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A confrontation in a downtown parking lot escalated into an all-out battle involving nearly 40 people, which took a SWAT Team and Gang Unit to quell. The incident occurred in the Bank of America Plaza parking lot on Fifth Avenue around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning. Two local women were taken to Harborview for injuries sustained in the fight--one had been stabbed and the other beaten.

The American Institute of Architects asked 1800 Americans to name their favorite buildings in the US. After further refinement and surveying, the AIA compiled a list of the top 150 and released it on Wednesday.

Ding dong the car tax's dead. The wicked car tax is dead. Well, not officially dead like you'll get out of paying it if your car tabs come up this month, but the Monorail Project has started the process of ending the tax on June 30th, due to the fact that all those sexy properties the Project swept up to make way for the Green Line have been selling like hotcakes. Uh, hotcakes that you force private residents to sell you for a mass transit line you don't intend to build and then sell back to the public for more than what you paid for them. That kind of hotcakes.

Since Saturday night's accident, the product of a 17-year-old design flaw that had been neatly avoided during the Monorail's career, Seattle's only two Monorail trains have been wedged together above Fifth Avenue. (See cool photos courtesy of the Seattle Times). Like Nick and Jessica, the trains' careers cannot advance until they are separated.

Seattlest is always happy when it can direct our readers to an affordable wine tasting that supports a worthy cause. On Wednesday Yakima Cellars is offering a wine tasting for just $5 at the Vintage Park Hotel at 1100 Fifth Avenue.

It has been three years since the Lincoln Toe Truck last beckoned to I-5 exiters at Mercer Street. The land beneath the truck succumbed to condos, but the truck lives and through the generosity of the Lincoln family has been donated to MOHAI. There it will join other Seattle icons such as the Rainier Beer 'R' and Bobo the gorilla.