Meet the BBJ’s 2023 Family-Owned Business Awards honorees

John Waters — the beloved Baltimore director best known for the movies “Hairspray” and “Pink Flamingos” — almost won a Baltimore Business Journal Family-Owned Business Award this year. If it wasn’t for that decision he made decades ago to not go into the business started by his grandfather, he would have scooped up an award that surely rivals any Grammy or Oscar. (OK, I’m biased.)