Missing/Murdered: The Search Continues for Brooklyn’s Kristine Kupka

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On the morning of Oct. 24, 1998, Kristine Kupka telephoned her sister Kathy to let her know that she was meeting her boyfriend, Rudy Persaud. She was going to help him clean out a Brooklyn apartment he had recently rented. "Boyfriend" was a relative term; Kupka and Persaud were having some problems. That morning Kupka
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STAND-UP COMEDY CAROLINE’S COMEDY CLUB1626 B’way (49th St.), 212-757-4100. Cover charge …

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1626 B’way (49th St.), 212-757-4100. Cover charge & 2 drink min. WEDS: Hedda Lettuce, 9:30; Chicks w/Shticks, 7, $17. THURS: Wendy Liebman, 9:30, $21.50. COMEDY CELLAR117 MacDougal St. (betw. W. 3rd & Bleecker Sts.), 212-254-3480. Sun.-Thurs. shows at 9 & 11, $10 & 2 drink min. Fri. & Sat. shows at 7, 9, 10:45 & 12:30,
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Ukrainian East Village: A Shortened Oral History of an Immigrant Neighborhood

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title>Ukrainian East Village Ukrainian East Village A Shortened Oral History of an Immigrant Neighborhood Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj, 68, proprietor of the East Village’s Kurowycky Meat Market: My parents left Ukraine for the same reasons most Ukrainians left in the 40s. My family left in March of 1944. I was 11 at the time. I was in
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FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 5/30 CITY VISIONS 3City College of NY …

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CITY VISIONS 3City College of NY students hawk their wares. Student screenings are notoriously hideous, though watch for Kerri Koch…she may just be something special; Clearview Cinema, 59th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), 212-650-7235; 6-10, call for price [through 5/31]. NICK PARK’S WORLD: THE ECCENTRIC ADVENTURES OF WALLACE & GROMMETNinety-minutes of Wallace & Grommit claymation,
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Ruby’s Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool

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There’s an abrasive edge to Lesley Rankine’s second solo album that lifts it above most of her contemporaries’. Some of this probably comes from her previous sojourn as the fiery Scots singer with London mind-expanding noise terrorists Silverfish. Silverfish were a band notable both for their demonic, exasperating, energetic live shows, where the bass and
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Songs of Summer Songs of Summer Tuesday afternoon, …

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Tuesday afternoon, a couple of weeks ago. Manhattan is glinting under a bright blue sky, it’s 70 degrees, and thousands of young adults in purple robes are pouring out of Madison Square Garden, with thousands more parents and grandparents and siblings, jamming the sidewalks, flowing like a purple river into 7th Ave., snarling the taxi
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