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Just your run of the mill web logger in Reston, Virginia. "Your posts are rare and invariably negative."

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As appropriate a year in review for Reston as any.

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2025: The Reston Year in Review
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 ce...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Everyone's biggest 1970s anxiety fever dream comes back to haunt some of Reston's more waterlogged clusters:

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You've Got Ring Around the Cluster: The Heartbreak of Drought and Dried Out Concrete
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...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Pour one tepid, room-temperature beverage out for RELAC, Reston's jet-age lake-powered AC. (Probably.)

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RELAC Didn't Do It: With Yet Another Closure, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Maybe for Good This Time
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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October 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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First BLVD, then VY, now... whatever this is. Reston is becoming Wales, minus the kilts.

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Vowel Movement: Consonant Explosion More Unnerving Than A Cold Plunge
Following in the footsteps of some of Reston's trendier, or at least blockier , apartment complexes, this vaguely Welsh-sounding business i...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Sometimes a brutalist concrete fountain is just a brutalist concrete fountain, even in Reston.

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Lake Anne Rebranding: Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter, or at Least the Fountain
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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May 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This is always good advice.

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Words to Live By
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...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Happy New Year, Reston! 2025 is already shaping up to be an appropriately earth toned kind of year.

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In 2025, Everything's Coming Up (Mocha Mousse) Brown
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...
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January 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Timely and terrifying: the drones have made it to Reston, at least according to the Face Book:

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Panic: The Drones are Here
Behold this blurry yet terrifying still from a cellular telephone video someone in the Greater Reston-Herndon Area posted to the Face Book D...
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December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Not quite Russet Brown, but close!
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Fitting that our first Bluesky post is about a color that hits closer to home, if by "home," you mean Reston. #ifyouknowyouknow

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Because "Russet Brown" Isn't a Five-Letter Word, That's Why
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...
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December 3, 2024 at 4:08 PM