Amidst calls for their boss' resignation, it's reassuring to know that some London cops haven't lost sight of the big issues facing modern policing - namely, getting "ethnically diverse" mascots on our streets. "PCSO Steve", whose beat covers primary schools in and around Sutton, has spent the past couple of years attending community events and glad-handing celebrities and politicians. Now before you get all high-horsey about the money wasted on PCSOs, we should point......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

The stuff you find on the tube: An unpublished novel by renowned author Jeanette Winterson has been found at an Underground station in south London. The Stone Gods, by the writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is not due to be published until September. Martha Oster, 27, said she was "amazed" when she found the 134-page manuscript lying on a bench at Balham station on Wednesday night. Penguin claim it was accidentally......

A great almost-story from This Is Local London: A six-year-old narrowly escaped losing her toes last week when her shoe became trapped in an escalator in the Bentall Centre That coupled with the Girl’s foot trapped in escalator horror headline conjures up an image of Stephen King like carnage with the runaway metal monster chewing the girl's leg off at the knee. Erm... According to her mother, Sharon, Georgia has lost the tip of......

Frightfest have teamed up with the ICA to put on a bit of a Halloween bash: It’s time to put on make-up, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to get things started on The Feebles show tonight! Yes, Peter Jackson’s grotesque Muppet-style marvel Meet The Feebles returns to shock and offend again. Before Team America and Avenue Q, and in a gore guffaw galaxy far, far before The Lord of the Rings,......

Somerset House on a warm sunny evening has to be one of Londonist's favourite places to be. Whether you're watching a band or catching a film, there's nothing better than sitting on the grass with a glass of pimms feeling like you're in a small idyllic bubble of London, even though you're practically on Waterloo Bridge. As previously mentioned on Londonist, this week the annual Film4 Summer Screen season kicks off with its, quite......

Following the success of Masters of Horror in which acclaimed horror movie directors were given a slice of TV to play with and the 'hey it wasn't so bad, but lacked any Soul' remake of Salem's Lot Americans have been treated to a new series with the rather long title of Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King. It sports a decent enough cast (William H Macy leads one episode) and films......

This week: Syriana, Kidulthood, and The Matador. Plus a scoop of film news and two Trailers of the Week. We'd have figured after the advance attack of Good Night and Good Luck that George Clooney's other political stab, Syriana, would have been a shoo in for film of the week, but alas no. For Peter Bradshaw the film can't be taken seriously because of the bad guy Arab torturing the good guy American scene:......

"Do not withhold your Mercy from us. O Lord; may Your love and Your truth always protect us. For troubles without numbers surround us; our sins have overtaken us and we cannot see. Our sins are more than the hairs of our heads, and our hearts fail within us. Be pleased, O Lord, to save us; O Lord, come quickly to help us." Another week another great tube read. Stephen King's Cell is a......

Ok, we think it's safe to come out now, we think they've all gone. Having so many of them congregate in the one place was always going to be a problem. Where were the police when we needed them? But it's all clear now. You can send the kids off to school, but be sure to warn them of the dangers of anyone who looks a little foreign... and by foreign we mean white......

With something like 20 screenings per day at this year's London Film Festival we figured we'd offer a little help this week in deciding which films you should underline and circle in the programme. First up is Lodge Kerrigan's Keane, already a hit at the Telluride, Toronto, New York and Cannes Film Fests, it's sure to be a critics favourite and while less showy than a lot of the other films on offer it......