I can't think of a single time we've ever heralded the opening of a business all the way out in Reston, but hey, it's August! There's a new Apple Store opening in Reston Town Center, at 11900 Market Street in Reston, Va. That's according to an email from Apple's customer news service. The big grand opening is set for Monday Saturday, Aug. 15, and if you're one of the first 1,000 visitors, you'll get a free Apple T-shirt! (Aside: that's about the most useless thing we can think of for them to giveaway. Where's our free iPod nanos, Apple?). More details here. There's still no estimated opening date for the District's first Apple Store, which will eventually be located in Georgetown, at 1229 Wisconsin Ave. NW. more ›

WMATA has put out a release to remind everyone that the first in a series of six planned public hearings on the proposed Metro fare hike is tonight. All six hearings start at 7 p.m., with open-houses beginning at 6:30 p.m. before each one. Tonight's hearing is in Reston, at the Bechtel Conference Center, which is at 1801 Alexander Bell Drive. To get there, take the Orange line to the West Falls Church station, and... more ›

Good news D.C. Unlike last weekend, we'll only have to suffer through this rain today; Saturday will be dry and Sunday will be beautiful. Awesome. FRIDAY: >> We hear some big movie opened this week, with "lazer swords" and some dude wearing a black hat. What was it called again? Eh, who cares -- especially when you can watch "Napoleon Dynamite" again on the big screen. The Landmark E St.'s Midnight Movies bring pretty much... more ›

As D.C. juveline car theives are snatching cars for joyriding at alarming rates, police in Calvert County are not pursuing the case of the mysterious seahorse sculpture-napping that appears to be teenage prank. The beloved statue was outside the Adams Ribs restaurant near Prince Frederick earlier this summer when it was stolen. The sculpture is back, the Post reports, found dumped behind the cafeteria at a county middle school, where a group of the school's students painted the fiberglass creature in the spirit of Vincent VanGogh's "Starry Night" for a countywide public art project. Police said that if the horse was returned unharmed by the end of September, they wouldn't pursue the case. more ›