HOUSTON: Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo birdied the second playoff hole to defeat American Adam Schenk on Sunday to win the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge for his first triumph in eight years. The 30-year-old South American fired a two-under par 68 and despite a closing double bogey finished level with Schenk on eight-under 272 for 72 … Read more
May 25, 2023, 07:59 PM ET California club pro Michael Block was living the dream at the PGA Championship. Thursday at Colonial brought him back to reality. A sensation at Oak Hill when he tied for 15th against the strongest field in golf, Block shot an 11-over 81 that left him in last place and … Read more
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Those who come to Colonial Williamsburg on a nostalgia trip will find some of what they are looking for. The fife-and-drum corps can still be found marching down Duke of Gloucester Street, whose storefronts are full of costumed interpreters making 18th-century wigs, or re-enacting the political debates that helped birth the American … Read more
Comment on this story Comment In “The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure,” Götz Aly, one of Germany’s most prominent historians of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, brings to light one of his country’s lesser-known historical crimes: the campaign of looting and destruction carried out as part of Imperial … Read more
Sweden’s Gothenburg Film Festival returns this month with a successful series of urgent and highly political competition titles after two editions interrupted by the pandemic. There was Abbe Hassan on the opening night. ExitA sensitive thriller about the lives of refugees in Europe, with Malou Reymann’s VaccineThe eventual winner of the festival’s Dragon Prize reveals … Read more
SPECIAL: International Rediscover Sales increased empireAn absurd period drama about Denmark’s colonial history from Danish filmmaker Frederikke Aspöck. It was designed and written by Anna Neye, who also starred in the movie. Empire Set in the Danish West Indies in 1848, it is a story about power and people’s interdependence that aims to challenge Denmark’s … Read more