Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm)

Green space. Conformist architectural noncomformity. Lots of earth tones. Home Depot! A look at what's doing in the New Town (tm) of Reston (tm), warts and all.

Monday, September 29, 2025

A Room With An (Expensive) View: Fancypants New Hotel Has 24-Hour Room Service, Creepy Robert E. Simon Mask

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While we were focusing on the  An Art and palpable lack of woonerf right outside, the fancypants JW Marriott at Reston Station opened its ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Here An Art, There An Art: Everywhere An Art Art: New Arts Confound Restonians, Or Maybe Just Us

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Way back in Reston's Golden Age, when the Silver Line was still a dream we could only clap for, we would pore over the design documents ...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Counting What Matters in Reston

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Somehow, we missed the annual Reston Butter fl y Count this summer. But thanks to a helpful Reston Association press release, we learned tha...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Vowel Movement: Consonant Explosion More Unnerving Than A Cold Plunge

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Following in the footsteps of some of Reston's trendier, or at least blockier , apartment complexes, this vaguely Welsh-sounding busine...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The DOGE Days of Summer

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There's been a lot of talk about efficiency these days, but why does it have to stop with the gubmint? As the founding members of the De...
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...
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