Alliance pays over $16M for Vulcan dirt, with 384 Renton units to start ‘immediately'

By BRIAN MILLER

In Renton, the status of Kennydale Gateway, with 384 units planned, had been listed as pending for many months — then flipped to “under contract.” This week came the $16.7 million land sale to Broadstone East Lake Washington Owner LLC, which is associated with Alliance Residential.

After Hours: Seattle Opera visionary dies

By JOURNAL STAFF

Speight Jenkins, the longtime general director who transformed Seattle Opera into one of the nation's leading opera companies, died Saturday at age 89.

Egypt unveils a striking trove of ancient artifacts as the country tries to boost tourism industry

By SAMY MAGDY

rchaeologists unearthed a set of ancient artifacts in Egypt including Pharaonic funerary furniture, remains of a Roman basilica and a marble head of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty.

At The Movies: Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas hit the right notes in ‘Power Ballad'

By JAKE COYLE

Let's just say that the wedding band has never occupied the most exalted rung of the ladder in music.

Steampunk festival creates an unlikely capital for Victorian style and sci-fi oddity in New Zealand

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY

The woman in the pink frock coat announced herself as steam curled from a strange brass contraption on her back.