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The winner of the latest round of our three-minute fiction contest will be announced Sunday. Listeners sent in nearly 4,000 short stories this round. Each story had to include these four words: plant, button, trick and fly.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares with Steve Inskeep the best things she's been reading lately: on making too much money, almost selling sex, and murder in a city known for sin.

The comic actor, who played Jack on TV's Will and Grace, makes his Broadway debut in a revival of Neil Simon's musical Promises, Promises. He has also portrayed comedian Jerry Lewis in the made-for-TV movie Martin and Lewis and Jack Nicholson's valet in The Bucket List.

Imagine spending a whole week sculpting a work of art. Then, just hours after it's finished, someone at a party whacks it to shreds with a stick. Such is the life of Roberto Gilberto Osorio, a San Francisco-based artist who makes his living making pinatas.

Guest host Allison Keyes celebrates the birthday of civil rights icon Dorothy Height, who turned 98 this week. She spent nearly 40 years with the National Council of Negro Women and also served as president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a national African-American service sorority.

Legendary singer Lena Horne was laid to rest Friday. NPR correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault honors Horne's passing by sharing her memory of meeting the iconic performer.

Sketch comedy is always risky, but never as much as when you stretch a gag out 80-some minutes longer than it was ever meant to go.

In Columbus, Ohio, nonprofit arts groups are doing what U.S. businesses have done for decades: outsourcing. Financially beleaguered arts groups are handing over the "back office" to CAPA, an organization that handles finances, marketing, ticketing and fundraising ... stuff that artists don't really like doing anyway.

Depending on who you were as a kid, you have very different memories of the playground. For some, it was a place to have fun and roam free. For other it was a place to get bullied. Several schools across the country are now addressing bullying and other behavioral problems that might pop up on the playground by hiring recess coaches — people who give guidance and keep things calm on the playground. While some parents and teachers are relieved that someone is finally bringing order to the jungle gym, others say it's not natural: kids should figure out how to play with each other. Host Michel Martin speaks to Jill Vialet; she is the president and founder of playworks, a non-profit organization that provides recess coaches. Also joining Michel is Lenore Skenazy founder of the blog and book "Free Range Kids"; and Washington, D.C.-based journalist Jamila Bey.

Host Scott Simon talks with columnist Kathleen Parker, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.