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 ...

In the pop-star tradition of Cher, Madonna and Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan might add actress to her resume. The Grammy winner revealed that she recently met legendary cult filmmaker John Waters, who ...

In 1985, the Baltimore Museum of Art held a retrospective of John Waters’s films. It was an event that, like many things having to do with the artist in the first two decades of his career, came with ...

Could the decline of American culture put John Waters out of a job? The director has made a career shocking decent society with brute vulgarity. But when everything’s vulgar, how do you keep that act ...

The Pope of Trash tells PEOPLE about returning to the festival and looking for something to "startle" him as a judge of its drag contest Tim Mosenfelder/Getty John Waters is returning as the host of ...

Fifty years after the gloriously trashy release of Pink Flamingos, John Waters still can’t visit Hicksville, New York. The sleepy hamlet tucked away on Long Island is one of many bedroom communities ...

For decades, film director and professional provocateur John Waters has been asked to explain himself and his movies, if not to censors, then to film critics, fans and book editors. That steady ...

As an art collector, John Waters started small. On his first visit to the Baltimore Museum of Art as a child, he had his earliest encounter with art, leaving through the gift shop with “a little ...

You tell people you're going to John Waters' house in Baltimore to interview him and suddenly people are falling over themselves to be like, "Oh, you gotta tell me what his house is like." Sure, if ...

For years they’ve missed each other, one in the Northern Hemisphere, one in the Southern Hemisphere. They’re both in the film industry. Both draw fans wherever they go. But John Waters the American ...

When looking at the entertainment industry, folks would be hard-pressed to find a bigger champion for Baltimore than film director, author and artist John Waters. “Because I was born here, inspired ...