The Hightower Report

Neil Bush Milks Cows; and Responding to Labor

"...gap and the severe economic side effects of greed-fueled globalization by extending real power to labor unions and cracking..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Exporting Patients; and Change the Course

"...EXPORTING PATIENTS Good grief. Just when you think that globalization can't get any more ludicrous and that America's health-care..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

Immigration Legislation Update

Immigrant rights taking a hit in D.C.

"...IMMIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Thursday's panel addresses the immigration debate's..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

Legacies of Dust

The Carver Museum exhibition "Legacies of Dust" is a vital exploration, through the lens of daughterhood, of how memory functions and how selves are defined out of time, place, history, politics, sexuality, and community

"...questions about the present, dominated as it is by globalization and its effects. While the comparison needs further scrutiny,..."

June 23, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Kinky Boots

One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.

"...the company for their livelihood, it's equally clear that globalization has knocked them clear out of the running. Prodded..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Darwin's Nightmare

This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.

"...the lake, fueled by the World Bank, rampant Western globalization, and the cheap labor provided by the lakeside populace,..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music Books

"...Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization..."

May 27, 2005 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

"Superstring"

Superstring, the theory that attempts to gather all the laws of physics into one comprehensive, easy-to-digest recipe, may be not quite fully baked, but "Superstring" the show from UT's Creative Research Laboratory presenting new works by nine MFA candidates, is perfectly cooked and damned tasty.

"...World Headquarters in presenting these explorations of "issues of globalization, communication, industrialization, and the environment." One of these explorations..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The New Rulers of the World

"...and filmmaker John Pilger explores the impact of corporate globalization, using as examples Indonesia and the way it has..."

June 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Finley Quaye Vanguard

"...In an era hellbent on the cancerous spread of "globalization," Quaye is on the cutting edge of what musical..."

July 27, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Making a Living, Making a Life

Judging from the coverage he has been receiving, the most popular story trailing Robert Reich as he travels around the nation talking about his new book The Future of Success is an entirely personal one. Books Editor Clay Smith interviews the former Clinton administration secretary of labor and finds out a few other stories about the popularizing public intellectual.

"...hips -- not long ago I was talking about globalization, a couple of years ago, I guess -- and..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line

"...In this study of globalization's effects on one company, it is 1950 and Mollie..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Review by Ann Guidry

Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 394..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is doing well. May I add an observation? Economic globalization will continue with or without the WTO. This, in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Hey, who put a vegetarian in my aquifer?

"...Economic development, with or without globalization, is enormously complex. To justify globalization by counting shopping..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column

The Profit Motive

Activists oppose World Trade Organization

"...If the turnout at a recent "Corporate Globalization" forum here in Austin was any indication, the arcane..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Cheryl Bishop

Connecting a Few Dots

"...for grown-ups, who say very grown-up things about the globalization of culture: e-mailing about your favorite topics with folks..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

The Strip Club: Lakehills Plaza

Cajun fusion that hits the target, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and more South Austin strip mall standouts

"...why there’s not more butter in Asian cuisine since globalization. [inset-1-left]..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

Your Weekend Events Shopping Already Done for You!

Recommended arts and music events for your perusal

"...elements from her Caribbean heritage with broader themes of globalization and diaspora,” writes Phillip A. Townsend, curator of UT’s..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...will dive into these topics while discussing how the globalization of music turned into some of the most successful..."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Review: “The Dog Show”

Hiromi Stringer curates a fictitious, dog-obsessed museum in her current solo show

"...in the show's notes. "It was when the word globalization started to appear here and there. Why a Siberian..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Meher Qazilbash

Austin's Best New Pizza Places

Fresh pies? Save us a slice!

"...in the pizza space, with a dipping cup of globalization on the side, means that new pizza places have..."

March 17, 2023 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

You Don't Have to Break the Law to Get Watched by ARIC

Anarchy in the ATX

"...the belief that all forms of capitalism and corporate globalization should be opposed and that governing institutions are unnecessary..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by John Anderson

SXSW Panel Recap: Alt. Proteins: Not Just Another Tech Revolution

Reducing our traditional protein consumption is no longer a luxury

"...However, thanks to social media, globalization, and an increase in alternative diets like reducetarians, flexitarians,..."

March 13, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Devenyns

Democracy in Rest and Motion

Indie Meme brings acclaimed export Newton to AFS Cinema

"...[via internet], and this is just a part of globalization, that in Austin, there is an audience for Indian..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Page Two: Where Do We Go From Here?

"...promises, offered mostly as applause lines, can be delivered. Globalization is not going to stop; the enormous economic shift..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Announces Lee Daniels as Film Keynote

Featured speakers, a panel, and some music acts drop

"...Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy..."

Sept. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Public Notice: Inconvenient Details

Council aims for the stars, stuck in the dirt

"...Boy and the World (Brazil, 2015) The complexity of globalization, seen through the adventures of one young boy...."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Boogarins é Foda

Brazilian psych-pop foursome takes up residency at Hotel Vegas

"...if these problems are solid structures from the nowadays globalization scenario. All this is kinda connected with the same..."

June 30, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Mark Knopfler Repaves Telegraph Road

Dire Straits driver dusts up Music City southwest

"...Tracker) in Knopfler’s guitar case following his onetime pop globalization alongside the likes of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and..."

Sept. 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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