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What do you have in your basement, attic or storage room that tells the history of Little Italy? Your material could be used in the upcoming book: "A History of Little Italy, Baltimore: The Neighborhood." Old neighborhood NEWSLETTERS written by the late Tony DeSales, Little Italy artist? Old BULLETINS from St. Leo's parish? Vintage PHOTO...

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In its annual donation of candy bags and warm weather accessories to St. Leo's two homeless dinners, Promotion Center for Little Italy bumped it up a notch this year to include a hat, pair of gloves and a scarf to EACH guest at the December 15th homeless dinner held at St. Leo's Church.   Team members of FAIRFIELD INN in Little Italy, p...

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By Sarah Meehan The fun continues at Canton Crossing, where another restaurant will join the lineup of shops and eateries. Venti-Tre, a fast-casual Italian restaurant, will open early next year at the Boston Street shopping center. Venti-Tre is a spinoff of Fazoli's, a Lexington, Ky.-based Italian chain. The Canton location is Venti-Tre's fi...

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An icon of Our Lady Our Lady paintingof the Immaculate Conception will be on display at St. Leo's Church in Little Italy in Baltimore during the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Marian Prayer Program - after 11:30am Mass. The icon is a copy of the painting of Our Lady that graces the nave of the Basilica Cathedral Notre Dame de Quebec.  ...

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Hey, Baltimore, in the mood for Italian tonight? How about a nice veal piccata or chicken Parmigiana with a side of linguine? Forget about it. Instead, we're having pork cheeks with celeriac puree and pea shoots, a local melon salad with peaches, red onions and brioche croutons, and spinach tagliatelle tossed with blue crab meat and ... butte...

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Congratulations to the newly elected Council of the Little Italy Lodge, a Sons of Italy organization, and to those elected to positions supporting the Lodge for the 2013-2015 term - Trustees, State Delegates and Arbitration Committee. The Lodge especially thanks the Nominations Board Chair, Barbara Goodman, and her committee.   The Nominatio...

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It's amazing the linguistic nuances one discovers when speaking with an Italian woman now living on the Canary Islands. The salty sounding word cugina, for instance, merely means cousin. Vampiro is easily recognizable as the nocturnal nemesis vampire. And guapa? That particular word is synonymous with belleza, beautiful, lovely.   But add a...

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Little Italy will soon have a new spot for sipping wine and nibbling on appetizers. Pane e Vino is set to open in a South High Street property directly next door to Cafe Gia, an Italian restaurant owned by Gia Blattermann along with her husband, the restaurant's executive chef, Gianfranco Fracassetti.   The location is not a coincidence. Bla...

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  WTI Magazine #64    2015 July, 10Author : Maria Giovanna Galasso      Translation by:   With over 1,600 people in attendance and more than $20,000 raised for Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County, Maryland, the 3rd Annual Festa Italiana of Frederick was a great success. Held on May 30, 2015 on the beautiful grounds of historic Rose Hill Man...

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In honor of their grandmothers who were devotees of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mary Ann and Francis Blattermann, residents of Little Italy, donated a beautiful Our Lady of Mount Carmel statue to St. Leo's Church.   The statue will rest in a permanent niche in the back of the church near the elevator. When she was a child, Mary Ann Blattermann said...

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