48 Hills

48 Hills is an independent news and culture website for San Francisco and the Bay Area, created by ex-editors and publishers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Founded in 2013 by Tim Redmond, this platform is updated every day and now attracts around 30,000 readers each week. It features a wide range of topics, including news, politics, arts, music, nightlife, and various aspects of culture.

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After a shattering loss, Alvin Ailey danced to revelatory heights at Zellerbach

6 days ago | 48hills.org | Lou Fancher

Presented by Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall, April 8-13, the venerable yet still very much alive Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre placed a forever stamp—one hopes this lasts forever—on the company’s 57 years of annual appearances on the UC Berkeley campus. Four different programs, each worthy of heartfelt applause, included favorite works, premieres, and Ailey’s timeless 1975 “Revelations,” showing off the consistent artistry and rigorous technique of the dancers.
Small business groups push for protections from Lurie's upzoning (and displacement)

6 days ago | 48hills.org | Tim Redmond

Small business advocates Thursday presented a list of proposals that might slow the displacement of neighborhood shops and restaurants under the massive-scale upzoning the city is preparing for the West Side of town.
PG&E has no friends at a Planning Commission hearing

6 days ago | 48hills.org | Tim Redmond

The Planning Commission hearing today on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for municipalizing PG&E was remarkable for what it didn’t include: Any opposition. The commissioners don’t always agree on everything, and members of the public who show up to comment often disagree with the panel and with each other. In the past, PG&E has always been able to drum up some level of support, with from its union, the IBEW, or from some sort of astroturf coalition. Not today.
BIG WEEK: Sisters' Easter, Big Wheel Race, our 200 fave restaurants, Kraftwerk...

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Marke Bieschke

Welcome to our new calendar feature BIG WEEK! Each week, our expert Arts & Culture writers recommend the best things for you to do in the best city on earth: Arts, Music, Food & Drink, Onstage, Nightlife, and more. Subscribe to our newsletter to get this straight to your inbox. ARTSTons more to do and support right here. Don’t miss our 4/20 guide or this rad art show.
Drama Masks: Walking in circles

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Charles Lewis III

What does it take to truly break a cycle? Hindsight reminds us when we should have gone left instead of right, but recognizing past mistakes hasn’t prevented our species from repeating the obvious blunders over and over.
Will the supes reject a simple measure notifying neighbors about upzoning?

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Tim Redmond

It’s hard to imagine that a majority of the district supervisors in San Francisco would vote against informing their constituents about one of the largest zoning changes in the city’s history, a program that would impact hundreds of thousands of tenants, property owners, and small businesses. But that was the way things seemed to be going at a Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing Monday. Sup.
It's a maze, it's a Minotaur, it's a metaphor, it's... 'boycow'

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Marke Bieschke

The myth: In ancient Crete, the Minotaur—part man, part bull—dwelt near King Minos’ palace in a vast underground labyrinth designed by Daedalus. There, the king’s prisoners would meet their fate, trapped in the bewildering maze with the raging, towering hybrid, until Greek hero Theseus slew the beast and escaped through ingenious use of a string he had wended behind him upon entering.
The city's new Capital Plan is a ridiculous fantasy

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Tim Redmond

San Francisco has released its latest Capital Plan for the next decade, and it includes a lot of spending—a whole lot of spending—that will probably never happen. Among other things, the plan notes that the need for affordable housing is $29 billion. The plans, however, calls for $2.7 billion worth of funding for affordable housing—and that’s a stretch, since the revenue sources that are actually available are far lower.
Puff: Our 4/20 guide has tokes to try, a lakeside poetry jam—and a Space Walk - 48 hills

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Dan Karkoska

The high holy day of April 20 aka 4/20 is upon us. As a savior rises on that day for some, it is cannabis reigns supreme for others. Just a reminder before we get into it, that the term 4/20 itself is not a police code for cannabis usage—as per popular belief—but instead, a code word used by a bunch of high schoolers in San Rafael in 1971 who would meet at a statue of Louis Pasteur after school at 4:20pm to hunt for a legendary cannabis grow.
SF wants to run an untested experiment on West Side neighborhoods

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Tim Redmond

At the end of the Planning Commission hearing on neighborhood upzoning last week, Commissioner Amy Campbell had a question. It got to the heart of the entire debate about density, housing, and affordability.