You have to go back to 2006 to find City Paper's last mention of Jan Hammer, in Tricia Olszewski's review of Cocaine Cowboys. That follows a 10-year drought for Hammerheads since Mark Jenkins' review of A Modern Affair, in which Jenkins says "the fate that [director Vern] Oakley and writer Paul Zimmerman have devised for [...]

After learning that someone had posted the transcript from last weekend's prostitution sting on City Desk and the Sexist, I had to ask myself: What the fuck is our problem? Aren't we the alternative weekly in town? Aren't finger-wagging and gotcha blog items the purview of the nannying prudes at the Post and the Examiner, [...]

With the help of Greenpeace, D.C. artist Mark Jenkins recently scared the bejesus out of authorities by staging some bear sculptures around town. The foofaraw has since died down, but today he tells BoingBoing's David Pescovitz what he was up to. He doesn't say too much more than what was in Greenpeace's press release, but [...]

This photo posted today by the Chicago Tribune's national legal correspondent James Oliphant—who had to come pick up his 3-year-old becuase of a bomb scare that turned out to be a fake homeless polar bear—looked oddly familiar. It's all confirmed, of course. Sculptor Mark Jenkins, whose realistic tape sculptures we wrote about last October, has [...]