Until I saw Milk yesterday, the biopic starring Sean Penn as gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, I'd forgotten all about the Twinkie Defense. Fellow supervisor Dan White shot and killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in their offices at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 and got off with essentially a slap on the wrist: White was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years (he ended up serving five, and committed suicide two years after he was released.) The def
In movies, Miami gets a bad rap. It's always cocaine smuggler this, and mafia murderer that. It's like come on, Hollywood. You're making us look bad.
So when Riptide heard Dade County got a cameo in Gus Van Sant's new film Milk, we bought some trans fat-soaked popcorn and got comfortable
next to two cute, twinkish, super-excited gay dudes this past weekend.
The flick, which tells the story of the martyred gay San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk, was spliced with actual footage from the
photo by Ryan RussellNo, this has pretty much nothing to do with the martyred gay San Francisco city supervisor. The quattet Harvey Milk may have, in its name, nodded in tribute to that man, but that's where any political notions end for this band. Rather, this sludgy, experimental noise-rock-type act spews forth the kind of weirdness that could only come from Athens, Georgia. Formed in the early 1990s, the fivesome remained mostly a cult act there, the Southern gothic vibe of its hometown seepi
HealerHearkening back to the days of Riki Rachtman and staying up late drinking warmish Bud Dry in a friend's basement, Torche's new video for the single "Healer" debuted on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball last Saturday at 2 a.m. EST. Steve Brooks, Rick Smith, and Jonathan Nunez are continuing their push to become Miami's biggest rock export since ... since ....well, since ever. In addition to the tour with Harvey Milk that they are wrapping up right now, they also just announced a show with Big
