A Seabeck, Wash., man was arrested twice in one day for Driving Under the Influence. The 48-year-old man was pulled over twice by State Troopers on Friday for driving while intoxicated. The man was arrested once Friday morning with a blood-alcohol level of five times the legal limit. After being released, he must have gotten right back to drinking, because he was arrested that same night with a blood-alcohol level of four times the......

We have a message for 15-year-old us: "You are a fuckface." Because it was 15-year-old us who decided against going to see Dizzy Gillespie at Jazz Alley in February of '92. "I'll just catch him next time around," 15-year-old us thought. There was no next time around. That performance was Gillespie's last--not just in Seattle, but anywhere. Ever since, we're committed to enjoying the elderly legends before they pass. We saw Ray Charles and Cab......

Windermere Real Estate/Kingston, a Windermere branch in Kitsap County, doesn't think you would. A couple of weeks ago, they fired local burlesque performer Ravenna Black because she spends the occasional evening taking off her clothes to the strains of "Keep On Churnin' Til the Butter Comes." On Monday my broker called me up to ask me, "Are you Ravenna Black?" When I said that I was, he told me that was "incongruous with the......

With NASCAR putting a full throttle charge, or whatever NASCAR fans say, over a proposed track in Kitsap County, our own elected officials are being as classless as the fans they claim will flock to the track. When a reporter asked House Leader Frank Chopp to comment on racing legend Richard Petty's lobbying visit, Chopp snidely responded, "You mean the guy who got picked up for a DUI?" Leaving aside whether publicly slagging someone for......

One of the great things about the Viaduct is that it reminds us of a Hot Wheels track. Which gives us an idea. Since we're having a rebuild forced on us anyway, why not make it a value-add? If legislators who don't actually live in Kitsap County want to put a NASCAR track over there, how hard would it be to talk them into relocating it to Seattle's waterfront? The legislation would not require......

--Gawker likes to point out hilarious writing every once in awhile and we're pretty sure they'd have something to say about "After the National Weather Service announced it was asking the public to name last month's windstorm, it got blown away by the number of entries." --Speaking of Gawker... --Speaking of naming things... --Speaking of the storm... --NASCAR is continuing to spread money around Kitsap County. It's coming. --If you think you've noticed traffic getting......

Our carpool buddy grabbed his wife's phone by mistake this morning. A vexing but victimless error. Not so of a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy's boo-boo yesterday. He grabbed his gun, instead of his Taser, and fired a bullet--not electricity--into a crazy person who'd climbed up a tree in Bremerton. This was not a mistake under pressure. They'd been trying to get the guy to descend from the tree for two hours. Then he started getting......

When it's easier to find al-Qaida's top man in Iraq than the guy in charge of King County Elections, well, that's a bit of a problem. Currently, members of the county council are trying to pass an ordinance that would make county elections all-mail. On Monday they held a forum to hear from public officials and members of the public. However, the man they wanted to hear from the most, King County Elections Director Dean......

It looks like supporters of a NASCAR track in Kitsap County made some progress this week after selling state Reps Adam Smith and Norm Dicks on the whole thing. This News Tribune article makes it seem like those two are chugging the Kool Aid: Smith said the proposal from International Speedway Corp. could finally provide the region with a major sports tourism draw somewhere other than King County. And more importantly, he said, it would......