After Allegheny County experienced a spike in coronavirus cases over the last two weeks that were partially linked to people visiting bars and restaurants, county officials closed bars, prohibited on-site alcohol consumption, and eventually closed down all indoor dining for a week. Today, Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen has announced an extension of those orders, but with some changes that will allow Pittsburgh-area restaurants and some bars to operate on-site dining...

COVID-19 cases are going up dramatically in Allegheny County. Prior to last week, new daily cases in the county had been hovering in the single digits and teens for weeks...

A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy announced yesterday would forbid international students from staying in the U.S. if they are enrolled in a university that has moved its classes completely online. This new policy could potentially put thousands of international students at colleges like the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University at risk for deportation, if those schools decide to move classes to online only...

UPDATE — 12:25 p.m., Wed., July 8: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 230 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 4,209 Total number of hospitalized cases in Allegheny County: 431 Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 849 Total number of confirmed positive cases in Pennsylvania: 92,148Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Allegheny County: 198 Total number of confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Pennsylvania: 6,812 Total number of Pennsylvania patients who have tested negative: 774,378 The above graphic was provided by our media partners PublicSource.org. Sign up for their email newsletter here...

At 12:16 a.m. on Wed., July 8, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto responded to a tweet asking him to post a photo of his feet in exchange for voting in November. Peduto replied saying he would show his "ten toes" in exchange for 10 voting receipts.  When you're in the middle of cooking a nice bolognese, and your roommate tells you Bill Peduto offered feet pics at 12:16 a.m...

Audio & Video Archive

Video Archive Lynn is discussing a couple of books to kick off the show today; Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" and the fiction book "Make Russia Great Again" by Christopher Buckley...

Jordan Montgomery got the idea for his latest album three years ago. He noticed how America’s Black culture — the music, the entertainment, the dance — is embraced by so many, but the same affection isn’t often applied directly to the people creating that culture...

On July 1, the Persad Center in Lawrenceville lost funding for its LGBTQ youth programs, spelling an uncertain future for the region’s LGBTQ young people. The program at Persad, which provides resources and services for LGBTQ people, gave a space for youth in the community to congregate in an open and accepting atmosphere...

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Mary McCarthy provides you with a challenge you'll be wise to relish during the rest of 2020. She writes, "Everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older is that you really must make the self."

When dining rooms closed in March, Pittsburgh chefs had to rethink the restaurant experience. Half of the draw to dining out is the atmosphere that comes along with it, but without tables to fill, chefs were forced to figure out a way for diners to take the restaurant experience home...

In Zoje Stage’s debut novel, Baby Teeth, the Squirrel Hill resident wrote about a seven-year-old mute girl, Hanna, who tries to kill her mother. In her second book, Wonderland (Mulholland), a nine-year-old girl, Eleanor Queen, communicates with a voice from the past...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, designers, artists, and sewing hobbyists have taken to their sewing machines to fill the demand of masks for the public to wear. Pittsburgh City Paper is taking a look behind the scenes and highlighting local mask makers...

Across the country, Black and Latino people have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Since May, both Black and Latino people have been twice as likely to contract COVID-19 compared to white people in America, according to CDC data unearthed by the New York Times...

If you’ve ever walked across the Roberto Clemente Bridge on the way to a Pittsburgh Pirates game, it’s likely you’ve heard Reggie Howze playing tunes on his saxophone. He’s one of the city’s longest-tenured buskers, shouting out to passersby between songs...

In the last several years, there has been considerable conflict between some of Pittsburgh's LGBTQ organizations, particularly over the region's Pride celebrations. Some groups, like Roots Pride, criticized the Delta Foundation for not being inclusive enough of LGBTQ people of color, especially the trans community, as well as corporate sponsorship of Pride from companies that also donate to anti-LGBTQ politicians...

Get your $5 t-shirts, loose cans of pop, and kielbasa while you still can. After months of speculation about if and when the Shursave grocery store in Bloomfield would close, the time has finally come...

Following the lead of many other events falling during the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh Fashion Week (PGHFW) is moving its annual event online. This year's PGHFW takes place Sept. 21-25...

Rather than cancel the 2020 festival altogether due to COVID-19 restrictions, co-founder and producer Day Bracey teamed up with Work Hard Pittsburgh, an Allentown-based business incubator, to take the fest online. The event, aptly re-named Fresh Fest Digi Fest, will be their third consecutive year celebrating Black culture through “art, education, collaboration, and representation.” It will take place on Sat...

In March, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto introduced a bill that would change the Pittsburgh city zoning code to end the current requirement that new single-family attached dwellings have at least one off-street parking space per unit. The proposal is meant to decrease the amount of row houses being built with a parking garage and a driveway across the city...

Openings 2 Sisters 2 Sons Jamaican food comes to Sharpsburg with 2 Sisters 2 Sons, which opened on June 25. They serve traditional dishes like jerk chicken, oxtail, fried plantains, and rice and peas, as well as vegan options...

Curbside pickup and returns have been available at select Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) locations since June 23, and over the next two weeks, CLP is expanding that service. Pittsburgh's public libraries are adding a few more contactless curbside service options as part of its phased reopening plan during the coronavirus pandemic...