Dave’s got an immense story, traveling through paying the rent by selling spray-painted records, onto an impressive bottle cap mural of the old Manette bridge, hitchhiking across the country, overcoming a broken neck and brain cancer, moving to the city then winding up back in Bremerton at present with a beautiful wife and baby girl and a backyard garden overlooking the Washington Narrows. He takes the ferry to Seattle a few times a week to run his shop in the underground level of the Pike Place Market. April marks five years for Dave as a shopkeep at Pike Place. To celebrate, we walked to the ferry with him and let the guy who gave him his first-ever art show—March 2008 at Ploy Studios in downtown Bremerton—ask the questions.

If you would’ve asked him when he was a kid riding skateboards and listening to punk rock if he would grow up to be an entrepreneur, cafe owner and coffee roaster, Mahler would’ve said, “No way.” He always thought he would join the military, like his dad, brother and grandfathers on both sides of his family. Born in La Mesa County San Diego–and pretty sure he was conceived in the Disneyland parking lot–Mahler grew up here…

I remember that feeling. This kid up there in front of a room full of punks, singing his guts out, raw, rough-around-the-edges with nothing but a snare drum and a dad—that really didn’t know much about the drums but knew that this kid had a passion for this thing and he was there for it—behind him. Years later, Jack would become the one on the proverbial snare drum behind the guy with the passion for the thing singing his guts out…

CRAVIN MOORE talks with Chad Price, time-traveling from his Monday night gig at the Callow singer/songwriter showcase at Rimbert Illustration in March all the way back to recording studio in Kansas City in the 90s…

CRAVIN MOORE talks with Ryan Young of midwest punk band Off With Their Heads in advance of the band’s 20th Anniversary tour, coming through Bremerton with a stop at the Charleston…

The end of February marked one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Both Russia and Ukraine have vowed to continue the fight until the war is won without any clear picture of an end in sight. Some 5000 miles away in Bremerton, I’m standing at the entrance of Illahee State Park–reading the story of Pearl Harbor Hero Doris Miller on the park’s info board with the Naval artillery monument to military sacrifice through the trees over my left shoulder–waiting to meet up with the Zapliusvichka family.

I was getting stoked. Stoked to finally see Kyle Wood play live, to see James Lee Murray for the first time and to see these in my world almost mythical-figure-like Rising Sons. Both of whom I’ve heard about for years through their other bands Skinny Blue and Planet Groove, et al, about their respective musical prowess coming out of the North Kitsap woods, and now they’re combining forces and are putting out an album as an acoustic duo… And I missed the show. I heard it was rad. But hear me out. I went to bed early that night…

There’s lights and cameras and full stage set up tucked away behind that door. We need more people to use this space, Mike says, because it is important to tell local stories. He has been working full time as a video specialist at BKAT for a year, welcoming as many local projects as possible and says he still feels hungry to be doing more. “If I can make anything clear,” he says. “I just want Kitsap to understand how great they are. And that this channel is here to showcase us. It’s not like you’re gonna become a celebrity or anything like that, but that is not the thing. The important thing is that we tell stories about our local area and this is a vehicle to do so.” Mike hearts Kitsap…

CRAVIN MOORE talks with Aaron Porter about leaving a stable, steady career to build hot rods and ending up with a car in last year’s Barrett Jackson Auction…