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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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As far as dining cycles go, Clevelanders have weathered the pandemic years and the slew of taco, pizza and fast-casual options that went with it. On the other side of that Styrofoam divide, we’ve in the past two years been blessed with a trend of openings that lean toward fine and finer dining. And if it feels like steak is at the center of that tr...

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Basil Russo, a local and national Italian American standard-bearer, proudly announced that City Council President Blaine A. Griffin will serve as Grand Marshal in the annual Cleveland Columbus Day Parade. The parade will step off at noon on Monday, October 14, on Mayfield Road in Little Italy. “Councilman Griffin led the city’s Community Relations...

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The Taste in Little Italy Meatball Crawl and Wine Tasting has announced its winners for the 2024 event. Despite the rain on Sunday, more than 1,200 people headed to Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood to try out more than a dozen meatballs from local vendors that included restaurants, bars, shops and beyond. Patrons and guest judges, which includ...

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The dreams of a new life for Italian immigrants in ‘L’Merica’ were mixed in the land discovered by Cristoforo Colombo. In their tightly knit neighborhoods, they had in common: poverty, culinary flavors, culture, and unwavering faith in God. Some of these pockets of Italian Americans came to be recognized as Little Italys. Early settlers landed near...

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The 84-year-old Renaissance fountain in the Italian Cultural Garden is being restored. To raise the $34,000 needed for the work, garden supporters are hosting the second Pranzo Italiano, a benefit dinner at Valerio’s Restaurant in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood.  The garden, which is between Martin Luther King, Jr., and East Boulevards, is o...

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