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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights, dead at 101 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of45 Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore, which he co-founded, with Peter D. Martin, in 1953.John O’Hara / The Chronicle 2001Show MoreShow Less 2of45 Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Caffe Trieste in North Beach in 2006.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of45 Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s copy of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” his most treasured book, was given to him by the mother...

The S.F. mansion that made waves In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel. The S.F. mansion that made waves In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel. It looked like a surreal scene from a Pixar film, more than three decades before Pixar films existed. A Pacific Heights mansion, chai...

There’s a good chance the new Democrat-controlled government in Washington will pass a $435 billion economic justice bill called S5065. Significant to the Bay Area: it includes a $10-billion pilot program aimed at helping communities tear down urban highways. That could finally push forward some long-sought freeway dismantling in the Bay Area. “The rest of the Central Freeway and the northern end of I-280 are reaching the end of their useful lives, and ought to be removed,” wrote Livable ...