Photographic Lecture Wednesday night

The Menil reveals the hidden lives of Africa's legendary Dinka, the tallest people in the world

By Steven Thomson

05.25.11 | 12:54 pm

Over 30 years ago, photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher met in Nairobi, Kenya knowing only that they both shared a passion for documenting the indigenous cultures of the African continent ...

Lecture: Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher DINKA: Legendary Cattle Keepers of the Sudan

The Menil Collection

05.25.11

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher discuss their latest work, DINKA: Legendary Cattle Keepers of the Sudan, in an illustrated lecture. These renowned photographers have devoted their lives to documen

Shelby's Social Diary

Rockin' with the B-52s in Nantucket, with Al Franken on Martha's Vineyard, Houstonians love summer

By Shelby Hodge

07.20.10 | 3:00 pm

It wasn't a total redux of her 50th-birthday celebration in Nantucket 10 years ago, but Franci Crane's 60th on the island this past weekend reverberated with a similar upbeat theme. Fri ...

Health Care in Houston

The real ER: Controlled chaos and bursts of drama mark a long night at Ben Taub

By Clifford Pugh

07.08.10 | 6:11 am

It's 11 o'clock on a Saturday night — on a July Fourth holiday weekend, no less — and Dr. Angela Siler Fisher is at the center of a bank of computers in the holding area of the ...