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The Sunks

Dec 18, 2015 12:21PM ● By Robyn Murray

I met Matt Dwyer on the north end of…well, it’s not really a park. It’s technically part of Happy Hollow Boulevard in Dundee, but it’s too w...

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Speaking Out and Standing Up

May 21, 2015 01:00PM ● By Robyn Murray

This article appears in the May/June 2015 edition of 60-Plus.Marvin Ervin knows his history. When I first met him at a Hot Shops exhibit in ...

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Omaha Magazine Wins 2015 Great Plains Journalism Award

Apr 14, 2015 02:20PM ● By Daisy Hutzell-Rodman

Photo above: Director of Photography Bill Sitzmann, Creative Director John Gawley, Managing Editor Robert Nelson, and Senior Graphic Designe...

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Joy Johnson

Jan 20, 2015 08:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

It wasn’t a funeral. Or a viewing. Or even a celebration of life. When Joy Johnson’s husband Marvin passed away earlier this year, she held...

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Tat’z Nail’z

Dec 26, 2014 08:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

Shannon Leather props a perfectly manicured fingernail inside a slim, silver-polished machine. Her nail gleams white under the purple tint o...

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Skateboard Underground

Dec 06, 2014 08:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

Silo barely looks open. The only sign indicating its presence at 517 S. 13th Street is a small sticker that reads “SILO” in black, block le...

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Marian Fey

Dec 03, 2014 08:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

Marian Fey moved around a lot as a kid. “I always say my mom’s a gypsy,” she says with a laugh. But wherever she landed, one thing remained ...

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Cricket

Sep 08, 2014 09:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

It’s a warm morning as the sound of cracking bats soars across a dirt pitch. A man dressed in a uniform of blue, straight-leg pants, and col...

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Island at the End of the Rainbow

Aug 24, 2014 09:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

Decked out in a Hawaiian print shirt with a gleaming bald head and dyed red beard, Nils Anders Erickson squeezes through a narrow corridor w...

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Hidden History

Jun 25, 2014 09:00AM ● By Robyn Murray

Winter was just getting underway in Omaha, and the grand lobby of The Rose Theater was a bustle of preparations. It was 1995, and the staff ...

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The Benson Theatre

May 04, 2014 03:54PM ● By Robyn Murray

It's frigid and windy as Amy Ryan works the lock of the Benson Theatre’s glass doors. The theater, which has been closed for decades, sits i...

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