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Today is Valentine’s Day, except if you live in Long Island City where it’s better known as Break-Up Day. Which might be a good thing, but usually not for the person being dumped.

THE Pro Bowl is this Sunday, a game which is almost as exciting and hard-hitting as the local news this week. Oh sure, we could add some filler by regurgitating innocuous articles about Queens in general or elaborating on vapid press releases. Much as the NFL does with meaningless ‘Battle of the Network Stars’ type contests the day before with players competing in muscle-bulging tank-tops and too much of a smile. Or we could do rote interviews with our sponsors, much like the NFL does with those players in attendance – none of whom will be participating in the actual Super Bowl – about who will win the big game.

NO 7-train this weekend Long Island City. Yeah, at the heart of it that’s the biggest and most impactful local headline this week. Unless you had a hankering for Lamb Cumin Biang Biang noodles this weekend and thought you just had to walk up the street to get them at Xian Famous Foods. Au contraire, it’s closed due to fire, but no worries, you can just hop on the..

And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

A decade passes in the blink of an eye, and yet in looking back ten years everything seems so different from then. And in LIC you only have to go back 2.5 years to map significant changes. We used the LICtalk 5-year anniversary piece as a reference point et plus ca change… Mais non!

Signage is up and the menu has been revealed for American Brass, a new restaurant being built out on the corner of 49th Avenue and Center Boulevard. Previously occupied by the Riverview Restaurant for close to a decade, the highly visible location with a large sidewalk seating section has been under wraps for almost two years. The new owners are the management team behind Maiella.