Around Cincinnati

Barbara Gray is on the phone with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner to discuss her latest thriller, Touch & Go. Her last book, Catch Me, wound up the #2 bestseller last year according to the New York Times, so expectations for her newest novel are high.

With the resurgence of Cincinnati’s Rookwood Pottery comes a growing interest in existing Rookwood works, whether individual pieces or in-home tiling. The expert in all things Rookwood is Riley Humler from the firm Humler & Nolan and he’s in the studio talking with our Stuart Holman.

With better weather on the way, racing fans in this area are beginning to plan for the upcoming Kentucky Speedway season. Lee Hay, an avid NASCAR fan, happily welcomes in Mark Simendinger, the general manager of the Kentucky Speedway, to preview the 2013 race weekends and especially this year’s third running of the Quaker State 400 on Saturday, June 29.

During last year’s Fringe Festival, one of the most popular presentations was a new musical with the 80’s movie blockbuster Ghostbusters as its basis. Don’t Cross the Streams: The Cease and Desist Musical is getting its first full theatrical production from Falcon Theatre and Hugo West Theatricals, starting on March 15 at Newport’s Monmouth Theater. Jim Stump finds out more about the genesis of this show and this stage production from co-writer Mike Hall and cast member Tom Highley.

Local musician Kim Taylor is on quite a roll. Her new, self-produced CD, Love’s a Dog, has just been released and the movie she co-starred in, I Used to be Darker, just appeared at the Sundance Film Festival. Somehow, she found the time to join Brian O’Donnell in the studio to talk about this whirlwind and where 2013 might take her next.