Your support helped us produce 1100 stories this year, showing an unmatched breadth of news, arts, and cultural coverage
Thanks to our amazing readers and supporters, it was another record-breaking year for 48 Hills, a decade later, as we continue to grow and promote the stories that mainstream media outlets don’t need or can’t. We produced more than 1,100 items this year, offering paintings for dozens of local journalists, critics, artists, and creators, and selling thousands of local artistic, musical, film, scenic, nightlife, and cultural events, festivals, and productions. Our media canopy was the only one that challenged the dominant narrative of neoliberal, pro-billionaire, pro-developer, pro-police, and City Hall state media, while also shedding light on the corruption and behind-the-scenes deals that still shape city politics.
Below are some of our biggest stories from a busy year. They will deliver unprecedented policies through an independent local news site with a small team and a small budget. We’d love to double that policy in 2024. Please send it to us here if you can, tell your friends to sign up for our daily newsletter, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, something diabolical but unfortunately mandatory (we promise, there will be more channels to come). Thank you for all your set, congratulations to all our collaborators, let’s keep the soul of this city alive!
BILLIONAIRES FILE LEGAL REPORT ATTACKING HOMELESS INSF
THE LOCAL RECORD AND DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S LEGACY
CEASEFIRE NOW: VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST MUST END
BREED SAYS HE WANTS EVEN MORE POWER
Promoter infuriates project activists
CHESA BOUDIN TALKS ABOUT CRIME, JUSTICE, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. SF UNDER BROOKE JENKINS
LAKE STREET EVICTION RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT TENANTS’ MOVE-IN PRICE
LONG COVID HAS REACHED THE ‘RUSSIAN ROULETTE’ STAGE IN THE US
THE STORY BEHIND THE HOSE ASSAULT IN FRONT OF A NORTH BEACH GALLERY
NO, THE CLOSURE OF WHOLE FOODS DOES NOT MEAN THE CITY WILL COLLAPSE
REPARATIONS TASK FORCE MEMBER SPEAKS OUT—ABOUT SOME VERY BAD PRESS COVERAGE
DO DEVELOPERS HAVE TO PROVE 100,000 HOMES WEST OF THE CITY?
THE MURDER OF BOB LEE AND THE MEDIA PROBLEM
UCLA’S SECRETIVE NEOLIBERAL HOUSING CONFERENCE
WHO ARE THE ‘TOXIC’ LOCAL DEMOCRATS, REALLY?
THE TRAGIC TOXIC LEGACY OF THE HUNTERS POINT NAVAL SHIPYARD
THE HOUSING CRISIS CREATED BY SCOTT WIENER
WE’RE REOPENING THE GARAGE: HERE’S WHY IT MATTERS
BIG SURPRISE OF THE SPURS AWARDS TALK ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION OF VIDEO GAME DEVELOPERS
ANTIPROGRESSIVE MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER HAS ALARMING TRANSPHOBIC TWEETS
THE POLICE TAKEOVER AT THE DOLORES SKATE PARTY RAISES ALL SORTS OF TROUBLING QUESTIONS
LIES, DAMN LIES, AND THE NEW ‘REPORT’ ON SAN FRANCISCO GOVERNMENT
A PRIVATE, NON-STOP LIGHT SHOW IN GOLDEN GATE PARK?WHO KNEW?
A FINAL DECISION – FOR NOW – ON THE FATE OF THE CASTRO THEATRE
RIDE THE MUSHROOM BOOM (AND EXPAND YOUR MIND) AT THE 51ST SF MUSHROOM FAIR
CHRISTOPHER OWENS LEAVES SILENT SF AND A HOLE IN OUR HEARTS
SF DRAG LEGEND HEKLINA REPORTEDLY HAS PASSED AWAY
BRING BACK SEXY? IRA SACHS ON HIS NEW STEAMY AND UNCLASSIFIED “PASSAGES”
THE LEFTOVER TIN MAN: DAVE YOAS TURNS ANTIQUITY ON ITS HEAD
SCREENSHOTS: SEX, TECH AND GODZILLA: WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE?
IN “PORTAL”, JOHN KING TELLS THE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL SAGA OF THE FERRY BUILDING
SF OPERA’S ‘THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS’: A DIAL-UP PORTRAIT OF A COMPLEX GOLIATH
GOOD TASTE: SURVEYING SF’S JAPANESE SANDOS
“I PERISHED!” AMY SCHNEIDER DOESN’T WANT TO BE YOUR FAVORITE TRANS PERSON ON TV
WITH THE ANCHOR CLOSURE, SF LOSES MUCH MORE THAN A BREWERY
AN ODE TO THE FABULOUS NEW RESTROOMS OF EL RIO
TOPLESS LEGEND CAROL DODA SHINES ONCE MORE IN NORTH BEACH
HOW THE 1982 B-52’S “MESOPOTAMIA” EP BECOMES A BLACK RADIO STAR
MICHAEL SWAN TOUR: “SUCCESSFUL MUSIC IS A RIVER OF BLOOD, URINE AND SEEDS. SWIM!”
DEPECHE MODE BRINGS ST. JOSEPH TO ITS FEET, THEN TO TEARS
LIVE SHOTS: THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF THE 2023 FOLSOM STREET FAIR
PUFF: THE CASE OF CANNABIS LOUNGE
CAN THE FIERY MAN BE CARBON NEUTRAL?
FROM RANCHES TO DISNEYLAND: FOUR CENTURIES OF CARTOGRAPHY CALIFORNIA
ON POLK STREET AND ON THE NET, A FAMILY OF HUSTLERS AND PRIESTS
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