The "loudest rock band in the world" is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their movie, This Is Spinal Tap, and along with a new album due next month, they've released a free MP3 of "Saucy Jack," part of the never-completed rock opera about Jack the Ripper. Go to spinaltap.com for more information.

Alan Moore, who wrote the graphic novel From Hell with Eddie Campbell, returns to his League of Extraordinary Gentleman with Century 1910. It includes a familiar Victorian killer returning to ply his trade in 1910 London.

Students at NEW College, at the Artrix in Bromsgrove in the UK, are putting on a Jack the Ripper musical.

The blog Diary of a Hollywood Street King evidently reviews different strains of marijuana. This time, the author's reviewing a strain called Jack the Ripper.

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A new book alleges that not all the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper were committed by the same person.

Dr Andrew Cook's new book, Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (sounds familiar) states that the Ripper letters were written by a journalist and that perhaps three of the murders were committed by one person. This is in line with the thinking of an assistance police surgeon at the time, Percy Clark, and Thomas Arnold, a policeman on the case.