COLORADO: STUCK IN A RUT?

It's almost elk rutting season in Estes Park. Why do you care when elks rut? Because it's fun to hear their bugling (mating calls), and because it's a good excuse for a festival. The celebration of rutting season gets into high gear Oct. 3-4 with Elk Fest, which includes a bugling competition for humans (must really confuse the elk) as well as storytelling, music and food. Elk sightings are a virtual certainty. They're all over the place, and they aren't shy. What's more, there are plenty of places in town to eat one. Yum!

Details: www.estesparkcvb.com

-- COX NEWSPAPERS

GEORGIA: WHERE IT ALL BEGINS

The Big House in Macon, where the Allman Brothers Band lived when its fame took flight in the early 1970s, has been drawing music lovers for decades. Now, the three-story Tudor house is set to become a museum with the help of dedicated fans who have spent years collecting memorabilia and doing renovations. The museum is scheduled to open in December with a fanfare expected to draw thousands from across the globe to honor the band. The 6,000-square-foot house, built in the early 1900s, became the band's home in 1969 after bassist Berry Oakley and his wife, Linda, rented it for the musicians and their families. They called it the Big House because it was larger than any other place any of them lived.

Details: For info about the Big House, check out www.thebighousemuseum.org. For a free visitors guide to Macon, see www.maconga.org.

-- ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEXAS: EASTERN ART GOES WESTERN

An exhibition of Vietnamese art, with more than 100 objects never before seen in the United States opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston this weekend. Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea includes major loans from Vietnam's leading museums, including objects from the first millennium B.C. through the 17th century that have never before left the country. The museum describes the show as the first ``exhibition in the U.S. to address the historical, geographical, and cultural contexts of pre-colonial Vietnamese art in depth.''

Details: Arts of Ancient Viet Nam runs through Jan. 3 in Houston and then travels to New York's Asia Society Feb. 2-May 2. More info at www.mfah.orgor 713-639-7300.

-- ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, D.C.: BY THE BOOK

A slew of celebrity writers from John Irving to Jodi Picoult are scheduled to take part in this year's National Book Festival in Washington, scheduled for Sept. 26. Other famous authors expected to participate include James Patterson, Marilynne Robinson, Judy Blume, John Grisham, Junot Diaz, Colson Whitehead, Jeannette Walls and Julia Glass. Patterson, author of the Alex Cross series of thrillers set in Washington, will present at the Mysteries & Thrillers Pavilion, along with George Pelecanos, whose books are also set in Washington.

Details: The festival, organized by the Library of Congress and held on the National Mall, is free. www.loc.gov/bookfest.

-- ASSOCIATED PRESS

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