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Alison Brown of the London Cartoon Museum Has Died, Aged 39 Alison Brown of the London Cartoon Museum Has Died, Aged 39 Posted on This hits hard. Alison Brown, who was the retail and front of house manager at London's Cartoon Museum since 2006 has died, after catching the coronavirus. She had been in hospital with a stomach infection last month and had been recuperating in a hospital ward. Diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday the 9th of January, on Sunday she was texting friends about how she was feeling fine, but she died yesterday morning. Alison Brown, self-photo. You know when people on th...

San Francisco's official bird is locally extinct, but may be reintroduced to the city FacebookTwitterEmail A male California quail.George Lepp/Getty Images It's somewhat surprising that there are zero California quail in San Francisco, what with them being the city's official bird. The portly bird's distinctive call — that some say sounds like "chi-CA-go!" while others hear "cow-COW-cow!" — hasn't been heard in San Francisco for years. The sole survivor of the species in the city was last seen in Golden Gate Park in 2017, and named Ishi by birders, after the last known member of Californi...

Updated on December 11, 2020 at 8:27 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Visitors to San Francisco's northern waterfront will soon have more room to roam as the Presidio National Trust opens a new trail crafted at the site of a newly-restored salt water marsh now called Quartermaster Reach.  The new trail, opening next week, extends across a newly-constructed bridge, its path joining the bay to the upper Tennessee Hollow watershed and El Pollín Spring.    The 6-acre site sits just east of Crissy Field and was originally a tidal marsh filled in preparation for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Expo...