Bay Area Obama supporters will unite tonight at Supperclub for Obamarama '08. The Indiana and North Carolina primary results will be broadcast, tunes will be spun all night, free beer, sake, and vodka will be served between 9 and 10:30 p.m., and many sweet prizes provided by local businesses will be raffled off at Midnight. RSVP in advance. and receive a $15 wine gift card at the door (wine people backed out) The event was......

During this week's Tibet rally and Olympic flame frustration, the possible future leader of the free world, Barack Obama, sneaked into San Francisco on Sunday, hitting Billionaires Row for a pricey, Getty-hosted fundraiser. Neither you nor we were invited. Alas. According to Leah Garchik: In the Haight, stencils of Barack Obama's smiling face are decorating the sidewalk. But in real life, he is turning up in more lucrative venues: The candidate will be around here......

Well, frankly, neither had we. That is, until we read this crazy -- yet, not so crazy -- article on Republicans in Ohio switching party alliances and voting Democratic. 16,000 Republicans, to be exact. Now, why the heck would all these Republicans go Democrat? This is part of "The Plot." Instigated by Rush Limbaugh, the theory is that Hillary Clinton would be easier for Republican fave, John McCain, to beat at election time. By having......

SFist's dear neighbor's, Wired, came across this racially explosive internet meme on the Daily Kos, which is set to have Democrats duking it out online. According to the Daily Kos, someone in the Clinton campaign took Obama's image from this video and darkened (a la OJ Simpson gracing the covers of Time and Newsweek) for this commercial. According to the Kos: In case you needed yet another reason to despise Hillary Clinton and her......

Prince Harry goes to war and stuff. Or something like that. We didn't get much farther than the picture at right. [SFBG]Check out a most brilliant car crash in Noe Valley. [Curbed]Obama, McCain looks like theyhe'll take it. But you knew that already. Well, that was a surprise. [SFGate]Tomorrow is "D" Day. [InsideSFPD]SFBG & SF Weekly wait patiently to hear who wins I-told-you-so sniveling rights. [SFBG, SF Weekly]Bust report #301: line cuts. Oh, Muni, you......

Ralph Nader announced yesterday that he will take yet another tireless stab at the Oval Office, this time running as an Independent in the 2008 presidential election. Oh joy. Prattling on endlessly about how the Democratic and Republican candidates aren't addressing the issues, and blah blah, who cares, this will be his fifth attempt at snatching the title President of the United States of American. What with a black man, Barack Obama, in the......

Photo credit: sniderscion Torontoist spent its week uncovering who was behind mysterious ads for a drug called "Obay" that popped up across the country (Scientology? Frank Shepard Fairey?), first tracing them to an advocacy group called Colleges Ontario and then confirming their suspicions a few days later.Phillyist learned how to put on a puppet show – it's not as easy as you might think!Shanghaiist discovers that the average starting monthly pay for fresh graduates......

*COMEDY: That wacky/sexy comedy troupe, SPF7, puts on a show at The Dark Room tonight. According to Justin Lamb, "there will be a politically incorrect ad campaign for fruit, a massage, He-Man erotica [an aside: while cleaning out our old bedroom the other day, our mother came across and disposed of our cherished Man-E-Faces figure. Needless to say, we are crestfallen. -- SFist], food stealing from Satan, a sex offender with low self esteem,......

Nancy Pelosi dedicates a campus and opines on the presidential race....

Photo by Phillyist's Matt Johnson, SkyscraperSunset.com, December 19, 2007. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale.Gothamist marveled at the city's new NYC-branded condom campaign - especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun fact: Gothamist turned five years old yesterday.)Tired of the worldwide Scientology protests? Torontoist totally isn't: they covered the big downtown protest the day it happened, and followed up with an examination of all......

Have you seen this couple? [SFGate] Vulgar, yes, but it will all be half-price come tomorrow. [Nature abhors a vacuum] Bonds failed a steroids test in 2001? You don't say. [ABC7] Obama Haight/hate graffiti. [Curbed] National Boring Sex Week comes to Cal. [Daily Clog] J-school student sentenced to five days in the clink for the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam. [EBX] Bad cop. [Valleywag] Apply for the San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Citizens......

Shit. It's Valentine's Day this Thursday and by the looks of it most of you have already planned your perfect date. Three shows are already completely sold-out: The Kills at Rickshaw Stop, Slightly Stoopid at The Independent and Common at Mezzanine. While there are still several shows you can chance Thursday night, it might be wise to stay home and wait till the weekend to take your crush out. We are. Friday, the local music......

Photograph of Michael Strahan, coach Tom Coughin (holding the Vince Lombardi trophy) and quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning by Tien Mao Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade.Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus.Londonist had Super Tuesday too.Elusive guerrilla street artist Banksy revisits Los Angeles.After the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and came this close to making......

West Side Story turned 50 last year, and Leonard Bernstein would have turned 90 next August. Classical music is giving Hallmark a run for its money as an anniversary-driven industry. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, an orchestra near and dear to Bernstein's heart for over 40 years, will play a tribute to him this Saturday, 2/9, at the SF Conservatory of Music (8 p.m., 50 Oak Street), which will include SFCM alumni conductor and Bernstein protegé,......

Well, you'll probably all be as relieved as we were that the proposal to adopt an SF policy to buy back Alcatraz Island from the feds for a billion dollars in order to build a peace center was thoroughly trounced in the polls, losing at a rate of almost 3:1 (72% no). You can continue telling your friends back home that you'll take them on the ferry ride to the prison if they'd ever come......

If this San Francisco woman is any kind of bellwether, Hillary Clinton will not win in San Francisco tomorrow....

