Since when is Freddy's in Cobble Hill?!

emily

Subject: Since when is Freddy's in Cobble Hill?!

NYT article on spelling bees.

I guess this is a conflation of two bad tendencies of the Times: the tendency to botch up any coverage of ProHo, and the tendency to publish any BS somebody's friend heard about in the Styles section. :x

jack

Amazing how abysmal the quality of the New York Times reporting is nowadays.

dailyheights

Our man Josh:

Josh Reynolds, 31, who created the monthly spelling bee at Freddy's after seeing "Spellbound," remembers being eliminated from a childhood bee for spelling the world "climb" incorrectly. "I spelled it c-l-i-m-e," he said. "It resonates with people. Everyone has a spelling bee story."