A fire at a warehouse in Sterling provided an opportunity for Restonians to have some lighthearted, catastrophe-related fun on Facebook, speculating as to the source of the smoke. But of cou...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/04/smoke-on-manmade-lake-water-fire-in-sky.html
Good on Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Station 25 for having a little fun with the decades-in-the-making infrastructure rising in the background. We admit our own "humorous" "web logging" ha...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/04/dont-quit-your-day-jobs-and-we-wont.html
Lake Anne residents will be able to enjoy the tepid chills of lake-cooled air conditioning at least a bit longer. The Reston Association says that fewer than half of the eligible households...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/03/relac-still-do-it-referendum-ensures.html
Not satisfied to squash our schoolgirl dreams of spending an hour or six playing the penny slots before getting on the Metro in Reston , or to delay until next year the possibility of buildi...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/02/kill-bill-3-casinopocalypse-tysons.html
Sad news for compulsive gamblers, national security threats , and Crystal Koons: The General Assembly bill that would have allowed a fun floating 97 story casino to be built on a used car lot...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/02/casinopocalypse-2025-bill-killed-until.html
ZOMG, throw in a couple of floormats and an extended warranty, because as the bill that would create a fun floating casino atop an abandoned car lot in the county's Emerald City wends its wa...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/01/casinopocalyse-nearby-ra-declares.html
ZOMG, someone get Crystal Koons off the phone trying to upsell some Scotchguarding on that 1995 Camry and down to Richmond: the fun, 96-story casino first proposed by State Sen. Dave Marsden las...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/01/casinopocalypse-now-but-maybe-nearby.html
You know, if someone told us that a local homeowner got in trouble for making unapproved modifications to their residence and broadcasting it to the world via TikTok, we would have assumed it ...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/01/meanwhile-in-anti-reston-tiktok.html
Great news for fans of tepid lake water, jet-age technology and not being overly cold during the hot summer months: after announcing it would cease operations last month , RELAC has announced...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/01/frankie-comes-back-from-hollywood.html
Well, 2023 has departed not with a bang, but the quiet whisper of a jet-age air conditioning system possibly shutting down forever , or even more dramatically, going co-op . But somehow, this fil...
http://www.restonian.org/2024/01/another-year-yet-another-reston-hotnot.html
Along with the usual exquisitely timed holiday cheer invariably sent by our BFFs at the Reston Association just days before Christmas (why?), some of us might be lucky enough to get another...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/12/reston-style-holiday-cheer-from-ra-and.html
It may be the end of an era for one of Reston's most incredible jet-age innovations. No, not key parties and skull-crackin' playground accoutrements , silly rabbits! Instead, Reston's technol...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/12/relac-dont-do-it-frankie-finally-goes.html
You may have missed it amid the firehose of current events, but we were struck by the recent announcement that a newly arrived Reston business was naming different areas of its office after par...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/12/going-round-and-round-in-reston.html
Some troubling news this morning from our BFFs at the Reston Royal Navy RA: > Inspections this morning on Reston’s lakes indicate that Lake Anne > is also now affected by an...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/11/fall-in-full-bloom-on-restons-lakes.html
First floated earlier in the year, the idea of building a fun floating casino in Reston has returned with a vengeance, reportedly backed by some well-heeled developers. While there's been a bunc...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/10/what-happens-in-reston-stays-in-reston.html
We're getting deja vu from another trivial land use case involving Reston, some supposedly underutilized property ripe for redevelopment, and throwing money into a pile and setting it on fi...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/09/all-bets-are-off-farfetched-reston.html
So Metro is boosting the number of trains and reducing wait times in an attempt to avoid a catastrophic fiscal cliff when federal COVID funding ends to better serve transit patrons. That's grea...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/09/a-different-way-to-entice-metro-riders.html
It is a truth universally acknowledged that here in Reston, we have more public art than you can shake a stick (of appropriate length, materials, and colors) at . It seems like every time a n...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/08/getting-to-know-art-and-modest.html
A Nextdoor Neighbor dot com post reported a police helicopter flying overhead amid "gunshots" yet another incident where someone has taken a flying leap off a tall building in our plastic fanta...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/07/ok-google-bingcom-to-ask-jeeves-about.html
It is a truth universally acknowledged among planned community aficionados that Reston is great in the summer. Pools! Camps for the kids! Live music and whatnot in various plazas and third spaces...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/07/made-in-shade-summer-fun-in-reston.html
Poor Lake Anne, Reston’s original town center. Over the years, there have been consultants, charettes, and other conversations about taking its brutalist concrete glory and making something... ...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/06/lake-anne-few-suggestions.html
Artist's rendition of what the scene of mayhem may have looked like. When we fired up our 300-baud modem and clicked on Facebook dot com this morning, we were expecting to see the usual com...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/05/horsehockey-horses-briefly-gambol.html
In a campaign that’s already more contested than the typical race for an RA board seat, we’re being asked to vote for an animal to serve as an “icon” for Reston. You see, the Friend...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/05/will-reston-go-to-birds-or-foxes-thats.html
If you believe the various clickbait lists churned out by ill-tempered AI robots toiling away for websites and magazines, Reston has shot up and down the charts more than a novelty record by a pi...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/04/were-28-or-1-or-50-reston-ranked-over.html
At long last, the first ceremonial shovels of dirt have been turned for the fancypants Wiehle Avenue overpass, which will allow W&OD cyclists to... continue not to stop as they streak over...
http://www.restonian.org/2023/03/about-freaking-time-groundbreaking-for.html