Sabrina Piscitelli of Blue Martini has invited the Naples Press Club to enjoy its next Happy Hour there -- at the Mercato -- on Thursday, September 23, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

Complimentary hand-passed appetizers will be available. There is no admission, and you pay for your drinks.

Thanks to Cindy Dobyns for making these arrangements!

When: September 23, 2010, 5:30 pm until 7:00 pm

Where: Blue Martini at Mercato, 9114 Strada Place, #12105, Naples, (off US 41 just north of Vanderbilt Beach Rd.). 

Please RSVP to: rsvp@naplespressclub.org

NPC member Dorothy Mills has had an extended coming-out party, as recently recognized co-author of the Oxford University Press monumental 3-volume history of baseball attributed to her late husband, Harold Seymour. Today's New York Times article picks up the news.

Arts, Briefly: Author Credit for Widow of Baseball Historian - NYTimes.com

Welcome to the fourteen new members who have joined the Naples Press Club. Hope to see you all at the upcoming events:

Gary Greenfield, Dee Hallowell, Catherine Hosmer, Chris McClure, Joy McIntyre, Barbara Miller, H. Michael Mogil, Frank Peel, Nancy Poffenberger, Fran Ruh, Jeff Schlesingr, Charles Togias, JoAnn Ward, and  Suzi Weinter.

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An Exclusive Meet The Press/Face The Nation Opportunity (Collier County Version) for Naples Press Club Members

The Naples Press Club has an unprecedented opportunity to meet with top officials from The Jackson Laboratory (planning to build a major research facility in Collier County) -- and the format we've chosen will be an informal roundtable discussion moderated by NPC President Donna Fiala, who will be joined by working reporters representing television, radio and print.   Members of the Press Club will be the only audience and will have time  to ask their own hard-hitting questions.

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Words and pix by Denise and Birgit…and additional tweets from Sandy Lender, too.

The tag team of Scoop Editor and Web Goddess spent a weekend of listening and learning at the recent Writer’s Conference at FGCU. It was a knock-down drag-out contest to see whether Reporter’s Notebook and stick pen could best the iPhone Twittering - with coverage and notes. Here’s the result...

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April 26th was Olga Hirshhorn's 90th Birthday. She's been a Press Club member for a long time, and is on the board of the Friends of Art, for the Naples Museum of Art. Actually, she was one of the founders of Friends of Art in 1984, even before the Philharmonic Center for the Arts opened in 1989. Her deceased husband is the founder of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
 
Olga attended one of our recent luncheons and it was obvious she still has a feisty side, based on her discussion about her difficulties with Comcast. Although she is not into e-mail (yet), birthday cards can be sent to her at "Sweet Spot Cottage", 170 Shell Alley, Naples, FL, 343102-7525 .
 

by Connie Kindsvater

Meet Julia Barnett, from Marco Island, a graduate of Lely High School, and one of Naples Press Club’s two 2009 Scholarship Winners.

Julia chose to go further away to school than many Florida students. She chose to attend Colorado State University-Pueblo because she loves the state and has family there. 

Julia is a Mass Communications Major, with a focus in Journalism. She has a double-minor, in Art, with a focus in Photography, and in Italian.  Her NPC “mentor” is Connie Kindsvater, who received a degree from Colorado State University (a while ago).

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by Phil Jason

The Book Fair aspect of the 2010 "Naples Authors and Books Festival" initiated a new concept:authors exhibiting in shops and restaurants along 5th Avenue South. Approximately 50 authors exhibited, hosted by two dozen business establishments. As is always the case, feedback is mixed. While some felt that there was not enough traffic or that signage was needed to direct people to participating merchants, others were very pleased with how things went.

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Where are all you contest junkies out there?
 
The neologism contest is falling on its face (doing a facefall)? Desperately need new entries this month to resurrect it.
  
Since the prize will be something based on the winning word —Carole Green might win with: 
 
FROILANE: "the strip of oil running down any lane on a freeway”, and her prize would be motor oil, although she might prefer the alternate prize of an orange barrel.
 
Or, I could win, even though I am disqualified, with CHEVROLATTE: and my prize could be a Chevrolet soaked in latte.
 
Take a chance. Dream up a brand new word with “million dollars” in it.
 
Watching and waiting to dispense the Almost-Publishers-Weekly Big Kahuna.