Those goddamn, dirty, lovable hippies known as the Grateful Dead -- i.e., Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh -- reunite tonight in honor of (our future president) Barack Obama. Looking to snare to what Joe Garofoli refers to as, "California's gray-haired ponytail vote," the Dead is backing Obama. Minus, Jerry Garcia, of course, since he is now most literally a dead head. Billed as a one-time-only event, although they got back together briefly......

SFist worried over drugstore chain Walgreens celebration of Black History Month.Gothamist was surprised that apparently New York City is the fourth most miserable city in the country, after Detroit, Stockton, CA, and Flint, MI.Shanghaiist finds out what the Chinese think of Hilary and Obama.It was with a healthy amount of schadenfreude that Phillyist reported that former Eagle, and now Cowboy (ew), Terrell Owens owes the Eagles a significant wad of cash.Torontoist is two weeks......

This Sunday is that football championship tournament known as the Super Bowl. And with it comes its array of advertising amusement. (Please, pray for no Burger King commercials. "People freaked" is the single worst ad campaign in this history of ever.) [SFGate]Hillary Clinton is in town; Sen. Ed Kennedy counterattacked with a stop in Berkeley as part of his Obama tour. [CBS5]The bay has temporarily turned into Marin's toilet. [Marin Independent Journal]Bad behavior on......

Dear sky: Please stop raining. You're being a jerk. Sincerely, everyone. [SFGate]The Palms defended. Sort of. [Curbed]Weeeee: Q4 earnings fell at Google. [SFGate]Although all of their hair currently looks like warmed over shit, at least from what we glean on Valencia Street, here are your best hipster hair salons. [Gridskipper]Midgen hearts the trannies, and wants them to find jobs. [BAR]More Luisa Hanson controversy. [Eater]We have a Chick-fil-A. Yay! But it's in Fairfield. Boo! [Yelp]Former Clinton......

Sure, it was taken awhile back, just after Barack Obama was kicking it with the dames at the Girlie Building. But since his momentum is (thankfully) building, we thought we'd throw up another image of the candidate. That, and to wash the taste of yesterday's tubgirl cake out of our mouth. (Ebb and flow, folks. Ebb and flow.) Image credit: Steve Rhodes......

"Static and squat," declares John King on the new residential tower, Soma Grand. And it only gets worse, beautifully so. [SFGate]Have a sumptuous yet refreshing woodchuck, raccoon, or squirrel recipe? Send it to Endless Summer and you could win a "guest blogging post." [Endless Simmer]Fashion on the 5-Fulton dazzles. [Nature abhors a vacuum]President George W. Bush is coming to the Bay Area tomorrow to make a cameo appearance in Milk, or something like that. [Oakland......

Gary Danko tops 7x7's annual Eat and Drink Awards. Of course. (Wait, 7x7 editors eat? Pft. Very disappointing.) [Eater]Living at The Palms? Anyone? Anyone? [Curbed]Today's headlines are deadly headlines. (Bonus missed headline: The Challenger, sadly, blew to smithereens twenty-two years ago today.) [The Snitch] Homosexuals take note: finally, a new episode of Judycast. Raspberries! Our huge crush on Billy is hereby resumed. [Entertainment Beat/Frances Gumm]GreenMountain Engineering president dies while hitting the slopes. [SFGate]We're getting......

It's that time of the year for all the big papers to weigh in on their choice for President and yesterday, the Chron weighed in and announced that they are going to support the guy who gives pretty, pretty speeches. You know, the Muslim dude who doesn't pledge allegiance to the flag, and just might be on the downlow: Barry Hussein Obama. And, yes, we know most of that stuff comes for a vicious, nasty email smear that's been going around and isn't in any way true, but come on, you gotta let us have some fun....

Guess what time it is, kids? Smear tactics time! We came across this jarring and chortle-worthy footage, claiming that possible presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is on the down-low. The Harpo DL, if you will. We're being told he could have engaged in bear-ish homosexual activity, is what we're saying. Do we believe it? Meh. Is it exciting to speculate and think about? But of course. Have no fear, fans of Obama, or...whoever you're under......

Barack's new SF HQ opens...

Tiger attack victims "yelled" at Tatiana. [SFGate] SF Main Library re-opened its first floor. We had no idea that is was closed. Still, yay! [CCBlog]Evacuating together. Aw. (Wasn't this an SNL commercial parody ages ago? With Phil Hartman and Victoria Jackson? Also: we're old.) [The Snitch]Staph infection hysteria is the new AIDS hysteria. So retro. [SFBG]Last night's gruesome N Judah Municide. [N Judah Chronicles]You know who's down with Barack Obama? Your mother. [Examiner]Duffy's (formerly known......

Before heading to a more pristine setting in Atherton, Barack Obama was in the Mission today at the Women's Building, stumping for votes before California's Feb. 5 primary. Over plastic cups of water, he met with four Dr. Laura-unapproved single mothers--two of them staunch Obama supporters, two "on the fence"--and we're loving the one on the left, school teacher Kara Daillak, 38. (Ditch the kid, and let's go get smashed in 'loin tonight.)...

Hillary Clinton's Inner Tracy Flick...

Wanda Sabir gets a call from Michelle Obama. [SF Bay View] Where to take that special someone you like, but don't like-like. Like, you know? [Gridskipper] Hasbro can go straight to hell wants to put an end to Scrabulous. [Valleywag] Rejoice, guilty white liberals! Sen. Barack Obama's TV ads will kickoff the vote-for-me ad campaigns we'll start seeing. Wee. [SFGate's Politics Blog] Engagements be damned. Beth returns for the sweet, sweet taste of Gavin......