Restonian

07/11/2024

Breaking: Biking Bridge Broke (apparently)

Scheduled to open to great spandex-waving fanfare earlier this week , the exciting superspan of a bridge allowing cyclists on the W&OD Trail...

05/31/2024

Looks like our Reston neighbors are big fans of jurisprudence, or NASCAR, or neither.

http://www.restonian.org/2024/05/lets-go-reston.html

05/21/2024

After all these years, we've found the most Loudoun County sentence ever put to paper (or pixels).

http://www.restonian.org/2024/05/ladies-and-gentlemen-most-loudoun.html

05/11/2024

Good thing the DRB was asleep when the clouds parted and last night's aurora was visible from Reston.

Reston, Virginia, after the clouds cleared around 4:00 AM!!! ...

03/14/2024

Another excuse to drag out the threadworn 80s song titles.

Lake Anne residents will be able to enjoy the tepid air of lake-cooled air conditioning at least a bit longer. The Reston Association says...

02/04/2024

Opponents of the Tysons (nee Reston) casino proposal want to put a Hanzo sword to the General Assembly bill once and for all:

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 ...

01/23/2024

As proposed casino legislation sets its sights on Tysons instead of Reston, its opponents keep sliding into our DMs.

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...

01/18/2024

Bad news for penny slot players who enjoy tasteful earth tones: Legislation that would create a casino in Fairfax County has apparently snubbed Reston, focusing its sights on classy Tysons Corner.

ZOMG, someone get Crystal Koons off the phone trying to upsell some Scotchguarding on that 1995 Camry and down to Richmond: the fun, 96-stor...

01/04/2024

A TikTok-loving homeowner getting in trouble for unauthorized modifications to their home and it ISN'T in Reston? Knock us over with an earth-toned feather.

You know, if someone told us that a local homeowner got in trouble for making unapproved modifications to their residence and broadcasting ...

01/03/2024

Reston's jet-age RELAC system gets a new lease on life after clusters seize the means of production. No, really!

Great news for fans of tepid lake water, jet-age technology and not being overly cold during the hot summer months: after announcing it woul...

12/21/2023

Reston mailboxes are brimming with holiday tidings from the RA (a bill) and CVS (the perfect card for your wood trim color palette-flaunting neighbor):

http://www.restonian.org/2023/12/reston-style-holiday-cheer-from-ra-and.html

12/11/2023

RELAC, Don't Do It: With closure of Reston's jet-age AC system, Frankie finally goes to Hollywood.

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 acc...

11/17/2023

Green goo rapidly spreading across Reston lakes is probably nothing to worry about.

Some troubling news this morning from our BFFs at the Reston Royal Navy RA: Inspections this morning on Reston’s lakes indicate that Lake ...

09/27/2023

Amazingly, the idea of a Reston casino has apparently resurfaced. And it reportedly has some well-heeled supporters.

We're getting deja vu from another trivial land use case involving Reston, some supposedly underutilized property ripe for redevelopment, ...

07/06/2023

For once, Nextdoor Neighbor Dot Com has something to offer besides helicopter sightings and "suspicious" people:

A Nextdoor Neighbor dot com post reported a police helicopter flying overhead amid "gunshots" yet another incident where someone has taken...

03/10/2023

Ground *finally* broken on decade-old W&OD overpass on Wiehle Avenue in Reston, with some much younger infrastructure in the background.

At long last, the first ceremonial shovels of dirt have been turned for the fancypants Wiehle Avenue overpass, which will allow W&OD cycl...

03/02/2023

BREAKING (from four days ago): Mysterious balloon spotted over Reston, perhaps monitoring deployment of illicit backyard mulch

Well, if this isn't exciting. Over on Our Next Door Neighbor Dot Com, instead of the usual questions about the helicopter circling overhead ...

02/28/2023

As Black History Month comes to a close, a look back at when Reston fought a fast food chain with an offensive name.

We've written before about how groundbreaking Reston was in Virginia's segregated suburbs , as the first community that openly welcomed blac...

02/10/2023

Reston's first speed camera went live today near Terraset Elementary. No word on whether it's also buried halfway underground with just the top of the lens sticking out.

V. v. exciting news for people who travel at exactly the speed limit in the left lane with their turn signal on: Fairfax County's fun new s...

02/08/2023

Remember when Fairfax County tried to rebrand Tysons as the "Emerald City?" Maybe they had a point.

...things appear to be getting weird, at least from the window of our E-ticket ride from D.C. to Ashburn (wherever that is): A mall, a bu...

02/01/2023

With the Wegmans finally open, it's finally happened: Reston has become "another Manhattan."

Mark your calendars. Today -- Feb. 1, 2023 -- will forever be known as W-Day in Reston, the day we no longer had to get a day pass to Loudou...

01/26/2023

Sadly, our hopes of a fun floating riverboat casino in Reston's Lake Anne have been CANCELED, at least for now.

http://www.restonian.org/2023/01/always-bet-on-russet-brown-could-reston.html

01/24/2023

Could Reston get a casino? If state lawmakers and developers get their way.... maybe?

V. v. exciting news for those with more money than basic working knowledge of probability: Apparently two Northern Virginia lawmakers snuck ...

01/06/2023

With the name of Lake Audubon under scrutiny, are any Reston waterways safe?

Shocking news out of South Reston, where one of our beloved lakes is about to be CANCELED, like some ta**ry loose-lipped Hollywood star. Giv...

12/30/2022

Another year, another Reston-themed listicle:

As another year comes to a close in our plastic fantastic planned community, it's once again time for us to reflect on the year just past--a...

11/16/2022

With Phase 2 of the Metro Silver Line officially open, Reston is no longer the end of the line -- literally or figuratively.

It's official: Reston is no longer at the edge of the known world, at least if you're one of the Sleestaks wage slaves commuting to work on...

11/14/2022

Read books like it's 2013: Barnes & Noble may return to Reston Spectrum as part of a massive chain store bingo.

Imagine this photo, taken with some primitive cellular telephone way back in ought-thirteen -- practically a daguerrotype -- only in reverse...

10/31/2022

The Metro Silver Line extension is finally ready to roll, but in Reston we're much more excited about another recently announced opening date.

V. v. exciting news has come across the wires Internets over the past few days! First, our BFFs at Metro have announced that after years of...

10/06/2022

Once again, Reston was snubbed by Money Magazine's Best Places (With Plenty of Off-Street Parking and Midscale Chain Retail) to Live. But our doppelgänger wasn't.

No need to roust Kasey Kasem from his unmarked grave in Norway this "spooky szn," as the kids may have said as recently as last year, as li...

09/27/2022

With the door slammed shut on the Reston National Golf Course developers' 'vision' for redevelopment, future plans may rely on an older tactic.

Hunter Mill Supervisor Walter Alcorn announced yesterday that he's heard from the neighborhoods around Reston National Golf Course, which de...