Exclusive: Bottom of the Hill Sold, Will Continue as Live Music Venue
The storied San Francisco club will reopen in 2027 under new ownership.
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Soleil Ho is a cultural critic, cookbook writer, and food journalist who has a nasty habit of founding media projects instead of going to therapy: from the feminist literary magazine Quaint to food podcast Racist Sandwich to our dear COYOTE.
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Reo Eveleth is an award-winning reporter and writer who has covered everything from fake tumbleweed farms to million-dollar baccarat heists. Their work has been nominated for a Peabody, an Emmy, and an Eisner Award.
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Nuala Bishari is an investigative journalist and opinion columnist who's reported on the Bay Area since 2013. She writes about public health, homelessness, LGBTQ+ issues, and nature.
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Emma Silvers is a San Francisco journalist with 15+ years of experience covering the people and policies shaping arts and culture in the Bay. She grew up in Albany and lives in the Mission.
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Alan Chazaro is a traveling Bay Area dad and writer currently based in Veracruz, Mexico. His forthcoming poetry collection, These Spaceships Weren't Built For Us, will be published with Tia Chucha Press in 2026.
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Rahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer from Miami, Florida. Her work covers arts & culture, borders, and the outdoors. In Open Country, her blended memoir about the Appalachian Trail and the politics of free movement in the US, is forthcoming.
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Cecilia Lei is a reporter and producer, as well as an audio and live events host based in the East Bay. She covers immigration, the criminal legal system, AAPI issues, as well as other Bay Area communities.
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Janelle Blarg is a cartoonist, a writer, and an East Bay townie for life.
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Marisa is an independent sports journalist in the Bay Area. She runs ValkyriesBeat.com, the only traveling indie news source covering the Golden State Valkyries. She also is a huge Pokemon nerd and her life goal is the buy a life-size Mareep plush.
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Paul C. Kelly Campos is a freelance writer, audio producer, poet and translator. Born and raised in South San Francisco, Kelly is of Irish and Nicaraguan descent. His work has appeared in NPR, KQED, KALW, and the Washington Post.
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Octavio Peña is a food journalist and recipe developer from San Jose, CA. His work has appeared in KQED, Eater SF, Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, and Food & Wine. In his free time, he enjoys walking his dogs, photographing his food, and playing MOBAs.
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Annalee Newitz is an award-winning Bay Area science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several books, including 'Automatic Noodle,' 'The Terraformers,' and 'Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age.'
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Momo Chang is a freelance writer and editor in the Bay Area, where she covers food, culture, and social issues.
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Danielle Bezalel, MPH is the creator and host of Sex Ed with DB, a feminist, science-backed sex education podcast. Her work has been featured in Netflix’s The Principles of Pleasure, Mashable, Bustle, SELF, BUST, and more.
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Jasmine Mithani is the technology reporter at The 19th. Her coverage revolves around themes of information access, privacy and politics.
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Adam Brinklow is a writer who has covered arts, housing, community, and neighborhoods in the Bay Area for over 15 years.
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Hamid Yazdan Panah is an immigration attorney and Co-Executive Director of Immigrant Defense Advocates, where he works on immigration policy, legal advocacy, and civil rights issues in California.
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Paolo Bicchieri is a writer living on the coast. His work has been featured in Eater, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Standard, and more. His coffee research looks at the political economic conditions of supply chain workers.
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Melissa Saenz Gordon is a cultural worker, urbanist, and award-winning multimedia producer originally from San Francisco, now based in New York. She’s the co-founder of Soft Power Vote, an initiative working to make voting more accessible in NYC.
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Shefali Luthra is The 19th’s reproductive health reporter. Her work emphasizes abortion policy, fertility care and contraception, and every other corner of reproductive health.
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Amalia Madrid-Lilly is a journalist and writer from Oakland interested in examining power, labor, and culture in local contexts. She is currently completing her BA in History and Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.
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Max Blue is a journalist whose work engages visual art through the lens of politics, social justice and community preservation. He has written for BOMB, Cultured Magazine and Hyperallergic. He is the art critic for the San Francisco Examiner.
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Ronny Kerr is a San Francisco-based writer and the founder of White Crate, a platform dedicated to covering the Bay Area music scene. He grew up in Daly City and still loves the fog.
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Amanda Guest is the founder of BFF.fm, a community radio station dedicated to highlighting local artists. She is also a San Francisco tour guide and storyteller who shares the city’s countercultural history through offbeat, small-group walking tours.
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Nicole Wong is an Oakland-based writer and audio producer. In 2019, she launched The Mahjong Project — an instructional guide and oral history documenting her family's rules while placing the way they play in the game's broader history and diaspora.
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Camille Cohen is a photographer and journalist based in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is also a community organizer, working to make news photography more equitable. Creative and passionate people are her favorite subjects to document.
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Rocky Rivera is a Bay Area emcee and writer who covers hip-hop, food, and community. With cover stories in The Source, a KQED food column, and the podcast Xennial Dilemmas with DJ Roza, her work amplifies voices too often left out of the mainstream.
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Gordon Edgar is a full-time cheesemonger, co-operator, and writer. He used to review zines for punk zine MaximumRnR and has written a couple of books on cheese. His Patreon is at that little link to the right.
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Sarah O’Neal is an artist and writer born and raised in the Bay Area. Her writing has been featured in the Institute for Palestine Studies, Lux Magazine, The Nation, and Bandcamp. When she's not writing you can find her scheming on the end of empire.
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Vincent D is a queer cartoonist and organizer living in Berkeley. He's a 2016 graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center's Comics Certificate Program in Portland Oregon.
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Ida Mojadad is an award-winning journalist who's worked for six publications whose names include "San Francisco," starting with SF Weekly.
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Lydz aka lydia grijalva is a 2-Spirit Yaqui descendent who has found a home in Bear Clan and the American Indian Movement. They are a West Coast artist and activist with a deep fear of the power of poetry who refuses to pick a genre.
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Amani Hamed is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer based in San Jose, California. She's won awards for her feature reporting, relishes investigative pieces, and enjoys film and media criticism.
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Maya Goldberg-Safir splits her time between Oakland and Chicago, telling stories about women's basketball, including for her newsletter/blog, 'Rough Notes.'
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Born in East Los Angeles, Leilani Clark spent her early childhood in Hawaii before settling in Northern California. Leilani was previously published at Mother Jones, The Press Democrat, North Bay Bohemian, Civil Eats, KQED, Sonoma Magazine, and Time.
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Estefany Gonzalez is an Oakland-based photo journalist and photo editor with a deep passion for arts, culture, and storytelling. She's captured everything from events and live music, to breaking news and underserved communities across the Bay Area.
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