Month: February 2019

A million-dollar Balinese-style temple that will be burned to ground in May was a gathering point for students of Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school on Thursday as they remembered their 14 classmates and three teachers killed a year ago today in one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings. The Temple of Time, an ornate…

There are still ribbons tied to trees lining the roads towards Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school; familiar #MSDStrong messages endure on the wire fences of neighbouring campuses, the letters spelled out conscientiously by students using plastic cups. If there remain plentiful visual indications that the nation’s deadliest high school shooting took place in this south Florida community…

It will be no ordinary Valentine’s Day tomorrow for the people of Parkland, Florida. The last time it came around they began the day with their hearts full but ended it with them broken. Overshadowed by the still-raw grief of the February 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School last year, in which…

It’s been very nearly a year since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings. I interviewed one of the most inspiring people I have ever met for this feature, Manuel Oliver, who suffered the heartbreak of losing his best friend in life, his 17-year-old son Joaquin, known as Guac. The idiot comedian Louis CK took a pop…