An Oberwetter Stands Up For America

Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, as everybody knows, is on April 13. To celebrate the occasion, Brooke Oberwetter, daughter of former Ambassador Jim Oberwetter of  Dallas, decided to do a little dancing at the Jefferson Memorial. So off she went with nineteen or so of her friends. Their spontaneous patriotic effusion, however, was interrupted by a security guard, who proceeded to arrest young Brooke. This being 2008, the incident was recorded. This being Brooke, it was reported in the Washington Post. And this being America, friends have created a web site to proclaim the injustice of the thing and to raise money for her defense. Knowing the FrontBurner Nation to be friends of freedom, I hope you will make a small contribution to the cause. One generation proclaimed, “Don’t tread on me!” Now another generation proclaims, “Bopping is not a crime!”

D Magazine Intern Scores “A-” on Profile of Tim Rogers

Caitlin Myers is one of our capable interns. She’s a journalism student at SMU. When she asked if she could profile me for a student paper, I said sure, as long she didn’t mind my posting it on the blog. Below you’ll find her effort, submitted with a few comments.

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Our Man At The Great Wall

Ron Steinhart, the retired Dallas banker and always-active community leader, told me that if I gave him one of my precious D Magazine hats he would wear it everywhere. He’s a man of his word. However, for a banker he is alarmingly sloppy on accounting. He has yet to turn in the money he collected for all the Chinese subscriptions he sold.

Local Company Provides Excuse To Link To Sweet Trailer

It is my understanding that 7-Eleven customers and fans can get their hands around Iron Man this month in advance of Paramount Pictures’ new movie release in theaters May 2. In addition, I have been told that, to support this motion picture promotion, 7-Eleven® stores in the U.S. are offering cool, 3-D 22-oz collectible Slurpee® cups and special straws with detachable miniature figures of Iron Man and his nemesis Iron Monger. You may be interested to know that The Iron Monger cup includes 24 actual frames from the Iron Man movie to create action-packed graphics—something never done before. As well, Amp Energy Freeze is the new Slurpee flavor highlighting the much anticipated film, courtesy Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment. Participating 7-Eleven stores also feature this month a life-size, 6-foot-4 standee of Iron Man. And, I may have taken all that from a press e-mail just so I could link to this new Iron Man trailer, because, let’s face it, if you aren’t pumped to see this movie, you don’t have a set.