The Easter Bunny is making a return to Chandler for the city’s annual Family Easter Celebration, 9 a.m. Saturday, March 30, at the Snedigar Sportsplex, 4500 S. Basha Road.

Easter offers an ideal opportunity to enjoy family, faith and our beautiful spring weather, especially with the plethora of activities going on around town this weekend. Events ranging from a dino egg hunt to an Easter brunch “down on the farm” provide locations and price points to suit almost everyone.

Hardboiled and dyed, plastic and filled with coins, or chocolate and oozing white and yellow fondant, eggs are a hot commodity this time of year.

Mesa's Arizona Museum of Natural History, 53 N. Macdonald, will host the popular Dino Egg Hunt 6 to 8 p.m. March 29. During the festivities, the museum will have children’s craft activities and a dinosaur touch cart available, with factual information about dinosaur eggs. Dino eggs will be replenished until 7:45 p.m.

Got a freezer?

Whether you want to explore a classy art festival or cheer at the ostrich, or even Chihuahua races, the East Valley has it! Let’s take advantage of our Arizona paradise and dance outdoors to live music, indulge during a cook-off, put on our boots for the rodeo and Old West Days, or run foot races.

It's distracting at first: the fact that you're looking at Joseph Gordon-Levitt but he doesn't look exactly like the Joseph Gordon-Levitt you've come to know and love. Aren't his eyes brown? Isn't his nose longer and thinner? Even the blasé smirk on his face seems like an unfamiliar expression given his usual likable, boyish cool.

Each Easter our HOA puts on an Easter egg hunt in the park located in our community's common area for all the children. The kids love it. This year we put out over 1,200 eggs in addition to stuffed monkeys, balls and color wheels that spin in the wind. It is quite a wonderful event. Our community is a reflection ofChandler's great diversity. Red, yellow, brown, black and white. They are all precious in our sight. We love all the little children of the world.

Here’s something to kick off an Easter weekend full of church services, egg hunts, Sunday dinner and baskets full of chocolate bunnies: Mesa’s annual Easter pageant, a major production put on each year on the lawn at downtown’s Mormon temple.

Take a music fest, add massive amounts of hot and saucy fried chicken, and you get Wingstock.

Hunt dino-themed eggs at the Arizona Museum of Natural History. Bring your basket or decorate one at the children’s craft table. Children limited to 5 eggs.

Hope Covenant Church of south Chandler is taking its Easter Sunday service outside.

Sen. Frank Antenori has a message for what he calls the "food police'': Don't get between him and his red meat.

Sen. Frank Antenori has a message for what he calls the "food police'': Don't get between him and his red meat.

Sen. Frank Antenori has a message for what he calls the "food police'': Don't get between him and his red meat.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

You know what they say about Arizona’s weather: It’s paradise, except for the three months when we languish mercilessly in the triple digits. Options for getting out and about do dwindle in the summertime, but we more than make up for it the rest of the year — when we pick peaches, race ostriches, dance at outdoor concerts, browse arts festivals, run foot races and navigate corn mazes.

From A.J. to Q.C., it's time to scare up some family fun.

From A.J. to Q.C., it's time to scare up some family fun.

From A.J. to Q.C., it's time to scare up some family fun.

Northern Arizona is home to both an emerging art scene and a number of serious wineries that are beginning to make waves on the national stage. The two combine in a novel public art exhibition: Painted Barrels on the Verde Valley Wine Trail.