(75 posts)

Meet the Pitt researchers working to end the COVID-19 pandemic

(📸: Courtesy of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) Updated 3:34 p.m. May 5  When Pitt announced last month that its researchers were working on a COVID-19 vaccine and seeing promising results, we held our collective breath. Some of us did celebratory handstands, others made GIFs or imagined the new, intolerable heights Pittsburgh pride might […]

COVID-19 / May 4, 2020

Highlighting the Helpers: Feeding seniors — body and soul

Volunteers with the In Service of Seniors program. (📸: Courtesy of In Service of Seniors) Deborah Trammell has been helping Allegheny County seniors for more than a decade. She’s never seen anything like this. “They need food,” she told The Incline by phone. “It’s just a dearth of food.”   A longtime volunteer with the In […]

COVID-19 / May 1, 2020

10 ways to use your stimulus check to support Pittsburgh — if you can spare it

Give back to the city that you love. (📸: Incline file photo) Stimulus checks are going out — you may have received yours already.  And what Pittsburghers do with that money really matters as local businesses struggle with the economic impacts of this pandemic.  According to economists, every dollar spent locally creates a ripple effect in […]

COVID-19 / April 28, 2020

Highlighting the helpers: No car? No problem. This Pittsburgh hotline is here to help.

From left: Community Delivery Hotline founder Shanon Williams, volunteer driver Sarah Samm, and volunteer operator Adam Morton. (📸: Photos submitted) Help is out there.  But what if you can’t get there?   Shanon Williams, founder of The Wellness Collective, has created the “Community Delivery Hotline” to bring essential items to Allegheny County residents who might otherwise […]

COVID-19 / April 21, 2020

Pittsburgh ‘porchraits’: The family photo you can’t get out of

Family life on lockdown. (📸: Pati Livengood) The year is 2020 and the front porch is the new outer edge of American life.  Holed up in our homes during an historic pandemic, fresh air is now at a premium, open space — even just a sliver of it — newly prized.   Enter porch picnics, porch talks, porch […]

COVID-19 / April 9, 2020

Highlighting the helpers: Student newsletters for pandemic times at Carlow

News travels fast. Courtesy of Carlow University As the makers of a newsletter, we’d like to shout-out another newsletter — actually three of them. Carlow University RAs Michaela Pry, Emma Wilson, and Brooke Gallagher are using newsletters they created to buoy students during the pandemic. This includes a number who were unable to return home and […]

COVID-19 / April 3, 2020

It’s o-fish-al: Meet the 2020 Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry

St. Sava really tipped the scales. (🎨: The Incline illustration) They are the champions.  Thirty-one opponents and thousands of votes later, St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in McKeesport has won the 2020 Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry Bracket, capping an unusual and abbreviated fish fry season with a resounding victory. More than 2,410 votes came in […]

Brackets / April 3, 2020

Vote now for the 2020 Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry champion

There’s somefin about these two. (🎨: The Incline illustration) It’s time to crown a champ. Who’s it gonna be?   In just a matter of weeks, we’ve whittled the list from 32 Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry Bracket contenders to the top two. And now we need your help naming the winner.  Last week, we introduced the […]

Brackets / March 26, 2020

Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry Final Four: The social-distancing edition

Presenting the Final (Fishy) Four. (🎨: The Incline illustration) Here we are, folks.  Our field of 32 Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry contestants is down to the Final Four, with the championship just one round of voting away. You have until noon on Tuesday, March 24 to get your votes in for the final, head-to-head matchup.  […]

Brackets / March 19, 2020

Vote in the Ultimate Pittsburgh Fish Fry Elite Eight — ahem, Elite ‘Ate’

Introducing the Elite Eight — er, Elite Ate. (🎨: The Incline illustration) Update March 12, 4 p.m.: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is asking fish frys to go take-out only. And then there were eight.  More than four thousand (!!!) votes came in over the last week, and eight Ultimate […]

Brackets / March 12, 2020