Sometimes even a 300-pound orangutan needs a break from the dreary routine of life. Bruno, one of six orangutans at the LA Zoo, decided to take a stroll out of his mesh enclosure just before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Although the 29-year-old didn't make it much farther than "a holding area behind the cage where a handler soon noticed him," his afternoon walk was labeled an "escape" and led to an evacuation, reports the Daily......

Photo by Lush.i.ous via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. FESTIVALS Three festivals run today and tomorrow: the Venice Art Walk & Auctions, California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard and Guacamole Festival in Lincoln Heights. SHOP Fashion Elements is bringing back their Spring Glam fashion show this weekend with up to 60% off designer fashions. Grab a cocktail from the bar and get ready for some awesome new designs off the runway and some......

A recent study put out in the September issue of Geology has concluded that the Los Angeles basin is in a 1,000 year seismic “lull”. Meaning the era we are living in has smaller and less frequent earthquakes than the Los Angeles area normally has. (Normal referring to the average for the last 12,000 years) Now my first reaction is to say, what? Lull? This certainly doesn’t seem like a lull period to me,......

The Sopranos finale was awesome, and there will be a review forthcoming. In the meantime here are two videos and the lyrics to the two most important songs they played tonight. Journey - Don't Stop Believing Just a small town girl, livin in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin anywhere Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit He took the midnight train goin anywhere A singer in a smokey......