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@gracecoudal 💪🏼 by @kevnserna

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5 months ago

(4/4) Musician, Alynda Segarra, founder of the Indie-Folk band @hurrayfortheriffraff at Old Town Ale house which happens to be one of the bars John Prine used to land in after a show.

This October, Segarra will join Amos Lee, Margo Price, Steve Earle and others at the Chicago Theatre for ‘Souvenirs - 80 years of John Prine’, backed by Prine’s longtime band, for what would have been his 80th birthday. Many thanks to Alynda for the time and the good conversation.

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@chicagomag Best of Fall

Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Art Director: @lizardcarlisle
Creative Director: David Syrek
Writer: @sjsteimer taken in Old Town Ale House by @kevnserna

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(3/4) Tap dancers and choreographers, Bril Barrett and Tré Dumas at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Bronzeville, where they’ll share a stage as equals for the first time in nearly two decades (!) They founded M.A.D.D. Rhythms in 2001, split in 2007, and are marking the company’s 25th anniversary on October 3 with a double bill of each man’s dream show.

Read the full story:
@chicagomag Best of Fall

Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Art Director: @lizardcarlisle
Creative Director: David Syrek
Writer: Lauren Warnecke taken in Harold Washington Cultural Center by @kevnserna

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(2/4) Artist, Tony Lewis at his McKinley Park studio, where he works with pencil, graphite powder and a self-taught knowledge of Gregg shorthand to create intricate, abstract images about language, labor and power, and what’s left of a message once you push on it hard enough to break.

‘The Long and Short of It’, Lewis’s first institutional solo show in Chicago, opens this December at the Renaissance Society.

Read the full story:
@chicagomag Best of Fall

Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Art Director: @lizardcarlisle
Creative Director: David Syrek
Writer: @z_long taken in McKinley Park by @kevnserna

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(1/4) Pulitzer-winning author Daniel Kraus at the North Side beach where the idea for his recent book, Whalefall, first hit him. The book, which centers around a diver being swallowed alive by a whale, has since been adapted for the screen, starring Josh Brolin and Austin Abrams, premiering this October. Many thanks to Daniel for being game to get in the water on this one!

Read the full story:
@chicagomag Best of Fall

Photo Director: @cosmic_ghost
Art Director: @lizardcarlisle
Creative Director: David Syrek
Writer: Web Behrens
Assist: @gracecoudal
Grooming: @laurenfrenden taken in Chicago, Illinois by @kevnserna

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17 days ago

Chicago’s waterfront for @ftglobetrotter ~ 11 locations from 63rd St beach to North Ave beach. Wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @kevnserna

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a month ago

Coming out of my self-imposed summer break from IG with something different for this one! Here’s my recent cover story for @businessweek - ‘Eli Lilly’s Next Shot.’

Always a pleasure working alongside @aeriel78 and @ryanduffin - thanks for having me on this! Thank you as well to @cosmic_ghost for the assist and rocking 20k+ steps with a full eq cart💪🏼 taken in Indianapolis, IN by @kevnserna

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a month ago

Jackie from a few weeks back. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @kevnserna

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3 months ago

For @pawprinceton - Earlier this month, I got to spend a moment with Tod Williams, one half of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, who designed the new Obama Presidential Center.

Writer: David Montgomery
Art Director: Matt Cole taken in Obama Presidential Center by @kevnserna

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3 months ago

Author, Leigh Stein (@leighstein) in her home earlier this year for @tabletmag

Stein’s new novel, ‘If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant for You’ is a gothic-mystery set deep in internet culture, centering around the disappearance of a tarot-card-reading influencer. Lots of fun chatting with her about books and the creative writing process by @kevnserna

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4 months ago

Honored to finally share a project I worked on last fall for @guardian’s investigative podcast “Off Duty,” with a companion feature in last weekend’s Saturday print edition - an investigation by Melissa Segura into the wrongful convictions of Alex Villa, Edgardo Colon and Tyrone Clay stemming from the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.

On December 29th, 2011, off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis was working a second job as a security guard at an M&M Quick Foods on the west side when two masked men walked in and gunned him down during an armed robbery. Within a week, police had their suspects. Three men from the Spanish Cobras - Tyrone Clay, Edgardo Colon, and Alex Villa - were eventually charged with murder. Tyrone Clay sat in Cook County Jail for nearly 12 years without ever going to trial. Edgardo Colon was convicted and sentenced to 84 years. Alex Villa was convicted and sentenced to life. Tragically, while Villa was behind bars, his 14-year-old son was killed by random gun violence. The prison denied his request to attend the funeral and he watched his son’s burial through a video feed that kept buffering.

By 2024, all charges had been dropped.

Alex Villa’s defense attorneys, Jennifer Blagg and Eric Bisby, spent years uncovering what went wrong - coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, FBI cell phone data showing the defendants weren’t near the scene that prosecutors never turned over, and a PlayStation that could have proven an alibi but that an FBI forensics lab claimed was broken beyond repair. A local repair shop on the Northwest Side fixed it in under an hour for $35.

The person who killed Clifton Lewis has never been caught. Listen to “Off Duty” wherever you get your podcasts.

Thank you so much to @fletchinator for the call as well as your support and to Melissa Segura for your powerful reporting in the city I call home. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @kevnserna

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6 months ago

T-max fall and spring. taken in Chicago, Illinois by @kevnserna

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