John Waters

Baltimore's own Divine to be featured at SXSW Festival

2013-03-08 14:20:00

"I Am Divine," a documentary on the life and career of Baltimore's favorite home-grown drag queen, was to make its debut Saturday night at the South by Southwest arts festival in Austin, Texas. Director Jeffrey Schwarz, interviewed for SXSW's online...

Perry Hall High School prepares to celebrate first 50 years

2013-03-04 19:44:00

At age 50, she's still big and beautiful. Beginning this year, Perry Hall High School will mark a half-century of existence with celebratory events stretching 14 months. "It's going to be a party," Principal George Roberts said. The scope of the...

Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe dies

2013-03-02 11:46:52

Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe, a well-known former criminal defense attorney who served on the Baltimore Circuit Court for nearly two decades and had a taste for the macabre, died Wednesday at her Homeland residence of complications from a stroke she had...

John Waters' 'Hairspray' keeps its hold on us

2013-01-22 05:33:00

"Hairspray" is the product that just keeps giving. In 1988, John Waters added indelibly to his in-a-class-by-itself filmography with this tale of youth, love, race relations, and irrepressible dancing in early-1960s Baltimore. Fourteen years later,...

Formstone would be banned on new buildings under proposal

2012-12-01 10:26:00

Frankly fake but authentically Baltimore, the Formstone that swaths many a rowhouse may seem low-brow or even tacky to some. But should it be illegal? A proposed overhaul of the Baltimore's zoning code would do just that, banning the faux stone...

Marylander of the Year

2012-11-18 05:00:00

In 1987, The Sun's editorial board decided to bestow upon the Johns Hopkins University's then-president, Steven Muller, a newly created award: Marylander of the Year. The distinction was meant to honor the person who "contributed the most to Baltimore and...

Bel Air boy to be in episode of CBS drama 'Person of Interest'

2012-12-13 10:02:09

Parker Brightman, of Bel Air, has been living a double life. By day, he is a 10-year-old student like many others at Hickory Elementary School. But when he's not in school, Parker has been traveling, trying to find work as an actor. He has pursued...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter deserving of Baltimore Sun Marylander of the Year honor

2012-12-31 04:35:00

It was the Orioles’ final regular-season series in Tampa Bay -- three October games that preceded the team’s first trip to the playoffs in 15 years -- and I was sitting in Orioles manager Buck Showalter’s office in the visiting clubhouse...

Bmore gets braggy

2012-12-24 04:49:00

Season's greetings, hon! Hard to believe 2012 is almost over. You know us — busy, busy! If we weren't opening a Ripley's "Odditorium," we were putting historic landmarks up for sale. When we weren't helping John Waters hitchhike across the country,...

Harvey G. Alexander

2012-11-30 15:04:00

Harvey G. Alexander, who founded and served as executive director of the Baltimore Film Festival and also read poetry on WBJC-FM, died Nov. 23 of pulmonary edema at Franklin Square Medical Center. He was 77. "I first got to know him in 1964 at Martick'...

The movies are a mission for Baltimore's George Figgs

2012-11-19 06:02:00

Downloading movies and watching them on a computer is not for George Figgs, who has spent the better part of three decades affording Baltimore cinephiles the chance to experience films the way God intended — in the dark, projected onto a bigger-...

Lutherville residents upset about possible rezoning at assisted-living center

2012-07-27 15:05:32

I was fooled by the summer calm of old Lutherville, the Victorian village in Baltimore County that hides behind York Road, the Beltway and Interstate 83. On a cloudy morning, Lutherville's timeless homes seemed to be enjoying a July holiday, with abundant...

Armstrong, who played Jane Sterling's LSD-peddling shrink in Season 5, went to high school in Baltimore and appeared in John Waters' Baltimore-set "Pecker." Her husband, John Fiedler, produced that film along with other Waters flicks. Any chance we might see him collaborate with the "Mad Men" staff?

2013-04-02 09:24:00

Former porn star turned "real" actress Traci Lords celebrates her 42nd birthday today. If you haven't seen John Waters' Cry-Baby run out and rent it now.

2013-03-15 17:55:00

Heaven only knows what sort of subversive films are lurking behind that sly grin and pencil-thin mustache.

2013-03-12 11:35:00