ATHLETICS—Today, three ostensibly unaffiliated events cohere to make an airtight argument for the supremacy of American sport. In Puppy Bowl XI, we’ve got Team Ruff vs. Team Fluff. Kitten Bowl II brings three squads to the field: the Northpole Panthers and the Hallmark Hearties and Mountain Lions. And Super Bowl XLIX? Just the Seahawks against the Patriots. The state of the union is strong, Portland. DIRK VANDERHART
Puppy Bowl at noon (repeats all day) on Animal Planet; Kitten Bowl II at noon on Hallmark Channel; Super Bowl at 3 pm on NBC
MUSIC—Eternal Tapestry’s latest, Wild Strawberries, won’t be out for a few more weeks, but it’s a shroomy, steamy, 79-minute blastoff to the unseen otherworld. They’re joined tonight by the almost unbearably lovely frozen-ocean folk of Weyes Blood, so prepare for some extreme thermotherapy tonight, in music form. NED LANNAMANN
w/Moon by You; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $5