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The Vince Lombardi Trophy room at the NFL Experience. PHOTO COURTESY NFL
Of course Super Bowl attracts high-profile stars, the emcees of thousanddollar dinners, private parties and places to be seen. At the “Bud Light Hotel” (aka the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, which makes the switch for one week only), Rolling Stone magazine hosts a private concert with rappers Pitbull and Flo Rida, hosted by Nick Cannon, on Friday, Feb. 1. FOX Sports host Jay Glazer hosts Moves Magazine’s sixth annual Super Bowl party at Metropolitan on Wednesday, Jan. 30, and Justin Timberlake, Mark Cuban and Questlove host the DirecTV Super Saturday Night, a star-studded, invite-only event (and Timberlake’s first concert in five years) on Saturday, Feb. 2. Meanhwile, television networks VH1 and CMT host live concerts from the Sugar Mill; fans can register for tickets. Train headlines VH1’s “Best Super Bowl Concert Ever,” hosted by Michael Strahan and Carrie Keagan, on Friday, Feb. 1. Journey and Rascal Flatts headline CMT’s Crossroads at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2. Fans can register for tickets at www.1iota.com. NFL Honors hosts its second annual live primetime award show at the Mahalia Jackson Theater Saturday, Feb. 2. The event salutes the league’s top players and coaches and the best games and plays of the 2012-2013 season. Alec Baldwin hosts, and New Orleans’ Soul Rebels Brass Band will serve as the house band. The two-hour show will air nationally from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. that night.
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cakes, crawfish pie, and shrimp and grits. Vaucresson’s Sausage Company will prepare a “Creole hot dog” for kids, Davis says. Sponsors Chevron, Verizon, Xbox and others will open interactive fan tents, and glowing Super Bowl numerals (XLVII) will float on a 105-foot-long barge on the riverfront. The festival is open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It closes at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, when the Super Bowl begins. Across the street, Jackson Square will host CBS — which dubs the historic square “Super Bowl Park” for the week. The network will broadcast a bulk of its live programming from the heart of Jackson Square, including The Talk and The Late Show With Craig Ferguson. CBS This Morning will broadcast live Thursday through Saturday, and CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley and CBS Evening News Saturday will broadcast live Friday and Saturday. Face the Nation With Bob Schieffer will kick off the network’s game-day programming at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
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