Dan Hernandez
@thebiscuitdan.bsky.social
he / him • 22 • photojournalism & business gradate 🎓• automotive and transit enthusiast • 📸 editor for the San Francisco Chronicle 🌉
I gave SEVEN @sfchronicle.com building tours in the last 72 hours, featuring early history, a look at our Prince file 💜 and a descent into the DEFINITELY HAUNTED subbasement. Fabulous photos by @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social in today's column. Gift link 🎁 🗞️ ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
How did Bay to Breakers get so weird? @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social & I used our archive superpowers to pinpoint the race's very first costumes. Honoring two knuckleheads in tuxedos, and a brigadier general turned race director who definitely wasn't a narc. 🏃♀️ 🌁 ❤️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
How did Bay to Breakers get so weird? We found the costumes that transformed S.F.’s favorite race
For more than 50 years, San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers was a standard foot race. Then two guys showed up in tuxedoes and changed everything.
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Tonight's sky did not disappoint during my sunset hike 📸
Artists with Illuminaries painted a mural of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland on Saturday. 📸: @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle
Sunning sunrises and sunsets AND the supermoon. Skies will be gorgeous across Northern California the next couple of days. Get outside! #CAwx www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
Northern California just had a stunning sunset. Here’s exactly when it could happen again
Pink, purple, orange and red hues lit up the Northern California sky on Tuesday — and the weather pattern favors more of the same ahead.
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Claude the albino alligator is dead My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?" RIP to an SF icon 🐊 😢 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator, dies at 30
Claude, the California Academy of Sciences’ rare albino alligator and one of San Francisco’s most recognizable residents, has died at age 30.
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Can I throw my Bay Area sunset photos in the ring..
Barack Obama dined at Quince in San Francisco, one of the Bay Area’s only three-Michelin-star restaurants, on Wednesday evening. Obama walked into the Jackson Square restaurant around 7 p.m., shortly after Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce; it’s unclear if they dined together. 📷: Dan Hernandez
What a treat! Went to the @sfchronicle.com archive this a.m. to scan some 1906 earthquake images and retired librarian Bill Van Niekerken & @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social were both there working on separate projects. (Bill still comes in for freelance work.) Love a bustling archive! 🗞️ ❤️
The list of the Top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area is now online!
I had fun working with a disposable camera for my contribution to @sfchronicle.com's famed Top 100 list. I've loved scrolling through the project and seeing how everyone else approached it. Stay tuned next week for the top 50! 🧑🍳 bit.ly/4hXmCfx
The Chronicle's Top 100 list is back! From a fine dining bonanza from a renowned chef to a bakery serving astonishing tortas trussed in plastic wrap, these are our top Bay Area restaurants.
100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked
The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.
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“I think you should just try as hard as you can. And if you fail It’s fine.” Love this video of our @bart.gov speedrun — edited by @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social With wisdom from BART police chief Kevin Franklin & dancing with 9-year-old speed runner Ben Lawson. 🚇 🕺🏻 💯 youtu.be/2eQqoqCVaak?...
I rode BART for 8 hours to experience the latest transit trend
YouTube video by San Francisco Chronicle
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Thanks to @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social for creating our route, taking so many great photos & video during our @bart.gov marathon and for being a great hang. Gift link so you can see Dan captured how much my arms flail when I run 🎁 🚇 ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
We saw cows, missed trains, visited 50 stations, covered 131.2 miles of track and sampled three @bart.gov bathrooms. For journalism. (The cost for the entire trip? $9.90) Read about the day @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social & I spent without leaving the BART system. www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
8 hours on BART? I tried the latest transit trend, and it almost broke me
Why are so many transit fans attempting the Bay Area Rapid Transit speedrun? I tried it and it nearly broke me.
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Thank you to the @sfchronicle.com for highlighting one of our many downtown destinations! San Mateo, like many other downtowns, has something for everyone! www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti....
Nostalgia and progress are a tough balance. This Bay Area downtown gets it right
With excellent Mexican food, huge parklets and even a full-time cobbler, San Mateo’s B Street has found the perfect blend of old and new.
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BART Speedrun complete!! An hour short of the record but had a fabulous time flying through the Bay Area with @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social and so many transit lovers who joined us. Our victory is the friends we met along the way! 🚇 🏆
We have intercepted the @peterhartlaub.bsky.social @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social speed run!
Peter Hartlaub@peterhartlaub.bsky.social · last yr.50 stations! 131 miles! No bathroom breaks?! For the next 6-8 hours I’ll be attempting a BART Speedrun with @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social — riding @bart.gov nonstop until we cover every mile of track. The official record is 5 hours 43 minutes. Follow along! 🚇 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
I love a Total SF transit challenge, but happy to be watching this one from the comfort of my home. Rooting for you, @peterhartlaub.bsky.social and @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social! 🚍@sfchronicle.com
Peter Hartlaub@peterhartlaub.bsky.social · last yr.50 stations! 131 miles! No bathroom breaks?! For the next 6-8 hours I’ll be attempting a BART Speedrun with @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social — riding @bart.gov nonstop until we cover every mile of track. The official record is 5 hours 43 minutes. Follow along! 🚇 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
50 stations! 131 miles! No bathroom breaks?! For the next 6-8 hours I’ll be attempting a BART Speedrun with @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social — riding @bart.gov nonstop until we cover every mile of track. The official record is 5 hours 43 minutes. Follow along! 🚇 💯 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Pupusas. Parklets. A working cobbler. I took a bike & @caltrain.com to B Street in San Mateo for the first time in 35 years and found a little bit of my childhood. (Plus a bounty of 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇭🇳 food.) 📸s: @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social #RIPTalbotsToyLand www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Nostalgia and progress are a tough balance. This Bay Area downtown gets it right
With excellent Mexican food, huge parklets and even a full-time cobbler, San Mateo’s B Street has found the perfect blend of old and new.
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50 BART stations! 131.2 miles! No bathrooms?!? My latest TotalSF column on the @bart.gov speedrun trend. I'm going next Thursday 3/20 with speedrun veteran & photographer @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social Follow us here! 🚆 🏃♂️🏃💨 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Living hell or so much fun? Why I’m spending 7 hours riding BART
Bay Area Rapid Transit fans have been riding the railways, trying to get the best time passing through every station.
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Stopped at the station with the best view in the system and snapped photos of @sfbart.bsky.social trains on my commute yesterday morning! 📸🌁
