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On the YouTubes: We Watch the Reston Association Videos So You Don't Have To 27 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Once again, we waited until the 11th hour to visit this, August's exciting installment of RA Today. And it seems that even RA Today gets caught up in the doldrums of the slow news time of late summer,...
Flashback Monday: (Almost) Back to School 26 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Set the controls of the Earth-Toned Wayback Machine to 1971, where we can witness construction of yet another Reston elementary school, this one on the eastern edge of our earth-toned planned communit...
Welcome to the '90s: Will Reston's Library Become an Internet Cafe, With Books? 23 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
Whether it's jet-age air conditioning or enlightened master planning, Reston seems to have cemented its reputation as a unwilling guinea pig place to experiment with all sorts of exciting new ideas. S...
With Debut Album, RDGLDGRN Extends Reston's Musical Legacy 21 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
Legitimately awesome Reston band RDGLDGRN has announced that its debut album will "drop," as the kids no longer say, in early September. You can order a signed copy if you're into such things. They al...
Flashback Monday: Welcome to the Monkey House 19 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
We all know the story about Reston's most famous export, the Ebola Reston virus that, from its humble beginnings in a lab on Isaac Newton Square, became the star of a best-selling book before resurfac...
On The YouTubes: The Unbearable Lightness of Reston Station 16 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Given the recent unpleasantness about the direction of Metro-oriented development in our earth-toned community, we thought we'd bring the room down a bit today. Courtesy of Confidential Restonian Oper...
Masterplanpocalypse Now: RCA Issues Epic Smackdown of Planning Process 15 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
We've been remiss in keeping tabs on the progress of the county-backed Reston Master Plan Task Force With an Unpronounceable Acronym(ΒΆ), mainly because in recent months there's been a lot of revisions...
Outrage: Another Earth-Toned Town Usurps Reston's Rightful Place on 'Best Places to Live' List 13 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Hey, remember that time that Reston was named the 7th best place to live in the country, erasing such slights to our fee-fees as the previous inclusion of such stellar locales as cloverleaf intersecti...
Not Quite The X-Files: Mysterious Crop Circles Disrupt Bourgeois Activities on Indeterminately Zoned Property 12 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
First there were the mysterious burn zones. Then came the strange lights and sounds. Now crop circles? Confidential Restonian Operative "Biker Sherlock" shares these v. v. exciting photos from the Re...
We, For One, Welcome Our ELF Overlords 9 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
It's just not fair. Through years of extensive behavior modification therapy, we've finally managed to suppress the urge to scream "NERD!" at the top of our lungs whenever we see a recumbent bike, and...
