Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Meanwhile, in the Anti-Reston: Herndon is Apparently Big Game Country, Just Barely

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It's been a while since we've chronicled the exploits of our friendly neighbor to the west, in large part because we haven't chr...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Lake Anne Rebranding: Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter, or at Least the Fountain

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The perennial rebranding of Lake Anne Village Center got a little more, um, titillating this week when our BFFs at Reston Now pointed out t...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Hats Off for Cathy Hudgins

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Sad news: Just days after Rep. Gerry Connolly passed away on May 21, former Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins passed away on Saturday. Am...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Love Song of R. E. Simon

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(With apologies to T.S. Eliot, who never named a town Tseton) Let us go then, you and I, Where bollards are spread out against the sky Like ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Words to Live By

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Good advice at all times, but especially now, when there's construction and the possibility of a fancy 97-story casino to ensnare all ...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Farewell, McTacoHut, We Hardly Knew You

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Before there was an ersatz downtown, fanciful concrete bollards , parking validation, or even woonerf , there was Reston's arguably grea...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

In 2025, Everything's Coming Up (Mocha Mousse) Brown

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  Happy New Year, Reston! In a sign 1) that what comes around goes around and 2) earth tones never go out of style, we awoke to the news th...