Know how once in a while, you hear about some awesome free concert that happened in New York or LA and wonder why we don't ever get those things in Philly? Wonder no longer, thanks to Malibu Rum, who will be bringing both free cocktails and a free show by indie-electro-pop darlings VHS or Beta (MySpace) to The Electric Factory this Saturday as part of their Malibu Winter Beach Bash tour. Wait, did we say......

Yesterday morning a man was shot mere steps from his home on Tioga Avenue, on the corner of North Seventh Street in North Philadelphia, and became the city's 200th homicide victim this year. Tonight Michael Nutter will be celebrating his 50th birthday with a campaign fundraiser party at a restaurant in Old City. Yesterday the SEPTA board decided that bus, subway and rail fares will increase by an average of 11 percent on July......