College students home on break. Parents looking for enrichment activities for their toddlers. Muppet fanatics. Everybody should give thanks for the Museum of the Moving Image this Turkey Day Weekend, ...

When it comes to the Muppets, just about everyone can name the A-listers. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, Rowlf and the gang are literally everywhere. They’ve starred in multiple TV shows ...

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY is home to The Jim Henson Exhibition, which includes a Kermit the Frog puppet from 1974. Kermit was one of Henson’s first characters. Photo by Madeline ...

If you count forward from Jim Henson’s mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have ...

As a longtime Muppet puppeteer, Bill Barretta is used to crouching out of the camera shot, pressed against a colleague's armpit as he manipulates the character perched atop his hand. But in the ...

Funny box copy for the Swedish Chef’s cereal? That was me. “Dial-a-Muppet” sketches? Me. A statement to the press from Miss Piggy? Me. One of the things I certainly wasn’t focused on as a 27-year-old ...