The Dark Crystal News

The Jim Henson Company and Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, are reaching out to fans and fantasy writers to enter The Dark Crystal Author Quest, an online contest that will award one winner with a $10,000 contract to write the first book in a new young adult series based on the world of the classic fantasy film.

Movielovers of New York have long flocked to The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, where four stories of exhibits offer a hands-on history to the evolution of the film medium.

The Muppets will always have the Muppet Theater and the "Sesame Street" gang will always have, well, Sesame Street, but these and other beloved Jim Henson characters are getting a new place to hang out.

Muppet creator Jim Henson's family is donating about 400 puppets, costumes, props and other items to the Museum of the Moving Image.