Everybody is dealing with the COVID-19 quarantines and restrictions in different ways. While there's no single right way to cope — social distancing and staying TF home aside — staying connected with friends, family, and neighbors is a good place to start...

Now available in local grocery stores

Isaly’s — makers of chipped chopped ham, barbecue sauce, and old fashioned ice cream — is expanding their ice cream line with a highly requested flavor from the ice cream counter archives: Toasted Almond Fudge — crunchy toasted almonds in Isaly’s rich chocolate ice cream. Isaly’s Ice Cream can now be found in pints in Giant Eagle’s freezer section along with Kuhn’s, Shop n Save’s, and other local grocery stores...

“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.” That quote came to the mind of Mary Persin, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s vice president of artistic planning, at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak...

James Wolff was unintentionally well-positioned for our current crisis. “I had a house in Lawrenceville, but I had to get out,” he says...

At first glance, the Tiny Smiles made by Pittsburgh-based ceramic artist Reiko Yamamoto don't seem like much. But the small, flat discs, all featuring a face with a slightly upturned mouth, are meant to have a larger impact on isolated customers and nonprofits dealing with the COVID-19 shutdown...

Since the outbreak of coronavirus, a consensus has emerged that nurses, hospital employees, and health-care workers are the frontline workers of this pandemic. They have been compared to soldiers during wars and first-responders during 9/11; they have been praised for their bravery and sense of duty...

From bartenders to business owners to librarians, thousands of Pittsburghers are suddenly without work and without pay. Most were not prepared for how swiftly COVID-19 would spread, and how aggressively it would shift every aspect of American life...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Moses did 40 years' worth of hard work in behalf of his people, delivering them out of slavery in Egypt. Yet God didn't allow him to enter into the Promised Land...

Across Pittsburgh, as the city becomes more and more still under a stay-at-home order, a large group of people continues to wake up every morning to go to work. As the global coronavirus pandemic hits our city, Pittsburgh City Paper is celebrating the essential workers on the frontlines...

The Allegheny County Jail has received increased attention and scrutiny in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that scrutiny has not been transferred to the body that oversees the jail's actions. Today, the Allegheny County Council voted to reappoint Gayle Moss to the Jail Oversight Board, despite evidence that Moss had a terrible attendance record...

On Tue., April 8, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services held a press briefing focused on how the state has and will continue to prepare people with intellectual and physical disabilities for the effects of COVID-19. Representatives from the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) and the Office of Long-term Living (OLTL) provided updates on changes made to their programs and shared how they're supporting people with disabilities through the pandemic...

Every year, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures’ executive director Stephanie Flom carefully curates the organization's flagship program, Ten Evenings. Flom seeks a balanced lineup with a diversity of gender, race, and age...

U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills) has served in Congress for more than 20 years, and this election cycle is being challenged by Jerry Dickinson, a younger candidate who is running to the left of Doyle. Dickinson has said Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District should be run by a representative with stronger progressive policy positions, like support for the Green New Deal, a bold proposal to transition the country away from reliance on fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy...

Stuff can be complicated, especially when trying to get rid of it. The process can remind us that our things can have worth that's hard to put a dollar amount on; they can call to mind other people from our lives; they can bring up memories of what they were (or weren't) used for...

During isolation, you can't beat the soothing sounds of "snap, crackle, pop." No, not a heaping bowl of Rice Krispies, unless that's your thing...

Passover begins on Wed., April 8, so that means it's almost time to dig into the matzo. Eating matzo on Passover originates from Jews not having enough time for their bread to rise before their exodus from Egypt, creating a flat, cracker-like thing instead of bread...

By the end of the month, Kai Ussenov, the owner of two Joe & Pie Café & Pizzeria locations, plans to donate upwards of 5,000 pizzas to health-care workers through the shop’s newly-launched initiative, PGH vs Pandemic.  Joe & Pie is one of many pizzerias and pizza-based initiatives – locally and nationally – that are stepping up to support their community’s frontline workers and neighbors...

Area teens and young adults struggling with homelessness and the coronavirus are now able to get quarantine housing through Familylinks. The nonprofit community organization opened its Teen Healing Center on March 30 for at-risk youth between the ages of 12 and 21 who have tested positive or are presumed positive for COVID-19, and are homeless, in foster care, or in an unstable home environment...

We're stuck at home. Musicians are stuck at home...

CP's daily check-in with Pittsburghers during the coronavirus pandemic

Everybody is dealing with the COVID-19 quarantines and restrictions in different ways. While there's no single right way to cope — social distancing and staying TF home aside — staying connected with friends, family, and neighbors is a good place to start...

UPDATE — 12:15 p.m., Tue., April 7: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 47...