Hello, BATW Members – You’re receiving this email version of the May 2009 BATW e-zine/newsletter because you  subscribed to monthly updates from the BATW website.  However, this email only contains ten posts (including this one), and there are 36 new posts this month so to really find out...

one of William Foster's photos of President Barack Obama taking the Presidential Oath of Office. (photo by William Foster) At the May 16 BATW meeting at Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, Sacramento-based photographer William Foster, who was the official photographer for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ...

BATW members are on the move from San Francisco to Oregon, Iran, Sicily, Japan, and Mendocino.  Support our local independent bookstores and let’s work together to get ready for 2010. Dora Solomon, assistant curator at the CJM (photos by John Montgomery) BATW’s April meeting took place in San...

You’ve watched the BATW newsletter evolve from paper-based to PDF to this online e-zine. “  Newsletter” doesn’t adequately describe the new format, though, so we’re having a contest to rename the new incarnation of the BATW newsletter. Thanks to the San Francisco Convention...

Contemporary Jewish Museum (photos by John Montgomery) April, 2009, BATW meeting at the CJM In a light-filled meeting room at the new Contemporary Jewish Museum on Mission St. in San Francisco, nearly 35 BATW members munched on a hearty continental breakfast and shared news [below] at the April 18th...

The June 13th BATW meeting and overnight stay begins at 10 a.m. at Inn Marin in Novato.  Marketing expert Penny Sansevieri will talk about creative ways to market through your website.  Her talk has been highly recommended by several BATW members who have heard her before. Please note that this event...

The Oceano Hotel in Half Moon Bay, location of the July 18 BATW meeting BATW member and prolific writer Antoinette May will speak about turning our travels into fiction at the July 18th BATW meeting: 10 a.m. at the Oceana Hotel, 280 Capistrano Road, Half Moon Bay. – Sandy Sims Programs Chair

Photographers – Take note: The Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf recently unveiled Enoteca Musto, a new wine lounge adjacent to the hotel’s popular Knuckles at the Wharf restaurant.  The elegant facility will showcase revolving exhibits of original photographs which will be on display and on...

At the May 16 BATW meeting at Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, Sacramento-based photographer William Foster, who was the official photographer for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for two years and who photographed President Barack Obama’s inauguration, will show us developments on the web that...

Non Sequitur © 2009 Wiley Miller. Used by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved. Wiley Miller and Universal Press Syndicate have been very kind to let us run Mr. Miller’s highly appropriate Non Sequitur cartoon from April 20, 2009.  Very kind, given the point of the cartoon. ...