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☆ Tracy Bennett Brings Whimsy to Wordle
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-31 | by ( Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When Tracy Bennett sits down to play Wordle, she does so with a word of six — not five — letters in mind: Whimsy. “I got one green letter and four gray letters,” she adds, referring to the game’s color-coded squares that signify which guessed letters are correct. Some may find the exercise meritless — Ms. Bennett does, after all, already know the answer. As Wordle’s first and only editor, she knows every answer to every Wordle puzzle about six weeks in advance.

Persons: Tracy Bennett, —, “ I’m, “, Ms, Bennett, Wordle’s Organizations: New York Times Games

☆ Atlanta’s Dining Scene Feels ‘the Keith Lee Effect’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Emmett Lindner | More About Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When a food critic comes to a city that is proud of its dining scene, restaurants and their devotees take notice. But rarely does a traditional reviewer cause as much excitement as Atlanta has seen with the recent visit of Keith Lee, a food obsessive with a vast army of 14 million followers on TikTok. At a breakfast place?” he asked in a video on his first day in Atlanta, eating takeout in his car. Mr. Lee, who is based in Las Vegas, mostly reviews independent, mom-and-pop restaurants, many of them Black-owned. Mr. Lee has made videos from Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles, but the response in Atlanta has been notable.

Persons: Keith Lee, Lee, ”, takeout Locations: Atlanta, Las Vegas, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles

☆ Phil Mickelson Says Gambling Addiction ‘Isn’t Any Fun at All’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Emmett Lindner | More About Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Phil Mickelson, the golf great whose issues with gambling have made headlines throughout the years, took to social media on Monday to share details about his addiction, and to offer a warning to potential bettors ahead of this year’s N.F.L. As the 2023-24 football season kicked off in earnest, Mickelson posted on X to say that he would not be gambling on any games. “I crossed the line of moderation and into addiction which isn’t any fun at all,” said Mickelson, who has won six major golf tournaments. The post went on to offer advice to anyone who might be struggling with similar issues: “If you ever cross the line of moderation and enter into addiction, hopefully you won’t confuse your enablers as friends like I did.”The post came on the heels of the autobiography “Gambler: Secrets From a Life at Risk,” published in August by Billy Walters, a well-known sports bettor who claimed to know about Mickelson’s gambling habits and asserted that the professional golfer’s sports bets totaled more than $1 billion in a span of about 30 years.

Persons: Phil Mickelson, Mickelson, ”, Billy Walters

☆ Dublin Marathon Medals Commemorate Yeats, and Misquote Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Emmett Lindner | More About Emmett Lindner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Though the quote is widely attributed to Yeats online, there is no record of him having ever written or said the line, said Susan O’Keeffe, the director of the Yeats Society Sligo in Sligo, Ireland. “The thing about Yeats that’s worth bearing in mind is that an awful lot of his letters and his articles and his essays were kept,” Ms. O’Keeffe said. The organizers “set out to do a good thing, and they have done a good thing,” she said. The organizers of the Dublin Marathon, which was established in 1980 and is sold out this year with 22,500 runners, have over the years used the medal design as a way to commemorate prominent figures who have contributed to Irish society. Some of the commentary this year has centered on “the view that this quote has never definitively been proven to be Yeats,” said Sinéad Galvin, a spokeswoman for the marathon.

Persons: Yeats, Susan O’Keeffe, Ms, O’Keeffe, “, ”, Sinéad Galvin Organizations: Yeats Society Sligo, Dublin Marathon Locations: Sligo, Ireland

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