BOWL-BOUND: As a boy, Harold Burt used...

BOWL-BOUND: As a boy, Harold Burt used to sweep the steps of San Diego’s Balboa Stadium to earn a free Chargers football ticket. So you can bet that Burt, 46, owner of Natale’s Coffee in Dana Point, where the Chargers’ record is posted every day, isn’t going to miss attending today’s Super Bowl in Miami. Says a revved-up Burt: “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.”

LES FOOTBALL? It’s going to be tough for art to compete with football today. But the Laguna Playhouse producers think they’ve found a way around it: They’re offering tickets for tonight’s performance of “Breakfast with Les and Bess” in Laguna Beach at a special Super Bowl half price. . . . Suggests executive director Richard Stein: “Although former sportscaster Les would probably prefer post-game partying with his cronies, dutiful husband that he is, Les would allow his charming wife, Bess, to drag him kicking and screaming to the theater.”

VARIETY ACTOR: It’s a little hard to typecast L. Scott Caldwell. She won a Tony on Broadway, she played a marshal in “The Fugitive,” and she is about to appear in “Soweto Green,” the first movie to come out of post-apartheid South Africa. . . . Monday night, she appears in a reading of “The Things You Don’t Know,” at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. . . . It opens SCR’s 10th season of readings of works from young writers.

PARKWATCH: For Ava Park of Costa Mesa, animal welfare is a modern-day crusade. On Feb. 26, the 39-year-old founder of Orange County People for Animals (E1) is organizing the Irvine group’s fourth annual “Great Animal-Rights Write-In.” . . . The event will be at Last Mango, a Newport Beach gourmet vegetarian eatery, where some 350 members will pen up to 20 letters each to companies they believe abuse animals. . . . Says Park: “Gillette will definitely get letters. To develop their products they do very painful tests on animals’ eyes and skin.”