (Instagram/@Womensworldgym)
Business
Gender
Billy Penn

She’s opening a gym in Kensington so women can ‘confidently reach their fitness goals’

With graffiti walls by fashion designer Iris Bonner, Women’s World Gym launches Sept. 1.

5 years ago

At Condom Kingdom on South Street, business is booming. (Flickr Creative Commons/Terry Robinson)
Philadelphia
Sex & Relationships
Billy Penn

Philly sex shops are seeing some interesting coronavirus shopping trends

An app-controlled vibrator is one of the most popular items.

5 years ago

Joseph and Sherika Pierce were one of the few Philly couples to get awarded an emergency wedding license during the pandemic. (Courtesy of Joseph and Sherika Pierce)
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

3,000 Philadelphians applied for emergency weddings, only 20% got approved

The city limited pandemic licenses to frontline workers and others at risk.

5 years ago

Signs posted along Philadelphia's Schuylkill River Trail caution users to keep six feet away from others to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Health
Public Spaces

As fitness studios discover Philly parks, city urges them to play fair

The pandemic has made working out in public parks an appealing option for many Philadelphians. But are fitness studios playing by the rules?

5 years ago

(Courtesy of Devil's Den)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly restaurant owners on tropical storm: ‘It’ll only get worse’ as seasons grow cold

Open for outdoor dining and risk the elements, or stay closed and lose essential revenue?

5 years ago

A cyclist wearing a coronavirus protective mask is reflected in a wedding dresses store window where mannequins also wear masks, in Zagreb, Croatia, Thursday, April 23, 2020. The store is closed because of Covid-19 lockdown. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Business
Public Health

No masks, no distance: Pandemic wedding horrors for vendors

Now that weddings have slowly cranked up under a patchwork of ever-shifting state and local restrictions, horror stories from vendors are rolling in.

5 years ago

(Big Stock)
Radio Times
Home & Family
Sex & Relationships

Sex, love and COVID-19

We discuss the strains that the coronavirus has put on our romantic relationships -- dating with masks, sex and physical distancing, and marriages under quarantine.

Air Date: July 29, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:27
Radio Times
Outdoors
Travel

Vacationing in the summer of COVID

Today we're going to talk about the smart and safe ways to get out of town this summer.

Air Date: July 17, 2020

Listen 48:58
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