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In the days after the Aug. 8 wildfire, some people were able to return to their properties to evaluate the damage. But since then, the burned area has been off-limits to all but authorized workers.

When crime writer Karin Slaughter was struggling to find a good literary relationship, she turned to the Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis. She learned about togas and scrolls and came away with a new template for a happy marriage.

Performer Philippe Petit, who walked between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, says the difference between the average criminal and an artistic one is that the former takes and the latter gives.

Roddy Doyle's new The Guts revisits the Commitments three decades later, grown up and dealing with life's blows. Mastermind Jimmy Rabbitte is out of the hospital after cancer surgery, and he's living life one day at a time. Critic Alan Cheuse says the dialogue-heavy novel is both foulmouthed and bursting with joie de vivre.

The author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux shares her summer book recommendations for young readers ages 8-13.

In fiction, Paul Auster sets a family story against the housing crisis and Garrison Keillor looks at a Midwestern holiday blizzard. In nonfiction, Lewis Black goes on a USO tour of Afghanistan and Iraq, Frank Sinatra gets a new biography and Jenna McCarthy redefines lust and love with a comic wink.

Terry Pluto talks about the struggle to get to the NCAA Tournament for mid-major teams and a former Akron coach going out on top.

The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-2 tornado touched down in Blacklick in Franklin County before traveling into Licking County and hitting the community of Jersey. Other tornado touchdowns were confirmed in Montgomery, Madison, Clark and Greene counties.

The private college in South Euclid tried refinancing its debt and launching a fundraising campaign as well as other efforts to address its financial challenges.

The annual opera and humanities festival offers plenty of musical power, from classical to jazz to vocal, alongside discussions of what power means.