But now, he'll be bringing his expertise to Cleveland in the form of a Muppets-based master class this upcoming week at Nighttown, 12383 Cedar Rd., Cleveland. "The Magic of the Muppets" will ...

Perhaps he was different as a youngster. The future Muppet master was born in Mississippi in 1936 and spent much of his boyhood in Washington, D.C., where his mother was a homemaker and his father ...