{"id":2073644,"date":"2025-10-07T00:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2073644"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:52:19","slug":"spelling-bee-for-grown-ups-promises-orthographical-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spelling-bee-for-grown-ups-promises-orthographical-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling bee for grown-ups promises orthographical entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-269763\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A spelling bee for adults held at a bar? For some, this might trigger unpleasant flashbacks to sixth grade. However, for dedicated spelling nerds, the Unhinged Spelling Bee competition at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lupulosc.com\/\">L\u00fapulo Craft Beer House<\/a> in downtown Santa Cruz could offer a uniquely good time.<\/p>\n<p>Trivia hosts Shiri Gradek of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huggingporcupinesproductions.com\/event-details\/unhinged-spelling-bee\">Hugging Porcupines Productions<\/a> and Jeff Matlock, aka The Professor, will be co-hosting the event on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t your 6th grade spelling bee,\u201d says Gradek. \u201cIt\u2019s goofy, it\u2019s unfiltered and probably more fun than you\u2019d usually have on a Wednesday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contestants are likely to be stumped by \u201cwords that are outrageous, inappropriate, and downright unhinged,\u201d according to the bar, which aims to transform into \u201ca stage for hilarious, high-stakes spelling mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free for both spectators and contestants. \u201cMature teens\u201d will be admitted. Those interested in competing can sign up at Lupulo on the day of the event. Winners will get prizes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lookout.co\/author\/cecilia\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio-header --><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCecilia Schutz is a fourth-year anthropology and Spanish studies student at UC Santa Cruz. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she developed an interest in local news and community engagement over the course&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lookout.co\/author\/cecilia\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Cecilia Schutz\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-bio-text --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-bio --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source lookout.co \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spelling bee for adults held at a bar? For some, this might trigger unpleasant flashbacks to sixth grade. However, for dedicated spelling nerds, the Unhinged Spelling Bee competition at L\u00fapulo Craft Beer House in downtown Santa Cruz could offer a uniquely good time. Trivia hosts Shiri Gradek of Hugging Porcupines Productions and Jeff Matlock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[361554,22009,22491],"class_list":["post-2073644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-briefs","tag-free","tag-instagram"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Spelling-bee-for-grown-ups-promises-orthographical-entertainment.com2F122F722F201d1ce64f68abac4bedef8735862F97a059.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073646,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073644\/revisions\/2073646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}