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Recent visitors to New Haven may have been greeted with an unusual sight: not the stressed-out Yalies, but singers from across the world uniting for the International Cabaret Conference, now in its eighth year. Run by a former club owner and taught by a who's who of cabaret superstars, it offers singers the chance to hone their craft.

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The little orange boxes carried by kids over the decades have helped raise more than $160 million for the global children's charity.

Some of China's most treasured antiquities were meant to headline a Philadelphia exhibition. A last-minute bureaucratic snag meant the understudies had to go on.

If you've ever typed Oprah Winfrey and your smartphone texted "orca whale," or said "Your mom and I are going to divorce" instead of "going to Disney," you've been the unfortunate victim of an autocorrect blunder. The author of a new book, Damn You, Autocorrect! shares her favorite mistexts.

As part of Tell Me More's special focus on modern family life today, host Michel Martin explores the shifting definition of family. Studies show that Americans are becoming more inclusive of who — and what — they consider to be family. Martin speaks with Indiana University professor Brian Powell, author of the book, ""Counted Out: Same Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family."

Some people fight invasive plants with chemicals and scorched-earth tactics. In Washington, D.C., graphic designer Patterson Clark turns them into art.

Dashiell Hammett gave us Sam Spade, not to mention Nick and Nora Charles. Now, from the long-deceased author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, comes a never-before-published short story: "So I Shot Him."

In Grammy-award winning parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic's new children's book, When I Grow Up, Billy tells his teacher he wants to be a gorilla masseuse. When Yankovic himself was growing up, he wanted to be a writer for Mad magazine, he tells Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

At the the Royal Wedding, the hats will be on display as much as the bride herself. Whether simple feather arrangements or outlandish towers of flowers, hats are works of art. Host Liane Hansen talks to milliner Luke Song about who's wearing hats and why they're coming back as an outfit staple.

To freshen up your DVD queue, this Bob Mondello suggests Anything Goes, a Cole Porter musical that was performed live on TV — with unexpected, yet, hilarious results — by Ethel Merman and Frank Sinatra.