“Making a Door Less Open is a record made up of strange new realms of thought and travel along a concept of disembarking, traveling, and returning home.”
–Kieran Cleary on RVA, Aug. 5, 2020
Words, music, images and more from Jim Barnes
“Making a Door Less Open is a record made up of strange new realms of thought and travel along a concept of disembarking, traveling, and returning home.”
–Kieran Cleary on RVA, Aug. 5, 2020
When Anita Ramos was growing up near Falls Church in the 1960s, her father would occasionally drive into the country to watch the construction of London Towne, a community of 665 townhouses west of Centreville in Fairfax County.
“My relatives would ask, ‘Why are people building rowhouses out in the middle of nowhere?’ ” Ramos said.
The answer became evident by 1985…