Special Reports

Owners of Philadelphia-based catering companies Catering By Design and Cescaphe offer insight into how they have been navigating business amid the coronavirus.

Since the early days of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 shutdown, Wawa convenience stores have been classified as essential businesses, and its employees have been considered essential workers.

Alicia Cosenza was set to start the musical theatre program at Texas State University, until COVID-19 forced her to change plans. After a long hard-fought year of auditions, Cosenza will take her classes online in the fall of 2020 from her home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

As social distancing restrictions make large gatherings difficult, people who earn their money working live events worry about what the rest of 2020 and early 2021 hold for them.

A conversation with Robert D. Hicks, who led the development of the Mütter Museum’s Spit Spreads Death exhibit, about how the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic compares to COVID-19, and what we can learn from the past.

Used to dealing with the possible spread of infection, several tattoo parlors in the region have instituted new policies and practices in order to stay open.

At Destolfo’s Premier Martial Arts in Conshohocken, students can work out mask-free in the parking lot or take socially distanced lessons online.

The shutdown and social distancing are preventing accurate tracing of domestic abuse cases in Philadelphia, but service providers continue to reach out to survivors.