Civic duty calls for a lucky few in King County, as jury selection process begins in the sex abuse trial against the Seattle Catholic Archdiocese. The lawsuit filed by two men accuses the Catholic church of failing to prevent and protect them from the sexual abuse inflicted--nearly 30 years go--by Father Patrick O'Donnell, an admitted child molester. Across the nation, most cases involving the church's sex abuse scandals have been settled privately, while the Seattle Catholic Archdiocese sex abuse lawsuit is set to become one the few exceptions that will actually go to trial. All eyes (even from above) will be watching. more ›

• Find yourself a fiesta of sweet and salty Mexican food, plus a few boozy margaritas, as you celebrate Cinco de Mayo around town.
• Taking a trip down Seattle's historical streetcar road, the Central District News reminisces over a really cool map and history of the city's once functional streetcar routes from 1912.
• Sound Transit's boring machines left a lovely reminder of the construction disasters to come, as a Beacon Hill resident found a 21-ft. sinkhole in her backyard.
• Tori Spelling was first to have the bash-all family book tour, now her mom Candy Spelling--clearly still bitter--has her own book tour for Stories from Candyland. Tonight she will bitch share more of her "my daughter doesn't talk to me anymore" stories at Bothell's Third Place Books.
• PhinneyWood has a surprising round-up of local restaurants in their hood receiving some pretty bad scores for their health inspections. We are talking "Red Critical" violations, people. more ›

• Joining us for the first time in our Round-Up is Lake City Live, with a request for more and better coffee in their area. It's true--we drove around in Lake City a few days ago and all we found were Jack In The Boxes and car dealerships. No Vivace branches to be found.
• Someone on Seattle Livejournal was summoned for jury duty to two different courts for dates within two weeks of each other. What to do, what to do? Seattlest will take one of those summons off your hands, as we've been wanting to serve for years now and have remained un-beckoned by the law.
• It's just about that time for an Amanda Knox post, and West Seattle Blog kindly obliges with an archived video of a King5 interview with Amanda's sisters.