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Happily ever after. These three words form the backbone of the romance genre. Because no matter how fraught the journey, in romance, the protagonists will be together by the story’s end. This is the reason so many readers return again and again to these books—in a tumultuous world, romance novels offer a guarantee. And they’ve never felt so needed, or enjoyed such mainstream celebration, as they have over the past few years.

Check the furthermost part of the bookstore. On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences. It’s the shelf on the end, the one filled with paperback spines as bright and colorful as conversation hearts. Or maybe it’s between the tabloids and the chewing gum at the supermarket checkout, a display of purse-sized books splashed with images of hands clutching waists. Whatever the case, what you’re looking for will be tucked safely away, curated into corners, never neighboring the “serious” literature.

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance book covers a day. With his long, blonde hair flowing, his shirt unbuttoned or off altogether, and often clutching a woman against his chest, his goal was to be readers’ “fantasy.” “The world is upside down,” says Fabio, now 65 and living in Los Angeles.

RMNP Astronomy Fest Friday-Saturday. Lots of people will be seeing stars — weather permitting — when Rocky Mountain National Park hosts a free, nighttime astronomy festival on Friday, Aug. 2, and Saturday, Aug. 3, on both sides of the park. On the east side, there will be interactive daytime activities and solar viewing opportunities at the Fall River Visitor Center, which is located just outside the park entrance, so park entry reservations are not required.

The Paris Olympics may be ending on August 11, but viewers can maintain a Parisian state of mind when new episodes of the Netflix romantic comedy series Emily in Paris drop on August 15. Among the most anticipated romantic comedy offerings hitting the streaming service is The Union, a Netflix original movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry about high school sweethearts-turned-spies. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Animal lovers can wind down with Sir David Attenborough’s documentary Secret World of Sound, out Aug.

At the Savoy Denver in the Curtis Park neighborhood, visiting theater professional Brent Blair was getting the collection of performers, theater aficionados and one very reluctant journalist to move about the space, to laugh appreciatively at the boundary-challenging exercises but also — and more pointedly — to shift their perspectives on theater.