■ Salute! The North Carolina Wine Celebration will be from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday in downtown Winston-Salem on Fourth Street.
More than 30 North Carolina wineries will be pouring their wines. Salute! also will also have local food vendors and live music.
Like last year, special wine dinners will be held at local restaurants the night before. An after-party is planned on Fourth Street that night.
Tickets will be $20 in advance or $25 on the day of the festival. Tickets are sold at Lowes Foods and online at www.salutencwine.com.
For more information, call 354-1500.
Coming soon: Yadkin Valley Wine Festival in Elkin, May 16; and the North Carolina Wine Festival in Clemmons, May 30.
Brixx restaurant open at Shoppes on Little Creek
■ Brixx Wood-Fired Pizza has opened at the Shoppes on Little Creek off Hanes Mall Boulevard.
Brixx is a small franchise of 15 restaurants that started in Charlotte in 1998. Winn Fuller is the owner of the new franchise, the first Brixx in Winston-Salem.
The restaurant specializes in pizzas cooked in a wood-fired oven. It also serves salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes. Sandwiches, featuring freshly backed focaccia, include roast beef and gorgonzola, house-made mozzarella and veggies, and roasted-chicken club. Sandwiches cost $7 to $8.
Pastas, which run from about $9 to $15, include andouille sausage, chicken Alfredo and shrimp carbonara.
Pizzas include rustica, with prosciutto, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, kalamata olives and roasted garlic; and Mexican, with black-bean spread, mozzarella and cheddar cheeses, wood-roasted chicken, roma tomatoes and sliced fresh jalapenos, topped with sour cream. A 10-inch pizza runs from $9 to $11.
Brixx also has 14 wines by the glass and 24 beers on tap.
Hours are from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, call 837-0664 or visit www.BrixxPizza.com.
Letter carriers will pick up food donations Saturday
■ Letter carriers will be picking up food donations as well as letters Saturday as part of the annual Stamp Out Hunger! food drive.
People are asked to place containers of non-perishable foods next to their mailbox for pickup.
Foods should be in non-breakable containers, such as boxes or cans.
Letter carriers across the country will pick up the food and deliver it to the nation's food banks.
Last year, more than 73.1 million pounds of food was collected.
For more information, visit www.helpstampouthunger.com.
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