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ESTES PARK — Rutting season is underway, to the delight of about two dozen tourists who got an unexpected treat Wednesday morning when a herd of elk gathered in a small park near the center of town.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

NEWARK, N.J. — Tommy DeVito, a founding member of the 1960s Four Seasons band, has died from the coronavirus at the age of 92, NJ.com reported.
His former bandmate Frankie Vallie wrote in a post on Facebook that DeVito had died, and said, “We send our love to his family during this most difficult time.”
Actor Alfred Nittoli said in a separate Facebook post that DeVito died Monday evening in Las Vegas at the age of 92.

Joe Maddalena knows a good thing when he sees it. And he likes what he sees in Denver.
As CEO and founder of Profiles in History — the Los Angeles company that bills itself as the world’s largest auctioneer of Hollywood memorabilia — Maddalena has been instrumental in discovering high-profile forgeries and helping museums and institutions such as the Library of Congress with historical exhibitions.

In days like these, when the sun glows an alarming orange, and air is choked with smoke and ash that burns your eyes and prickles your throat, it’s hard to reconcile what Anna Kaye’s drawings have always strived to remind us about wildfires: that they are deadly and, no doubt, worrisome, but they are also natural and necessary.

Toward the end of this strange summer, I put on a green party dress and went to my first and last celebration of the season. It was a small backyard wedding.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

They walked into the Harkins Northfield multiplex tentatively. It was the first time that most of the attendees for last week’s preview of “Antebellum” had been in a movie theater since the start of the coronavirus-induced arts collapse of 2020.

By Linnea Covington, Special to The Denver Post
Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious and exciting about a silent organism that can catch and digest an insect, and shoppers are now adding this flora to their pandemic plant collections.

Winter Park and Denver-based parent company Alterra Mountain Co. revealed some operating plans on Monday for mitigating pandemic concerns this winter, but those plans remain very much in flux.

The Cameron Peak fire burned approximately 11 square miles of Rocky Mountain National Park at its remote northern edge since it entered on Saturday, officials said Thursday in their first detailed description of the fire’s extent.

Kaibab Sauvage isn’t afraid to take risks and think outside the box — it’s basically in his DNA. His first name was inspired by his dad’s adventurous whitewater rafting trips near the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona, and his last name means “wild” in French.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share