Jack Howland

1 month ago | kansascity.com | Jack Howland

Maia Lekow (left), the director of the documentary "How to Build a Library," answers a question from an audience member at the Missouri Theater on Saturday afternoon, alongside Ragtag Film Society programmer Ouma Amadou (right). The documentary focuses on the de-colonization of a formerly whites-only library in Kenya. On a blustery Saturday afternoon, a Kansas City couple stands determined in an alleyway.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jack Howland

On a blustery Saturday afternoon, a Kansas City couple stands determined in an alleyway. Rohan Pidaparti, 29, and Julianne Delessio, 30, are near the front of a growing line of bundled-up individuals hoping to see the 3 p.m. showing of “Zodiac: Killer Project,” a subversive new documentary that’s as much about our culture’s lust for true crime as it is the notorious serial killer.

Sep 13, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Luke S. Ferro |Jack Howland |Devesh Shah |Jefferson G. Pruyne

AbstractMass spectrometry-based metabolomics allows for the quantitation of metabolite levels in diverse biological samples. The traditional method of converting peak areas to absolute concentrations involves the use of matched heavy isotopologues. However, this approach is laborious and limited to a small number of metabolites.

Sep 9, 2023 | kansascity.com | Jack Howland

Larry Jackson Jr. sits at the desk of one of his many offices over the years. In the 1990s, he started an advertising firm in the Lincoln Building that produced a Black Visitor's Guide to Kansas City. Contributed photo Some 30 years ago, few knew Kansas City's Black business community better than Larry Jackson Jr.The lifelong city resident and bootstrap entrepreneur was a "walking Rolodex" of the day's places and faces, his son, Scott Mason, 53, said.

Aug 24, 2023 | thepitchkc.com | Jack Howland

Ahead of her electrifying 45-minute set at The Midland on Friday night, Indigo De Souza told The Pitch this tour opening for dancehall behemoths Sylvan Esso has made for an amusing combination. Her music is so dark—her first two albums, especially, were like embittered, head-banging cries into the void—it could be jarring for someone prepared to dance to whimsical ambient beats and whispered chants. Would the hipsters in black mesh, platform heels and glittering neon sequins be OK?