Monday, November 24, 2025

On Soapstone, Crime Pays (in Paint)

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While perusing the Face Books, somewhere between a post from someone we sat next to one time in a grade school assembly and a 1,000-word ran...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

You've Got Ring Around the Cluster: The Heartbreak of Drought and Dried Out Concrete

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Growing up in the fab 1970s, we learned that the absolute most embarrassing thing that could ever happen to someone was to be caught in pub...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

RELAC Didn't Do It: With Yet Another Closure, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Maybe for Good This Time (Updated)

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Sad news for fans of humid air, peeling wallpaper, and jet-age technology: RELAC announced Friday that it is discontinuing operations , sayi...
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Thursday, October 9, 2025

We'll Leave the (Burnt Orange) Light on For You

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The last year has seen one big change in Reston--not one, but two fancy new hotels have opened their doors with amenities that would have b...
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...