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2025 marks the 18th year of CWRU and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Program in Italian collaborating with Italian Film Festival USA (IFFUSA), the CWRU Film Society, and the campus student organization for Italian, La Dolce Vita, to host Italian Film Festival USA - Cleveland in Strosacker Auditorium.  This year we also thank the...

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The American tour of guitarist Paolo Angeli covers a dozen states. It started on March 6 in Cleveland, continuing to New York (at the legendary “The Public Theater”), then Baltimore and Philadelphia. On March 13 and 14, Angeli will perform four sets at SFJazz, the most prestigious jazz club in San Francisco thanks to the support of the Italian Cult...

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It has been a Little Italy landmark since 1918 and hasn’t changed much since its grand opening. “We’ve changed very little,” said co-owner Scott Phillips. “We kept everything the way we found it. The sauce is the original sauce from Mrs. Guarino!”  The sauce simmers on an antique stove that was repaired using discontinued parts purchased online. Fr...

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Patron Saint all-day cafe and aperitivo bar is transforming into the chalet in the Italian Alps in hopes of warming up folks stuck in the frigid Ohio City neighborhood this season. The Chalet at Patron Saint, 2915 Detroit Avenue, will run from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 27 through Jan. 31. No tickets are required for the evening pop-up that was inspi...

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As a third-generation Italian American growing up in the Little Italy neighborhood of South Philadelphia, I fondly remember learning about my immigrant grandparents. They immersed themselves in Italian opera and took great pride in the history and masterpieces of renowned Italian artisans and sculptors. Our home, like many in the neighborhood, was...

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In a testament to the strength of Rocky Colavito’s legacy, his passing made front page news on The New York Times. Colavito, a Bronx native and Yankee alum but a Cleveland Indian through and through, was 91 years young when he passed away in his home in Bernville, Pa., on Tuesday. The slugger made the cover of TIME magazine in 1959, he hit 374 home...

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A year-end tradition, Little Italy Holiday Artwalk – Dec. 6 to 8 - has a few additions this year including organized tours of the Little Italy neighborhood and of the 1908 Baroque Revival Holy Rosary Church. The artwalk will take place 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, noon to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 7 and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. The goal is to bri...

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There’s no place like home, especially in the heart of Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood. And what better place for the Northern Ohio Italian American Foundation (NOIA) to establish its new, permanent headquarters, now open at 12018 Mayfield Road?  This past December, the NOIA executive staff moved in while work on the interior design progresse...

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The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to return to the Italian government a work that dates to the 13th century. A manuscript leaf, once reportedly part of a choral book near the city of Siena, has been in the museum’s collection since 1952, obtained in good faith from a collection in New York. It’s described on the CMA website as “Christ in Majes...

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Is there anything more quintessentially Italian than the meatball? Definitely. But for Little Italy’s annual Meatball Crawl, this tasty sphere is the star of the area’s esteemed cuisine. The annual Taste in Little Italy Meatball Crawl & Wine Tasting, hosted by Cleveland Montessori School, is a fundraising effort to provide scholarships and other op...

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