A home health aide with no childcare and limited funds must decide whether to neglect her ailing patient or her young daughter. An overworked man neglects to mute a video chat with his colleague, accidentally forcing her to overhear him bicker with his newly unemployed boyfriend. With school canceled, a […]

When the pandemic hit, the main problem for television productions was how you could possibly make shows in these times. The next and related problem was how you could possibly make shows about these times. Producers first tackled these related problems, technical and narrative, in special episodes like the “Parks […]

Six feet and computer screens haven’t stopped fantasy game players from connecting in their worlds of spells and creatures. Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy games all have some element of interaction between players that build communities and relationships around the games. The pandemic’s social distancing and […]

When Bailey Hedges requested where she wanted to live on campus this fall during her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, staying in a hotel wasn’t an option. Until it was. The university followed up with Hedges, 18, after she submitted her initial on-campus housing application to find out if she’d […]

The Sanneh Foundation no longer runs drills across the Conway Recreation Center’s gymnasium floor, though it may not be long before the soccer balls return to the East Side community hub. Instead, with most public schools closed for distance learning, the foundation embraced a two-fold mission, converting the St. Paul […]

Caregivers at the Sacramento Children’s Home on Sutterville Road in Sacramento have been scrambling in recent weeks to make sure that 20 foster boys in their residential program have enough time on computers and tablets to participate in online schooling and enjoy leisure time. “Usually the boys would attend local […]

Students in Bay Area Children’s Theatre’s Advanced Performers program triumphed over the constraints of the pandemic to wow the judges at this year’s Junior Theatre Festival Australia. BACT’s Advanced Performers-6th to 12th graders from Alameda, Berkeley, Livermore, Oakland, Orinda, Pleasanton, and San Ramon-learned their routines online, recorded their parts individually […]

In the not-so-distant past, there was a place where parents could drop off their kids for six-plus hours a day. Teachers and administration kept them safe, and taught them things. It was wonderful. Now, it’s all parents. Even with teachers working hard to reimagine school online, it’s up to parents […]