LOOK WHAT YOU COULD WIN IN THIS: PASSAPORTO to LITTLE ITALY!   - 1840s CARROLLTON INN Includes 1-night stay for 2 in a luxury room, full gourmet breakfast served in the parlor or garden courtyard (up to a $350 value! The Inn is located one block north of Little Italy)- GERMANO'S TRATTORIA & CABARET Dinner for 2 plus 2 tickets t...

An exciting lineup of spring classes will begin March 10 & 12 at Pandola Learning Center on Stiles Street. Something for everyone ... learn to cook! Speak Italian! Take painting! Make jewelry! Make your own limoncello! And MUCH more.   Since 1996, the Rev. Oreste Pandola Learning Center (named in honor of its founder, a previous pastor)...

Deacon Kevin Bagley has accepted a position with a publishing company in Washington State and left Maryland on July 1.   He has served at Saint Leo's since March 2009 and has been active with Sacramental Preparation, Young Adult Ministry, working with individuals in Spiritual Direction, and other activities around the parish.  

One night, the internationally acclaimed classical guitarist Flavio Sala headlined a performance by a symphony orchestra at Prokofiev Concert Hall of the Philharmonic Society of Russia.   Three weeks later, he was playing at a barn in Carroll County as the opening act for a Baltimore bluegrass band. What happened in between still has fr...

The first Light City Baltimore festival in 2016 will feature light art, concerts and performances of dance, theater and puppetry March 28 through April 3 along a 1.2-mile art walk in the Inner Harbor. [Sun story]. "Neighborhood Lights" is a program that will award $10,000 to five communities, including Little Italy, to create public art projec...

Join the Hon. Consul General of Italy Francesco L. Legaluppi to celebrate the 69th Italian Republic Day @ the Little Italy Lodge. Little Italy Lodge - 905E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21202. It will be a family day of celebration for the entire community with food, music, activities for kids and much fun! MAY, 31 2015 11:00 AM- 3:00 PMRon. Consulate G...

By John E. McIntyre Spaghetti and lasagna are all very well, but pizza is plainly the major Italian donation to the American diet. Susan Fillion celebrates both the pizza and its Italian origins in the slender but delightful Pizza in Pienza (David Godine, $17.95). The Pienza of the title is a little town in Tuscany which Ms. Fillion, a Baltimore...

"I'm Ray Alcaraz in Little Italy, Baltimore. If you were born and raised here, you're here, this is it, this is you. Little Italy becomes a part of you. And generations are raised here, where if you were within the nine square blocks of Little Italy, you were home, you were safe.   If we were three or four blocks away from home as kids, and...

By Kevin Litten Restaurateurs in Baltimore and beyond should take note: Little Italy these days is offering a ripe opportunity.The news on Monday that Caesar's Den is closing brings the total number of vacant Little Italy restaurants to five raises the important question of what will emerge to take their space. But in my mind, the question is less...

I had one of those soul-satisfying, I-love-Baltimore nights a few Saturdays back at Cafe Gia Ristorante, a colorful, cheerful and satisfying Italian restaurant on the corner of High Street and Eastern Avenue. We showed up for early dinner reservations and were whisked right upstairs to the narrow second-floor balcony, which was pretty darn magical...