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While Easter isn't widely celebrated in Japan even as a commercial holiday, they do produce and export a wide variety of interesting chocolate and candy that is happily available to us in Toronto. If you're looking for last-minute Easter sweets and can't bear the sight of another Allan-brand bunny, try some treats made by long-standing and well-respected companies like Meiji and Morinaga, the latter of which "offers good health with delight & taste."

FILM/MUSIC/ART: The closing-night gala for this year's Images Festival will take place tonight at the Theatre Centre. The event, part of the festival's Live Images series, will feature performances from Los Angeles–based digital media collective Cloud Eye Control, as well as Torontonian experimental-theatre collective Ammo Factory. Tonight's gala is presented in association with Wavelength Music Arts Projects. The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West), 9 p.m., $15 ($12 student/senior).

So, remember that strange-looking billboard at Dundas Square? You know, the one that commanded you to relieve a glutinous discharge? Well, it just got stranger. On Tuesday, Cadbury attached a teeter-totter-like lever to the billboard, with a large box on one end and a hulking one-and-a-half-metre Creme Egg on the other. According to the company, as snow, rain, and other precipitation accumulates inside the box, the Creme Egg will slowly rise towards an oversized fan that will eventually crack it open, unleashing its mucilaginous filling everywhere!

An early Easter this year means you may be looking under snow banks instead of shrubs for your chocolate eggs. The Beaches is a great place to hold your own egg hunt, and while you’re there be sure to catch the Easter Parade. Rumour has it that the big bunny himself will be making an appearance.

For the forty-sixth year, St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church brought together the community of Little Italy with a procession marking Good Friday. Torontoist was there, capturing some of the faces of the neighbourhood event.