If you kind of like Adele* but wish she was a little less cringey, please meet Tora, whose vocals bring a similar vibe to an artistic sensibility that’s much more interesting. In her “Vein” video, braids form a capillary-like web, all flowing to Tora herself, the central organ. In some shots, the hair encloses Tora’s face in a meshed mask, only to be freed and flowing in the following frame, the metaphor being that you can trap yourself in or extend outward; it’s up to you. Watch & listen here.

*Let’s be clear, though, that it’s Adele appropriating R&B and not the other way around

You may not be allowed to travel right now, but you can 100% do a virtual wine tasting with just about all of Napa Valley. All it takes is ordering a case and hopping on Zoom, where a person from the vineyard you’ve chosen will guide you through tasting notes and terroir. While a video experience is something, it is, needless to say, not the same as the on-site experience. What seems like the biggest challenge in tasting from home is that you end up with 4-6 open bottles of wine, which frankly seems like a dare. The next hurdle is hospitality: lots of wineries present wines with food pairings, which they expect you to prepare at home according to their recipes. Some spots, though, are willing to take on a bit of labor for you, touring the camera around the grounds that you’re not visiting. Is that salt in our wounds or just an overwhelming minerality on the nose?

Outside of Napa, other drinking establishments are making the Zoom thing a little less precious. A number of Brooklyn bartenders have been doing closed-invite “bar” parties where they teach groups how to make cocktails with whatever they have on hand. It seems like a festive way to bring friend groups together— or a way to meet some new faces; as it turns out, bartenders’ abilities to facilitate conversations between strangers extend to the online world, too. Crucially, the operation is good for the hosts: some bartenders report venmo tips rolling in up to a few hundred bucks a night, right to the safety of their homes. Cheers to that.

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