Vicente Lopez’s first Father’s Day without a dad was pretty much a blur. Lopez lost his dad in October 2018, just after he’d turned 30. His dad had been in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Los Angeles, where the family lives, for about a week, but Lopez had stayed away because he was sick. “I didn’t realise that every person telling me, ‘You should go see your dad’ was trying to silently say something that I couldn’t hear,” he told HuffPost. When Father’s Day rolled around eight months later, Lopez didn’t just have his dad to mourn; he’d just gone through a bad breakup and lost his job, too. “I don’t remember what the first Father’s Day...
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The shape of my feet has been a source of affectionate joking since I was a little kid. Short, thick, and rectangular, my “tamales” were the nickname that my family gave my feet. The resemblance to the stout Mexican corn dish is really quite striking, actually. With little discernible arch, and a history of family members who wear orthotics, it’s also been easy to assume that I have pretty flat feet. So my foot type is not a mystery: Wide and flat, a one-two punch of problems. I’ve suffered on and off for years from plantar fasciitis, lower back twinges, tight calves and hamstrings, and foot pain when I run. Those issues have caused me to dive deep into the finer...
As many of you know, The O-A News decided that it no longer wanted to publish my column after 18 of service to the paper. April ended my association there. It was unfortunate and regrettable. Good news is that I have begun a newsletter to continue writing for the Auburn – Opelika community. The first issue was in May 2023. It is still available on this site. I told you about visits to Wild Flour Cafe and Bakery in Waverly and Stephanie’s in Lafayette. Both of these places deserve a visit from you. Soon in fact. In these newsletters, I don’t have the restrictions of content, editing and column length imposed by newspapers. I can write about what I want...
The Recording Academy are making several changes to the Grammy Awards, including a rule that stipulates “only human creators” can win the music industry’s highest honor in a decision aimed at the use of artificial intelligence in popular music. “A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any category,” they said, under new “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Protocols” released Friday. The rule was set following the semi-annual academy’s board of trustees meeting last month, where it was determined that work that features elements of AI are eligible, as long as a human creator is responsible for a “meaningful” contribution to the music and/or lyrics. “The human authorship component of the work submitted must be meaningful,” the new requirements...
