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Kerry Reid on how virtual classes keep theater alive for young artists. 2 CHICAOREADER - APRIL ll #TVKUV9TKVGT CITY LIFE 2GTHQTOGT! %4'#6+8' 51.76+105 (14 TUMISU/PIXABAY %4'#6+8' 2'12.' 5WRRQTVKXG #HHKTOKPI CPF )QCN point people to Owl Labs’s website. They’re a Massachusetts-based company that makes &KTGEVGF 2U[EJQVJGTCR[ CPF remote-meeting hardware, and in March they *[RPQVJGTCR[ HQT #FWNVU created a great one-sheet how-to on Zoom for their blog. /#: - 5*#2'; .%59 .QECVGF KP &QYPVQYP 'XCPUVQP All right you MOOCs Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are YYYOCZUJCRG[EQO classes created specifi cally with an unlimited OCZUJCRG["CQNEQO number of students and participation across NWG TQUU NWG 5JKGNF 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT KIPC 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT the web in mind. While the origins of MOOCs come from the open web movement (to keep source material open and available for anyone to use and redistribute in the original spirit of the Internet), many colleges and universities Chicago's Free Weekly have adopted the model as a way to have the Since 1971 public interact with their creative material. Keep in mind that most of the universities of- fering these free versions of past courses will not offer you credit unless you’re currently enrolled as a tuition-paying student. Several classes that are perennially available are public service announcement listed at the Open Culture website (an online resource for web learners), including a class Zoom over to these online classes in organizational leadership originally taught So you can stop hearing “Yeah, no, you’re still on mute” once and for all through Northwestern University, and audio versions of many of Leo Strauss’s University of By SC-J Chicago lectures on philosophy. Plants, masks, and belly dancers t’s a brave new world during these days of tutorials available in several languages that Some local nonprofi ts have also started cre- quarantine, and for the technology-chal- are hard to find through other free resourc- ating online learning content. Most of these Ilenged among us, it can be daunting to es, including Arabic and Dutch. The Chicago classes are available for a small fee that ben- keep up. If you’re willing to learn a few basics, branch’s website includes local fi nancial help efi ts the teachers and the organization. Plant there’s a world of free and low-cost workshops information and was recently updated with a Chicago in Back of the Yards is o ering a few on the cyberweb that can help you exercise list of COVID-19 resource links. onetime workshops dedicated to gardening at your brain and give you new skills. home: Build an Earth Bucket (also known as a Who’s Zoomin’ whom? container garden) on Saturday, April 25, and (More than) the basics at Goodwill Commu- Growing Microgreens at Home on Sunday, May nity Foundation Zoom is just one of the many video confer- 17. Edgewater’s art space 6018 North has made encing platforms that are free to use (whith- online space for the artists from its “In Flux: The Goodwill Community Foundation and er WebEx?), but it’s quickly become a go-to Chicago Artists and Immigration” exhibition Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina for a lot of personal and professional meet- that was supposed to be on view at the Chica- originally created this series of tutorials and ings. As with almost every piece of machin- go Cultural Center until May. Artist Aram Han classes for the patrons of Goodwill’s rehabili- ery or software ever created, most people’s Sifuentes will be conducting a mask-making tation and ready-to-work programs, but they problems with and questions about using workshop and work session via Zoom on Sat- are also free for general public use. It’s a Com- Zoom would be answered if they just read the urday, April 25. And the venerable Old Town puters 101 group of tutorials covering things support documents, which include how-to- School of Folk Music continues its well-loved like the basics of Skype and quick design tips get-started tutorials. What does this button music classes and dance workshops on the that can be helpful for those new to programs do? How do I see all the people on this con- Web. Some unique upcoming classes include chicagoreader.com/donate like Photoshop. The tutorials can help peo- ference? Read the support documents! Zoom Introduction to Slide Guitar and Egyptian ple who might be overwhelmed with having actually rewrote theirs in the last month to Belly Dancing. v We Couldn't Be Free Without You— to use new-to-them software to make their make an even easier “this is how we do this” Support Community Journalism newly remote working world work. There are explainer for all their new users. I also like to @hollo ll APRIL - CHICAOREADER 3 FOOD & DRINK Overcooked pasta okonomiyaki MARKSTEUER FOOD FEATURE Key Ingredient: Pandemic Pantry Funkenhausen’s Mark Steuer makes a miracle out of mushy pasta. By MS ark Steuer called me a jackass. the Reader’s acclaimed Key Ingredient series. Chefs do curse me every now and OK, I decided. But I’ll make you regret it. Mthen, but usually it’s the result of some- Key Ingredient was a cooking show pro- thing unfl attering I’ve written in a restaurant duced by then-Reader sta er Julia Thiel and review. If memory serves, I’ve written nothing food writer/filmmaker Michael Gebert, in but nice things about Steuer throughout his which Chicago’s baddest chefs challenged career at restaurants such as Hot Chocolate, their colleagues to redeem unusual, underap- Carriage House, El Che Bar, and most recent- preciated, or often abhorrent ingredients by ly—and currently—Funkenhausen. showcasing them in beautiful plated dishes But I never ordered a dish of mushy spa- that might or might not have been edible. ghetti from any of his kitchens before. It all started in 2010 when I challenged A few weeks ago as underworked or out-of- Grant Achatz with Indonesian kluwak work chefs across the land continued to fl ood kupas—the seeds of the kepayang tree—and social media with self-isolation home-cooking he produced a Tom & Jerry cocktail with videos shot on their phones, Steuer suggested them. Achatz threw Chinese black beans at to me that the time might be right to reboot Curtis Du y, who then punked John des Ros- 4 CHICAOREADER - APRIL ll Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants at chicagoreader.com/food. FOOD & DRINK iers with geraniums. Thiel and Gebert won a left in the bottom of the pot overnight after Who’s next: sweat all vegetables until soft, then deglaze James Beard Award for their work that year, you drank all the hand sanitizer and passed ERICK