John Waters is a loon, always has been. Raised in the “tyranny of good taste,” he was part-Wicked Witch of the West and part-Baltimore suburbia hophead, smoking his weight in pot and submitting to the ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. 1, 2026. Click here for that audio. Subversive Baltimore filmmaker John Waters has been offending sensibilities since the release of his 1972 film ...

Filmmaker, actor, writer and good-natured provocateur John Waters turned 79 this week. To celebrate, he booked a tour of a one-man show, “John Waters’ Birthday Celebration: The Naked Truth,” which ...

For a guy known for going to extremes, there are still some lines of decency John Waters is not willing to cross. Waters, the transgressive filmmaker whose trash masterpieces (trash-terpieces?) “Pink ...