There’s a new kid in the dock, and he’s mean. Meet the Zebra Mussel: 2” of pushy and persistent potential pollutant. This striped but somewhat scrawny mollusc is musselling in on the action at watery outlets up and down the London section of the Thames. The thalassic thug is perhaps yet another example of the new breed of capitalist Russians which are moving in on London. Londonist was actually jolly excited when she noticed this......

This dance theatre performance based on Australian David Hicks' experiences as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay packs a lot of visual punches but doesn't speak up enough. Director Nigel Jamieson and choreographer Garry Stewart have created a powerful and breath-taking production that depicts the treatment of those kept by the US government without charge or trial through an astonishing series of aerial work and dance performed inside a huge metal cage. Projections of text......

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

More fatal gun crime: Officers were called to reports of a shooting in Scrubs Lane at 1615 GMT on Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 21-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Monday. In a separate incident a policer officer was shot in South London: The officer, from Southwark, was unhurt in the shooting in Beaton Close, Peckham, in the early hours of Sunday. No-one......

Lots of international papers are picking up the story of a body found in the landing gear of a BA flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles: A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during a routine inspection shortly before it was to return to London, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said. The FBI determined the stowaway likely died in the wheel well, Castles said.......

The FBI have released ten pages of their 'Now That's What I Call Lennon' series: The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files. The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat,......

BBC Italian Mario Scaramella, a contact of dead ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, has tested positive for polonium-210. Mr Scaramella is not thought to be suffering symptoms but significant amounts of the substance are understood to have been found in the academic. He met Mr Litvinenko at sushi restaurant Itsu in central London on the day he fell ill. Meanwhile it turns out that both Tessa Jowell and Seb Coe travelled on one of the 'contaminated'......

Yahoo News: The body of a man believed to be linked to a US probe into a financial scandal involving NatWest has been found close to his home. Neil Coulbeck had gone missing from his home in Woodford Green, east London, on Thursday. Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said: "The man had been interviewed by the FBI. We don't know how important to the investigtion he was but FBI sources suggest he was......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

Mafia bosses beware! The Serious and Organised Crimes Agency (SOCA) is coming for you! The Agency went live today, and is being touted by the Government as the British version of the FBI. So does that mean a bunch of dodgy blokes in suits and Raybans? No, it's a bunch of ex-coppers, immigration officers and customs officers working together under one agency to tackle drug and immigration crime. SOCA has replaced the National Crime......

So how's that for a sensationalist headline. Job at Fox news now please? Of course we don't mean that Muslims have been banned from the tube, rather that the word has been removed from the advertising campaign for new US thriller series: Sleeper Cell. Sleeper Cell tells the 9 part tale of Michael Ealy's Darwyn Al Sayeed, a Muslim FBI agent who poses as a prisoner in order to infiltrate a fundamentalist group run......

Henry Rollins will be rolling into town again next month for one of his annual spoken word gigs - at least we hope he will, because whether he gets here may well be down to what reading material he decides to bring with him. His choice of in-flight read caused a ridiculous kafuffle when he recently travelled from New Zealand to Australia. It turns out that a fellow passenger objected to Rollins reading Ahmed......

Is one of America's most wanted gang leaders hiding out in London? James 'Whitey' Bugler (who has a $1million price on his head, is wanted for 19 murders... and is famous for his bad breath, no really, he is), has been on the run since 1994, and was last seen in London in 2002. Today's papers seem to think he liked our city so much that he decided to stay, living off the proceeds......

Radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri was jailed yesterday for seven years for inciting murder and racial hatred. The police face criticism over the fact that it took so long to bring him before a court. Although eligible for parole in 2008 he could face extradition to the US on terrorism charges upon his eventual release. Also in jail this morning is the mock suicide bomber / crack dealer. The apology for his part in......

Computer equipment belonging to the man investigating the death of Princess Diana has been stolen The stuff that conspiracy filled dreams are made of. The Met are on the case. A teenage girl arrested on suspicion of murdering a young man by stabbing him in the heart has been released on bail. Police appeal for witnesses. A 45-year-old man has been arrested following a raid on a "sophisticated" cannabis factory... police community support officers......

The big air rage story this morning may have had all the drama of FBI agents grappling with a passenger as he tried to open the door at 33,000 feet, but we prefer our drunken passenger stories to have a touch more celebrity. Like this one involving Gillian Anderson: Former X -Files star Gillian Anderson has been accused of drunkenly verbally attacking a fellow passenger on a flight from Sri Lanka to England. Anderson......

Think back to 1985. Margaret Thatcher was in power; there was no internet; uh, people had stupid hairstyles and wore legwarmers and stuff. And, up until October of that year, there was no such thing as Neighbours. Unthinkable, isn't it? The residents of Erinsborough have entwined themselves into the fabric of British life to an extent that is remarkable for a homegrown soap, let alone for one set thousands of miles away. This is......

Rejoice! If you have a digibox, at least - if you don't, then go and get yourself one. For Lemmy's sake, they're only thirty quid or so from the supermarket. And, once you have one, you can watch More4, the new Channel 4, uh, channel, which launches tonight at 8pm. A new freeview digital channel, you say? Isn't there one of those launched every day? Ah, but More4 is going to screen The Daily......

Steve Earle & Patti Smith - Royal Festival Hall - Meltdown 2005 - 19th June 2005 A roll call is played over the PA. The audience listen intently. Within seconds it becomes clear: this is a roll call for the dead, the casualties on both sides of the American coalition's invasion and occupation of Iraq. There was, apparently, a time when rock and politics was a potent cocktail, the petrol that drove the revolutionary......

Three Londoners have been charged in the US with terrorism offences over alleged surveillance of major financial centres in New York, Newark and Washington according to the BBC: Dhiren Barot, 32, Qaisar Shaffi, 25, and Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, all of Willesden, north-west London, were arrested in August 2004. US charges that they plotted chemical or radioactive attacks on the buildings carry possible life sentences. Heavy stuff. And maybe there's something to it seeing as......

Only six weeks into 2005 and already we've got ourselves a real contender for 'story of the year'. The Richard Desmond/Mafia/Porn/Internet scam story really does have all the elements. Of course, this whole thing reared its head a good five years ago. But it's only now, with the court case of "mafia emissary" Richard Martino, that all the details are coming to light. And what details! This Richard 'Ricci' Martino is part of the......