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 them is as corny as the film’s Jan Hammer score."

This coming week, though, City Paper corrects this historic wrong.
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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, for chrissakes? Instead of defending this man's right to pay someone for sex--why stop at shoplifters?--we paraded him out on our blog and suggested that he was unqualified to do his duties as a police officer. A few days later, we posted a conversation that he had in a hotel room which he did not know was wired. Is it news? Sure. But where was the critical eye? Big bonuses, prison pralines, the PCP scourge, crooked Yelp, and Mark Jenkins, after the jump.

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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 the post is worth a look for links to some of BB's past coverage of the artist. About a year ago Jenkins told City Paper he was reconsidering his public sculptures; apparently he's changed his mind.

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 moved on from random women who appear to be sitting on buildings to Greenpeace. Four Jenkins-created homeless polar bears have been installed in D.C. causing the requisite stirs. We know about the one in Columbia Heights. Where are the other three?

While you're thinking it over, check the reaction to Jenkins' earlier piece, from the CP video archives: