Powell blends the narrative richness of American folk with a heavy dose of hallucinatory swirl and a ghost note of 2000s-vintage bedroom indie, all highlighted in ethereal falsetto by his purposeful, kaleidoscopic poetry. Indianapolis’ Joshua Powell unfurls a strangely literate brand of psychedelic indie rock that is both socially conscious and spiritually turbulent. But wedged between tour stops in Indiana and Ohio, boundary-pushing Modest Mouse – led by lead singer and guitarist Isaac Brock – brings its repertoire of edgy songs to Kalamazoo, including the likes of “Float On,” “Satellite Skin,” “Lampshades on Fire,” “Autumn Beds” and more. The first two dates of its extensive fall tour were canceled last week due to undisclosed reasons. With six full-length albums to their credit - including 2004’s platinum “Good News for People Who Love Bad News,” and a pair of gold records, “The Moon & Antarctica” and the chart-topping “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank” - the band once appeared it was slowing down, but that just doesn’t seem to be the case. Hailing from the small-town Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Modest Mouse has been floating through the indie rock world for more than 20 years. She has one daughter who is a CPA and another who works for a chocolate company and provides yummy insider information on the chocolate business.Tickets: $39.50 ($23 Western Michigan students) She lives in Oklahoma but summers in Michigan where the Chocoholic Mystery series is set. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of OK and also studied in the O.U. She spent 25 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, feature writer, editor, and columnist, most recently at the Lawton Constitution. Sandstrom, have three grandchildren, whom they love introducing to the lore of their two homes – Oklahoma and Michigan. She took an early retirement to write fiction full-time. She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business, working as a reporter, editor, and columnist at The Lawton Constitution in Lawton, Oklahoma. Hart and Jack Bickham in the OU Creative Writing Program. JoAnna/Eve earned a degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma and also studied with Carolyn G. So that’s how JoAnna/Eve became a regional author in two widely separated regions. The “Chocoholic Mysteries” were on their way.Įve’s editor requested that she use a pen name for the new series, and Eve picked the middle names of her three children, Betsy Jo, Ruth Anna, and John Carl. Most small towns couldn’t support a business like this, but the resorts of West Michigan – with their wealthy “summer people” – can. So when her editor asked her to come up with a new, “cozy” mystery series, Eve set it in a West Michigan resort town, scrambling up Saugatuck, Douglas, South Haven, Holland, Manistee, Ludington and Muskegon with her own ideas of what a resort ought to be to create Warner Pier.Īs further background, she plunked her heroine into a business which produces and sells luscious, luxurious, European-style bonbons, truffles and molded chocolates. The area features gorgeous beaches, lush orchards, thick woods, and beautiful Victorian houses. Every summer for more than forty years she, her husband and various combinations of children and grandchildren have trekked to the community of Pier Cove for vacations that lasted from two weeks to three months. Eve even knows the second verse of “Boomer Sooner.”Įve wrote two mystery series: the “Down Home” books, set on a ranch in Southwest Oklahoma, and the Nell Matthews mysteries, semi-hard-boiled books laid in a mid-size city on the Southern Plains.īut Eve married a great guy whose family owned a cottage on the west coast of Lake Michigan, not far from the Michigan towns of Fennville, Saugatuck, and Douglas. Eve and seven other members of her immediate family are graduates of the University of Oklahoma. One grandmother was born in the Choctaw Nation, and Eve is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Both her grandfathers and her father were in the oil business, once the backbone of Oklahoma’s economy. Sandstrom is an Oklahoman to the teeth: she was born there, as were five previous generations of her mother’s family. The author writes about the shores of Lake Michigan and has been reviewed in Michigan newspapers as a “regional writer.” She has also written about Southwest Oklahoma and once won an award for the best book of the year with an Oklahoma setting.Įve K. JOANNA CARL is the pseudonym for the multi-published mystery writer Eve K.
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