Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

Mya Pancost dashes around looking for Easter eggs during last Friday's Easter Festival at Atria Bell Court Gardens, 6653 E. Carondelet Drive. More than 150 guests attended.

Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

Molly Civitella, 4, and other children cradle rabbits in an enclosed area at last Friday's event.

Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

Dayton Wilcox, 1, checks out a miniature donkey during the Easter Festival.

Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

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Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

In an outdoor area, children await their chance to get their faces painted, an activity that proved popular.

Tucson assisted-living center reaches out with Easter Festival

Fitz Blog: Easter in the news

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Frame your Easter meal with an easy appetizer and dessert

With store-bought phyllo cups, these creamy lemon-berry tartlets served on a platter make for a colorful, tasty dessert after the main Easter meal.

Frame your Easter meal with an easy appetizer and dessert

Mini-quiche appetizers, made with phyllo cups, are simple to prepare and can be filled with meats,cooked vegetables or cheeses.

Frame your Easter meal with an easy appetizer and dessert

Easter dinner isn't generally the sort of meal we try to rush. The whole point is to savor the experience, not sprint through it the way we do most weeknights.

Here's a classic Easter lamb infused with mint pesto

This Easter lamb dish is stuffed with a mint pesto so that its flavor is infused with the mint. You can serve even more mint as an accompaniment, if you like.

Here's a classic Easter lamb infused with mint pesto

The classic Easter or spring lamb often is served with mint jelly. And that's fine, assuming you want to play it safe.

Cheap ideas for Easter festivities

The Easter Bunny, aka mom and dad, don't have to spend a lot of money to have a fun holiday.  Here are a few tips to make Easter a little bit cheaper. 

Free family event to benefit Catalina Community Food Bank

Many of us have kids who started spring break as of 3:25 p.m. yesterday.

Easter at Tucson Botanical Gardens

The Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way, is hosting Spring-A-Majig, an Easter celebration, in the Children's Discovery Garden.

Why bunnies, eggs, hats and parades are Easter symbols

Bunnies, baskets and bonnets are harbingers of the secular celebration of Easter.

Egg hunts, bunny sightings will keep weekend hopping

Kids will have plenty of opportunities to gather eggs, meet the Easter Bunny and participate in spring and Easter activities.

Egg hunts, bunny sightings will keep weekend hopping

This weekend there are plenty of Easter and spring-themed events to keep you hopping - from hunts for colored eggs to hayrides and jumping castles.

'Helicopter parents' blamed for Colo. egg hunt cancellation

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Organizers of an annual Easter egg hunt attended by hundreds of children have canceled this year’s event, citing the behavior of aggressive parents who swarmed into the tiny park last year, determined that their kids get an egg.

A bookmark for UA Press

The University of Arizona Press puts out close to 60 titles a year and has published nearly 1,000 books since it was founded in 1959. It's racked up eight American Book Award winners and 22 International Latino Book Award winners. In the past five years, it's shipped more than 1.3 million bo…