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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

The venue exists because one Philadelphia concertgoer got tired of smoky rooms, tinny sound and shows that started at eleven. Hal Real's answer opened on October 2, 2004 at 3025 Walnut Street in University City: World Cafe Live, a two-room house of music sharing its building with WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania radio station whose syndicated World Cafe program lends the venue its name. The partnership was the founding stroke - WXPN had outgrown its old studios in a Spruce Street mansion, R...