Art Hounds®

This week, the Art Hounds recommend "Prince Pre-Fame," a dance concert and a local music festival in St. Cloud.

This week, Art Hounds recommend the grand reopening of the state Capitol, an art exhibit about medication and "Steel Magnolias."

Plus, Art Hounds recommend "Heart Songs" and "Root Beer Lady: The Musical."

Plus, Art Hounds recommend a dance festival in Battle Lake and a vibrant retrospective at the Textile Center.

This week on Art Hounds: the National Puppetry Festival, a new opera about the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Rolling River Music Festival.

This week on Art Hounds: Jonathan Thunder's paintings, a murder mystery on stage, and "Everything is Flammable."

Here's what the hounds have picked for this weekend.

This week on Art Hounds: Raw Sugar presents "The Funny," Ken McCullough reads poetry in Plainview, and "Wali" celebrates traditional African drumming and dance.

This week on Art Hounds: "A Year with Frog and Toad" returns to the Children's Theatre, a premiere of new music in Mankato, and "Q Stage."

This week on Art Hounds, Collide Theatrical Dance Company takes audiences to a Parisian nightclub, community theaters compete in AACTFest, and Kiese Laymon reads at The Loft.

This week on Art Hounds: "Sistah Solo/Being Brotha" at Intermedia Arts, Whitmanesque poetry in Duluth and a joint performance by Zorongo Flamenco and Flying Foot Forum.

This week on Art Hounds: the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, the Midwest Music Fest and a marathon reading of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

This week on Art Hounds: the Tuareg band Tinariwen, cool music for kids and a talk about books.

This week, the Art Hounds recommend a creepy art exhibit, "The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin" and "Our Mighty Mississippi."

This week, the Art Hounds recommend "Matilda the Musical," "She Went to War" and "I Am My Own Wife."

This week the Art Hounds lead us to Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and to two plays inspired by books.

This week on Art Hounds: a comedic celebration of women's history, photos of Ireland and "The Red Shoes."

This week Art Hounds recommend a Balkan celebration of spring, a show of prints in Fergus Falls and a dance-filled protest.

This week Art Hounds recommend Renegade Theater Company's "Hand to God," Contempo Physical Dance's "Balacobaco" and a quartet of abstract artists.

Alexa Horochowski creates hypnotic prints using fans and plastic waste to comment on the environment.