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If you serve it, they will come. The St. Anthony Society of St. Leo's hosted the annual Christmas Dinner for the Homeless December 16th as once again a swarm of cheerful volunteers served a hall full of clients.   Each guest received a goody bag upon exiting, containing tube socks, toothbrush, toothpaste, and two winter accessories such as a...

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6-9 p.m., Kohler Signature Store, 300 Albemarle St., Baltimore (MD)(410) 752-4515, littleitalymadonnari.com, $35.   You may think that Italian food is just pizza and pasta; and, yeah, that is a lot of it. But it's the best pizza and pasta, and other incarnations of bread and tomatoes and olive oil and wine and meat and everything good in thi...

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From 1978 through 1981, the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project recorded and collected oral histories from longtime residents of seven Baltimore neighborhoods: Highlandtown, Hampden, Park Heights, Little Italy, South/OldWest/East Baltimore; and Port of Baltimore workers.   To name just a few interviewees: Schiavo, Vaccarino, Poggi, Mancu...

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A new restaurant, Joe Benny's Focacceria, opened last week in the Little Italy storefront that was formerly home to Max's Empanadas.   The specialty at Joe Benny's will be the "true" Sicilian-style pizzas, which are made with focaccia, topped with ingredients like eggplant, mushrooms, prosciutto and sausage.   Read more   Sourc...

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Lights, cameras, action. Friday night marks the start of the granddaddy of all the Baltimore summer open air film festivals. Ron Matz reports all roads lead to Little Italy. When the sun goes down, the screen lights up."Hairspray," the 2007 version starring John Travolta, will open the Little Italy Film Festival.   Read more   S...

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Stratford University in Little Italy between Central Avenue and Lloyd Street continues its growth and strengthening of its relationship with Little Italy. Through a lease arrangement, the college has renovated the main floor of Saint Leo's School on Stiles Street.   The entire floor has been painted and the classrooms have been upgraded with...

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Forget any comparison to the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Baltimore's meatball forecast is sunny and bright. In late February, 8 Ball Meatball opened a Fells Point restaurant specializing in an assortment of the golf-ball-size rounds. And a year ago, Meatballs, Etc. presented its own menu devoted to the food in Glen Burnie. The r...

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There's something new in Little Italy, and it's the talk of the neighborhood. It's a tribute to a summertime event there.   Ron Matz has more on the artwork, the artist and the man who made the festival possible. Little Italy's newest attraction is a large mural, a tribute to the neighborhood's famous film festival and the work of artist Ma...

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It's all about family, fun and food. And it happens this weekend right here in Baltimore. Ron Matz reports Little Italy is cooking up a storm for the 84th Feast of St Gabriel.   All hail St. Gabriel, and that's what they'll do in Little Italy this weekend with plenty of good food and family fun in a big benefit for St. Leo's Church.  ...

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Sometime in 1914, Luigi DiPasquale, who had left his home of Abruzzi, Italy, came to Baltimore and opened a corner store in Highlandtown. Ever the entrepreneur, he butchered and sold meats and also sold live goats tethered in the backyard. This week I spoke with his grandson, Joe DiPasquale, who continues the unbroken family tradition 100 years la...

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