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Bay Briefing: A San Francisco legend passes FacebookTwitterEmail Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, painter, owner of City Lights bookstore, dead at 101.John O'Hara Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24, and San Francisco has a history of not keeping its buildings in one place — and we’re not talking about earthquakes. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Soul of the S.F. scene Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101. “We’ve lost a great p...

Boil-water notice lifted for Pasadena Yvette Orozco, STAFF WRITER FacebookTwitterEmail According to an official notification on its social media platforms, the city of Pasadena was advised by the Texas Commission on Environmental this morning that tap water for residents in Pasadena is safe to consume.File photo, Houston Chronicle / Chronicle file The city of Pasadena has lifted its boil-water advisory. According to an official notification on its social media platforms, the city was advised by the Texas Commission on Environmental this morning that tap water for residents in Pasadena is saf...

City of Pasadena urges residents to boil water Yvette Orozco, STAFF WRITER FacebookTwitterEmail The city of Pasadena says residents should boil tap water used for consumption or making ice. The extreme temperatures caused the city of Houston’s Southeast Water Purification Plant, which provides water to Pasadena, to experience low water pressure. Required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to inform customers about precautions to take when consuming tap water, the city’s notification provided a list of things residents can do to ensure their health safety. To kill any...

Mick LaSalle February 1, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 9:40 am Stanley Tucci is not a movie critic for The Chronicle. Photo: Jim Cooper, Associated Press Dear Mr. Mick: How do you juggle two high-powered careers — as The Chronicle movie critic we love, and as Stanley Tucci, movie actor, cook and author? James Cline, Berkeley Dear Mr. James: In the late 1980s, I saw Stanley Tucci in a movie for the first time, and I got a very bad feeling. He was about my size and coloring, my ethnicity, and he was already pretty bald. At this point, I wasn’t, although that delightful proces...