A holiday embrace and a mother's love…
Fishnets & Fedoras is back – the best reading, viewing and listening about tango from around the web.

How tango became the highlight of one couple's holiday
Taking a break from frantic sight-seeing, Kelsey Wilking and her husband found themselves seduced by a tango experience:
The apartment was easier to find than we expected, as the hosts provided us with pictures of the entrance, door, and walkway beforehand. They welcomed us, and offered us a choice of white wine sangria or beer before leading us onto the patio to listen to a brief history of Tango. Ana Paula, one of our co-hosts, explained to the group of 14—a mix of local Barcelonians and travelers—that tango originated with Spanish and European settlers who made their way to Argentina, describing the dance as “’sad walking.” Tango, she said, is a way to express loneliness, but together. “No hip movements. It is a feeling of an embrace.”
My Husband and I Signed Up for Tango Lessons in Barcelona. It Was the Highlight of Our Trip.
Through Airbnb Experiences, the writer and her partner signed up for Barcelona tango lessons and enjoyed a fun evening filled with dancing.

A mother's love led one man to tango
Ivan Shvarts is the son of an Auschwitz survivor. A note from his dying mother led him to the dance that would transform his life…
But it was not until the year 2000, when Shvarts’ mother passed away, that his heart found a home in tango. There were good dancers in Los Angeles then: immigrants all. He had dabbled a bit in tango, and his mother apparently noticed his undeveloped gifts. In her last days, or hours, she left him a note at her bedside, imploring him to explore the dance.
“She died in the afternoon,” Shvarts recounts. “And the next day, I took my first tango class.”
How tango captured the heart and soles of this Jewish immigrant
A Russo-Hungarian accent — not a Spanish one — colors Ivan Shvarts’ English as he instructs students in the basics of tango in San Francisco.

Time Out has opinions about BA…
A guide from the venerable listings site (and once a listings magazine) to the best milongas in Buenos Aires.
The best milongas in Buenos Aires to enjoy tango in the city
Discover where to go and enjoy tango every day of the week at the most iconic milongas in Buenos Aires.

Why does all tango album art look the same?
Rachel Cabitt:
Browsing through Discogs, you’ll find that most Tango covers display couples dancing, red color palettes, and rhythmic footsteps, not unlike the first results of searching the genre on Google Images. Few visual marks from the vast cultural influences that created Tango, from Carnival to European folk, remain. It feels as though these copy-and-paste motifs were thrust upon the genre during the rise of the album cover to stay current and appeal to the new international audience.
How Tango Got Typecasted
Attempting to visualize a genre that straddles the birth of the album cover

Videos
Here's a nice “trailer” for the touring Tango After Dark show:
And there's a few photos in this write-up.