Police are on the lookout for three sneaky pranksters who tossed a 3-foot-long python into a Round Rock Taco Bell last Sunday night. According to the Statesman, the antics were meant to frighten 20-year-old store employee Bryant Simmons, a confirmed ophidiophobe. The snake, which was perfectly harmless but nevertheless terrifying in its inability to blink and biblical connotations of pure evil, was hurled through the drive-through window, smacking Simmons in the chest. The poor kid......

Ray Allen is a sissy. We knew it back when Denzel kicked his ass in streetball in He Got Game, but it keeps going downhill from there. In 2001, Allen complained of an "NBA conspiracy" when his Bucks lost to the 76ers in the Eastern Coference Finals. This year, he has been involved in snippy altercations with LA's Kobe Bryant, Orlando's Keeyon Dooling (which merited a 3-game suspension), and of course San Antonio's Bruce......

Out Youth is one of the few nonprofits in Austin that seeks to provide a safe haven for GLBT teens. Starting out back in 1990 from a support program at the UT School of Social Work, they've expanded over the years to eventually operate out of a two-story house in Central Austin, where they offer peer support groups, community education programs, counseling hotlines and more to countless adolescents. Like ALLGO, Q, and a handful of......

Gallery Dv8, the outdoor "guerrilla gallery" curated by former Mojo's owner Wade Beesley, strives to represent "raw, innovative artists whose works often don't get recognized or appreciated by traditional galleries." Every so often Beesley turns his backyard into a giant art party/exhibition with live music. This Sunday, DV8 holds court yet again, this time turning their focus to works of a more urgent matter. The exhibition is entitled "Caution: Police State -- Politically Inspired Art......

On Saturday, Austinist rolled down 71 and I-10 to Houston for NBA All-Star Weekend. Our seats could only be described as nosebleed-arific, but hey, we got to go. The event started swimmingly when a Tony Parker-led Spurs team won the jump-shooting contest over a Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson tandem. The next event, the skills contest, featured the brightest stars of Saturday evening (with LeBron, Dwayne Wade, and Steve Nash all participating), but we......