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7/19/2018

Chronicle classic: Butt-kickin’ patriotic gals, by Jon Carroll

3/28/2018

Thoughts while plucking mummies, 1992

12/20/2017

Oakland Athletics heft dead mouse, Jon Carroll, 1987

7/19/2017

Stage Days, Jon Carroll, 1983

11/23/2015

A song of thanks; a grat etude

After 33 years, Jon Carroll has written his last column for The Chronicle. “I thought it was the best job in the world when I started it; I have had no reason to change my mind,” he says.

11/19/2015

One more for the road

Jon Carroll, Chronicle columnist

11/18/2015

Reality theater: Its joys and sorrows

11/17/2015

How to be old: a user’s guide

11/13/2015

It’s time again for the Untied Way

11/11/2015

On the other hand, they have great origin stories

11/11/2015

Thank you for your whatever it was

11/10/2015

The truth is out there. But where?

11/9/2015

Please, sir, may I have this patch of sidewalk?

11/5/2015

You know, birds and tides and things: Sunday

11/4/2015

Ben and Hillary could be lurking anywhere!

11/2/2015

The poison, the Raiders, and the very large garage

11/2/2015

My baby loves the Western people

10/29/2015

My cat mellows out, plus interesting news

NRA members listen to speakers during the NRA Annual Meeting of Members at the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits in the George R. Brown Convention Center Saturday, May 4, 2013, in Houston.
The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs through Sunday, May 5. More than 70,000 are expected to attend the event with more than 500 exhibitors represented. The convention will features training and education demos, the Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase, book signings, speakers including Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin as well as NRA Youth Day on Sunday
( Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle )

10/28/2015

Here’s an option for gun sanity

10/27/2015

Tell me, child: What are you afraid of?

WASHINGTON - JUNE 13: Dr. Geoffrey Marcy, astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley gestures as he speaks with the media at the National Aeoronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters June 13, 2002 in Washington, DC. Dr. Marcy and Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced their discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star in a neighboring solar system. The discovery is the first to demonstrate a solar system that is constructed similarly to Earth's solar system. (Photo by Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images)

10/26/2015

Heavenly bodies? Get a load of that cutie!

10/22/2015

Tourists and riffraff and me, sharing the evening

10/21/2015

If you’ve got the money, I’ve got the carnage

Ryan Hernandez, 4, crawls through a tunnel on the playground at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015.

10/20/2015

Kids need dirt, bananas need love

10/19/2015

Welcome aboard! Feel those sheets! Taste that cookie!

10/15/2015

A little coffee, some baseball, one monster

10/13/2015

And right here is the memorial to stupidity

10/13/2015

Familiar coastal things, plus a mini-rant

10/12/2015

Here today, gone already: It’s ‘Pop-Up Magazine’!

10/7/2015

My idea: Let’s try not to bomb hospitals

10/7/2015

Make art, get laid, make more art

10/5/2015

A question does not always require an answer

10/5/2015

Abandon your doubts; embrace the chaos

10/1/2015

The second-largest city in Canada

10/1/2015

That pope craziness infects us all