Will Toole

Smoking inside is a throwback to a simpler time, reminiscent of the 1950s, when powerful business executives puffed on cigarettes during meetings and housewives could smoke as they prepared dinner. But those white picket fences couldn’t stave off the dangerous truth about cigarettes for long. Eventually, officials learned that 480,000...

It's been two years since the world-renowned hardcore-punk act Trash Talk sweatily yelled and thrashed around on a Miami stage. In that time, the Sacramento act has toured in Australia and Japan and recorded and released the free EP, Tangled. Now Trash Talk is touring the nation by van and...

Anticipation for the Fest builds year-round. On Halloween weekend, punks from all over the continent swarm the quaint college town of Gainesville, Florida, for the three-day punk music festival that has become a mainstay in its 14-year history. Gainesville hotels are booked months in advance. In the hours before...

Chris Escobar is frantically cutting onions in the kitchen of Miami's most eclectic punk house. It's a Thursday afternoon in Black Sheep House, where five members of the local activist group Food Not Bombs is cooking reclaimed food from grocery stores to serve to houseless folk in downtown. The skinny,...

At 10:45 p.m, inside Churchill's, a pulsing throng of sweaty punk kids are waiting anxiously for the most loved hardcore band to ever come out of Miami. It's been five years since Poison The Well played in their hometown. And after selling out the show on a Wednesday night in...