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30 Year Old Takes Over 26-Year-Old Brewery in Kingston

Growing up, Caitlyn said she never really knew what her thing was. She definitely never imagined she’d be kegging, delivering and selling craft beers all around Puget Sound, running a small business before age 30. At one point, about five years in at Hood Canal, she’d texted Don, telling him she was thinking about moving on to go to school or do something else unless there was room for her to grow at the brewery. She didn’t want to leave, she said, but she had to do something. Don replied right away and told her he didn’t want her to leave. In fact, he wanted her to take over the brewery.

‘Professional Appreciator Of Bands’ KEXP’s DJ Morgan

Back near the end of the 2000s, before she’d ever been to Kitsap, Morgan Chosnyk was the singer of a Seattle rock band called The Broken Knives. Their demo made its way into medium rotation on the radio and the band played an in-studio at KEXP. They recorded a follow up album that was never released, Morgan said, and the band ran its course in a couple of years. Now thirteen years later, Morgan lives in Bremerton and I’m wondering if she’s ready to start a band on this side. She laughs, dismisses the thought and says those days are behind.

Who is Bremerton’s Krampus?

The night of the first friday art walk in Bremerton last month, downtown businesses reported record numbers in attendance and sales. Hundreds of people filled the streets that night for a glimpse of Bremerton’s Krampusnacht — translated Krampus Night. Organizers counted nearly 2000 attendees that evening. A dozen costumed Krampuses roamed the downtown corridor in demonic masks with dark fur, big horns, long tongues, chains rattling, bells ringing, dressed as the half-goat, half-demon mythological figure from Austrian folklore known as the counterpart to Saint Nicholas. But this is not so much a Christmas story as it is a story about this guy doing stuff in his town.

Five Questions w/ Former Kitsap Sun Reporter Josh Farley

After weeks of negotiations, in one of the biggest moves in recent National League of Kitsap Journalism history, the Kitsap Sun has traded 17-year veteran reporter Josh Farley to a Seattle Area Fusion Energy Start Up Company’s Communications Department for an undisclosed package of free agents and future early-round draft picks… In the spirit of the Beat Blast, we caught up with Josh at his latest Story Walk for five stories about his career in community journalism…

Tumbledown Returns

~ Mike Herrera of Tumbledown | iPhone ~ Tumbledown’s two-dozen-show, monthlong tour to and from the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin Texas came to a close this week as the band returned to Bremerton March 31. We catch up on the 900-some-mile drive across the desert from San Antonio to Arizona and the band’s West Coast conquests in their latest and last NXSW Tour Diary. And the band will be catching up with everyone at a homecoming show w/ The New Old Stock and Handlebar Mustangs at 9 p.m. April 2 @ Winterland, 1220 Sylvan Way in Bremerton.

Hermes Goes to Houston

‘Everybody Else Was Having A Bad Day’ ~A Short Story by John Diaz~ Hermes Vasques dreamt of freshly lain foundation bricks. The mortar bulged under the weight of new layers, which he carefully trimmed with the edge of his trowel. He stacked basalt bricks, one atop the other in the morning Texas sun. He felt good knowing that by high noon, his garage foundation would be complete. Suddenly, the structure started to collapse. He fell backward as bricks toppled into his lap. Hermes awoke with a start. A child of six or seven years was standing on his legs, climbing

Multiple Kitsap bands hitting the road, that is rad.

~ Generation Decline @ Libertatia, California, 2009 | Photo: oldhcdude ~ The return of the sun always seems to invoke a little wanderlust around this time of year. In the Kitsap music scene, the coming of spring brings a flurry of tours and abounding albums from local bands. One of the most epic — Tumbledown’s 7000-mile journey to and from SXSW is featured on this month’s cover — but they’re not the only ones getting out of town. . .

Tumbledown’s NXSW Tour Diaries

~ Tumbledown, smokestacked | Photo: Jered Scott ~ Mike Herrera’s Tumbledown — the Bremerton-based pop-punkabilly/country western-y side project of the bassist and lead singer of MxPx — is winging it’s way through the American midwest, onto the Lone Star State, across the desert and back up the West Coast on a month-long tour to-and-from the South By Southwest music mecca in Austin, Texas this month. We feature Tumbledown in our latest print edition, dedicated to The Touring Musician — [see that here] — and we’ll be following the band vicariously through a short series of gonzo tour diaries, photos and

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