Celebrations

Find great deals on Easter dinner and chocolate bunnies at Ralphs.

It was Easter week in Sevilla, Spain, and the scene was holier than ever. Paraders in purple-and-white cone hats shuffled past, carrying crusader swords and four-foot candles. Like American kids scrambling for candies at a parade, Spanish kids collected dripping wax from religious coneheads, attempting to amass the biggest ball on a stick for their Easter souvenir.

Long Grove Confectionery’s Easter Carnival and Chocolate Factory Open House features a tour of the chocolate factory, carnival rides and children’s activities including a coloring contest and face painting.

This annual (free!) Easter egg hunt will feature an appearance by the Easter Bunny, as well as a horse-drawn hayride wagon, face painting with Chusie the Clown, holiday music, and arts and crafts. Call 718-430-4675 or visit nycgovparks.org for more details…

Just before Easter, a jury will decide whether a Boulder County woman was wrongly evicted from her apartment last spring for refusing to take down decorations including a pyramid of bunny-shaped Peeps.