Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 106

the week ahead I 3 I I 4 1 If i 4 4 Attention amateur auteurs If a cheaply made grainy shaky movie like The Blair Witch Project can become a hit there's no reason your home movies shouldn't at least have some sort of screening forum The Amon Carter Museum will provide that forum when It hosts the first Home Movie Day 10 am-5 Saturday at the museum 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd The event gives amateur filmmakers a chance to show off their home movies in front of a live audience Any homemade footage whether it's a child's birthday last year's Christmas or an auteur-style sequel to The Godfather will be welcome Hey your film from that roller-rink party probably looks better than Blair Witch Most formats including 8mm and 16mm Super 8 will be accepted To enter contact Michael Conklin at (817) 913-1229 For more information visit www homemoviedaycom 3 courses for a good cause Support the Lena Pope Home by dining in style at the finest restaurants in Tarrant County during the sixth annual KRLD Restaurant Week Monday through Aug 24 Participants get a three-course dinner for a fixed price of $30 per person $6 from each meal served goes to the Lena Pope Home Participating restaurants which choose the appetizers entrees and desserts in advance include Bellagio Italian Bistro Cattlemen's Steakhouse The Pegasus and more than a dozen others Reservations are required and limited See wwwlenapopehomeorg or wwwkrldcom for more information and a complete list of restaurants to Mendelssohn Take your lunch or buy the pre-made box lunches from the Corner Bakery when the Fort Worth Symphony presents a pair of lunchtime concerts this week at Clibum Recital Hall 330 Fourth St one block east of Bass Performance Hall Music director Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct the concerts offering a sneak preview of the upcoming Mendelssohn Festival: Hear segments of Mendelssohn's Symphony No 1 the Violin Concerto and the Symphony on Tuesday followed by sections from the Violin Concerto and the Symphony on Wednesday The doors open at 1145 am and the music starts at noon box lunches are $6 Call (817)665-6500 Yoakam rocks like Elvis and rolls despite the Nashville trends By DAVE FERMAN STAR-TELEGRAM POP MUSIC CRITIC See if this sounds familiar: Mainstream country music is going through a fallow period Dwight Yoakam 10:30 pm Saturday Billy Bob's Texas Fort Worth (817) 624-7117 -it's rife with cookie-cutter homogenized uninteresting acts Critics and fens of the old-school stuff compete for who can scoff the most And is Dwight Yoakam OK but what decade are we talking about here? If you said the '80s and this one you're right Because the enduringly wonderful thing about ol' Dwight is that he was as good for 1986 when he released his first record Guitars Cadillacs Etc Etc as he is for 2003 when he's just released a very fine record called Population: Me Now as then Yoakam balances several facets sex symbol and serious artist populist hitmaker and hero for the anti-Nashville crowd without any apparent strain He's a big draw who's beloved by mainstream country fens but he's also beloved by a whole bunch of the No Depression crowd country fens who don't care much or at all for the likes of Toby Keith and Brooks Dunn And Yoakam is musically adventurous enough to have covered everyone from Elvis to the Grateful Dead seek out his version of and Burt Bacharach to Hal David whose Trains and Boats and'Planes he covers on the new CD Between 1986 and now Yoakam has become a movie actor respected for his rotes in Sling Blade and more recently in Panic Room He's also lent his name to a tasty no realty line of heat-and-eat biscuits available in your grocer's freezer For all that though Yoakam is best as a live performer where his big band rocks hard and he shimmies around in those pants of his and bats out a nights worth of hits First last and always Dwight Yoakam is a top-grade honky-tonker and one of the best live country music experiences currently on the roa Dave Ferman (817) 390-7839 dfermanstar-teleqramcom so on Who can we turn to? Who can help? Easy: To a guy from Kentucky whose sound is rooted in rockabilly and '60s Bakersfield honky-tonk who wears really tight pants and exudes an easy sexy charm A guy who seems to have a little of both Buck Owens and Elvis Presley swimming around in his souL That guy as you've probably guessed I.