70 stories since August 4, 2025.
No one: Absolutely no one: Comstock: We never wanted to build a casino in your stupid town anyway. The fancypants casino bill has been dead (for now) for almost a month, and developer Comstock just issued a public statement saying nosiree…
Maybe you thought it was that time Money Magazine ranked Reston the 7th best place to live in the country . Or that time they named a disease and an opera after our plastic fantastic planned community. Or that time we got our fancypants…
ZOMG, someone roust Bob Guccione from his penicillin-lined tomb, as a swanky Reston penthouse has set a new record. The 27th floor penthouse at the JW Marriott Residences at Reston Station, presumably bathed in the perpetual sunlight of…
V. v. sad news for the people who find their living rooms too devoid of cigarette smoke and sadness to gamble on their phones and the developers who spent more than $3.5 million on their own bet that a fun casino could be built in the…
The rumors are true. After nearly two decades covering Reston like invasive English ivy, we’ve decided to move on to brighter, beiger pastures. That’s right—we’re swapping the earth tones of our plastic-fantastic planned community for the…
Shocking news from the Internets today, where we learned that AOL plans to lay off 108 employees at its Reston office . Even more shockingly, AOL apparently still exists. It's easy to forget how huge a deal AOL once was, and its massive…
Happy Friday News Dump, to all those who celebrate! Our BFFs at the Reston Association opted to send an update on the state of legislative maneuvering around Fairfax County's largely unsolicited, definitely irresponsible plastic fantastic…
Hey, remember that time when a developer was going to build a mixed-use townhouse community on the site of the former Fannie Mae campus on American Dream (heh) Way, and in the true spirt of that phrase they decided to make it a gated…
For reasons known only to The Pantopticon, this question and answer were served up unbidden by the AI powering the Facebooks following a recent post on this filthy "web log": "Complex feelings," indeed. Let's ask the all-knowing sassy…
Hey, remember that time there was a big push in the Virginia legislature to build a fancypants national security honeytrap casino in Fairfax County, with a lot of sketchy provisions that would really only allow it to be built in either…
VY ask VY? Apparently that's what the new owners of our favorite vowel-free apartment complex in South Reston with a parking garage camouflaged so deftly that it's practically invisible to the naked eye asked themselves, and they decided…
Happy 2026! Back by (semi-)popular demand for the first time since 2024, here’s our (semi-)annual list of what’s out and what’s in for our plastic fantastic planned community: OUT IN Jet-age lake cooled AC Brownouts from jet-age wiring…
If you're looking for a metaphor for what 2025 was like in our favorite plastic fantastic planned community, you could do worse than this cellular telephone photo of a garbage truck in front of the office building on American Dream (heh)…
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 rant about a restaurant visit gone bad, we noticed that an intrepid member of the Reston Herndon…
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 public with ring around the collar. Now, with the ongoing lack of rain, we're noting that some of our…
Sad news for fans of humid air, peeling wallpaper, and jet-age technology: RELAC announced Friday that it is discontinuing operations , saying that “rising operating costs, aging infrastructure, and a decline in participation have made it…
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 been unthinkable when our plastic fantastic planned community was founded. Rooftop bars with views of…
While we were focusing on the An Art and palpable lack of woonerf right outside, the fancypants JW Marriott at Reston Station opened its doors to guests last week . We Restonians -- us lumpen proletariats, toiling away at our rapidly…
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 and behold the breathtaking vision for Reston's 21st century future. And it was rad! BEHOLD, what might…
Somehow, we missed the annual Reston Butter fl y Count this summer. But thanks to a helpful Reston Association press release, we learned that while volunteers spotted plenty of di ff erent species, overall numbers were down. Sightings…