“A Chile Day in Sausalito” By Georgia I. Hesse BATW Event, Spinnaker restaurant - Photo by Mike Moyle Some BATW members arrived at Sausalito’s Spinnaker restaurant on Jan. 21 to find new attractions in a familiar setting. The view stretching down the bay to San Francisco sparkled as usual,...

“Savoring Chile, One Sip at a Time” by Carolyn Koenig Spinnaker Wine Tasting - Photo by Mike Moyle As with all things vino, the proof is in the tasting. And tasting we BATW members did, at our January event at the Spinnaker restaurant in Sausalito. The theme of the meeting was Sausalito’s...

Here’s the catchy lead from Erin Caslavka’s column on the Dickens Fair and the Cow Palace on Examiner.com: “Not everything that has to do with recycling involves putting leftover plastic parts and discarded soda cans into the blue bin for collection; sometimes, whole buildings get recycled....

Clouds in the sky. Chill in the air. Gust in the wind. As you walked through the black door at 116 Clement St. in San Francisco on Sunday, Dec. 11th, these elements evaporated like steam from a kettle. The gold lettering above the door read The Plough and the Stars in a vintage font, the tale on the...

Sheila O’Connor’s recent article on Examiner.com (including photos) showcased the Great Dickens Fair. A pivotal quote from the story: “The fair’s theatrical director, Robert Young says: “It’s beautiful that we can produce this, that we have this jewel. It’s Christmas when it was...

From Georgia Hesse’s column in the Foreign Travel Club of San Francisco’s December 2011 newsletter: A SENSE OF TRAVEL . . . With Georgia Hesse Sri Lanka Map Sri Lanka boasts more names than there are grains of rice in a paddy – Ceylon (British colonial name, dropped in 1972), Serendip (from...

The mood was manic, the message was monetary, and the scene was magical: BATW’s November 19th meeting at the Dressed Up for the Season Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. Glittery, gorgeous, gracious: the setting demanded the most laudatory adjectives. So did the program, organized by Erin Caslavka and...

BATW’s November meeting: The saga continues… For Active Members of BATW, the finest gifts of all were those provided by the 17 Associate Members (and potential Associates) who turned out for the Media Marketplace to supply information about their clients: facts, figures, and other essentials...

Tom Wilmer, a contributing wine columnist for 805 Living Magazine, published a wine feature on J. Lohr Vineyards & Winery and their philanthropic endeavors in the November issue. The magazine is targeted to 805 area code residents (basically, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County). Tom...

“Social Media, Splashy Meeting” by Georgia Hesse In the splashy company of sharks, skates, sea stars and jellyfish, BATW members met at Pier 39’s Aquarium of the Bay on Oct. 20. The unusual evening “mixer” event starred David Perry, principal of David Perry & Associates, a communications...