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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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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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Wilmington artist creates jewelry with a twist

After being unsatisfied with jewelry that wasn't unique, a Wilmington entrepreneur took matters into her own hands and is now teaching others how to make their own jewelry.

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Delaware arts calendar: The art of Denise Dumont, Rubix Kube and more to see and do in Delaware this week

From concerts and movies, to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware. Here are some of our picks.

8 years ago

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Delaware artist left the banking world to ‘get back to her bliss’

Denise Dumont traded her office job for the life of a professional painter. Now her office is wherever she sets up her easel.

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Major arts supporter in Princeton gets her first exhibit

There are many luxurious spots in which to sit and relax in the home Hella McVay shares with her husband Scott McVay.

8 years ago

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is hosting the first major exhibition in Philadelphia of the photographs of Chuck Close. The 183-inch-long ''Self-Portrait/Five Part'' was made in 2009.
Arts & Entertainment

After half-century, Chuck Close photographs make Philadelphia debut

"Chuck Close Photographs," now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is a large and meaty show with 90 images created over 50 years.

8 years ago

Although they're a hundred miles away, the murals in the Senate Chamber of the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg are a significant part of the new Violet Oakley exhibit at the Woodmere Art Museum. (Woodmere Art Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

Woodmere offers new look at Violet Oakley, whose murals stand timeless at Pa. Capitol

The Woodmere Museum in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood will host an exhibit of the work by Violet Oakley, once one of Pennsylvania's most prominent artists.

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Is opera relevant to our IGen kids?

I know it doesn’t happen for every parent, so having a child who shares my passion for theater, music, books and arts and culture in general feels really good.

8 years ago

A ghoulish scene from annual Halloween haunt, Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary
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With ‘no filters, no restraints,’ Terror Behind the Walls puts Eastern State at center of Halloween

What does it take to be hired as an intimidator or a creeper at one of the nation's top historic haunted attractions? A lot of energy and stamina.

8 years ago

Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Tony Auth on Vietnam’s role in his career as a political cartoonist

From the Tony Auth archives an excerpt from the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist's 2005 interview with the Library of Congress.

8 years ago

Craters formed by bombs dropped during the Vietnam War
Community

Video artist traces the scars of war from South Philly to Vietnam

A Philadelphia video artist born in Vietnam is shooting a documentary chronicling his personal connection to scars the war left on the landscape.

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Princeton University opens Lewis Arts Complex

For several years, a construction fence barricaded the area opposite Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center — it was an ugly sight t ...

8 years ago

First experience: Rick Phillips
Arts & Entertainment

For Delaware artist Rick Phillips, painting is like a ‘religious experience’

From illustration to fine art, Rick Phillips has always been an artist. But it’s his fine art that made him happy. After sta ...

8 years ago

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform during an air show at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst in New Jersey. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Air show to draw thousands to Dover Air Force Base

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will headline two days of aerial entertainment celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Air Force. ...

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Princeton opens exhibit of Howard Russell Butler’s solar eclipse paintings

Still trying to find the right No. 14 arc welder glasses for viewing the first solar eclipse of the century, or figuring out how you̵ ...

8 years ago

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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth’s birth

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth's birth. The Brandywine River Museum of Art celebrates his life through an exhibit of his best work.

8 years ago

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