Old Town Jazz and Wine Festival

Jazz and wine go together like Hall and Oates. Or Carnegie Hall and Honey Bunches of Oates. You get the picture. It only makes sense to have a festival featuring this dynamic duo. Now in its seventh year, Saturday's Old Town Jazz & Wine Festival will once again offer tasty jazz and cool wines, all in an effort to support the Tacoma Old Town Park Performance Stage Project - which aims to build a permanent outdoor stage in Old Town Park. This year the festival presents two popular jazz-ish bands: singing jump blues ensemble 7 on 7 and the poppy jazz instrumental quartet Hook Me Up. The wineries set to pop your cork are Pont 21, Walter Dacon, Marchetti Wines, Mercer Estates, Vashon Winery, Icicle Ridge Winery, Windham Winery and Trillium Creek Winery.

Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door.  Admission includes a souvenir wine glass and four wine tastes, as well as access to the silent auction. Tickets may be purchased at The Spar, Old Town Tully's, Ted Brown Music, Bayview Optical, Stonegate Restaurant and Metropolitan Market. - Jake de Paul

[Slavonian Hall, Saturday, March 6, 4-10 p.m., 5 p.m., 2306 N. 30th St., Tacoma, oldtownbusinessdistrict.com]

Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza

Not a new location, but definitely worth trying, Bruceski's Buffalo in DuPont serves up freshly made Buffalo wings. Big deal, you're thinking, right? Wrong. The wings at Bruceski's are not the once frozen variety. Thinly breaded to order and flash fried, wings don't drown in sauce either; you can actually taste this meaty affair. If super saucy is how you like your wings, be sure to order extra. Sauces are made in-house: jalapeno, habanero, sweet and tangy barbeque and spicy barbeque. Want it real hot? Bruceski's can accommodate.

I was generally skeptical, since Bruceski's has the look of a franchise operation, but I was pleased to discover the food tastes of family recipes. The menu includes pizza, salads, cheesy bread, calzones, pasta dishes and hot wings - both bone-in and boneless. Foot long and massive, calzones come stuffed with green peppers, sausage, ricotta cheese, broccoli, beef, pineapple - you name it.

Lunch specials run till 2 p.m. and allow combinations of pizza by the slice, a five wing order and 24-ounce fountain drink for under $10. Military receive ten percent discount on Mondays and delivery service is available in DuPont and to Fort Lewis. Huge cookies are homemade - cranberry harvest, white chocolate macadamia nut, chocolate chip, peanut butter, oh my. - Jennifer Johnson

[Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza, 1584 McNeil St., Ste. 100, DuPont, 253.912.4305]