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The Puget Sound Book Festival celebrates its second year this coming Sunday. Briana Ryan is the owner of Wicked Words, an online independent bookstore that specializes in selling romance books. She founded the Puget Sound Book Festival, which was held last year at Yoked Farmhouse Brewery in Port Orchard. This year’s festival is being held

The Bremerton Zine Fest returns to Bremerton on Aug. 3. This year’s festival is being held at the Kitsap Conference Center in downtown Bremerton and features vendors as near as Kitsap County and as far away as China. We spoke with Dani Gray, the founder of the festival, about everything zines — from their power

MxPx is veritably royalty in the Kitsap County music scene. Started in the early 1990s, they’ve put out numerous hits, including the song “Move to Bremerton,” which put Bremerton on the map. We spoke with frontman Mike Herrera ahead of the band’s two sold-out shows at the Admiral Theater about everything from why you can’t

Primarily a poet, Jane Wong ventured into memoir with the release last year of her book Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. The book recently came out in paperback, and Wong is celebrating May 8 with an appearance with fellow poet Yanyi at Eagle Harbor Book Co. in Bainbridge Island. We spoke with Wong ahead of

West Sound Roller Derby, Kitsap County’s only adult roller derby league, has finally returned after a lengthy, COVID-imposed hiatus.  We put together a video after speaking with some of the players at a recent practice.

Travel guru Rick Steves is delivering two lectures this weekend at the Admiral Theater in Bremerton — 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., Oct. 8. Watch our full interview with Steves, in which he details the ways the COVID-19 pandemic changed travel to Europe, talks about the ability of travel to break down barriers, and opines

Punk rockers Ninety Pound Wuss are playing their first show in 23 years at Bremerton’s Redwood Theater on July 29. We sat down with the band’s frontman, Jeff Suffering, to talk about the band’s resurrection, getting over religious trauma, where the “Suffering” moniker comes from, and more. Check out the full interview in the video

Madeline Ostrander is the keynote speaker at this Saturday’s Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference. We spoke with Ostrander about her book, At Home on an Unruly Planet, which chronicles communities taking action against climate change; how her book’s message can help people find hope among other troubling current events; and how her time at YES! Magazine,

MultiCare Health System announced today that it plans to open a new neighborhood emergency department in Bremerton. It’s expected to break ground in Spring 2023, and open sometime in 2024. The 10,500-square-foot facility, which will operate under Tacoma General’s license, will be located on 2.4 acres that MultiCare purchased at 5900 SR 303 NE, according

You’d better be nice — and if not, you’d better watch out for Krampus. Krampus is returning Dec. 2 for the annual celebration of Krampusnacht in downtown Bremerton. The folkloric tradition of Krampus originated centuries ago in the Bavarian region of Europe, said Eric Morley, who organizes the Bremerton Krampusnacht event and will participate in