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HIBINO LIC: THE REAL DEAL

March 14, 2014 by editor 1 Comment

Hibino LIC: Long Island City has arrived.

Back in the 19XX’s, a new Chinese restaurant opened up in my town in the New York suburbs that served Szechuan food. It was a huge departure from the traditional Cantonese cuisine dominant in the U.S., embodied by the conventional egg rolls, spare ribs, and chicken chow mein. Nowadays, things have come full circle, as all the crazy diversions to Flushing have left us wanting for the simplicity of that era. I’d give my right arm for a great egg roll, and a few fingers more for some pungent old school Chinese mustard.

Well those days might be gone, but with the arrival of Hibino, Long Island City finally gets its first breakout restaurant. ((Tournesol came before LIC in its present incarnation)) [Read more…] about HIBINO LIC: THE REAL DEAL

TWO NEW RESTAURANTS COMING TO LIC

March 12, 2014 by editor Leave a Comment

Who needs booze when you can have Pepsi: the official drink of Long Island City — Who needs booze when you can have Pepsi? The official drink of Long Island City.

The restaurant bounty keeps coming in 2014. Only a month after LICtalk published it’s industry-renowned annual LIC Restaurant Round-Up, we have news of two more previously unannounced restaurant openings. [Read more…] about TWO NEW RESTAURANTS COMING TO LIC

HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!

March 9, 2014 by editor 3 Comments

Break out the cake, LICtalk is two years old. and LIC is the gateway — Break out the cake: LICtalk is two years old. and Long Island City is the gateway to Queens!

This Sunday, March 9, LICtalk turns two years old ((which is like a decade in “LIC years”)). Though we’ve come to view ourselves as literary virtuosos, others might think that we’re still wearing diapers. The one thing that can’t be debated, is the massive amount of change that has occurred in this town over those two years. [Read more…] about HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!

SHOW PALACE UNDER ATTACK

March 4, 2014 by editor 5 Comments

Sometimes you gotta fight for your right to party — All nude, all the time …just like 1010WINS

Who knew that in addition to everything else we have in Long Island City, there is a defender of freedom? Ok, that title may be a bit of a stretch, but this weekend in The New York Times there was an article about strip clubs in New York, [Read more…] about SHOW PALACE UNDER ATTACK

TENANTKING: BORN AND BRED IN LONG ISLAND CITY

March 3, 2014 by editor 5 Comments

"I told them a hundred times: put LIC first and Manhattan last." — “I told them a hundred times: put LIC first and Manhattan last.”

Every six months or so, my little prodigy Spalding, grows out of his Armani, and I have to have him chauffeured to Barneys for a new fitting. That leaves the problem of what to do with his barely used cast-offs? Do I really want to put them on Craigslist and have the masses calling and coming to my door? And since I’ve calculated that I earn $18,247 an hour based on a 24/7 clock, is it even worth my time? Plus I’d have to negotiate it all with his baby-mama in Tribeca, but that’s a whole other mess.

There is probably some relevance in my quandary for the rest of Long Island City, albeit on a less exalted and dramatic scale: What do I do with used clothing, toys, books, etc., that my child …umm, or myself, has grown out of? And how can I do it in a simpler manner than the trials and tribulations of Craigslist? [Read more…] about TENANTKING: BORN AND BRED IN LONG ISLAND CITY