Carrie Hagen

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• Posted Playlist Rewind: Pearl Jam at the Spectrum to Phillyist
  Image Credit: Flickr User Victor Chapa Tuesday night, Pearl Jam brought their Backspacer Tour to the Spectrum, the band's only stop on the East Coast. We were initially a little surprised when we heard that Social Distortion would be opening, but by the time they performed a brazen cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," we figured out why the pairing made sense (we have to admit that a few of us only knew...
• Posted Phillyist Playlist: Pearl Jam at the Spectrum to Phillyist
  Photo by Danny Clinch, via Pearl Jam Official Flickr Hang on, baseball fans. This week, the city's spotlight belongs on the Spectrum, where it will shine for four nights on the men of Pearl Jam and the fans who kept the venue in business for over 55 years. Pearl Jam has been rocking houses for nearly 20 years. With this year's Backspacer, PJ's ninth studio album, they're hitting the tour circuit pretty hard. Fortunately...
• Posted FirstGlance Film Fest Begins Tonight to Phillyist
  Tonight, we're headed to the Franklin Theater at the Franklin Institute for night one of the FirstGlance Film Fest, another indie showcase sponsored by OctoberFestPhilly. We're especially looking forward to Dark Room Theater, written and directed by Temple grad Ben Pollack. Doors open at 7:15 tonight. FirstGlance Film Fest Screenings*** Franklin Theater at the Franklin Institute (20th and the Parkway) Thursday night (10/22), 7:45: $12 Friday night (10/23), 7:45 and 10:15: $10 Saturday night...
• Posted CinePhillyist Reviews ... Where The Wild Things Are to Phillyist
  "That very night, in Max's room, a forest grew and grew and grew, until his ceiling hung with vines and walls became the world all around." With this sentence, Maurice Sendak added Max's bedroom to literature's map of magical portals—otherwise known as the rabbit hole, the wardrobe, and Platform 9 3/4. We can remember lying on our beds as children, exhausted from crying about some loneliness or injustice, wishing for such an opening to...
• Posted Spielberg, Obama, and Thomas Jefferson to Phillyist
  Photo by Flickr user NineInchNachosVI Really, Philadelphia? 65% of us don't think President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously, Thomas Friedman? It "dismays [you] that the most important prize in the world has been devalued this way?" And Mr. President, even if you "do not feel that [you] deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored," don't you recognize why the Nobel Committee has placed...