I've not one single time heard it referred to as 'Little Venice'. It's called Staly-Vegas. Probably on the grounds that it's a wretched hive of scum and villainy. But yeah, there's totally a shitty canal that runs through the middle of it too.
Remember that they also say that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.