Arts & Entertainment Guy Fieri Hosting 'World's Largest Tailgate' on Super Bowl Sunday at Cow Palace; Noah Kahan Doing Warfield Show Adding to the week of events surrounding Super Bowl LX will be a huge food-and-drink fest on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb 8) at the Cow Palace, with Bay Area native son Guy Fieri hosting. And Noah Kahan is doing an exclusive thing at the Warfield that will be hard to score a ticket for.
Arts & Entertainment Puppy Bowl Reveals 2026 Lineup, SF Stray Will Be Featured Competitor This year’s Super Bowl alternative, the annual Puppy Bowl, just introduced its tiny yapping dog contestants with names like Chappell Bone and RuPaw, but an SF entrant named Foggy may steal the show at this particular puppy play-off.
SF News Sunday Links: OpenAI and Common Sense Media Create New Bill Protecting Kids Online San Ramon was hit with two more small earthquakes; Recology has picked up more than 500 tons of Christmas trees so far this January; and Common Sense Media and OpenAI are working together to create technology safeguards for children, which was part of OpenAI's original purpose when it first formed.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Is the Latest Big SF Super Bowl Performance Added to That Weekend's Packed Schedule We have yet another big SF Super Bowl live performance added to the Super Bowl weekend of February 6-8, and it’s a Dave Chappelle show at the Chase Center February 7, so who knows, maybe Elon Musk will show up and get booed again.
Arts & Entertainment Shaquille O'Neal to Host Shaq's Fun House at Cow Palace, Featuring T-Pain, on Super Bowl Weekend Basketball Hall of Famer turned DJ Shaquille O'Neal is throwing a big ticketed party event in the Bay Area over Super Bowl Weekend, and T-Pain and Tiësto are both scheduled to perform.
SF News Saturday Links: ‘No ICE at 2026 Super Bowl’ Banner to Fly Over Levi’s Stadium Sunday A Gilroy teen found a razor blade in her Halloween candy; a federal judge in Oregon has permanently blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland; and the group MoveOn is flying an anti-ICE banner over Levi’s Stadium for two hours prior to Sunday’s 49ers game.
Arts & Entertainment Sting to Perform Super Bowl Weekend Concert at SF's Palace of Fine Arts Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
Arts & Entertainment Chris Stapleton to Do SF Show at Bill Graham on Super Bowl Weekend There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
SF Politics Trump Admin Trying to Stoke Fear That ICE Will Be at Santa Clara Super Bowl, Because of Bad Bunny Trump’s DHS is on a smear campaign claiming that this year’s Santa Clara Super Bowl will be overrun with "illegal aliens" because of Bad Bunny’s halftime show, even though Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen.
Arts & Entertainment MAGA Hissy Fit Over Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Should Further Alienate Young and Latino Voters The NFL made the bold decision to book Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny for this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show when the game is played in Santa Clara, and suffice it to say conservative pundits are apoplectic.
SF News Driver Fleeing Police Crashes Into Mission Parklet During Super Bowl, Injures Six Six people were injured — including two critically — after a car that was fleeing police crashed into a parklet outside The Napper Tandy in the Mission on Super Bowl Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium Getting a $200 Million Facelift as Super Bowl and World Cup are Coming In 2026 With the 2026 Super Bowl and several World Cup games coming to Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers say they’re sprucing the place up with plenty of enhanced 4K, 5G, and whatever amenities there are in the pricey luxury suites.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fire Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks, Making Him Scapegoat for Super Bowl Loss The 49ers’ defensive collapse late in the Super Bowl was the last straw that has drawn the firing of defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, who was shown the door despite the Niners being the third-best defense in the league over the season.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Can Only Lick Their Wounds, Hope Their Championship Window Isn’t Closing Your San Francisco 49ers have to somehow process and hopefully rebound from blowing yet another 10-point Super Bowl lead to the Kansas City Chiefs, but if it's any consolation, oddsmakers have installed the 49ers as favorites to win next year’s championship.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 49ers Fans Express Their Sadness, Hope After Loss Jubilation in SF and elsewhere died quickly Sunday night and the Mission went quiet after the 49ers' last-second loss; Sunday's earlier delays on BART were due to a dead body found on the tracks in Daly City; and high-speed chase follows a LEGO theft in Vallejo.
SF News SF Will Preemptively Close Roads and Reroute Some Muni Lines For Super Bowl Celebrations Caltrans will close some highway off-ramps in SF Sunday night, as well as reroute some buses ahead of expected Super Bowl celebrations in the Mission District.
Bay Area Sports London Breed and Kansas City Mayor Make Most Predictable Super Bowl Bet Possible The mayors of SF and Kansas City made their obligatory Super Bowl friendly wager Friday morning on MSNBC, both offering up the most extremely obvious food dishes associated with their cities.
Business & Tech The Kid Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet is Now Tracking Taylor Swift’s Jet, and Taylor is Seeing Red The young man who posted Elon Musk’s private jet coordinates has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift for tracking her private jet coordinates too (and posting her CO2 emissions), so Swift’s attorneys have handed him a pre-Super Bowl cease-and-desist letter.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Taking Great Pains to Ensure Their Players Don’t Party Too Much In Las Vegas This Week Sunday’s 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl will be the first one ever played in Sin City, and the 49ers team brass is going to great lengths to make sure the players keep their noses clean amidst the Las Vegas nightlife and gambling scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Plans Super Bowl Party Where Niners Faithful Won't Be Allowed — Only Chiefs Fans A SoMa sports bar is planning a Super Bowl party that won't be like any other in town, at least any other occurring in a public place or sports bar. The entire event, the owners say, is "reserved exclusively for Chiefs fans only."
Arts & Entertainment A Sacramento Chihuahua Named ‘Bark Purdy’ Will Compete In the Puppy Bowl A Chihuahua mix by the name of ‘Bark Purdy’ hails from Sacramento, and he’s hardly Mr. Irrelevant as he heads to Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl XX. But sorry suitors, he’s already been adopted.
Bay Area Sports The San Francisco 49ers Are Headed to Their Eighth Super Bowl, and Taylor Swift Will Be There The matchup that the local media has been hoping for the past couple of weeks, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, has come to pass. And San Francisco celebrated Sunday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Santa Clara County Sent Inspectors to Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday to Check COVID Compliance Lots of bars around the Bay Area had outdoor setups with tables for watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, some likely more safe than others. And in Santa Clara County, they had inspectors making surprise visits to enforce all the rules.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Super Bowl Watch Party Planned at East Bay Sports Bar Redwood City law enforcement is objecting to a sexual predator being placed there, a clinic in San Pablo has been giving out "extra" vaccine doses to people who hang out outside, and a large East Bay sports bar is doing a Super Bowl party in a tent.
Bay Area Sports Daisy Does the Niners: Super Bowl LIV and the Agony of Defeat When I agreed to come of “retirement” to write about the Niners being in the Super Bowl, I obviously wasn’t envisioning this: a devastating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs made even more upsetting due to the fact that it really seemed like the 49ers were going to win the game.
