(12.10) Tickets are still available, but going fast, for “A John Waters Christmas” at the Columbus Theatre on December 10. Yep, he’s back, with Christmas lunacy throbbing in his veins. Cockeyed. Rabid. Ready to reinfect the lunatic fringe with holiday jeer. “The Pope of Trash”, as William Burroughs once called him, is coming to your …
(7.16) This week the Columbus Film Club presents the 1994 comedy-thriller Serial Mom, directed and written by John Waters with Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston as Mom and Dad. A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights …
“This is the end of your juvenile delinquency and the beginning of your adult disobedience.” So said John Waters in 2015 to RISD’s graduating class. His new book “Make Trouble” is a reprint of that commencement address. (Hey Class of 2015, guess what you’re getting for birthday/christmas/hannukah/anything.) The Sunday New York Times recently profiled Waters …
(10.24) AS220 first opened in 1985 in a rented space above the Providence Performing Arts Center (Art Space/220 Weybosset) and proceeded to turn the local arts and culture scene on its head. Thirty years later AS220 has reclaimed and reinvigorated four buildings that house a diverse and vibrant creative community in downtown Providence. Head over …
Filmmaker, author, and self-described “filth elder” John Waters delivered the RISD commencement address this afternoon. He accepted his honorary doctor’s degree “without irony” as promised but could not resist deploying a “trigger warning” in his address. It wasn’t really necessary; Dr. Waters had left the transgressive provocateur at home and honored the occasion by being …
And the Talking Heads! The Rhode Island School of Design announced today that dapper filmmaker, author, and cultural commentator John Waters will be delivering the keynote address to the graduating students on May 30th. Both he and the Talking Heads will be receiving honorary degrees. The ceremony will take place at the Rhode Island Convention …
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(11.30) Tickets still available for the John Waters Christmas Show this Friday. John Waters is to perform a night of holiday mischief with his critically acclaimed one-man show, A John Waters Christmas. Waters pokes fun at the holiday season with adult-appropriate humor, effectively “putting the X in Xmas,” developing a show for the open minded …
[youtube]pd2Gzkkwe9Q[/youtube] Tomorrow night the Biltmore will be looking more like Baltimore* when the hotel’s Grand Ballroom is transformed into a den of sin. The theme is Divine Intervention, as in film star Divine, and it’s presented by Paint It Pink and the RISD Queer Student Association. Musical entertainments will be provided by Mahi Mahi, The …
Tonight at 11:00PM (the local listing says 11:30) VH-1 will show the first episode (‘Save it For Marriage’) of Sex: The Revolution. There is supposed to be a lot of great old footage from sex education films, and John Waters is one of the talking heads, so that’s a good sign. I see that one …