Restonian

10/18/2025

Everyone's biggest 1970s anxiety fever dream comes back to haunt some of Reston's more waterlogged clusters:

Growing up in the fab 1970s, we learned that the absolute most embarrassing thing that could ever happen to someone was to be caught with r...

10/12/2025

Pour one tepid, room-temperature beverage out for RELAC, Reston's jet-age lake-powered AC. (Probably.)

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

07/03/2025

First BLVD, then VY, now... whatever this is. Reston is becoming Wales, minus the kilts.

Following in the footsteps of some of Reston's trendier, or at least blockier , apartment complexes, this vaguely Welsh-sounding business i...

05/31/2025

Sometimes a brutalist concrete fountain is just a brutalist concrete fountain, even in Reston.

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...

01/23/2025

This is always good advice.

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

01/01/2025

Happy New Year, Reston! 2025 is already shaping up to be an appropriately earth toned kind of year:

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...

12/19/2024

Timely and terrifying: the drones have made it to Reston, at least according to the Face Book:

Behold this blurry yet terrifying still from a cellular telephone video someone in the Greater Reston-Herndon Area posted to the Face Book D...

12/03/2024

When the New York Times has your number -- or at least your color.

We were so surprised when we stumbled upon this halfway through our ninth cup of coffee one morning this weekend, we nearly tumbled head fi...

11/30/2024

Reston Town Center named one of DC's most "festive neighborhoods," if by "neighborhood" you mean a "midscale shopping center with a confusing parking app."

It's the holiday season once again, and our BFFs at the Washington Post gave us an early holiday present, if by "present" you mean naming ou...

10/16/2024

Reston traffic circle proposal has got our heads spinning.

V. v. exciting news about the future of Wiehle Avenue. No, silly rabbits, they're not going to bulldoze the whole thing and turn it into a m...

09/03/2024

A new take on viral marketing in our plastic fantastic planned community.

http://www.restonian.org/2024/09/talk-about-viral-marketing.html

08/23/2024

Once the land where the 1960s never ended, Lake Anne is getting fancy. Or maybe just "fancy."

Often mocked as Reston's crumbling , brutalist neighborhood where the 1960s never ended, Lake Anne appears to be getting.... fancy. Or at le...